The numbers in this article are absolutely astounding. It now costs more for family health insurance than it does to rent an average two-bedroom apartment? You’re making my head hurt. But that’s not a pre-existing condition, I swear!

I’m not the only who is TIRED of hearing tea baggers say we have the best medical care in the world.

I don’t know how long Rep. Joe Wilson (R-Teabagland) will be the butt of our jokes, so get Joe Wilson Is Your Preexisting Condition.com while it’s hot.
Among our favorites: Joe Wilson yells Free Bird at concerts…

You can only admire the courage and determination of this woman to get through her statement despite the disgusting, goonish bullying of the mindless idiots in the crowd. I hope her representative got the message.

We can debate grassroots versus astroturf in the health care reform shouting match, but some numbers published recently at Bloomberg should give everyone pause. Including the fact that there six lobbyists for each of the 535 members of the House and Senate.

If you thought your representatives in Washington were going to spend their summer recess back home, hearing how you feel about the problems with American health care…well, you’re a sucker. In fact, many of them will have been as far from your district as it’s possible to be without space flight. Here’s a rundown of where your senator or congressperson (and their spouses — well, not Lindsey Graham — and staff members) spent summer vacation.

Here’s more evidence that Republicans have always hated Medicare. Ronald Reagan recorded this nasty propaganda screed in 1961 when he was an out-of-work B-actor working as a shill for the American Medical Association. The AMA opposed a bill in Congress (and that had the support of Pres. John Kennedy) that would have provided medical care [...]