Updated from yesterday's version. Note: if you support the public option, please sign the petition at StandWithDrDean.com , send an e-mail to your senators , and support Blue America's planned tv ad campaign . The White House and key Democratic senators, including Iowa's Tom Harkin, appear to be walking into a trap for the sake of bipartisan agreement on health care in the Senate. There is growing support for a fake public option, as opposed to a government health insurance plan tha

1) Lower the medicaid coverage rate from 150% to 100% of the Federal poverty line, 133% for kids and pregnant women (once you have the baby, too bad for you) 2) Subsidies stop at 300% of the poverty line (was 400%) 3) No Public Option mentioned 4) Insurance exchanges at the State level 5) Must buy insurance unless it costs more than 15% of your income 6) A fine if you don’t buy insurance unless you’re below the Federal poverty line For the most part, as Walker discusses, this is about the

Note: if you support the public option, please sign the petition at StandWithDrDean.com , send an e-mail to your senators , and support Blue America's planned tv ad campaign . The White House and key Democratic senators, including Iowa's Tom Harkin, appear to be walking into a trap for the sake of bipartisan agreement on health care in the Senate. There is growing support for a fake public option, as opposed to a government health insurance plan that would compete directly with privat

Barbara Boxer News Posts TOMMY DE SENO: Hypocrisy Alert — Barbara Boxer Called Condi Rice … – FOXNews By Tommy De Seno Princess Barbara Boxer was offended by the words of a mere commoner today, namely one Brigadier General Michael Walsh who was testifying before Her Highness. Forgetting his manners in a most atrocious form, the General called her …. Barbara Boxer on Beth Ashley – Marin Independent-Journal By Barbara Boxer I have known Beth Ashley since my days a

I have been honoured to be asked to speak at the Internet Librarian International 2009 #ILI2009 meeting this October (Oct 14,15,16, London). We’ve had a phone call and some snippets of thought to outline what I might talk about but – as I always make clear - don’t know what I shall actually say till I find out what the audience is like. I shall – by necessity – be urging that we change. I’m not quite sure what but here are some ideas: We must get young people immediately involved in