Alternet: Can Pelosi Save American Health Care Reform from the Republican Health Care Horror Show?

We may not always agree with Nancy Pelosi’s strategies and tactics. Taking Bush’s and Cheney’s impeachment off the table drove a lot of people to hate her, no matter how remote a chance there was that that could have succeeded– or even proceeded without shutting down the basic functioning of Congress and even a chance of getting any progressive legislation passed. And passing progressive legislation is the reason we were all so excited when Pelosi was sworn in as Speaker. Her commitment to real health care reform is almost the only thing standing between the American people’s rapidly diminishing chance of getting any genuine reform and the salivating Insurance Industry CEOs who may well have brought off enough Max Baucuses and Blanche Lincolns and Arlen Specters, Joe Liebermen, Paul Ryans, Chuck Grassleys and Ben Nelsons to turn reform into a massive bailout for the Insurance companies. Yes, it’s Nancy Pelosi– not Barack Obama, who could go a long way towards ending this mess by saying “I won’t be signing any health care bill unless it includes either single payer or a robust public option”– who is keeping us out of the clutches of the Insurance Industry predators. [ READ MORE ]

Roberts: “What people now have is an insurance agent standing between them and their doctor, and everybody knows that”

ABC Obama health care special brings out Fox News’ hypocrisy:

In criticizing a former ABC News correspondent now working in the Obama White House and ABC’s refusal to air an advocacy ad during a program to be broadcast from the White House, Fox News guests and hosts have ignored Fox’s own history of refusal to air advocacy ads that criticized the Bush administration, or that Tony Snow left Fox News to be President Bush’s press secretary. [ READ MORE ]

Psycho Uncle-Tom Michael Steele on Healthcare

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