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Tag: health reform
Operation Rescue seeking abortion ‘Truth Truck’ drivers
How much are you suffering from recession blues? Enough to take a job driving the Operation Rescue "Truth Truck," a paneled vehicle covered with...
A hidden stimulus in health reform
It’s a nonsensical element of Medicaid’s funding formula that during economic downturns, when state budgets are most squeezed, states are also asked to bear...
DeGette rounds up votes to defeat anti-abortion health reform amendment
House Democratic leaders might have thought they dodged a bullet on Saturday when they agreed to appease moderate Dems with an amendment to restrict...
Bachmann anti-health reform ‘House Call’ as intraparty hijacking
There are a few telling details about yesterday’s rally against the House’s health care reform bill that got lost in the coverage. The rally...
Bachmann’s ‘House Call’ obstructionist health reform policy as pathology
Controversial Minnesota Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is hosting a “House Call” urging Tea Party activists to storm the Capitol today to oppose health care...
Catholic pastors directed to distribute anti-health reform materials at mass
This past weekend the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops instructed pastors at parishes across the country to distribute material urging Catholics to oppose the...
Democrats leading pro-competition anti-trust health reform
Figuring prominently in the new health care bill released by House Democrats yesterday is a provision to repeal the anti-trust exemption that the health...
Lamborn October health care video: Still citing that ‘independent’ Lewin Group
At the beginning of October, GOP U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn outlined his plan for health reform in a short video shot above a 5th...
Lamborn rejects move to end health insurance gender discrimination
Colorado’s U.S. congressional delegation expressed support this week for the move to end gender discrimination in the current health care insurance market through regulatory legislation — the entire delegation, that is, except 5th District Republican Doug Lamborn, a free-market Colorado Springs ideologist who appears to be looking past the modern history of the health insurance industry to see consumer choice as the way to create more equitable rates. That's not good enough for lawmakers responding to calls from the increasing numbers of American women frustrated by years of uneven rates and inadequate biased coverage.
Lamborn health care: No on abortions; No on pregnancy
Doug Lamborn, the Second District's Republican representative, spent the earlier part of this week holding an anti-abortion health care news conference with political advocates...