Mark Maynard | Wall Street run healthcare

It’s time to peel off the Obama decals and set the lobbyists on fire

By Mark | October 4, 2009

According to Reuters today, Obama is urging “a new spirt of compromise on healthcare.” What might that mean, you wonder. Well, Senator Jay Rockefeller seems to think it means big payoffs to the healthcare industry, in exchange for a hollow legislative victory. He estimates that, in the current draft of the healthcare reform bill being […]

Posted in Health | Also tagged burning things in effigy, call to action, change, Change decals, compromise, corporate socialism, corporate subsidies, corporate welfare, corruption, Daschle, Elmendorf Strategies, Frank Rich, Gephardt, healthcare reform, Heather Podesta, Jay Rockefeller, lobbyists, money in politics, Obama stickers, Senate Finance Committee, special interests, the public option, Thomas Frank, UnitedHealth, “I intend to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over.” | 27 Comments

Bill Maher interviews Bill Moyers

By Mark | August 30, 2009

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 […]

Posted in Health, Media, Politics | Also tagged Bill Maher, Bill Moyers, corporate takeover of politics, corruption, Glen Greenwald, HBO, healthcare reform, money as free speech, money in politics, real journalists, third party | 13 Comments

Tea-Baggers Gone Wild: taking back healthcare town halls

By Mark | August 5, 2009

Every year at this time, when Congress goes into recess, our elected officials travel back to their home districts and engage their constituents. And, this year, as you can imagine, most of them are talking primarily about healthcare reform. The problem is, Republican operatives have made it their mission to disrupt such town hall meetings, […]

Posted in Health, Politics | Also tagged accusations of socialism, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, astroturf, Austin, Birthers, Bush administration, fear mongering, Free Speech Zones, freedom hounds, H.R. 3200, health insurance, healthcare reform, John Dingell, Kenya, Lloyd Doggett, loyalty oaths, Monroe, NPR, Obama, Obamacare, Operation Urgent Fury, Republican National Committee, Romulus, Romulus Athletic Center, Swiftboating, teabagging, Think Progress | 53 Comments

CIGNA’s Wendell Potter on the state of American healthcare

By Mark | August 3, 2009

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, […]

Posted in Other, Politics | Also tagged Bill Moyers, CIGNA, euthanasia of seniors, fear tactics, framing, healthcare reform, Obama Care, Obamacare, Senate Commerce Committee, Wendell Potter | 8 Comments

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It’s time to peel off the Obama decals and set the lobbyists on fire

Bill Maher interviews Bill Moyers

Tea-Baggers Gone Wild: taking back healthcare town halls

CIGNA’s Wendell Potter on the state of American healthcare

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