Over the weekend, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the health insurers’ lobbying arm, released a report attacking the Baucus/Senate Finance reform bill. It’s the end of the truce and war is on.

But they keep playing their little game. The Fox News coverage on Fox News continued this evening as Brit Hume appeared on his former show “Special Report” to deliver a commentary on the White House offensive against the network. Then it was Bill O’Reilly‘s turn. In his Talking Points Commentary O’Reilly credited his “hard news” [...]

Chuck Grassley, the Republican allegedly working for compromise by, well, not compromising on health care reform using such strategies as saying health care would kill anyone from Grandma to Ted Kennedy, is my Senator. It’s not like I’ve voted for him, but I apologize anyway. Oh Chuck is a guy who not only believes in [...]

Featuring new video from Kris Kristofferson.

As David reported earlier, the  mobsters lobbyists at America’s Health Insurance Plans have issued an ultimatum to Congress: increase our industry’s profits or the country gets it: After months of publicly supporting health care reform, insurers are warning Congress that under the Baucus health care bill, “the cumulative increases in the cost of a typical family [...]

Oh, joy, look who will get to “burnish his progressive credentials” by introducing the repeal of Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell in the United States Senate.

Just because the co-ops idea is on its deathbed, it does not mean the prospect for a real public option has increase. Snowe’s worthless trigger–that is designed to never be pulled–is seen by many in the Senate as a way to make the claim that they included a public option.

Last week, former Senator and GOP Presidential candidate Bob Dole went public endorsing President Obama’s attempt to reform healthcare. Dole did so over already existing objections by Mitch McConnell and other Republicans. It spite of those objections, Dole publicly issued a joint statement with Tom Daschle saying: The American people have waited decades, and if [...]

Jonathan Landay is a good reporter and McClatchy is a reputable news organization (there are still a few), but this is a ridiculous story: As the Obama administration reconsiders its Afghanistan policy, White House officials are minimizing warnings from the intelligence community, the military and the State Department about the risks of adopting a limited [...]

Religious leaders of all stripes are pushing for health care reform, rooted in the belief that health care is a basic right for all people, not a commodity. Not that you’d know this by following the TradMed . . .