Healthcare

The Stupak pro-lifers have accepted an executive order for their votes: Stupak announced support for the bill as the White House issued its statement about the executive order. The president “will be issuing an executive order after the passage of the health insurance reform law that will reaffirm its consistency with longstanding restrictions on the…

Stupak is now officially a “yes”. National Review Online has identified 3 pro-life Congressmen that may not go along with the executive order solution. Two of them, Dan Lipinski and Jerry Costello both of Illinois, are on the Firedoglake Stupak-list. A third, Gene Taylor was already counted as a “no”. Earl Pomeroy has declared he…

Firedoglake is reporting that Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, who had been in listed in their Stupak bloc (don’t know that we can really call them pro-lifers as a group anymore) will vote “yes” regardless of any changes in abortion language. Bart Stupak’s statement that he has 6 members in his bloc suggests least one or…

As the national Democrat Party does back flips to pass its healthcare monstrosity, there’s are important bits of context of which we shouldn’t lose sight. The first is that: “Job loss has been a big factor in the loss of insurance coverage, but not the only one,” and job loss has been the sickly child…

As of 8:15 pm, Fox News says there are 217 votes in the House of Representatives in favor of passage of the Democratic healthcare reform bill (216 are necessary for passage). National Review Online is reporting that a Maryland Congressman has said that he’s “not sure” that the Democratic leadership needs the the Bart Stupak…

Here at Anchor Rising, we slog through the dreck, so you don’t have to! The paragraph below is some less-than-transparent text from the House reconciliation bill on healthcare “reform” (i.e. the dreck)…[SEC. 1003(b)] APPLICABLE PAYMENT AMOUNT — Section 4980H of such Code, as so added and amended, is amended– (1) in the flush text following…

Erstwhile Democratic presidential pollsters Pat Caddell (Carter) and Doug Schoen (Clinton) have penned a piece about the political prospects facing their party amidst the health-care drama. Yet, what caught my attention was their concise summary of the things upon which most everyone agrees: There are enough Republican and Democratic proposals — such as purchasing insurance…

Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising, given the presumption of their label, but “progressives” have a tendency to assume that anybody who wants change wants their kind of change — as if there can only be one solution for reaching a given goal. Just about all conservatives, for example, really do desire world peace, but that…