From a piece on the Huffington Post by Moyers and Winship: On Tuesday, October 13, the Senate Finance Committee finally is scheduled to vote on its version of health care insurance reform. And therein lies yet another story in the endless saga of money and politics. In many polls, the majority of Americans favor a […]
I don’t know how much longer this will remain on YouTube, as HBO tends to yank things down pretty quickly, but I wanted to pass this along. It’s brilliant, sobering stuff. [Parts 2 and 3 can be found here.] Here’s some of what Moyers had to say on the subject of healthcare reform (transcript courtesy […]
If you haven’t yet watched Bill Moyers with CIGNA Healthcare’s former head of corporate communications, Wendell Potter, I’d suggest you take a few minutes and watch it. Here, by way of background, is a quote from Potter as he recently testified before the Senate Commerce Committee: The industry and its backers are using fear tactics, […]
It looks like the President’s healthcare bill is headed for failure. Here’s a clip from the Associated Press: After weeks of secretive talks, a bipartisan group in the Senate edged closer Monday to a health care compromise that omits two key Democratic priorities but incorporates provisions to slow the explosive rise in medical costs, officials […]
I’m watching video right now of Bill Moyers interviewing William K. Black, the senior regulator who investigated the 1980’s Savings and Loan scandal, on what we’re seeing now on Wall Street. Black, the former Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention, now teaches Law and Economics at the University of Missouri, in Kansas City. Here’s […]
