NYCeve had an argument with an insurance industry lobbyist, video soon.

The Anchorage Daily News just broke a story about a scandal in Alaska’s administration of the Medicaid programs. It seems federal auditors have suspend parts of the program because of gross mismanagement by Alaska officials that was leaving hundreds untreated and may have resluted in over 200 deaths while patients were waiting for treatment.

Willard sent me an email this morning warning of the evils of big gubmint health care — and has a much better plan in mind.

Speaker Pelosi will be on Crooks & Liars for a live chat today at 1:30 pm ET, so anybody who goes over there might ask her why a system that allows the lobbyists to pay the homeless and turn these important public hearings into a Springsteen concert goes on unchallenged.

If you’d like to contribute to the cost of bringing Hilda Sarkisyan here to DC, you can do it here.

Education and Labor mark-up starts today– join us! Whip Count Day 21 Took the Pledge Leaning Yes Undecided Weasel Words Emanuel Cleaver II Donna Edwards Keith Ellison Raul Grijalva Phil Hare Rush Holt Jerrold Nadler Lynn Woolsey Maxine Waters Tammy Baldwin Xavier Becerra Howard Berman Jerry Costello Elijah Cummings Peter DeFazio Sam Farr Alan Grayson [...]

What can you say, he’s no Emanuel Cleaver.  

In the end, if the women in this country see that Rep. Wasserman-Schultz was simply protecting her right to be a part of leadership and vote for a crappy Kent Conrad co-op plan that leaves them out in the cold, they’ll know that she actually was drawing a line in the sand — they just get to stand on the other side of it.

Not Larry Sabato is up witha post on Rep. Gerry Connolly that shouldn’t surprise anyone who follows Virginia politics. Gerry Connolly has taken to quoting Republican talking points in the pages of the Wall Street Journal.

According to the video above, lobbyists pay $3500 apiece for those seats.  To companies that hire the homeless.  Anyone who thinks it’s not important for supporters of affordable healthcare to be there should consider how very important it is to those trying to kill it.

I’ll be there, along with nyceve and Hilda Sarkisyan.   If you’re in the DC area we hope you’ll join us.

If you can’t be there, you can help by contributing to the fund we set up to pay for expenses like bringing Hilda to DC.

The three House committees working on health care legislation released the full text of the bill today, and we’re starting to get the preliminary analysis from the usual suspects.