Olberman and Maddow Shows Far Better than Fox News as They Tackle Obama and Health Care

Give credit where credit is due. O'Reilly's show has degenerated into repetitive nonsense of political tomfoolery and worse.

14

49

The law, the McCarran-Ferguson Act, is often cited by Mr. Reid and other critics of the health insurance industry as a reason why coverage can be so expensive for many people. They say the law allows insurers to monopolize markets and fix prices in ways that are usually illegal.

2

2

This article provides a transparent picture of how Wall Street and politicians honeymoon while WE THE PEOPLE foot the bill and have gotten nothing for our investment in them from the newly printed trillions that sooner or later will hyper-inflat the economy in my opinion.

1

1

A new ad goes too far when it says Medicare will be "bankrupt" in eight years.

1

1

Stop Asking the Wrong Question About Health Care Coverage Reform

One of the political dividers of America right now is the debate over health care coverage "reform". Regardless of whether an individual supports or opposes the health care bill that is currently being looked at in Congress the arguments are moot.

1

0

President Obama has recently begin speaking of a cheaper price tag for health care reform: 800 to 900 billion dollars.

2

1

Go ahead, shoot me. I like the status quo on health care in the United States. I've got health insurance and I don't give a damn about the 47 million suckers who don't. Obama and Congress must be stopped. No bill! I'm better off the way things are.

13

155

"Private insurance companies dump very sick claimants based on stupid technicalities. That's reason enough to support health reform."

5

3

When I heard Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., floating the idea of a tax on health benefits in order to raise revenue for health-care reform, I was baffled; how could this be?

3

2

Twenty-one freshman Democratic House members say they oppose their leadership's plan to tax the wealthy more to finance U.S.

2

6

A Populist Question: Should Congress use the same Health Care plan as what's offered to regular Americans?

This morning as I drove to work I decided to "get my CSPAN on" as I merged onto the freeway. I usually listen to it in the mornings to see where the "US of A" sits on the coo-koo meter.

13

37

Obama wrote that "reform cannot mean focusing on expanded coverage alone." The president stressed that it also had to be about "a serious, sustained effort to reduce the growth rate of health care costs."

1

0

President Obama will have a historic opportunity to establish himself as a truly great president in his first days in office. He can take advantage of the current economic crisis to announce plans to jump start national health care insurance.

2

1

For more than a decade, politicians and policy gurus have laid out various schemes to fix our nation's inefficient health system. But every proposed remedy or reform has fallen prey to that most implacable of all foes: the entrenched interest group.

1

1

Employers scrambling to rein in their health tab are making employees shoulder more of the cost – and hoping they'll make better buying decisions. But is there enough information out there to turn patients into savvy shoppers?

2

1

If voters pay more attention to the tens of millions of people without health insurance in this presidential election year, it may be because of people like George Dixon.

0

0