UPDATED: Rep. Loretta Sanchez talked with Chris Matthews on Hardball tonight on MSNBC. She talked about a decision by Anthem Blue Cross, Aetna, and other big health insurers’ decision to stop selling policies to children rather than comply with the new health care law that bars them from denying coverage to kids with preexisting conditions.
Tag Archive for healthcare reform
When the Free Market Rations Healthcare
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
Regular readers of the OC Register’s Orange Punch blog know how healthcare reform is described – government socialism that limits choice and will result in rationing of healthcare. But according to Sunday’s New York Times, it’s not the government’s healthcare…
Bits and Pieces – July 9, 2010
by Bill Spaulding • • Comments Off
An occasional compendium of news bits Potentially good news. The online edition of the Wall Street Journal is reporting that scientists have discovered three antibodies that neutralize 91% of HIV strains. Could a real and effective vaccine be on the…
Bill Maher’s “New Rules”
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
New Rule: You can’t use the statement “there will be no cooperation for the rest of the year” as a threat if there was no cooperation in the first half of the year. Here’s a word the president should take out of his teleprompter: bipartisanship. People only care about that in theory, not in practice.”
- Bill Maher, 3/26/2010
Yes We Can/Hell No You Can’t Mash Up Goes Viral
by Dan Chmielewski • • Comments Off
It had to happen. A mash up of 2008′s Will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” music video together with GOP Congressman John Boehner’s speech in Congress on healthcare reform is storming the Internet. Take this into consideration as Republican senaotrs are invoking…
HCR: Waterloo for Democrats or Republicans?
by Dan Chmielewski • • 1 Comment
Orange Punch blogger Brian Calle called out Loretta Sanchez’s vote for healthcare reform as a vote against her district’s best interest. I completely disagree. Loretta represents blue collar and working class communities in Santa Ana and Anaheim, the very people…
Tea Party Bigotry
by Dan Chmielewski • • 4 Comments
I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting Meagan Barth yet and State Rep. Chuck DeVore, literally a neighbor of mine in Irvine, both proclaim to be Tea Party Patriots – a group they say includes Republicans, Conservatives, Libertarians and even…
