Orrin Hatch on health care debate: "It's going to be a holy war"

Holy war? That's how Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) is characterizing the upcoming debate on the health insurance reform bill: Republicans, who have criticized the Democrats' initiative as a step toward government control of the healthcare system, are already planning a series of delaying tactics, including forcing the entire bill to be read aloud on the Senate floor.
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Michelle Obama - What a Woman!

Editors' Note: Guest blogger Roberta Raeburn is a photographer who lives Staten Island, NY and is a Senior Action in a Gay Environment (SAGE) client and volunteer

Imagine my surprise when Catherine Thurston, Deputy Director for Programs at SAGE called to inform me that Sage was invited to the White House and my name came up to attend with Karen Taylor, Director of Advocacy and Training.
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Drug makers are raising prices in anticipation of health care reform

Surprise. This may explain why insurance companies like Blue Cross are raising our rates 25% and up a year.
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Pro-life congressmen taking abortion money?

Say it ain't so. But it just may be true.The House passed the anti-choice Stupak amendment last night.
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Shorter White House Meme: "Stupak Amendment Stays In, But Woo-Hoo! Send In Money!"

File this recent email under "you have GOT to be kidding me"...

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Help Ensure Health Care Reform Includes LGBT Families!

We are at an unprecedented point in the process of national health care reform: the House of Representatives plans to vote TOMORROW, November 7, on its reform bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.
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Top McCain campaign adviser running out of insurance, has pre-existing condition

Amazing story. And not that different from a lot of people. America is changing. More and more people are working on their own, freelancing, consulting.
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When doctors and insurance companies conspire to wipe out 61% of your bill

In the never-ending saga that is my eyes, my retina specialist referred me to another specialist a few weeks ago, because of some peculiarities in my vision.
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John Boehner: Republicans have no health care reform plan -- and you can't see it if they did

Think Progress caught House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) in a bit of delicious hypocritical jack*ssery as his party wants the American people to see the health care reform legislation by posting it online for 72 hours.
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Why my prescription drug coverage is maxed out

As a follow-up to my post below about the latest lies from CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield, a health care policy expert wrote me to explain why my prescription drug benefit is maxed out at only $1500 year: The reason insurance companies will never up your pharmaceutical benefit is that they would like anyone who reaches your $1500 a year prescription benefit level to switch to another insurance carrier.
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White House statement on Reid health care bill

Typo in the original: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary____________________________________________________For Immediate Release October 26, 2009 STATEMENT FROM PRESS SECRETARY ROBERT GIBBS ON HEALTH INSURANCE REFORM “The President congratulates Senator Reid and Chairmen Baucus and Dodd for their hard work on health insurance reform.
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Rape is now a pre-existing condition

Seriously. Turner had let the men buy her drinks at a bar in Fort Lauderdale. The next thing she knew, she said, she was lying on a roadside with cuts and bruises that indicated she had been raped.
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Healthcare bills lack protections against treatment denials, experts say

Great. This is why we need a public option. So that there is a true alternative to the private insurance market.
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GOP Senator Batters Witness Over Domestic Violence Report

From Ryan Grim at Huff Post: After the Huffington Post reported that eight states still allow insurance companies to treat domestic violence as a precondition, leaders from three of those declared that they would put an end to the practice.
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"Even greedier than we imagined"

Robert Reich on how the insurance industry tipped its hand yesterday, by saying they'll have to increase the price of everyone's insurance plans if health care reform is passed: [T]hey've now hoisted themselves on their own insured petard.
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Insurance industry says Baucus bill will lower premiums as compared to current law

Whenever I see people pontificating about "growth rates" and "cumulative increases," I am always suspicious.
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How the same drug costs three times the price in the US than in Europe

(NOTE FROM JOHN: This really ticks me off. Apparently, governments in Europe tell the drugs companies that they simply can't charge crazy prices over here in Europe, so they don't.
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Six health care lobbyists for every member of Congress

Surprising that the health care Americans want is struggling. Best democracy money can buy.America's healthcare industry has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to block the introduction of public medical insurance and stall other reforms promised by Barack Obama.
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Corzine closing gap in New Jersey (and his opponent likes Springsteen, which the NY Times thinks is news)

This is one of the most useless and inane articles I've ever seen in the NY Times. Today, on the front page of the Times, we learn that GOP candidate for Governor, Chris Christie, is a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen.
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Who cares what Olympia Snowe thinks?

Here we go again.For some reason I can't totally fathom, it's terribly important to get one GOP Senator to vote for health care reform.
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