Armed Protestor at Healthcare Townhall: ‘We Will Forcefully Resist’

This disturbing video was produced by an extremist libertarian organization called Freedom’s Phoenix and another group that goes by 4409. The individuals attended President’s Barack Obama’s townhall event on healthcare in Phoenix Monday carrying assault rifles and handguns. The individual who interviewed one of the armed townhall attendees is Ernest Hancock, an online radio host [...]

Howard Dean Weighs In On Obama’s Reported Plan to Drop Public-Option

President Obama may drop the “public option” of his healthcare plan. CBS News spoke with former Presidential candidate Howard Dean about a “public option” compromise.

Obama Dispels GOP Myths About Healthcare Reform At Montana Town Hall Meeting

At a town hall style meeting in Montana, President Barack Obama says he isn’t trying to vilify insurance companies. He says he’s just trying to stop their practices that hurt people.

Did Obama Secretly Cut a Deal With The Healthcare Industry?

Kucinich: Single Payer Healthcare Only Way to Achieve True Reform

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio is co-sponsor of H.R 676, a single-payer amendment included in the healthcare reform bill. In a recent discussion about the amendment, Kucinich said the month of August should be about redoubling every effort at the state level to show people that only through a single payer system can healthcare costs be [...]

Fight Back Against the Health Insurance Industry’s Lies

What does UnitedHealthcare CEO Stephen Hemsley have to lose if Congress passes real healthcare reform this year? Well, for starters, his nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in unexercised stock options might lose a few pennies on the dollar. What does Isabella, a four year-old girl in Winsconsin who is physically incapable of eating [...]

Alabama Surgical Case Reflects a Healthcare System in Disrepair

A 35-year-old Alabama woman underwent an extraordinarily rare surgical procedure four months ago in an effort to fight off advanced cervical cancer. She died last week, and her story reflects a malfunctioning health-care system as President Barack Obama fights gamely for reform. Melissa McCutcheon was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2002 after she had gone [...]

The Fight to Keep Single-Payer Healthcare Alive

The people started lining up an hour early in Aurora, Illinois, 40 miles west of Chicago and not a hotbed of radical socialism, to hear Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, talk about HR 676, the single payer bill he co-authored with Rep. John Conyers, D-Michigan. “Hastert Country” recently turned blue with the election of Democrat Bill [...]

Pelosi To Allow Floor Vote On Single-Payer Healthcare Plan

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said she would allow a floor vote later this year on a single-payer option for healthcare reform after Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-NY, agreed to remove an amendment he proposed for inclusion in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s version of a healthcare reform bill, which the panel passed [...]

House Panel OKs Healthcare Reform Bill, Setting the Stage For Floor Vote

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce passed an “historic” healthcare reform bill late Friday, breaking a two-week deadlock between Democrats and Republicans that threatened to derail one of President Barack Obama’s top domestic issues. The bill passed by a vote of 31 to 28. No Republicans voted in favor of the bill and five [...]