Medicare for all will mean the death of independent practice
A couple of diaries on the Rec List right now are focused on the complex but critically important topic of health system reform. In Chasm grows between Washington and everyone else on healthcare by...
View ArticleA physician "comes out".
I was inspired by the always excellent nyceve and her diary that's been sitting atop the Rec List all afternoon to write a detailed comment in response. My comment evolved into something much more --...
View ArticleIs health care a right? THE ? for Senators & Reps on July 4!
Will you support a public option, available to everyone, on day one? It's a great question. It's an important question. But it's a political question, and political questions beget political answers....
View ArticleWe need a town hall holiday. Now.
There should no longer be any doubt that the town hall concept has been systematically subverted and is now increasingly under mob rule.They have become excuses for the vituperative expression of class...
View ArticleCRITICAL: help Sen. Bingaman save the Public Option
The front page headline in today's Albuquerque Journal was:Bingaman: 'Public Option' on the RopesSen. Bingaman is one of the three Dems on the Sen. Finance "Gang of Six", and the only one to declare...
View ArticleOh, my President. What are you doing?
You warned us from the beginning not to expect too much. You told us that you were a centrist.OK, we said. You are intelligent, you understand constitutional law, you are inspiring, you speak of real...
View ArticleTranslation: "You're dead."
We have come to know the Courage Campaign because of their incredible work on behalf of marriage equality and repeal of Prop 8 in California.But they are a broad-based progressive organization, and...
View ArticleA public vote on the Public Option at Bingaman's town hall! Updates: news...
New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, one of the three Democrats on the Senate Finance "Gang of 6", held a town hall in Albuquerque this afternoon.It was a model of how a town hall should work in a...
View ArticleOK, I confess: I'm an unreasonable extremist of the far left!
It's no surprise that those who are opposed to real health system reform are doing what opponents of reform have always tried to do: marginalize proponents as extreme, unrealistic and unreasonable.We...
View ArticleHealth reform: a great way to ban abortions
In her most recent column, Boston Globe syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman writes:It is becoming obvious that just having a female reproductive system is a pre-existing condition in the health care...
View ArticleThank you, Joe Lieberman!
Senator Joe Lieberman has accomplished something truly remarkable:Joe Lieberman, as a member of the Democratic Caucus, has ignited our passion and united the progressive netroots. He appears to have...
View ArticleThis nugget may be a lump of coal
The nugget diary currently on the Rec List asks us to consider that there may be a really important goody in the current health reform compromise that we are neglecting:there was a possibly huge little...
View ArticleIn 11 days: Medicare melts down, & the public option dies
Unless Congress acts in the next 11 days, physicians all across America are going to have no choice but to drastically limit access to Medicare and Tricare patients.Many will close the door only to new...
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