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From The Daily Herald:  Under the theory that perhaps thousands of Utah college students are having babies paid for by Medicaid that they could pay for themselves, one lawmaker has a plan: cut all elective epidurals and elective C-sections. Sen. Dan Liljenquist, R-Bountiful, has vowed massive Medicaid reform in next year's legislative session, and first on the list is people who may be freeloading. Medicaid pays for 15,000 births a year in Utah, a third...

Sharron Angle, the gift that keeps on giving. The well of stupid that never runs dry. From an interview with Action News in Las Vegas on the subject of "Obamacare": "I think we get confused a little bit. Our healthcare system is the best in the world. There's nothing wrong with our healthcare system. Our doctors are the best," says Angle."But how many people get access to the best healthcare in the world," asks Action...

The boys and I spent yesterday at a waterpark in celebration of my youngest's 12th birthday. We were there for a number of hours so I had a chance to do some serious people-watching, one of my favorite things. We've been exposed to the Hollywood and media standards of beauty and so-called health -- rail thin, flawless skin and makeup, perfectly symmetrical and artificially perky C-cups (or larger), spray tans, liposuction-sculpted torsos, over-processed hair with lots...

There has been much opinion vomited back on various "news" programs about what the INSURANCE reform bill really means to us. Misinformation has run rampant--from those who say that 65-year-olds will be given "death pills" so they will no longer burden the system to how it will completely drive small businesses out of business with "forced" policies. Smarter people than I have really looked into what this bill represents, and here's what it comes...

The Washington Post is reporting: "President Obama Thursday signed a memorandum requiring hospitals to allow gays and lesbians to have non-family visitors and to grant their partners medical power of attorney. The president ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to prohibit discrimination in hospital visitation. The memo is scheduled to be made public Friday morning, according to an administration official and another source familiar with the White House decision. An official said the...

In a townhall in Oklahoma City last week, Tom Coburn stopped a teabagger who was railing about the fictional provision in the healthcare healthcare reform bill that will put people in prison if they don't buy health insurance.  The provision, of course, doesn't exist, but that hasn't stopped right wing media from pumping that talking point to the masses on a daily basis, picked up by the talking heads.  The lie about jail penalties started...

I heard John McCain speak this morning on the news about the "sleazy, back door politics" of the Dems that are ramming this horrible healthcare bill through and how the American people don't want it.Hmm... sleazy. What does that make me think of ...Ehrlichman: "Edgar Kaiser is running his Permanente deal for profit. And the reason that he can ... the reason he can do it ... I had Edgar Kaiser come in ... talk...

The guys at New Left Media have a new video of up close and personal interviews with people protesting the health care reform bill.  In their normal low-key style, they let their interviewees make their case (or not) by just letting them talk.  The common themes?  Outright ignorance, inability to articulate any rational point or detail in the bill, and Fox News as news source.  Have a look:These people actually travelled to Washington DC to...

New USA Today/Gallup poll:Passing the health care bill good or bad:Good: 49%Bad: 40%Emotion about passing health care bill:Enthusiastic/Pleased: 50%Disappointed/Angry: 42%It's starting to look like the Repubs may have over-played their hand just a wee bit.  It also shows that a good portion of original opposition came from those who didn't think the proposed bill went nearly far enough, being devoid of a public option, but support for reform.  The GOP may want to rethink...

When we boil down the health care debate we come back to the point again and again that it was never about health care. It was about health care insurance. I suspect that the health care debate was never this difficult in Europe or Canada, but then again I wasn't there. I suspect it wasn't as difficult because they didn't have as many people dedicated to the principle that greed was good. I couldn't imagine...