If there's anything being shoved down our throats these days, it's the claim that health care reform is being shoved down our throa...

I just read an interesting post about a new book by Wendell Potter , a former communications director for Humana and then CIGNA, two of the ...

Got another e-mail this morning about how the Supreme Court is "quietly reviewing" those claims that Obama wasn't born in Haw...

Hey, I'm a stupid lefty. I must be, since so many obviously intelligent people tell me so. After all, I don't think the health in...

Somehow I've never been able to understand why preventing enormous and hugely profitable insurance corporations from dropping you becau...

Look out your window, baby, there's a scene you'd like to catch The band is playing "Dixie", a man got his hand outstre...

What happened never happened and the election that ousted the Republicans from office all around the country had nothing to do with public...

This is important, fellow Zoners. Please add your signatures to the petition and call your congresspeople. Thanks. HR 4789 and The Public Op...

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Whatever the cause of Rush Limbaugh's chest pains , they haven't been as fatal as some have reported but whether or not angina is in...

That's the question Bill Moyers poses to Matt Taibbi and Robert Kuttner on his "Journal." Taibbi answers "No." Kuttn...

If you haven't seen Keith Olbermann's recent interview with Wendell Potter, discussing the benefits for the medical-insurance indust...

On PBS News last night, Mr. The-Strangest-Name-Outside-of-Porn-Business Axelrod (and doesn't he look the part, too?) waxed semi-poetic ...

I guess Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) is trying to cornhole us again. I imagine that he woke up early one morning and realized there was another ...

I got an e-mail from Texas Senator John Cornyn this morning. Somehow I had the urge to take another shower. In the relentless crusade to moc...

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Two amendments proposing a public option were shot down in the Senate Finance Committee today: the first amendment was crafted by Sen. Jay R...

From others you get beat up and robbed blind by the pimp and you thank them for it all the way to the emergency room. You remember Betsy McC...

Palm Beach County, unlike counties in some other places, exhibits a huge disparity amongst residents and the bottom of the barrel is more vi...

As though on cue, the South Carolina courts have upheld a $10 million dollar award to Jerome Mitchell who purchased health insurance from Fo...