By Cessna Are insurance companies worried about the health care bill? (Hint: Their stock prices are rising) Under the Senate plan, millions of Americans will be forced into private insurance company plans, which will be subsidized by taxpayers. This will do little to reform health care but will be a windfall for insurance companies. The [...]
By Ike There is a local gentleman, whom I know very well, who is totally ticked off, and is now organizing people to rally against “socialized health care.” Do you know the punch line to this? C’mon, you know where I am going, right? He has both Medicare and Medicaid. Right, BOTH are government health [...]
By Wink So your child becomes sick, or gets hurt in an accident. You don’t have health insurance and the bills are mounting up. What do you do? You have a pancake feed or a spaghetti dinner, that’s what. Have you gone to the pancake feeds and spaghetti dinners? I have. Sometimes they raise more [...]
By Cessna “Liberals” have pretty much been on the right side of every major issue in the history of this country. Ending slavery. Medicare. Social Security. Voting rights. Every one fiercely opposed by conservatives. Those soft-hearted liberals were against going to war in Vietnam and Iraq. Those ventures both went well, didn’t they? Now liberals [...]
by Kasson To few surprises, the national debate has moved past Obama’a birth certificate, and the Gates incident. To where it probably belongs, health care. Since our politicians spend all of their time arguing debating, they might as well do it on something worth while. My problem with the debate is that it is not [...]
I give the Democrats about a 20% chance of holding a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate (Alaska-90%, Minnesota-50%, and Georgia-40%). Regardless of whether they have the super majority or not, these are my wishes for the next Congress. I wish for the Democrats to take the moral high ground that the Republicans have lacked over [...]
