We can stop guessing now: The man who heckled Rep. Bart Stupak for voting for health care reform by shouting "baby killer" has come forward, despite his fellow House members protecting his identity. Rep. Randy Neugebauer: "pro-life" and a birther!
Last night, after a year of wrangling, Nancy Pelosi accomplished what Hillary Clinton and countless others could not: passing comprehensive health care reform. Almost everyone seems to be singing her praises. But should they?
Like all great compromises, the abortion language in the just-passed healthcare bill leaves everybody angry, and the pro- and anti-choice sides have responded by issuing critical statements and yelling ridiculous shit, respectively.
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Rep. Bart Stupak, progenitor of the Stupak-Pitts and thorn-in-the-side of healthcare reform, said last week that he wouldn't sign the current bill because it would "directly subsidize abortions." Now he's optimistic about a compromise. Time for champagne?
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin told an audience of Canadians this weekend that she used to "hustle" over the border to get her some of that cheap socialized medicine she now decries. Also, she can define irony correctly!
The Colbert Report has come up with a pleasing metaphor for the health care debate: a broken marriage: "Clearly the Republicans are the man. Which means the Democrats are the woman, partly because they have no balls."
Yesterday's health care summit may have featured only four women, but one of them, Representative Louise Slaughter, managed to make a pretty big impression.
The DSM-5 — the American Psychiatric Association's handbook of mental disorders — doesn't come out until 2013, but a set of proposed revisions went online today, and there's something to piss everybody off.
According to the Portland Mercury's Blogtown, Oregon's Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) is concerned about the legality of Whole Foods's new BMI-based discount program. Whole Foods, meanwhile, can't see why anyone would be mad.
In 2008, voters flocked to the polls to elect Barack Obama in order to bring political change. A year after his inauguration, we're sending more troops abroad, there's no health care reform, and the economy sucks. Got Hope?
Are women the last hope of healthcare reform? On Sunday, Representative Carol Shea-Porter said the Democratic and Republican women agree the process is out of control but believe "we can find a common ground." Men were not available for comment.
Esquire just published a cursory profile of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, remarking she "is all about the execution of her job." So how did we end up dropping health care reform off to the realm of "maybe later?"
After weeks of hand-wringing by the Democratic establishment and anxious health care reformers, Senate candidate Scott Brown won the Massachusetts special election over Martha Coakley, upsetting the fragile majority. But how? Media outlets are already weighing in:
As the health care reform bill winds toward reconciliation, special interest groups and one ambitious GOP hopeful are making their last minute pushes to overhaul the bill or scrap it all together.
Health care talks began anew on Tuesday, with Democrats pledging to send a final bill to President Obama before the State of the Union Address. But the looming issue of three senators opting for retirement has shaken the party.
Is it time for a Howard Dean-led health care reform revolution? The Politico documents how Dean has come full circle, resuming the mantle of "party progressive." [Politico]
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is a vegan who's against universal health care, and in some ways he's the embodiment of contemporary American food rhetoric: contradictory, self-righteous, and inflammatory.
