How will healthcare reform help you?
As always, what concerns House members most is not what the bill can do for their country, but what the bill can do for their district. That's why yesterday Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) compiled a list of the benefits of the healthcare reform bill for every congressional district in the nation.
I looked at the reports...
Get your Stupak hands off my uterus
This healthcare battle is about policymakers and millions of Americans working feverishly to fix a cruel, outdated system that continues to devastate lives and end them prematurely. Tough political maneuvers involve compromise, and in this case Pelosi made a big one. You won't die if you don't get an abortion, but you will if you...
Needed: A public option you can believe in – robust or otherwise
Just when everyone seemed ready to put the public option on the funeral pyre, it looks like it was brought back to life, or at least a vegetative coma.
It’s true, Democrats in both houses want and need the entire party on board before they take their bills to the floor. But in crafting legislation, the...
Snowe's vote and the healthcare free-for-all
[From 'First Draft' at Neon Tommy]: Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) vote for the Senate Finance Committee version of the healthcare bill yesterday may have been a turning point, but Senate Democrats had no time to celebrate. Now Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) with gather Democrats from the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee...