Archives: Health-Insurance Reform

KEITH OLBERMANN: “[Rep. Wilson's crime] was not reflected in his emotions, nor his disagreement, nor his inappropriate conduct, nor in his incivility. It was in his prideful wrong-ness.”

Echoing the GOP’s spittle-spewing astroturfed town-hall hissy fits this summer, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., heckled Pres. Obama during his address to a joint session of Congress tonight.

“You lie,” Wilson yelled after Obama asserted that reform proposals do not include covering non-citizens. Could be Wilson was in a celebratory mood. Earlier today, his son Alan announced he is running for attorney general of South Carolina.

Over three-quarters of voters in the SurveryUSA poll said they consider a government option to be either extremely or quite important.

FactCheck.org Derides Vapid Health Care Email
Trish Ponder | Aug. 30, 2009

Even FactCheck.org has had it with the level of inanity coming from opponents to health care reform. The normally dispassionate site is addressing a ridiculous email (which so far, I haven’t gotten, praise Allah!) written by a rightwing blogger who posts the famous “Joker” picture of Obama on his home page.

Topics: Birthers, Conservative Agenda, Health Care, Message Points, News, Online

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Poll: 86% Want Universal Coverage; 79% Want Government Option
Jon Ponder | Aug. 26, 2009

Nearly 8 in 10 Americans support a federal health insurance plan, but only 37 percent define “public option” correctly.

Topics: Health Care, Polls

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Grassley Lets Call for Violence Against ‘Little Hitler’ and ‘Washington’ Stand
Jon Ponder | Aug. 26, 2009

Sen. Grassley stood silently by while a town-hall tea-bagger said this: “The president of the United States, that’s who you should be concerned about. Because he’s acting like a little Hitler. I’d take a gun to Washington if enough of you would go with me.”

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Frum: Seniors Are Already in Public Plan – Medicare – Govt ‘Could Kill Them All Now If It Wanted to’
Jon Ponder | Aug. 24, 2009

David Frum: “The thing that is so wacky about this debate, of course, is that it is already true that everybody, or virtually everybody over 65, is enrolled in a public plan. The government could kill them all now if it wanted to.”

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