Why Single Payer Advocacy Matters Now More Than Ever Why Single Payer Advocacy Matters Now More Than Ever
How should serious supporters of healthcare reform spend the month of August? Not by getting trapped in the narrow "debate" between "party of no" Republicans who favor no reform ...
Aug 2, 2009 / John Nichols
Sonia Sotomayor is Not a “Consequence” Sonia Sotomayor is Not a “Consequence”
Politics does not get much creepier than the line from conservative Republican senators who say they have decided to support the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to serve on ...
Aug 2, 2009 / John Nichols
Key Committee Backs Health Plan; Pelosi Allows Single-Payer Vote Key Committee Backs Health Plan; Pelosi Allows Single-Payer Vote
The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday evening voted 31-28 for a health-care reform plan that uses a relatively robust "public option" and other strategies to insure th...
Aug 1, 2009 / John Nichols
Blue-Dog “Fix” Makes Health Reform “Cure” Worse Than Disease Blue-Dog “Fix” Makes Health Reform “Cure” Worse Than Disease
More and more House Democrats are pledging to oppose compromises on health care reform now being entertained by at least some aides to President Obama and Democrat leaders in the ...
Jul 31, 2009 / John Nichols
Dire States Dire States
Banks and financial institutions were never "too big to fail." State and local governments are.
Jul 29, 2009 / John Nichols
Squeeze Insurance Profiteers, Not Medicare Squeeze Insurance Profiteers, Not Medicare
At a critical moment in the tense health care debate -- when the U.S. House and Senate are scrambling to forge compromise reform plans that might be passed before the Congress emb...
Jul 29, 2009 / John Nichols
For Sotomayor, Against the Confirmation Process For Sotomayor, Against the Confirmation Process
Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold joined fellow Democrats and one Republican (South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham) on the winning side of last week's 13-6 vote on the Senate Judic...
Jul 28, 2009 / John Nichols
Hope for Health Reform? Push Single-Payer Now Hope for Health Reform? Push Single-Payer Now
It is unsettling to listen as President Obama and House Speaker Pelosi talk up a health-care reform "plan" that has yet to take shape in any realistic form. The vagueness on the ...
Jul 26, 2009 / John Nichols
Congressman Eric Cantor, R-Unethical Congressman Eric Cantor, R-Unethical
Virginia Congressman Eric Cantor has taken a lead in Republican attacks on expanding role of the federal government. But there are some expansions of government that do not bothe...
Jul 24, 2009 / John Nichols
Obama Recognizes He Must Lead on Health Care Obama Recognizes He Must Lead on Health Care
Barack Obama's most ardent critics would have us believe that his bumbling of the healthcare reform push -- and, yes, he has bumbled it -- will doom his presidency. The critics w...
Jul 22, 2009 / John Nichols