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The war on health care access
This week’s column at RH Reality Check is about the use of wedge issues by anti-choicers, and what they get out of it. The ones I identify as popular now are pretending to care about racism, pretending to care about women’s health, pretending to care about disability rights, and acting…
That’s why we don’t call them “pro-life”
Matt makes a useful point about how anyone who threatens to block health care reform over abortion is a lot of things, but “pro-life” ain’t one of them: That said, it really is worth lingering on the extent to which his threat to hold health reform hostage to an abortion…
Lieberman shocks no one
I’m shamelessly stealing Paul’s joke here. Lieberman is back to square one with threatening to join the filibuster if the public option and/or the Medicare buy-in are part of the health care reform bill. What’s interesting to me at this point is that for Lieberman, any pretext that he gives…
Misogyny hijacks health care reform vote
Sorry for being out all day yesterday; my mother is in town, and so it was hard to obsessively follow the health care reform vote. I did try to tweet some stuff from RH Reality Check about the Stupak amendment, and frankly, prior to the amendment, that’s the best angle.…
When life resembles The Onion
For those of us who’ve been pushing back against anti-vaccination hysteria—most of it coming from the left—I think there’s an inevitable sense that the whole anti-vaccination thing is so nutty that it’s inevitable that it’s going to be picked up by the right wing, the home of most nutty conspiracy…
It’s time to put the insurance companies out of their misery
If I were on trial for robbing a house, the last thing in the world I would do is give a series of public lectures on cat burglary techniques. “I’m completely innocent,” I’d say, as the sample lock clicked open. “I’ve lived a clean life. Any questions about the order…
And that’s why they invented the word ‘systemic’
From litbrit, here’s the softer, more liberal version of the “there is no such thing as racism anymore shuddup” whining: admit that there’s still racism, deny that it’s a legitimate problem. litbrit handles it well, but I want to address a very specific thing I see cropping up over and…
Enough with the whining!
Well, after writing a post on the uselessness of shame as a motivator for better health outcomes, I’m forced to employ shame in an attempt to create better political outcomes. For shame, Obama administration, for using this tactic. “I don’t understand why the left of the left has decided that…
This was going to be a longer post, but it’s just so damn enervating
Until now, when relief is in sight*, I’d never really stopped to do the exact math. I’d guessed at it, sure, but I didn’t have the hard numbers. Most of it gets taken out pre-net, of course, and it wasn’t like I was going to change anything from the knowledge:…
NC wingnuts and health care – ‘no pubic option’
Perhaps it is about the state of education in NC, or a reflection of the right-wing’s obsession with naughty bits…you decide. Shown on the News & Observer’s coverage of a teabagger/birth/health care fearmongerer crowd. From Dem Underground: As a “moran” bonus in the background: “Where’s the birth certificate?” OMG–when angry…
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