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Health Care

The Long Struggle

Via the White House: . . . The American people are the most insurance-minded people in the world. They will not be frightened off from [...]
July 9, 2009 | Posted in: Administration, Health Care | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Counting heads

Ladies and gentlemen, we have reached the math portion of the program. Via RC via Digby: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday ordered [...]
July 7, 2009 | Posted in: Health Care | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Hagan says she supports public option

Sen. Kay Hagan joined fellow Dems on the HELP committee in supporting a public option in health care reform. TPM has the story here. Jame [...]
July 3, 2009 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Health Care, Policy | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

It burns

My eyes are still smarting from the headline and first paragraph of “conservative columnist” Deroy Murdock’s piece on health care in today’s Chapel Hill Herald. [...]
June 30, 2009 | Posted in: Current Events, Health Care | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

MoveOn ads on Health Care

Word via TPM that MoveOn is going to take on Sen. Kay Hagan over the public option. I spoke with some folks in the Senator’s [...]
June 27, 2009 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Current Events, Health Care | Tags: , , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Hagan’s challenge

Editorial from this week’s paper: About 16 years ago, the state of Florida passed health care reforms that promised at least a beginning for universal [...]
June 26, 2009 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Health Care, NCSenate | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Money changes everything

Pretty detailed and serious analysis by Nate Silver on Health Care Pac contributions and its influence on Senators such as our dear friend Kay Hagan, [...]
June 23, 2009 | Posted in: 2008 Elections, Health Care | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Hog lagoons = swine flu?

Hog lagoons may be source o’ the swine flu. Hog lagoons? That sounds familiar. Now where might I have heard the term hog lagoons before? [...]
April 28, 2009 | Posted in: Current Events, Health Care | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink