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Obama’s Health Care Speech to Congress

My Twitter feed has a lot of links worth checking out from President Obama’s speech to Congress on Health Care Reform. The text of Obama’s speech is here.
The President made it clear tonight: ‘If you misrepresent what’s in the plan, we will call you out’. Good for him. He said what needed to be said and [...]

Obama, Family Planning, and Foreign Aid

I continue to applaud enthusiastically through the early days of the Obama presidency.
So far, Obama is what many of us expected him to be, and more. He’s closing Gitmo and banning torture, for example, and yesterday he reversed another of Bush’s more egregious policies, one especially harmful to women:
President Obama struck down a rule Friday [...]

Did Hillary Put a Foot In It on Health Care

I’m no doctor and I don’t play one on TV. And I am most definitely not in the business of health insurance-except for getting health care through my job as a teacher. So someone who knows more than me please answer this question. Is it possible to expand health insurance access in [...]