Is this a government takeover of health care? No, there is no government run health care plan in the bill. The health care bill does not change how hospitals are run and does not take over any part of the health care industry. What about the national insurance exchange? Isn’t that government run? No, the [...]
Bart Stupak (D-MI) has been working to kill the Democrat’s health care bill because he believes it does not go far enough banning abortion coverage under private insurance plans. In practice, the more people have access to health care, the lower the abortion rates are. Bart Stupak is not only working against his pro-life arguments, [...]
Tea Party protesters are headed to Washington today to voice what many in the group consider their last chance to protest against sweeping changes in the health care system. Democrats in the House and Senate were encouraged by their leadership to have meetings with the protesters to answer any questions that they might have about [...]
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) was reported by Politico to be in talks with leading Democrats to restart health care negotiations. Snowe wants talks to be focused on bipartisan features of the bill that can be passed with both Democrat and Republican votes. The talks include passing a scaled down version of the health care bill [...]
With a 22 to 14 vote, the California Senate voted to approve bill SB810 to establish a single payer health care system. The bill sets aside $1 million to establish a commission to draw up plans to pay for the system. The payment plan would then need to be approved by the voters in order to be [...]
No, this is no joke. Rush Limbaugh was recently hospitalized in a Honolulu hospital after complaints of chest pains. You can watch him praising the hospital that he was admitted to here after his release. Rush Limbaugh said, “based on what happened to me here, I don’t think there is one thing wrong with the American [...]
Key Democrats are expecting an increase in their approval ratings after health care reform passes. They also expect a similar bounce in President Obama’s approval. Sen. Chuck Schumer suggested today that the polling numbers will turn in their favor once the public fully understands the policies in the health care bills. According to a new [...]
