Eric Holder scolds the church ladies.

Howard Dean and the leaders of the House Congressional Progressive Caucus in the House are saying basically the same thing — kill the bill — since the Senate is struggling so badly to pass meaningful and effective reform legislation. We should also expect a sustained assault on the highly unpopular individual mandate over the next few days.

“If you like this pricing, where our people pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, don’t vote for this amendment,” said Byron Dorgan, right before the vote on his amendment to safely re-import prescription drugs from Canada, Europe and abroad. Robert Menendez, the Senator from Merck, got fired up in his speech, [...]

If I wanted Joe Lieberman writing a health care bill, I would’ve voted for John McCain.

Howard Dean is right. Kill the Senate bill.

Without the option of a government-run insurance entity or extremely tight regulations to guarantee everyone has access to quality, cost effective health insurance, an individual mandate is both immoral and bad policy. If the Senate refuses to provide Americans with the guaranteed choice of decent health insurance policy, it must not mandate people buy insurance. No public option, no individual mandate.

Steny Hoyer says the House will pass this bill. Well, not unless almost everyone in the progressive caucus goes back on their word.

Call progressive members of Congress now and ask them if they intend to deliver on their promise to vote against this bill.

What makes his lie so unbelievable is that Obama’s administration is right now fighting against one of the biggest cost control ideas that the president previously claimed to support. His administration is working to kill Dorgan’s drug re-importation amendment.

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Under the Senate bill, without Medicare buy-in, insurance companies would be permitted to charge older people three times as much as they charge younger people. Yup, that’s “taking care” of seniors.

Allan Carlson, president of the conservative Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society recently proposed paying up to $5,000 per baby born, or one-quarter of each parents’ outstanding loan balances, to reduce the financial burden he claims is preventing debt-laden young married couples from starting families. Gee, would Carlson advocate tax increases to pay for this hair-brained scheme?