by Digby | Mar 11, 2014 | Conservatism, Health
It doesn't matter if they'll save money and get better coverage; they just know they're going to die: A Dexter cancer patient featured in a conservative group’s TV ad campaign denouncing her new health care coverage as “unaffordable” will save more than $1,000 this...
by Thom Hartmann | Feb 19, 2014 | Conservatism, Economy, Health
Another rural Georgia hospital is closing its doors as that state continues to block the Medicaid expansion. The Lower Oconee Community Hospital does not have enough volume to stay open, yet many of the nearby residents are being refused much need health insurance...
by Leo Gerard | Feb 18, 2014 | Conservatism, Health, This Is The GOP
"Doctor, doctor, give me the news I got a bad case of lovin' you No pill's gonna cure my ill I got a bad case of lovin' you Whooaaa" ~ Robert Palmer, 1979, Bad Case of Loving You On this Valentine’s Day, as many as 4.4 million more Americans than on Feb. 14 last...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 10, 2014 | Conservatism, Health
As Media Matters and other outlets noted last week, right-wing commentators drastically misrepresented a Congressional Budget Office report’s findings about the Affordable Care Act. Fox News, Washington Post conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin, and many other...
by Emily Schwartz Greco | Feb 7, 2014 | Health
Remember when it looked like the Republican Party could do nothing but stamp its feet and shout about the Affordable Care Act’s shortcomings without coming up with any alternatives? OK, there was former Sen. Jim DeMint’s suggestion last summer that having the...
by Joshua Holland | Feb 6, 2014 | Conservatism, Health, Progressive Vision
On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new report on Obamacare’s impact on the economy that ignited an enormous amount of controversy. The firestorm centered on CBO’s projection that the Affordable Care Act would reduce the hours we work by the...
