Tag: health insurance reform
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Three guys who made a difference
In looking at the U.S. House vote that was just enough to pass the Democratic leadership’s health insurance reform bill (a 220-215 margin), you could say that the votes of three men with almost no influence in Congress, elected from districts thousands of miles apart, were what made the difference between victory and defeat.
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Explain something to me
I’m having a moment of cognitive dissonance here and I’m hoping someone can help me get my mind straight. In the outbreak of protests that have been popping up all over cable news, I keep hearing from the teabaggers, the healthcare reform opponents and my Libertarian friends variations on this argument: Government never works, and…
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Government insurance is bad, except when it’s not
A majority of Georgia’s congressmen will tell you that they oppose the health insurance reform bill moving through Congress because it’s a “government-funded” healthcare plan that will crowd out the “private” insurers who have done such a great job of covering America’s citizens (if you can overlook the 46 million or so who are uninsured).
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Johnny got a spanking
Johnny Isakson, it seems, is the latest Georgia Republican to learn that you don’t mess with your most rabid supporters by trying to do something foolish like talk common sense or acknowledge the obvious.