Republican State Senator Scott Brown won the Massachusetts Senate seat occupied by Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy since 1962 (until his death last year) in a special election against state Attorney General Martha Coakley. Brown came away with 52%; Coakley 47%. Republicans gleeful; Democrats demoralized and begin to take their usual places in the [...]
Right now Congress is debating on the floor about Health Care reform, and will vote on amendments to and on the Democratic House version of the health care reform bill. Votes are being cast now for the Stupak-Pitts amendment which limits private insurance from covering legal abortion procedures. The msnbc feed below is [...]
In his Weekly Address, President Obama follows up on his Wednesday night speech before Congress on his plan for health care reform. The Treasury Department has released a report indicating that nearly half of Americans under the age of 65 will lose their health insurance in the next 10 years. Americans in the [...]
Until recently, I had no way of knowing how long she had suffered or how hard she had tried to get help during her last days. But even without knowing the details, Pam’s exit from this life screams volumes about the lack of affordable healthcare in this country. It speaks to what recourse [...]
