by Thom Hartmann | Nov 4, 2013 | Health
Surprise, surprise... Insurance companies are trying to cheat customers out of more money. Since the start of Obamacare, we've heard various reports of companies canceling insurance policies, and charging customers hundreds of dollars more each month to continue...
by Terrance Heath | Nov 1, 2013 | Conservatism, Health, Shutdown, This Is The GOP
Paul Krugman writes that the GOP’s hostility towards the poor and unfortunate has become an all-out “war on the poor.” The consequences of the painful cuts to food stamps taking effect today offer a glimpse of the casualties and collateral damage to come. Today,...
by Joshua Holland | Nov 1, 2013 | Conservatism, Health
How a Wildly Misleading Obamacare Horror Story is Born (via Moyers & Company) Far too many breathless news stories about insurance plans being “canceled” or people facing “sticker shock” fail to convey even the most basic context: this is almost exclusively a...
by Joshua Holland | Oct 29, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, Health, Progressive Vision, The Jobs Challenge
The Great American Ripoff: The High Cost of Low Taxes (via Moyers & Company) Editor’s note: This is the first in a series on the high cost of low taxes. The American people pay a similar amount for social services – health care, retirement security, disability and...
by Digby | Oct 28, 2013 | Economy, Health, Retirement Security, The Sequester
We more or less knew about this already, but this is another version: At the end of a long White House meeting between Senate Republicans and President Barack Obama during the government shutdown, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) threw out a question: Would the president...
by Digby | Oct 25, 2013 | Conservatism, Health, This Is The GOP
You'd think that the fact they voted to repeal the whole program 46 times and shutdown the government for two weeks in a quixotic attempt to delay it would make the Republicans just a little bit reluctant to pretend they are sincerely worried about how the Obamacare...
