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Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone on Health Care
I don't know about you, but I think it feels pretty 1993 around here of late. The economy's in the dumps; a new president is headed into office and taking many of the same faces from that 1993 White House...
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HHS Chief Daschle Says States Will Play Major Role In Health Care Reform
There's been something of a debate about whether a universal health care system will come only from Washington, D.C., or whether it will involve state governments. Now that Tom Daschle is slated to become the head of Barack Obama's Department...
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Why Is This "Obvious?"
From the Politico: These small-ball proposals might force the president elect to postpone consideration of some of his bigger initiatives, like energy and health care reform. To that, Hoyer told reporters, "Obviously, we're not going to do health care in...
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McCain's latest great idea: throw more money at a broken system
For anyone paying attention to health care in the states, this article in the New York Times today should come as a welcome relief. The problem of health insurance for "high-risk" individuals is perhaps one of the most difficult and...
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Poll: States, Not Feds, Should Take Lead on Health Care
There has been a long running debate among progressives about what arena is the best to push health care reform. Should the solution come from states or from the federal government? Some in Washington, D.C. have said that states should...
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My Stressful Day With Health Care
Thanks to America's health care system, today was a very stressful day for me. My story is so typical as to be boring - which is a really sad commentary. This morning, while thumbing through some routine paperwork, my wife...
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Help Pass Major Health Care Initiative in Colorado
Per my last post about health care reform being a major state issue, if you live in Colorado, you can help our state pass a major health care initiative. ProgressNow has details....
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HILL: D.C. Dems Back Off Health Care Promises
In a stunning - if predictable - story, the Hill Newspaper reports that congressional Democrats are now saying that they will effectively thwart any effort to create a national health care program. Here is the key excerpt: "Congressional Democrats are...
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Big Health Care Win...The Fight Continues
Last week, the Progressive States Network chipped in on an effort here in Colorado to pass a major piece of health care legislation - one that could serve as a model in other states. That legislation has now taken the...
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Health Care Battle in Colorado
There's a pretty serious campaign going on in Colorado over a hugely important health care issue - one that takes the health insurance industry on in a confrontational way. Adam Thompson of the Progressive States Network has an op-ed in...
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TAKE ACTION: Help Pass the FAIR Act
State Representative Morgan Carroll, who serves with me on the board of the Progressive States Network, is pushing one of the most important health care bills in America right now. If you live in Colorado, go sign the petition...
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Health Care Battle In Iowa
The Progressive States Network is very involved in the intensifying health care battle in Iowa. Just yesterday, the state's biggest paper published a major op-ed from PSN health policy specialist Adam Thompson. The key part of the plan - what...
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The Most Important Health Care Initiative You've Never Heard About
Let's face it - the presidential race has become a laughingstock. The debate, which seems to be the only thing the news media pays attention to, has become a caricatured argument between immature children - with, as Matt Taibbi and...
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Tactical Idiocy
Though I have worked inside a number of campaigns, I don't spend much time writing about campaign tactics - mainly because campaigns are supposed to be about more than just political machinations. But when I saw this story, I had...
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Yup, I Was Right
Per my last post, I just wanted to let readers know that, in fact, I was completely correct: The Elite Pundits' attack on John Edwards declaration that he will take away lawmakers health care benefits is, in fact, a sham....
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Your "Free Market" At Work
Conservatives tell us to fear "socialized medicine" but not to fear the status quo, which is this: "One of the state's largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and...
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Circumventing the Tyranny of the Tiny Minority
If you are in Denver tomorrow, 10/16, please attend the big town hall meeting on health care. Details and RVSP here. - D A few weeks ago, I wrote a column called The Tyranny of the Tiny Minority that which...
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OP-ED: On Health Care, States Must Lead
The San Francisco Chronicle today published a great op-ed from the Washington State Senator Karen Keiser and Progressive States Network health policy analyst Adam Thompson. The piece explores how and why states are leading the way in expanding health care,...
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Today In the American Health Care Crisis
A 22-year-old man cannot get the test needed to even find out if his cancer has come back....
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Health Care and Blog Maintenance
In health care news today, the Wall Street Journal has an interesting writeup of Holland's newly reformed national health care plan. Some of the changes sound pretty innovative, others sound potentially rife with problems. But it's definitely interesting. More locally,...
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Denmark Can Do It, But Not California...Or Texas...Or New York...Or Colorado...Or Wisconsin?
Ezra Klein is out once again attacking progressives in state legislatures for pushing to expand health care. It's a pretty tired, typical Washington, D.C. argument that attempts to imply that those progressives pushing to expand health care at the state...
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Musgrave: Eating Good, Health Care Bad
I don't get it. Colorado Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave is landing headlines pretending that she cares about low-income people. The Greeley Tribune cited Musgrave's opposition to the White House proposal to eliminate food bank funding as proof that Musgrave has...
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Bush Threatens "Corrective Action" Against Families Who Receive CHIP
By now, everyone has probably read the New York Times story about the Bush administration's move to "make it much more difficult for New York, California and others to extend coverage to children in middle-income families." But as someone who...
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Will Wisconsin Be the First State With Universal Health Care?
In These Times magazine has a new report from Wisconsin, where the state senate passed the most comprehensive universal health care bill that any state legislative chamber has ever passed. As the proposal known as Health Wisconsin moves to the...
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Sunday Review: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly and the Hilarious If It Wasn't So Sad
Catching up on my Colorado and national news this Sunday, I caught this week's Good, Bad, Ugly and Hilarious-If-It-Wasn't-So-Sad. Without further ado, here's a roundup....
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Health Care Campaign Hits Iowa Dem Primary
A coalition of large nurse and physician organizations has launched a television ad in Iowa aimed at pressuring Democratic presidential candidates (and specifically Hillary Clinton) to support universal, single-payer health care proposals. The ad is sponsored by the California...
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Conservatives Brace for Health Care Push in State Legislatures
The good folks over at the Bell Policy Center out here in Denver has set up a new blog to discuss the upcoming push for health care reform in Colorado. It's a smart idea, because such a big issue needs...
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Rehberg: Providing Health Care to Kids Is "Extremist Political Ideology"
More proof that these people are utterly insane....
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CALL TODAY: Join the Fight for Universal Health Care In Your State
REMINDER: Read the new article in the American Prospect about the state-level fight for universal health care and then join today's national conference call with legislators from around the nation. In the last few weeks, there has been a bit...
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Tancredo: Deny American Kids Health Care, Because Illegal Immigrant Kids Might Get It, Too
First it was "we must burn down the village to save it." Now, according to Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), we should deny American children health care because there's a tiny possibility illegal immigrant children might get health care, too. I...
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Since When Did D.C. Progressives Decide to Start Attacking State Progressives?
Following the debate this week where Washington-based progressive activists attacked progressive efforts to expand health care at the state level (see here, here and here), Nathan Newman offers us this post that asks a few simple questions: Why do D.C....
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As States Lead On Health Care, D.C. Elites Say Only D.C. Elites Can Save America
Only in Washington, D.C. can people look at data, success and advances in America's states, and still insist that only the Beltway's Wise Old Men, Serious Policy Experts, Self-Described Political Gurus and Universe-Rescuing Pundit Superheroes can solve our country's problems....
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My Visit to the Elite's Fact-Free Fantasy World
When I wrote Hostile Takeover, I envisioned it as something like a Hitchiker's Guide to Wall Street and Washington's Galaxy - a handbook folks could use to see the real truth when they watch television shows about politics and the...
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Rallying w/Michael Moore for Health Care in Colorado
Here's some video I got during the big health care rally tonight at the Colorado State Capitol in downtown Denver. Michael Moore's speech was dead on - it's time for America to deal with the health care crisis....
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Movie Recommendation: Sicko
As part of Denver's Screening Liberally lineup, my wife and I went to see an advanced screening of Sicko last night, and were really blown away. None of the movie was surprising to anyone who has studied the dysfunction that...
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When Cancer Is Billed As Merely An Innocuous Nuisance, You Know Corruption Has Become A Deadly Disease
The Washington Post today reports on what has become a near-total Democratic abandonment of the party's 2006 election pledge to clean up Washington. Democrats have joined hands with Republicans to gut a proposed lobbying reform bill, removing provisions that prevent...
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THE SECRET DEAL - DAY 5: Health & Enviro Advocates Slam the Deal
This is another in a series of ongoing posts following the announcement of a secret free trade deal on May 10, 2007 between a handful of senior Democrats and the Bush administration. It is now five days since a handful...
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Hey Bill, What About When You Were President?
I'm really happy to read that former President Bill Clinton is helping to lower prices for life-saving drugs in the developing world, and that his efforts are an attempt to help allow developing countries break restrictive patents in order to...
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GOP Front Group Exposes It's Own Corruption & the Right's Fraying Coalition
The National Association of Manufacturers purports to represent America's domestic industrial manufacturers - you know, the factories that Washington's economic policies are trying to destroy. Thus, you may expect such an organization to be constantly railing on the Establishment. In...
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How Many "Free Trade" Senators Can PhRMA Turn Into Corporate Protectionists?
How many self-described "free" trade lawmakers in Congress can the drug industry make head to the floor of the Senate and bare their true corporate protectionist loyalties for all to see? Based on a key vote yesterday, the answer appears...
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Capitol Hill Faces People Party Revolt On Trade & Health Care
Just after the 2006 elections, I wrote a series of widely-circulated posts on how the real divide that will be (and has been) defining politics is not the one between Republicans and Democrats, but between the Money Party and the...
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About David Sirota
David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Hostile Takeover. He lives in Denver, Colorado. His daily blog can be found at CREDO Action. He contributes regularly to the Denver Post's Web site, is a senior editor at In These Times magazine and is working on his second book. He has been profiled in Newsweek and the Rocky Mountain News and is widely known for his reporting on political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties. Sirota serves as co-chair of the Progressive States Network, a 501(c)3 organization that supports state legislators and that is a partner of CREDO.
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