Democrats.org provides an overview of the changes that go into affect today – helping me and thousands of other Americans with direct, real changes. Bold text indicates changes that affect me personally, italics highlights changes that affect people I know. This week marks six-months since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law–enacting one
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Health Care Changes: This Year
According to the White House – how health insurance reform will expand and strengthen coverage: * This year, children with pre-existing conditions can no longer be denied health insurance coverage. Once the new health insurance exchanges begin in the coming years, pre-existing condition discrimination will become a thing of the past for everyone. * This
Read on »Hello, Comrade!
So has the sky fallen yet? No? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Read on »Tea Bag Desperation
Video from two opposing health care rallies in Columbus, Ohio. Here tea baggers mock a Parkinson’s victim.
Read on »links for 2010-03-03
Universal Healthcare Map Public universal health care around the world (as of December 2009). (tags: map healthcare)
Read on »links for 2010-02-01
5 things that are wrong with chivalry — Feministe Respect for women means respecting our wants, irrespective of your ideas of what’s best for us. It means making our lives easier through substantial change rather than through “courtesies” that make you feel good and make us feel less than. It means working for that everywhere
Read on »Health Care Reform passes Senate
According to MSNBC.com: WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats passed a landmark health care bill Thursday that could define President Barack Obama’s legacy and usher in near-universal medical coverage for the first time in the country’s history.You can also see this here. The 60-39 vote on a cold Christmas Eve morning capped months of arduous negotiations and
Read on »I vote for “Not Joe Liberman”
About 2010, here is one thing I can say with certainty. Every cent of every dollar I spend on political contributions in the year 2010 is going to go to whatever Democrat is running against Joe Lieberman in his next election. I don’t care who it is, as long as it isn’t Joe. According to
Read on »Poor Insurance Company Executives
Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell Everyone hates them.
Read on »Obama’s speech, and my thoughts
After the jump, the full text of President Barack Obama’s address to Congress on health care reform yesterday, as prepared for delivery and provided by the White House. My thoughts: he filled in the gaps of what I didn’t know, and reinforced what I did. I am surprised at all the gaps I had in
Read on »My commitment to healthcare reform
According to the current political forecasting, it appears that health care reform efforts in congress are failing, and that a health care reform bill will not pass this year. I’m writing to all of my elected officials to let them know that I expect a health care reform bill to pass this fall. If it
Read on »Maddow skewers Obama on backing off the Public Option
Rachel shows that the Health Care industry, the folks making a fortune of you getting sick, is jubilant that Obama is considering getting rid of the “public option” in health care reform. The “public option” would allow you to get insurance through the government, and provide competition for the health care industry. One of the
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