Demonizing Dean Won’t Absolve This Health Care Sham

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Dec 23, 2009 Howard Dean was roundly condemned for casting aspersions on what even many of its more ardent supporters admit is an obviously flawed bill. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Obama Defiant in Face of Health Care Criticism

Staff / Truthdig Dec 23, 2009 So, as we all know, Congress is getting closer to passing a version of the much-ballyhooed health care reform bill this holiday season. But will it look anything like what Barack Obama talked up while he was but a proto-president on the campaign trail? He thinks so. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Progressives: Don’t Scream, Organize (update)

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Dec 21, 2009 For progressives, the question on the health care battle going forward is not whether they have a right to be angry but whether they can direct their fury toward constructive ends. This column has been updated by the author.What happened to the health care bill is outrageous, but progressives need to direct their fury toward constructive ends. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Warts and All

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The Deadly Cost of Blocking Health Care Reform

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Dec 19, 2009 The liberals attacking the Senate health reform bill must never have known real illness. They’ve never been fired at the age of 50 and left without health insurance. They’ve probably never known anyone who died for lack of health insurance.I thought Joe Lieberman was the dumbest politician from New England until Howard Dean urged Senate Democrats to vote against health reform. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Senators Still in Health Care Huddle

Staff / Truthdig Dec 19, 2009 It could be a long and snowy weekend on Capitol Hill for our sparring US senators, who were busy antagonizing each other and making various accusations and threats Friday as they wrestled over the health care bill The Democrats' lone holdout, Sen Ben Nelson, was the subject of a woo-in conducted by his peers (continued). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Democrats Need More Pelosi, Less Reid

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Dec 18, 2009 The fact is some can play this game and some can't. Nancy Pelosi delivers time and again. Harry Reid hasn't. The president and his chief of staff could use some coaching, too. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

‘Droopy’ Lieberman Kills Health Care Reform

Staff / Truthdig Dec 18, 2009 Even Droopy has his day, unfortunately. In this clip from Wednesday's "Daily Show," Jon Stewart channels some of the primal rage induced by Sen. Joe Lieberman's not-so-subtle stymieing behaviors during this week's health care reform showdown in the Senate. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Olbermann: Obama Could Face Primary Challenge

Staff / Truthdig Dec 18, 2009 Keith Olbermann has had it with Liebermancare, and he says the president will lose the left and possibly face a primary challenger if he doesn't kill the "heinous mandate" in the health reform bill. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Sanders Lets Fly at GOP Senators

Staff / Truthdig Dec 17, 2009 Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent, was far from pleased with certain of his Republican colleagues Wednesday when his attempt to add a single-payer amendment to the Senate's health care reform legislation was met with stonewalling tactics from his GOP peers. Here, he lets it rip, slamming what he calls their bid "to bring the U.S. government to a halt." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Howard Dean: Kill the Health Care Bill

Staff / Truthdig Dec 17, 2009 Now that health care reform has been tailored to the demands of Sen. Joe Lieberman, there's real debate among progressives about whether it's worth doing at all. Howard Dean writes: "Any measure that expands private insurers' monopoly over health care and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to private corporations is not real health-care reform." (continued) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Lieberman Looms Large in Senate Health Debate

Staff / Truthdig Dec 14, 2009 If it didn't look like Senate Democrats were going to face some serious obstacles in passing health care reform legislation, Sen. Joe Lieberman is poised and ready to remind them, as he proved this past weekend with his ongoing rumblings to the press about joining the apparently inevitable Republican filibuster. Sen. Harry Reid and his cohort have their work cut out for them. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )