Why the restriction on abortion in the health care bill is unfair.

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) tussled with his party’s leadership in the House of Representatives for months before finally making an actionable threat: give me a floor vote on an abortion-restricting amendment, or I’ll kill your health care bill. Under the terms of that health care bill, uninsured Americans will be required to purchase health insurance, and the government will partially subsidize those who can’t cover…

The more you ignore health care reform, the closer it gets to happening. This weekend, the big important bill passed by a very narrow margin in the House of Representatives. Now that big important bill has moved into the Senate, where it and two other bills of equal bigness and importance will have their details hammered out before merging into one super bill—if Joe Lieberman can’t filibuster it to the end of time, that is.

So far,…

The House is voting on its health care reform bill tomorrow. Exciting! There’s a summary of the bill and rules for the vote here. Will Americans be able to afford insurance? Will our country go bankrupt? Are we on a slippery slope to socialism? If you want to get in a last-minute call to your representatives to let them know what you think, you can do that here. Once the House votes, it’s the Sentate’s turn.

UPDATE: The…

Some prominent politicians are out there saying that we have the “best health care system in the world.” Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) just said so. So did Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK). Rush Limbaugh said it a few weeks ago.

But you know who doesn’t think America has the best health care system in the world? The vast majority of Americans who aren’t senators or millionaire radio entertainment program hosts. That’s according to a new Pew poll:

According to…

In this health care reform debate, the issue of “the public option”—whether or not there should be public, government insurance programs that compete with for-profit health insurance companies—is a huge sticking point in congress. But you know where it’s less controversial? Everywhere else in America. It’s hugely popular among non-politicians:

And among doctors:

Politicians are sometimes pretty eager to do what’s popular. In this case, there’s so much debate about it in Congress largely because on this issue…

Why the restriction on abortion in the health care bill is unfair.

Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) tussled with his party’s leadership in the House of Representatives for months before finally making an actionable threat: give me a floor vote on an abortion-restricting amendment, or I’ll kill your health care bill. Under the terms of that health care bill, uninsured Americans will be required to purchase health insurance, and the government will partially subsidize those who can’t cover…

The more you ignore health care reform, the closer it gets to happening. This weekend, the big important bill passed by a very narrow margin in the House of Representatives. Now that big important bill has moved into the Senate, where it and two other bills of equal bigness and importance will have their details hammered out before merging into one super bill—if Joe Lieberman can’t filibuster it to the end of time, that is.

So far,…

Some prominent politicians are out there saying that we have the “best health care system in the world.” Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) just said so. So did Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK). Rush Limbaugh said it a few weeks ago.

But you know who doesn’t think America has the best health care system in the world? The vast majority of Americans who aren’t senators or millionaire radio entertainment program hosts. That’s according to a new Pew poll:

According to…

In this health care reform debate, the issue of “the public option”—whether or not there should be public, government insurance programs that compete with for-profit health insurance companies—is a huge sticking point in congress. But you know where it’s less controversial? Everywhere else in America. It’s hugely popular among non-politicians:

And among doctors:

Politicians are sometimes pretty eager to do what’s popular. In this case, there’s so much debate about it in Congress largely because on this issue…