So it looks as if the Senate’s bill will be released tomorrow and WSJ shares the broad strokes… Employers with more than 50 workers wouldn’t be required to provide health insurance, but they would face fines of up to $750 per emplo...

Who’s this guy? Meet Kenneth R. Feinberg, the new pay “czar” for the White House. He’s tasked with reigning in the out of control compensation at companies the government helped recently. I think it should be noted right of...

I hadn’t, but when I did…wow. First, right there on the front page you have a map that details the total dollars announced, available and spent on the both the national and state levels (when you mouse over each graph or state). But the...

Stepping out of the shadows and into the spotlight today is Dem Senator Tom Carper from Delaware. He’s offering a third way on health care that could garner enough bipartisan support to pass. Essentially, it gives states the option to choose b...

“In LaCrosse, Wisc., the Gundersen Lutheran Hospital system is, according to the Dartmouth, the least expensive place in America for the last two years of life. They have an advanced directive program, and over 90 percent of their patients have...

142,817 VOTES FOR BLOOMBERG ON COLUMN C DELIVERS MARGIN TO CITY’S FIRST INDEPENDENT MAYOR New York, NY-The Independence Party vote for Mike Bloomberg yesterday broke numerous records and re-enforced its ongoing mandate for independent governance and...

The Wash Post’s Ezra Klein interviewed the CEO of Kaiser Permanente and found massive differences when looking at health care costs in the US and other countries. Yes, it’s not even close. Gee, I wonder why we’re going bankrupt… And those are just 3...

Ahh, I “love” the political critters in the House. Why? Just watch… Here’s the thing, the reason these folks can get away with nonsense like this is because congressional districts have been so gerrymandered as to be almost completely red or blue....

As I’ve said numerous times before, voters aren’t stupid. They know who piloted our economic collapse last year and it’s going to be extremely hard for Republicans to convince them otherwise. Still, it is kind of telling that Republicans blame Obama...

Slowly, but surely, we’ll be getting health care reform in a matter of months. That is, if Democrats don’t overplay their hand. From NY Times: The Senate Finance Committee chairman, Max Baucus of Montana, described “a sense of inevitability, the...