You know what didn’t get enough play with this whole health care package approval? The student loan overhaul attached to the bill. As of yesterday, sweeping restructuring in financial aid programs have forced out commercial banks from the federal student loan market, cutting off billions of dollars in profits from banks, and redirecting most of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘health care reform’
The Student Loan Portion Of Health Care Reform Bill
Posted in Education, Health, tagged Education, health care reform, student loans on 03/26/2010 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Health, Lawmaking, Politicking, The End of the World, tagged compromises, health care reform, hope and change, Nancy Pelosi on 01/21/2010 | Leave a Comment »
HEALTH CARE BILL? WHAT HEALTH CARE BILL?? Speaker Nancy Pelosi said today “I don’t see the votes for [passing the Senate bill] at this time.” Well, there goes that whole reform thing. It was a novel idea, for about 5 seconds there. [Talking Points Memo]
Former Cosmo Centerfold Wins Special Massachusetts Election For Senate!
Posted in Politicking, Wingnuts, tagged health care reform, Martha Coakley, naked people, Scott Brown, Ted Kennedy on 01/20/2010 | Leave a Comment »
HUZZAH! This fine feller, Scott Brown, is your new Ted Kennedy!! And just like Ole Teddy, he is a Republican, hates health care reform, and will show you his long-ass pubes at the drop of a hat. One of those things is true! Martha Coakley, Brown’s opponent in the race, was defeated 52% to 47%, [...]
Posted in Health, Lawmaking, tagged health care reform, Nancy Pelosi, Stupak Amendment on 11/19/2009 | Leave a Comment »
HEALTH CARE BILL UPDATE: Speaker Nancy Pelosi seems to think the Stupak Amendment (you know, the one trying to prevent any and all abortion funding) will not be part of the final health care bill coming out of Congress. “Stupak goes beyond maintaining the status quo” on abortion funding, she told reporters this morning. She [...]
Holy Crap: Health Care Reform Bill Passed In The House!!
Posted in Health, Lawmaking, The End of the World, Wingnuts, tagged Anh Cao, health care reform, Nancy Pelosi, oh snap on 11/08/2009 | 1 Comment »
BY A VOTE OF 220-215: HOORAY!! Give Nancy Pelosi much much credit, y’all. This, and the energy bill – she is crushing much ass right now. Next up, the Senate. Anywho, 39 Democrats opposed, but who was the lone Republican to vote in favor?? Let’s take a look…yes, Anh ‘Joseph’ Cao of Louisiana. Probably a [...]
The Republicans Release Their Version Of Health Care Reform…
Posted in Health, tagged health care reform, the GOP on 11/07/2009 | Leave a Comment »
…AND THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE RIPS IT AS A USELESS PIECE OF SHIT: Whoops. From Ezra Klein: “CBO begins with the baseline estimate that 17 percent of legal, non-elderly residents won’t have health-care insurance in 2010. In 2019, after 10 years of the Republican plan, CBO estimates that …17 percent of legal, non-elderly residents won’t [...]
Still, With This Abortion Shit?
Posted in Health, The End of the World, tagged abortion, health care reform on 09/29/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Christmas. It appears the “abortion debate” has resurfaced yet again, just in time to delay the passing of the health care bill. How/why is this an issue? Anti-abortion supporters keep screaming about how taxpayer money should not be used to pay for elective abortion, but why the hell not? Aren’t people who get abortions taxpayers? [...]
Galactic Health Care War Finally Turns Violent; Mean Old Man Has His Finger Bitten Off By Dirty MoveOn.org Liberal Hippie Cretin
Posted in Health, The End of the World, Weirdnesses, tagged ...craaaaazzzy..., file under 'gross', fingers, health care reform, the olds on 09/03/2009 | 2 Comments »
WHY DO OLD PEOPLE’S FINGERS COME OFF SO EASILY??: This KTLA article defines the MoveOn.org folks rallying for health care reform as ‘protesters’, but uhh, how are they protesters when they’re rallying in support of the event? Anyway… There was some health care ‘thing’ in Thousand Oaks, CA, last night, with pro-reform and anti-reform peeps [...]
Racist Crazies Come Out in Moran/Dean Town Hall
Posted in Health, Internet, Media, Politicking, Racisms, Wingnuts, tagged ...craaaaazzzy..., health care reform, lies my republicans told me, politics, propaganda, racism, Wingnuts, you tube on 08/28/2009 | 1 Comment »
I mean, I knew racists were creative (see: racism), but having a man in an Obama mask beating an old man and a fetus takes the cake. Jesus H. the fucking crazies in this fucking country. [via Slog]
Discarding the Public Option
Posted in Health, Lawmaking, Politicking, tagged health care, health care reform, insurance industry, laws, Obama Administration, politics, public option on 08/17/2009 | Leave a Comment »
John Nichols over at The Nation gravely sums up the lie that’s currently being passed as health care reform: …he president’s [healthcare] initiative looks a lot like a bailout for the insurance industry –in stark contrast to the a single-payer reform that would replace industry profiteering with a not-for-profit system like Medicare. Without a public [...]
Posted in Health, Politicking, Sicknesses, The End of the World, Weirdnesses, Wingnuts, tagged angry mob, David Vitter, health care reform, sex fetishists, Wingnuts on 08/12/2009 | Leave a Comment »
MEANWHILE, SEN. DAVID VITTER LIKES THE ANGRY MOBS AT THE HEALTH CARE TOWN HALLS: Mr. “I Like Hookers Who Make Me Wear Diapers and Change Me When I Make A Boom-Boom” Vitter (R-La) is encouraging more angry and hostile rhetoric at his town halls because let’s organize and ‘get even’, just like they did in [...]
Why Does Barack Obama Want To Kill Sarah Palin’s Baby? And Her Mama Too?!?
Posted in Animals, Health, Politicking, The End of the World, tagged health care reform, Michelle Bachmann, political terrorism, Sarah Palin, shit fer brains on 08/07/2009 | 2 Comments »
NO MORE SOCIALIST KENYAN NIGGRAS CAN BE MINE PREZNIT EV’RY ‘GIN!! HIS HELF CARE PLAN HAS A CLAUSE ‘GINST MY TRIG! WELL MY TRIG IS AMERICAN, MISTER NO BIRF CERFIFTICKETZ SO DON’T EVEN TRY IT!!: “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will [...]
White House Admits Working With Drug Companies To Restrain Their Costs
Posted in Health, Lawmaking, Media, Politicking, tagged drugs companies, health care reform, laws, lobbyists, Obama Administration, politics on 08/06/2009 | 1 Comment »
Following pressure by industry lobbyists, White House officials on Wednesday explicitly affirmed the Obama administration still stood by its behind-the-scenes deal with drug makers to block any Congressional effort to extract cost savings from them beyond an already agreed-upon $80 billion. An odd and possibly embarrassing assurance to make, considering just this week the House [...]
What the “Dog” in Blue Dog Coalition Stands For
Posted in Health, Lawmaking, tagged Congress, greed, health care, health care reform, laws, my bank account is more important than your health, politics on 07/31/2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Blue Dog Coalition, a group of 52 conservative Democrats who were increasingly unhappy with the direction that health-care legislation was taking in the House, have recently become key brokers in shaping this piece of legislation in the House. Their objections have resulted in a compromise bill announced this week that includes higher payments for [...]
Howard Dean Rightfully Wonders Why Democrats Have The 60-Seat Majority And Still Fail At Life
Posted in Health, Lawmaking, Politicking, tagged Democrats, health care, health care reform, Howard Dean, politics on 07/28/2009 | 1 Comment »
“WHAT’S THE POINT OF HAVING A 60 VOTE MAJORITY IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE IF YOU CAN’T PRODUCE … HEALTH CARE REFORM”: True dat, Howard Dean, but the Democrats in Congress have been long known as mushy rat turds who use hollow rhetoric to do next to nothing once in power. It is their modus [...]
Today’s Headlines: New York Senator To Send Military Gays Into Mexico To Fight The Drug Cartels
Posted in Health, Lawmaking, Military, Politicking, Traveling to the Foreigns, War, World News, tagged drug wars, gay rights, headlines, health care, health care reform, Lawmaking, laws, Military, politics, Senate, War on 07/28/2009 | Leave a Comment »
• The bipartisan Senate Finance Committee is edging closer to a health care compromise, according to the Associated Press. The latest draft of this measure completely omits a government insurance option, proposing a system of non-profit co-operatives in its lieu, and is not expected to require employers to provide insurance for their workers – both [...]
