Son of a BITCH.
A furious campaign to persuade Republicans to change their votes on the $35 billion expansion of the government children's health insurance program fell 13 votes short today when the House failed to overturn President Bush's veto of the legislation ( Read more... )

From ThinkProgress:
Meet Bethany.

Two years ago, when Bethany Wilkerson was born with a serious heart problem, private insurance wouldn’t help her. Without SCHIP, Bethany might not be here today. Watch the new SCHIP ad:

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Here's the direct link if that embed doesn't work ( Read more... )

The House has passed a bill expanding federal funding for stem cell research and a bill requiring the government to negotiate with drug companies for lower drug prices for Medicare recipients. It's hard to say which strikes deeper at the heart of Republican "values". Sure, the first bill tacitly admits that a handful of cells in a freezer ( Read more... )

One of the more kickass things I've seen lately (via Atrios) was a Connecticut blogger, Connecticut Bob, giving Joe Lieberman the hellacious ass-whomping he so thoroughly deserves.

Lieberman, on exempting Catholic hospitals from the requirement to provide emergency contraception to rape victims: "In Connecticut, it shouldn't take more than a short ( Read more... )

++ Stuff I Already Knew Part 1: American Health Care is in shambles.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 40 percent of Americans making between $20,000 and $40,000 a year went without insurance for at least part of the year last year, according to a study published on Tuesday. The research by The Commonwealth Fund also found that 20 percent of ( Read more... )

I knew this wouldn't take long. From Gawker:
It may not be as fun as “meeting Joyce Purnick,” but cheap liberals can get still their Krugman fix without giving up their hard-earned, welfare-cheating, government-entitlement program dollars - the bootleg copies of TimesSelect material have already appeared. Even better news: once you read today’s ( Read more... )