The light bulb went off in my head today reading NY Times columnist Paul Krugman's description of health reform protests--are these folks…
Aug 7, 2009When health insurance companies or their Congressional sock puppets tell you that competition in the private market will reform health care and…
Aug 5, 2009Everyone in DC keeps assuring Americans they can keep the private health insurance they have now, if they like it. Yet health…
Aug 3, 2009The lobbying dollars being lathered around Congress are the best reason to click here and send a message to your members of…
Jul 30, 2009Six small-state U.S. senators sitting around a table and munching chocolate-dipped potato chips are about to chop off the two pillars of…
Jul 28, 2009When President Obama talked last night about the absolute need for a publicly run health care option for Americans, a competitor to…
Jul 23, 2009Massachusetts is dropping legal, green-carded immigrants from its subsidies for health insurance and will probably make it harder for poor citizens to…
Jul 15, 2009Google probably thought it was being subtle and sly. Just after Consumer Watchdog obtained and released Google's new "confidential" lobbying document, Google…
Jul 9, 2009The endless cave-ins on federal health care reform may be ending. President Obama today essentially told his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel…
Jul 7, 2009Congress is taking a holiday week off, heading home to wave flags and eat hot dogs. Some listening is in order, too.…
Jun 29, 2009Although experts have maintained for weeks that supply and demand levels don't support the nearly two-month-long rise in prices, the persistent increase…
Jun 19, 2009Yeah, I know that some things are now shunned in the consumer end of the health reform debate: Don't mention Canada because…
Jun 17, 2009Blogger and multimedia guy Bob Cesca doesn't pull his punches when he talks about how much he hates health insurance companies, especially…
Jun 11, 2009The 50 or so moderate/conservative House Democrats called Blue Dogs announced last week that they all support the health insurance industry's proposal…
Jun 11, 2009I'd rather trust Grandma's pearls to a guy with a mask and a crowbar than let insurance companies control national health reform.…
Jun 5, 2009Gene Randall's name popped out of the news reports about a 30-minute fake-news infomercial that aired on the NBC station in Washington…
Jun 1, 2009Every new report on Massachusetts' effort to create universal health care entirely through private insurance raises the red flag higher--the insurers keep…
May 29, 2009The Senate's version of health care reform is becoming a "cave-in" to the medical and insurance industries, writes Robert Reich in ...
May 18, 2009