Author: BooMan

Reading the Tea Leaves

Not too many progressive bloggers gave a shit, so few of us wrote about it, but there was test-vote of sorts for the health care reforms today in the House of Representatives. Without getting too detailed, former Democrat Parker...

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Reconciliation

Want to know what’s in the reconciliation bill? Here you go. You’ll probably wonder why anyone would want to “read the bill,” and that was a summary that translates the actual bill into something a normal...

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A Man Walked into a Bar

If you walk into a bar and tell someone that we can spend a trillion dollars and cover thirty million uninsured Americans and the effect on the budget will be to save $1.3 trillion over the next twenty years, you’ll...

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On Bart Stupak

As chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations, Bart Stupak held hearings last June on the practice of recissions, whereby health insurance companies cancel your coverage once they...

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