Tag Archives: Healthcare Reform

Counting your Chickens

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Featheriver

Does your doctor accept chickens for healthcare?

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Lowden named worst person in the world by Olbermann

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Featheriver

After nearly a month of national ridicule, Lowden’s campaign manager’s (Robert Uithoven) outrageous comments while discussing health care reform and BarterGate on Face to Face culminate with he and Lowden being named Worst Persons in the World.

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Lowden: “Barter with Your Doctor”

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Featheriver

Sue Lowden, former chair of the Nevada GOP, has some suggestions for health care policy rather than the Democrats’ plan. 1. Save as much as you can in tax-free health savings accounts; 2. Barter with your doctor. She said I … Continue reading →

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Democrats’ Health Bill Will Reduce Deficit up to $1.2 Trillion

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Featheriver

House Democratic leader, Rep. Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, said that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) had determined that the package of legislation would produce “the largest deficit reduction of any bill we have adopted in Congress since 1993,” … Continue reading →

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Jon Ralston interview Sue Lowden on Health Care

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Featheriver

Jon Ralston of Face to Face interviews Republican candidate Sue Lowden about her position on reformation of health care in the U.S.

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Obama has his mojo back

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Featheriver

I watched President Obama’s speech in St. Louis yesterday. It was quite noticeable that he has seemingly dropped his previous effort of trying to cajole the Republican leadership into governing in a bipartisan way. The Republican leadership were clear in … Continue reading →

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Health Insurance Industry push back on attacks

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Featheriver

Robert Zirkelbach, a spokesman for America’s Health Insurance Plans, said insurance industry workers “do not deserve to be vilified for political purposes. … For every dollar spent on health care in America, less than one penny goes toward health plan … Continue reading →

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Why there is no single-payer public option

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Featheriver

Amy Goodman on Democracy Now stated “Republican lawmakers remained staunchly opposed to using the federal government to regulate health insurance.” Republicans want the current health care bill dumped in the trash and to start all over. Goodman interviewed Trudy Lieberman … Continue reading →

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Nevadans support reconciliation strategy

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Featheriver

A majority of Nevadans support using reconciliation to pass health legislation. Poll shows 55% of Nevadans do not object to reconciliation. 64% of Independent voters as well. Maybe that calm some of the timorousness of some of those Democratic senators … Continue reading →

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Reconciliation to pass healthcare reform?

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Featheriver

Today on Wolf Blitzer’s Situation Room on CNN the Cafferty file segment asked “should the Democrats try to ram healthcare reform through with 51 votes using that process called reconciliation?” Blitzer commented How do you feel about the prospect of … Continue reading →

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