This Week’s Newsletter Here Does the Obama Plan for Reforming Wall Street Measure Up? —Robert Reich California Democrats: “Spreading the Pain” from Sacramento —Joseph Palermo Black Victims of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ —Herndon Davis The Italian Job: Border Police Seize $134 Billion in US Government Securities —Charley James From Analog To Digital: Nothing’s Free Anymore […]
What Obama Needs to Learn from the Failure of Bush’s Social Security Plan and Clinton’s Healthcare Reform
In recent weeks, the president has joined his allies within and outside of government in launching a campaign to overhaul and reform the American health care system. It appears as if all the stars are lining up to ensure the President’s success – healthcare reform is in high demand, the president is popular, there are […]
Baucus Tells Single-Payer Advocates No
Montana Senator Max Baucus met Wednesday with advocates for single-payer healthcare, including Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and told them that he might drop criminal charges against 13 people arrested for speaking up in his hearings, but that he would not include any supporters of single-payer health coverage in any future hearings. According to one report, […]
Keep on Keeping on with Universal Healthcare
Tempering the universal healthcare movement’s idealism with calls for pragmatic approaches, retired State Senator Sheila Kuehl preached persistence at last Saturday’s “Single Payer Solution” conference. “Our job is to convince California person by person, church by synagogue, worker by workplace by employer, that single payer is the right answer,” she told the packed sanctuary at […]
Single Payer Moment HR 676
While a Democratic polling firm has just found, as pollsters always do, dramatic public support for public health coverage, Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill appear divided, as they have always been, over whether to take a comprehensive approach to health care. House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said on C-Span on Sunday that incrementalism would […]
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