BlueDogs

Hey, Ellen Tauscher; don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out!

Thu, 03/19/2009 - 3:29am — bringiton

If the door breaks, nobody out here can afford to get it fixed.

Dragging Obama and America to the Left, Part 1: Example of useful effort

Sun, 11/16/2008 - 2:35pm — bringiton

Most of those I know on the Left are cautiously hopeful about what can be done under the new Democratic majority government.

Read more…

Help Corrente ...

... keep the heat on!

Subscribe to make a monthly payment and keep the hamsters who keep the mighty servers turning in kibble.

No PayPal Account required! Thank you!

Search

Today in Health Care Reform

Recent blog posts

Get the party started
25 min 3 sec ago
It was only a matter of time
5 hours 44 min ago
You know, since Weiner went back on his word,
6 hours 57 min ago
Yeah I'm watching too
8 hours 29 min ago
Damn.
8 hours 31 min ago
Not really
8 hours 34 min ago
These Mobilization for Healthcare for All folks seem like great
9 hours 26 min ago
Good thing the country's in an anti-incumbent mood.
9 hours 33 min ago
Well, part of the problem is that
9 hours 37 min ago
Well shit, why don't we primary them then?
9 hours 58 min ago

I support Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Per capita health care spending (2007):

United States: $7290
Switzerland: $4417
France: $3601
United Kingdom: $2992
Average of OECD developed nations: $2964
Italy: $2686
Japan: $2581

-- Bob Somerby

The text of HR676 (Medicare For All) as PDF (30 pages). The FAQ. Compare HR3200 with HR676.

Medicare for All would save $350 billion a year (study in New England Journal of Medicine).

In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program*." -- Bill Moyers.

* Medicare For All.

Random Links

[Advertising]

Contact lambert_strether [dot] corrente [at] yahoo [dot] com (lambert strether) for all your pony needs. Overt and covert displays of realism ("cynicism") available at customer option.

Chat box

23:10:28 Sarah hey, lambert -- check your pms here, please. Kthxbai
19:11:56 Valley Girl VG comment [url]
19:05:37 Valley Girl DDay implies Massa no vote is because he's in a tough district. BS. [url]
18:31:39 lambert That is the bug....
18:24:31 Aeryl :D
18:22:53 Aeryl I just kept posting, because if it's red, obviously, that mean it failed
18:18:33 lambert In a reality where lambert has to figure something out ...
17:30:17 Aeryl In what reality does a bright red box mean "successful"
17:21:33 Aeryl Done, check yours BDB
17:24:02 BDBlue Aeryl, check your messages.
17:48:09 lambert Still no word on HR676
17:31:05 Valley Girl Lambert, just read your comment [url] LOL
15:47:57 Valley Girl Do we haz irony? JR speaks [url]
15:44:24 Valley Girl Bruce- no- I was teaching, alas.
14:03:20 brucedixon VG were you at the single payer demo this morning? I couldn't make it, had a sudden problem.
14:02:42 brucedixon dunno how that duplicate thing happened...

Senior fellows of The Mighty Corrente Building

Leah (CA), Lambert (PA/ME), RDF (??), Sarah (TX), BDBlue (DC), Hipparchia (FL), MsExPat (NY), Vastleft (MA).

Corresponding fellows

danps.

Correspondents

Health care reform: DCBlogger.

Fellows emeritus

mjs, Riggsveda, Tresy, Tom, hekebolos, chicagodyke, shystee, and Xenophon.

Subscribe to Corrente feeds today!

Front page

leah

lambert

RDF

mjs

Sarah

Random term

Ponyism

The belief that a particular politician will give everyone a pony and that criticism of said politician hurts the ponies and/or one's chance of getting one. See also.

Corrente