healthcare reform

With Their Morality in the Morgue House Republicans Kill Wall Street Regulations

With Their Morality in the Morgue House Republicans Kill Wall Street Regulations

While the country hung on every word of James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday morning and…

6 years ago

Town Halls Erupt With Passion As DAPL Camp Goes Down In Flames

For the party that talks so much about the value of life they sure put a whole lot of energy…

7 years ago

Long Awaited “Obamacare” Replacement Epitomizes Republican Savagery

Republicans finally revealed their "replacement" health care "reform” that literally robs healthcare from tens-of-millions of Americans.

7 years ago

Why Americans Can’t Have Universal Healthcare Like Europeans

Americans are not interested in paying significantly higher income taxes to have ‘government-provided' healthcare

8 years ago

Former Bush Adviser Claims Democrats Moved Further Left than Republicans Moved Right

Peter Wehner says the liberal claim that Republicans are the ones who have become more extreme over the years is…

9 years ago

John Boehner Says We Finally Have a Senate That is Actually Working

Boehner's reaction to Senate dysfunction is to claim a change of leadership in the Senate has given us a Senate…

9 years ago

A Presidents’ Day Examination Of the Monumental Hurdles that President Obama Has Overcome

Instead of waxing philosophically on the achievements of past presidents, it is worthwhile to take stock of the current President…

10 years ago

The Real Villains Behind the Criticisms of Obamacare

The media is quick to look for anything negative about Obamacare, but they protect the real culprit: insurance company behavior

10 years ago

GOP Hypocrites Criticize The ACA Website But Stood By Bush’s Medicare Part D Roll Out

Instead of decrying the Medicare prescription plan as an abject failure, Republicans denouncing the ACA's rollout as a reason to…

10 years ago

Rabid Dog Ted Cruz Urges The GOP to Defund the Military in Order to Stop Obamacare

The depth of Republican madness was revealed when Sen. Ted Cruz suggested shutting down the military if President Obama and…

10 years ago

Republicans Hit a New Low By Making Obama’s Syria Success About Race

What Republicans are really angry about is the Black man in the Oval Office achieved a long-standing American, Middle East,…

10 years ago

Evangelical Corporations Try To Force Their Employees To Follow Their Religious Beliefs

At issue is whether a secular corporation with no business relationship or involvement in a religion can be considered religious…

10 years ago

The Kochs and Their Corporate Arm ALEC Are Out to Destroy the Healthcare System

There is no doubt the Kochs and their corporate arm ALEC are out to end the healthcare system starting with…

11 years ago

Barack Obama May Go Down As the Only President Who Excelled In the Face of Racism

Barack Obama, may go down as the only president in the nation's history who excelled in spite of hostility borne…

11 years ago

Starbucks Shows that Healthcare isn’t a Job Killer by Adding 1,500 Cafes

Starbucks, which offers healthcare benefits to its eligible part time employees, is expanding with 1500 more cafes in America in…

11 years ago

The Medical Debt of Colorado Shooting Victims Cries out for Healthcare Reform

Many victims of the Colorado shootings are facing ruinous financial debt due to expensive surgeries and rehabilitation for their wounds.

11 years ago

Republican Governors Declare Independence from Human Compassion

Unsatisfied with their callous performances as governors, some of the GOP's cruelest politicians have ratcheted up their psychopath game to…

11 years ago

Upholding Obamacare is a Win for America

Without question, the Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Healthcare bill makes this a great day for Americans who would…

11 years ago

Scott Walker Screws Wisconsin as He Vows to Violate Federal Healthcare Law

Ignoring the looming November 16 deadline for states to submit plans for their health insurance exchanges, Walker is going to…

11 years ago

Republicans Have Been Emboldened by a Lazy Media that Won’t Call Out Their Lies

If Republicans were called on every one of their lies during interviews, on political talk shows, or during the evening…

11 years ago

Mitt Romney Unveils His Healthcare Plan: Don’t Get Sick

A president Romney will allow health insurance industry to offer bare-bones coverage with higher premiums and pre-existing conditions will not…

11 years ago

Opposition to the Individual Mandate Not a Question of Liberty

Opposition to the individual mandate has nothing to do with civil liberties and (surprise!) everything to do with avarice and…

12 years ago

Money and Lies at the Heart of Republican Strategy in 2010

They blame healthcare reform but if any physicians drop their patients, it won't be because of "Obamacare." It will be…

13 years ago

Republicans Talk and Hate and Offer no Solutions

You can search and search; you can look high and low, but you won't find much. Right now, the closest…

13 years ago

The Myth of Self-Regulation

If a government has no right right, and moreover, no obligation to protect the people on whose behalf it was…

13 years ago

Ten Things You’ll Be Voting Against if You Vote Republican

Today is the day we go to vote in the 2010 midterm elections. The results of this election will reverberate…

13 years ago

The GOP Wants a Return to the Gilded Age. Do You?

Unregulated capitalism gave us the evils of the Gilded Age. Unregulated capitalism gave us the crash of 2008 that has…

13 years ago

Women of the Progressive Voting Bloc, Stand Up!

Women of the progressive voting bloc, how long have we been sleeping? I'm not sure how we got here, but…

13 years ago

Fox News Refutes Glenn Beck’s Attack on the Slaughter Solution

The brewing battle between the journalists at Fox News and Glenn Beck took a new turn today as Hill reporter…

14 years ago

Glenn Beck Claims that Jesus Christ Opposed Social Justice

On his radio show today, Glenn Beck claimed that the concept of social justice is a perversion of the gospel,…

14 years ago

The Daily Show Mocks Republicans for Invoking the Rapture to Stop Healthcare Reform

On The Daily Show last night host Jon Stewart and correspondent John Oliver satirized Republicans like Rep. Todd Akin for…

14 years ago

Bill O’Reilly Compares Obama and Heathcare to George W. Bush and Iraq

On his FNC program The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly engaged in full blown fear mongering tonight as he compared…

14 years ago

Rachel Maddow and Orrin Hatch Continue Their Feud on Twitter

Last night on her MSNBC program, Rachel Maddow went after the Senate Republicans' hypocrisy and lies against healthcare reform, but…

14 years ago

In Healthcare Remarks Obama Rejects Both the Left and the Right

The most interesting portion of President Obama's statement on healthcare reform today was not that he called for an up…

14 years ago

On Fox News: Shep Smith Obliterates GOP Healthcare Talking Points

Republican Sen. John Thune was on Fox News' Studio B program trying to sell the talking point that healthcare reform…

14 years ago

Sean Hannity Claims That No Conservative Opposes Healthcare Reform

On his radio show today, Sean Hannity claimed that no conservative opposes healthcare reform. Hannity said, "No conservative is against…

14 years ago

Rush Limbaugh Anoints Himself the Leader of America’s Uninsured

On his radio show today, Rush Limbaugh proclaimed that he too is one of America's 47 million uninsured, and that…

14 years ago

Rush Limbaugh Gushes Over Unionized Hospitals and Socialized Medicine

While leaving a Hawaii hospital that he was admitted to for chest pains, Rush Limbaugh used himself as an example…

14 years ago

Victory for Democrats and America: HEALTHCARE IS PASSED IN THE SENATE

We have done it. We corralled a dispirited Democratic caucus, fought a rabid right wing media machine, overcame our own…

14 years ago

Al Franken’s Not So Subtle Message to Joe Lieberman

On the Senate floor today, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) sent Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) a strong message today when as…

14 years ago

Pressure Grows On House Republicans to Condemn Anti-Semitic Signs

As House Republicans continue to play blind, deaf, and dumb, various Jewish organizations came out today and condemned the anti-Semitic…

14 years ago

Rep. Michele Bachmann Compares Healthcare Protesters to the Troops

Rep. Michele Bachmann turned up on the Glenn Beck Program, which is minus one Glenn Beck, to promote her healthcare…

14 years ago

Sen. Hatch: The GOP is Opposing Healthcare Reform Because People Will like It

In an interview with CNS News, Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch admitted the real reason why the Republican Party is opposed…

14 years ago

126 Days Later and Still No Republican Healthcare Reform Proposal

This morning House Democrats took to the floor to point out that it has now been 126 days, and Republicans…

14 years ago

How Five Democrats Sold Their Votes and Betrayed Their Party on the Public Option

Two different amendments that would have added the public option to the Senate Finance Committee's heathcare reform bill were defeated…

14 years ago

Bill Clinton Talks Healthcare Reform on The Daily Show

Former president Bill Clinton returned to Comedy Central's The Daily Show last night, and he had some interesting comments and…

14 years ago

Health Insurance Companies Love the Baucus Bill

Sen. Max Baucus released his Finance Committee's healthcare reform bill today with no support from Republicans and outrage from liberal…

14 years ago

Palin Threatens to Call Out Obama on Imaginary Death Panels

Last night President Obama called death panels a lie in his joint speech to Congress. Obama also promised to call…

14 years ago

Obama Makes a Moral Argument for Healthcare Reform

In a comprehensive speech before a joint session of Congress, President Barack Obama laid out his plans for healthcare reform,…

14 years ago

With or Without the GOP Democrats Move Forward on Healthcare

Congressional Democrats have been sending President Obama some strong signals about what they would like to hear him say in…

14 years ago

On Labor Day Obama Sends More Lukewarm Signals About the Public Option

President Obama spoke today at the AFL-CIO Labor Day picnic in Cincinnati, OH, and supporters of the public option are…

14 years ago

Protester Invokes the U.S.S. Constitution to Argue Against Healthcare Reform

At a town hall protest in San Diego over the weekend a town hall protester tried to say that healthcare…

14 years ago

Healthcare Opponents Quickly Exploit Ted Kennedy’s Death

Since Sen. Ted Kennedy's death, the cry from the right wing has been that Democrats are going to exploit his…

14 years ago

Almost Half of Town Hall Protesters Can’t Find Iraq on a Map

The Omaha City Weekly recently went to Sen. Ben Nelson's town hall meeting and conducted an interesting experiment. They asked…

14 years ago

Howard Dean on Ted Kennedy and the Future of Heathcare Reform

Former DNC chairman Howard Dean talked today about healthcare reform and the death of Ted Kennedy. Dean wrote, "When President…

14 years ago

Liberal and Conservative Myths about Health Care Reform

The one reality about the healthcare reform debate is that both the liberal and the conservative arguments contain their share…

14 years ago

Liberal Subversion: How to Use the Freedom Works Website to Tell Blue Dog Democrats to Support Health Care Reform

Freedom Works has set up a page where concerned Americans can tell Blue Dog Democrats to vote no to President…

14 years ago

CNBC Working With Tea Baggers on Healthcare Protest Coverage

Here is a story that you won't be seeing on MSNBC. According to Media Matters, CNBC sent an email to…

14 years ago

Right Wing Fringe Boos Specter When He Calls Obama an American

At a town hall meeting in Lebanon, PA today, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) was booed for having the nerve to…

14 years ago

Obama Uses His Radio Address to Answer Healthcare Reform Critics

President Obama used his weekly radio address to continue to push, prod, and tug Congress towards passing healthcare reform. He…

14 years ago

Wal-Mart Announces Support for Obama Healthcare Reform

In a huge blow to the opponents of healthcare reform, Wal-Mart has come out in support of a mandate that…

14 years ago

Maryland GOP Group Compares Obama to Hitler on Healthcare

The Republican Women of Anne Arundel County have posted a letter from their president, Joyce E. Thoman on their website…

14 years ago

Bill Clinton Urges Obama to Fight for a Public Health Insurance Option

Yesterday former President Bill Clinton advised President Obama to stand strong when it comes to a including a single payer…

14 years ago

GOP’s McConnell Attacks Obama’s Healthcare Plan as Rationing

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell was on CBS News' Face The Nation today, where he continued to call the Obama…

14 years ago

GOP Hypocrisy: Grassley Blasts Obama for Sightseeing in Paris

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is very upset with President Obama for going sightseeing in Paris, while telling Congress to get…

14 years ago

Democrats Promise to Deliver a Healthcare Bill before the End of summer

Powerful Senate Democrats Max Baucus and Ted Kennedy released a joint statement today saying that they will have a healthcare…

15 years ago

GOP Senator Boasts GITMO Detainees Have Better Healthcare than Average Americans

While trying to make the case for keeping Guantanamo Bay open as a detention center, Republican Sen. John Ensign said…

15 years ago

Limbaugh’s Heathcare Reform Con

Rush Limbaugh went into full paranoia mode today over healthcare reform. Rush claimed that healthcare reform will allow government to…

15 years ago

An Open Letter to PA Dems: Let’s Weigh Our Options before We Support Arlen Specter in 2010

Since joining the Democratic Party, Sen. Arlen Specter has voted against the bankruptcy reform bill, and the Obama budget. Specter…

15 years ago

Comparing Bill Clinton and Barack Obama’s First 100 Days

On the surface Bill Clinton and Barack Obama seem to have a great deal in common. They are/were both young…

15 years ago

Comparing George W. Bush and Barack Obama’s First 100 Days

President Barack Obama will mark his first 100 days in office this week. To mark the anniversary, here is a…

15 years ago

Obama Surprised by Daschle’s Withdrawal

Tom Daschle dropped a political bombshell today when he withdrew from the process of being appointed HH

15 years ago

Obama’s Biggest Challenge: Healthcare Reform

With the return of Sen. Red Kennedy to the Hill today, we are reminded that healthcare reform will be not…

15 years ago

Obama: McCain Wants to Tax Your Health Insurance

https://www.politicususa.com/en/Obama-healthcare-taxes-mccainDemocratic presidential candidate Barack Obama hammered John McCain on the issue of taxes today, while speaking in Dover, NH. Obama…

15 years ago

Rep. Tom Allen Endorses Barack Obama

Democratic front runner Barack Obama is now only 154 delegates short of wrapping up his Party's nomination after Maine Rep.,…

16 years ago

The McCain Healthcare Plan: Tax Credits

Today, John McCain trotted out the same old "healthcare reform" that Republicans have been pushing for years. How would McCain…

16 years ago