“While polls show Americans remain sharply divided over the Democrats’ landmark legislation, they aren’t clamoring for its repeal.” [Read More]

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 [...]

A bill introduced by Senator Al Franken will provide greater access to emergency contraceptives for women in the military.  The bill has bipartisan support with Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) as a co-sponsor for the bill. [Read More]

House Democrats are living up to their promise of a more open and transparent government by posting legislation of the final health care bill three days before the final vote.  This will give the American people time to go through the bill before the vote occurs.  Posting bills online allows anyone to quickly search through [...]

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 [...]