The New National Health Insurance Plan | Max Baucus Debacle Version

Regarding the new Max Baucus "clusternuts" Health care bill. Or as Wendell Potter correctly called it The "Insurance Industry Profit Protection Act". You know, the bill that HAD to be "bi-partisan", so the Democrats neutered it into a Insurance company give-away and kissed Republican butts throughout the whole process to find out(AHA!) that no Republican is interested in it anyway.
Well, Atrios has come up with an idea for this contraption that's so crazy it just might work.

Instead of a fine, perhaps the government could just sign you up to... oh, I don't know what we should call it... a public plan? And then send you a bill.

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President Obama | Video: The National Health Care Speech

I watched the speech and was fairly impressed. At least he mentioned a "public option" which was more than I expected. If he'll stand by it and fight for it I'll be truly impressed, not to mention grateful. Here's the complete speech, which I thought was pretty good, not his best but pretty good:

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As a bonus here's Robert Reich with a quick explanation of what the "public option" really is in a nutshell:



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White House Goes On Offensive Against RightWing Health Care Mis-information

I suppose Rightwing lies and Bullcrap would be better terms for it. The Drudge "Report" is number one in the sights right now.

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care.

Here's one White House video:


If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

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Moyer's Journal | Former Insurance Executive Wendell Potter

I hope the Obama administration gets Wendell Potter to talk about health care and insurance companies in front of every open mike they can find.
I caught this interview by Bill Moyers on Friday and wanted to put it up. Now finally getting around to it.
Part 1:


You'd think that an unemployed guy would have tons of time to Blog wouldn't you? Well you'd think wrong Bucko!
Taking care of a house for four people is a heavy job. Then add yard work, job searching, Wow, worrying, depression, and four dogs, two guinea pigs, a parakeet and a cockateal.
I worked a lot less at a day job, and worried a helluva lot less to. As any office worker can tell you, "office time" is 2 to 3 times slower than "home time" so in reality I'm still not used to the less hours at home to get things done:-/
There's that to.
Night all..

Oh, and here's part 2:

Nicole Bell at C&L has the video with a good write up and comments here.

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