After months of healthcare debate a bill has been passed in the Senate. A bill that stripped basically all that was good for working Americans out, and has become very unpopular among a majority of Americans. A bill that mandates millions of Americans at the mercy of the insurance industry, and allows them to continue to discriminate against folks with pre-existing conditions. Quite simply, a bill that was written for Corporate Welfare complete with backroom bribes to get it passed. And for many Progressives, the fact that we had not a champion in the Democratic caucus to stand up for us and vote against these junk reforms was painful enough, Harry Reid added insult to injury.
Health Care Poll - Posted 12/22 Results as of 6:50 pm EST As you may know, the Congress is considering major changes in the country's health care system. Based on what you have read or heard about the Senate bill, do you generally favor it or generally oppose the legislation? Favor 191 Oppose 578
Bernie Sanders has used a bit of Senate finesse to block the renomination of Ben Bernanke to head the Federal Reserve. Chris Bowers over at Closed Left explains what's happening, but what it all boils down to is that Sanders has managed to hold up the renomination of one of Bush's creatures to a hugely important office. Obama and Wall Street want Bernanke to stay and keep fucking up the economy. Sanders is looking like one of the only senators willing to go on record and try to stop this from happening.
So please click the link above and thank Bernie for looking out for us. And while you're at it, use the Senate phone directory to call your own senator and demand a filibuster of Bernanke's renomination. We need someone in there who will actually represent the public interest.
Hillbilly recently did a video series on "Who do you believe", Bernie Sanders or Mitch McConnell. In it Sen. Sanders spelled out the huge problems with fraud, waste, and downright criminal activitiy in the healthcare industry that has helped push prices so high. And of course in it Mitch McConnell continually claims we have the "best healthcare system in the world" because himself and his rich buddies get to pick the American taxpayer and consumer clean.
As promised this is the third and final in our series of Bernie/Mitch videos concerning Health Care Reform. This video focuses on the hospitals. Mitch McConnell says America has the finest health care system in the world. Tell us who you believe, Bernie Sanders or the Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell?
As promised this is the second in our series of videos concerning Health Care Reform. This video focuses on the insurance companies. You tell us. Who do you believe, Bernie Sanders or the Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell? Stay tuned for Part III
This is the first in our series of videos concerning Health Care Reform. This video focuses on the Pharmaceuticals. You tell us. Who do you believe, Bernie Sanders or the Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell? Stay tuned for Part II
From Senator Bernie Sanders Web Site Sen. Bernie Sanders, a member of the Senate health committee, said that real health care reform must address the billions of dollars in fraud and abuse that comes from the major corporations in the health care industry. "What we have seen for many years is the systemic fraud perpetrated by private insurance companies, private drug companies, and private for-profit hospitals ripping off the American people and the taxpayers of this country to the tune of many billions of dollars," Sanders (I-Vt.) said at a committee markup session. Sanders cited example after example indicating that virtually all of the major hospital chains, private insurance companies, and pharmaceutical companies have been involved in massive health care fraud over the past decade.
