by Bill Scher | Aug 24, 2007 | Blog
Air America's Sam Seder is off this Sunday, so we won't have our usual on-air Weekend Watchdog segment. But that shouldn't stop us from keeping the pressure on the Sunday TV shows to ask the tough questions. Add your own questions in the comment thread. Contact...
by Bill Scher | Aug 23, 2007 | Blog
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a new SCHIP poll today, finding that 63% of voters (including 53% of self-described "conservatives") support "expanding SCHIP to cover an additional 4 million uninsured children at an additional cost of $35 billion over five...
by Bill Scher | Aug 23, 2007 | Blog
Stateline reports that the National Association of State Medicaid Directors will be calling on the Bush administration to "back off its proposal" blocking states from extending health coverage to more uninsured kids. And "If the administration refuses," (or more...
by Bill Scher | Aug 22, 2007 | Blog
Part of the conservative misinformation campaign on the State Children's Health Insurance Program is to stoke division between the states, and play on resentment towards New York. As Sen. Saxby Chambliss says, "I don’t think Georgia taxpayers ought to be subsidizing a...
by Bill Scher | Aug 22, 2007 | Blog
Yesterday, Campaign for America's Future joined Americans United for Change and Americans Against Escalation in Iraq to release a new report on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and his record of obstruction. McConnell's staff responded not by proudly...