President Obama made his closing argument for the health care bill Friday, invoking the presidents who tried and failed before him, along with the spirit of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. "If you believe it is right you have to help me finish this fight," he told a raucous crowd at George Mason University. He emphasized the bill's provisions that would go into effect this year, including those banning insurers from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions, dropping coverage when a person becomes ill or imposing annual or lifetime limits on care, requiring free preventive care and allowing children to stay on parents' policies into their 20s. read more
Hoping to assuage progressive Democrats who remain disappointed with the content of the health care reform bill, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) committed on Friday to holding a separate vote on a public option in the coming months.
House Democrats said Thursday that their revamped health care reform bill would achieve the deficit reductions needed to push forward with a delicate plan to finalize the package, setting up a possible vote for Sunday. Sources said the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the updated package will save save $130 billion over the first 10 years after passage and $1.2 trillion over the second decade. read more
BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY
The Green They Steal, The Greed They Wear...a St. Patrick's Day Lament
by Michael Moore
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Friends,
BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY
The Green They Steal, The Greed They Wear...a St. Patrick's Day Lament
by Michael Moore
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
Friends,


-I can't wait for the mandatory physcials and the mandated diets.
Naw. Wingers get mandatory water-boarding and automatic death panels, since they are so taken with such things.