worship the glitch
This is Eric Mortensen's blog. He works @ Blip and lives in Brooklyn.
They want to “protect life” so much that they have written into the bill a new amendment that would override the requirement that emergency room doctors save every patient, regardless of status or ability to pay. The law would carve out an exception for pregnant women; doctors and hospitals will be allowed to let pregnant women die if interventions to save them will kill the fetus. [+]
In weighing millions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid on Monday, ranking members of the Social Services Appropriates subcommittee debated the merits of requiring college students to purchase health plans that cover maternity.
GOP FAIL (HuffPo WIN)
Obsessed TV: Planned Parenthood CEO Gloria Feldt (30 minute interview)
“John McCain’s hypocrisy highlights the hollowness of Republicans labeling savings in Medicare from eliminating waste, fraud and abuse under the reform bills as ‘cuts.’ By the same definition, McCain wanted to ‘cut’ Medicare nearly three times as much from Medicare.”
-DNC
“The self-described foe of all earmarks is with one single amendment providing a big fat wet kiss for his friends in the insurance industry. All at the expense of millions of senior citizens.”
-Harry Reid Spokesman Jim Manley referring to John McCain
Maddow tracing the plastic roots of corporate Astroturfing in the healthcare and global warming “debates.” Must watch. It shouldn’t be this refreshing and inspiring to see a journalist doing her job well, but it’s sadly rare.
Trivia: it was in response to a mountain of letters the insurance industry flooded Senator Lloyd Bentsen’s office with “supporting” their interests that he is believed to have coined the term Astroturfing in 1985.
These people never change.
I’m not inherently anti-capitalism, or anti-corporation, but I do believe that the drive to corporatism is often by its very nature one that’s inspired by greed, and a desire to avoid paying one’s fair share, and should be regulated as potentially dangerous to the health of a society. The dogs are off their chain, and need to be brought under control.
