Russ McBee

By a lopsided vote of 349-62, the House of Representatives voted today to impose a moratorium on seven regulations promulgated by the Bush White House which would have eliminated $13 billion in Medicaid funding for health care for the poor. Every House Democrat and two-thirds of House Republicans voted to stop the enactment of the regulations, ...

After John Edwards's strong second-place finish in last night's Iowa caucus, he had this to say: [C]orporate greed has got a stranglehold on America. And unless and until we have a president in the proud tradition of Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, who has a little backbone, who has some strength, who has some fight, who's ...

So, what kind of country do we want, and what kind of people do we want to be? We can either continue making the mistakes of the past, pretending they never happened, or we can really apply ourselves and solve the problems that face us. That's the choice we're facing when we vote in 2008. We face daunting crises with Iraq, global warming, ...

I thought it would be interesting (and maybe even helpful) to compare the current herd of 2008 presidential candidates side-by-side on the issue of health care. I've posted before on the plans put forth by Clinton, Edwards, and Obama; in this post, I'm going to try and summarize all of the Democratic candidates' proposals in a tabular format, ...

I've posted previously about the health care proposals put forth by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. This time, I'm going to look at what John Edwards is saying. In brief, his plan consists of the following factors: Require businesses and other employers to either cover their employees or help finance their health insurance. Make insurance ...

Obama outlined his health care reform proposal during a speech in Iowa today. His plan holds a lot in common with the one outlined by Hillary Clinton a few days ago, with some notable differences. First, the Obama bullet points: Obama’s plan will provide affordable, comprehensive and portable health coverage for all Americans by: Making ...

Hillary Clinton is still bruising from the smack-down Congress gave her health care proposal in 1993. The health care system in this country was in need of serious reform in those days; today, it's fundamentally broken. Given the worsening of health care insurance, delivery, and costs over the intervening years, it's struck me as a bit craven for ...