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Markey YouTube explains and celebrates health reform vote

By | 03.26.10 | 1:29 pm

She may be getting threatening phone calls because of her vote in favor of health reform Sunday, but U.S. Rep Betsy Markey is standing by her vote without a hint of backpedaling. She released a YouTube today that doesn’t…

Metzger at The Nation: ‘Health mandate will be a tax on non-purchase of insurance’

By | 03.26.10 | 10:39 am

The Nation dedicated this week’s episode of its “The Breakdown” to the attorneys general lawsuit filed this week against health reform legislation and joined by Colorado A.G. John Suthers. Breakdown host Christopher Hayes talked with Columbia law professor…

Senate passes bill to expand coverage of maternity care and contraception

By | 03.12.10 | 3:35 pm

DENVER– The Senate today sent legislation for the governor to sign into law that will require insurance companies here to include maternity coverage with a majority of the policies they sell. The legislation will also require insurance companies to include…

Swalm, done offending poor on the House floor, takes to the Twitter

By | 02.11.10 | 3:36 pm

State Rep. Spencer Swalm seems intent to inflame these days, tossing out provocative bon mots on the House floor, in committee hearings and on the Twitter. The Centennial Republican on Monday railed against a bill aimed at easing tax…

Democratic women of the Senate make their case for health reform

By | 12.01.09 | 8:11 pm

Today, some of the women of the U.S. Senate took to the chamber floor and made their case for health reform. Maryland Democrat Barbara Mikulski reiterated what many women around the country have been saying and what many, many more…

Bennet on health reform offers calm and steady in a storm of crazy

By | 10.01.09 | 12:00 pm

Only Sen. Michael Bennet can deliver a full-contact well-supported muscular line on health care like “The status quo is eating people alive all across this country” in an impressively no-frills monotone. In the age of cable news and shouted joint-session…

In the Matter of Health Care Versus Baloney

By | 08.20.07 | 8:30 am

Today we talk about Andorra. We also talk about arrogance and ignorance. We talk about presumption and prevarication. We talk about protecting the privileged and plundering the poor. We even talk about blowhards and baloney.

In other words, we talk…

Tancredo Exploits Children’s Health For Political Gain

By | 07.31.07 | 12:39 pm

You can measure Congressman Tom Tancredo’s hatred of illegal immigrants by his willingness to exploit children.

So when Tom Terrific went after a law expanding health insurance coverage for children of the working poor, he reached a…