Senate Healthcare Deliberations and Votes: Live Blog

The healthcare just give us anything and we’ll declare victory health insurance industry gift bag reform discussions have reached a Senate showdown point.  The 60 votes needed for cloture will be sought this evening, supposedly at 8pm.  What will Harry concede to the conservatives from the Democratic Party and the Republicans in order to “declare [...]

It’s your body… what do you think?

Most of you probably know that I’m a 19 year survivor of a extremely rare form of cervical cancer. The Pap smear came back perfectly normal for me when I had 4th stage, invasive Cancer. As a result of all that I have a doctor daughter doing her residency as an ob/gyn and [...]

Thursday Morning! News!

This news is old as things go for this page but, it’s new to a lot of people and VERY exciting in my world:
Neurologists at the University at Buffalo are beginning a research study that could overturn the prevailing wisdom on the cause of multiple sclerosis (MS).
The researchers will test the possibility that the symptoms [...]

Coakley for President

It’s about damn time this started being said. (h/t Suburban Guerrilla):
Coakley, in her boldest gamble of the campaign, said that fighting for women’s access to abortions was more important than passing the overall bill, despite its aim of providing coverage for 36 million people, establishing a public insurance option, and prohibiting insurers from discriminating [...]

You have no rights

The Stupak amendment, the greatest rollback of rights for women in decades is now in that thing the House has been calling a “Health Care” bill. (Links from Reclusive Leftist, The Confluence, WiredLeft.)
But women are just, as always, the expendable canaries in the coal mine. Their rights are toast, which means so are [...]

Gratuitious ratings scheme or just good information?

Over at Townhall.com they’ve sparked a debate over whether Dr. Nancy, from MSNBC, was looking for a ratings boost or reporting on important information.  It stems from an on-air depiction of a breast-self exam demonstrated on a local news station, WJLA in Washington DC.  Dr. Nancy led her segment off with a clip of the [...]

Congressman Dennis Kucinich asks: “Is this the best we can do?”

Yesterday Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) issued the following statement in anticipation of today’s release of the House bill on health care insurance reform:

“If this is the best we can do, then it is time to ask ourselves whether the two-party system is truly capable of representing the American people or whether the system has been so [...]

Clueless Joe Lieberman

Politico says Lieberman will block any health care reform bill containing a public option.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Tuesday that he’d back a GOP filibuster of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s health care reform bill.
Lieberman, who caucuses with Democrats and is positioning himself as a fiscal hawk on the issue, said he opposes any health [...]

Obama told us so

There’s some amazement floating around (e.g. Digby, TPM) about this:
President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as part of health care reform. In its place, say multiple Democratic sources, Obama has indicated a preference for an alternative policy, favored by [...]

Keith Olbermann is a BOOB (open thread)

It’s national BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH YOU IDIOT!!!!
Keith Olbermann, today’s biggest boob in the world!!!
Well, the NFL was trying to do something nice by supporting Breast Cancer Awareness month with their Real Men Wear Pink campaign. Leave it to Keith Olbermann to say something completely Freudian on National TV.

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