This is a good film. I wonder if he could have put in the clip of each and every CEO answering the question “Would your company voluntarily stop the policy of red-flagging insurance policies?” they each said “no”, in so many words.

Conyers: Obama health care plan is “cr*p”.

Nothing like throwing caution to the winds, is there?

This should be played before every town hall. We need passion and anger for reform. And yes, the campaign should have been launched long before August. We still haven’t learned that no policy proposal will ever be successfull without first clearing the way with strong framing, PR and messaging–it’s bizarre. Why is that?

OT – 44 years ago today President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act. This one act changed the political equation forever.

Right, the compromise for “public option” is no good. It should be Universal health care.

Conyers is right Universal health care is the best way to go

What will happen next with this video? Will some form of it get out there in TV ads?

I agree that Reps. should play this at the beginning of their town halls. I’m going to tell my Rep’s office about it. Can it be used freely?

The Democrats should’ve launched this campaign six months ago, easy.

This is so true. There is still too much tiptoeing around on the truth about what’s been happening with Big Health, deal making, etc. in order to try to avoid a full on attack in the media and elsewhere. This is a mistake. Any kind of real change was always going to be an epic battle and everyone knew that. If BigHealth is not attacking then the people are getting screwed and we are not getting real healthcare reform.

Conyers: Obama health care plan is “cr*p”.

A quote from the article (not from Conyers): “It’s not a matter of the perfect being the enemy of the good, but that the health care legislation shaped by the White House and its allies in Congress is just no damn good.”

fabulous video. the more we see of it the better.

Go Jane!

Just home from Donna Edwards event. (report filed, but didn’t have camera).

Idea: we need to start taking pictures of these Teabaggers and plants and compiling them here. I’m sure it’s a travelling circus!

I did get to give a good interview with Channel 9; she said it might be on 11 news tonight.

Funny how there is no mention of the millions of dollars trial lawyers earn and the billions of dollars of healthcare costs they cause as physicians practice defensive medicine. Where’s that outrage?

Yes we need insurance reform but there also needs to be tort reform. If you believe and claim otherwise you are first class hypocrite.

Match this up against the Business Week article about UnitedHealthCare, which has apparently been working hard behind the scenes not only with Max Baucus but with Steny Hoyer.

There is a great need in the next three weeks for the investigative reporting that will document the extent that the healthcare industry has been tying up even members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. We need the names of the go-betweens, an outline of the network of relationships, and who is standing for what part of the healthcare industry.

No villain, no win.

And which House members are you whipping for the Wiener Amendment?

This should be run on the evening news. I agree wholeheartedly with Tarheel. The need to spotlight how hard the industry is fighting reform is critical to ending up with something decent.
Another thing, most of the teabaggers and the so called angry mob are too stupid to realize their medicare is government run healthcare. The Reps need to ask if they are willing to give that up since they think government run healthcare is so f’ing gawd awful.

I agree completely… it is crap. see the diary I wrote for the Seminal or read the Businessweek article by Turhane and Epstein about the unbelievalbe inside work done on the legislation by the the insurance cos.

Lord have mercy… talk about the fox guarding the henhouse…

How many people do you know who have ever sued their doctor for anything?
Tort reform is intended to protect businesses from their mistakes: look who’s behind it.

I looked up Vore and it’s short for voraphilia “a fetish in which one fantasizes about being eaten alive or eating another creature alive.” It’s not like cannibalism, as in the Royal Navy (”can you dig it man?”) where there’s a certain amount. It’s entirely imagined.

“Tort reform” is just another word for protecting companies from paying for their mistakes.

If we had worthwhile consumer regulation in this country, we wouldn’t need lawsuits. But absent consumer protection, lawsuits are the only thing holding companies accountable for their harmful actions. If we didn’t have consumer lawsuits because of “tort reform” we would have rapacious companies with no brake on them at all.

Mr VORE,

You might look at the numbers. Malpractice settlements (and legal costs) come to no more than 1 percent of American health expenses. What happened to the other 39 percent that marks the difference between the glorious US of A and Canada (Canada has better health outcomes, by the way. Get back to your troll hole. It

Just another example of money over people.

Funny how the states of California and Texas passed tort reform measures and insurance rates are still rising at the same average as other states.

Here in Texas, my insurance through a small company has gone up 15% – 25% a year for the past 6 years. Tort reform, huh? That’ll fix it?