This is exactly what the Founding Fathers meant when they wrote the Bill of Rights: an air conditioning and heating company should be exempt for religious reasons, at least when it comes to womens health:
Category Archive: healthcare
Jul 30 2012
Romney praises Israeli healthcare
Mitt Romney hoped to recover from his London disaster by heading for the salvation of ye olde Israel. Where he paused in the midst of stirring up simmering conflicts to praise Israeli healthcare. Romney said in part, “Do you realize what health care spending is as a percentage of the G.D.P. in Israel? Eight percent. .. …
Jul 26 2012
That old free market magic
Social conservatives are encouraged — and fleeced — at every turn to support the magic of the free market. Let’s peek into the magicians’ black hat and see what’s really in there:
Jul 11 2012
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, wtf was Romney thinking
Mitt Romney addressed and it was a trainwreck. He was booed and openly heckled, applause was tepid and halting (Word is the Romney campaign made sure some supporters attended, maybe they were just too embarassed to clap at times). Funniest goddamn thing: At several points, after it was clear just how bad this would be, someone on the …
Jul 09 2012
Rick Perry, ultra moron
Texas governor Rick Perry has a brilliant plan to reverse his state’s dismal insurance ranking: refuse to implement the Affordable Care Act:
Jul 04 2012
Chief Justice John Roberts takes long vacation outside of US
On the heels of the healthcare ruling, and perhaps wary of the fury and screams of betrayal that followed, Chief Justice John Roberts will be spending some time abroadin an island fortress:
Jul 02 2012
The next Big Lie on healthcare
Via TPM, Republicans are now running around frantically saying the ACA is The Biggest Tax in History. Naturally, it’s a whopper and it’s a doozy. But, it’s nowhere near the biggest whopper ever told this year by the usual liars for Jesus, or even the biggest lie about healthcare.
Jul 02 2012
God wants Obamacare repealed …
Isn’t amazing how rightwingers always happen to know just what God wants, and stranger still, that it conveniently happens to agree with what the rightwingers want, too:
Jun 30 2012
The Romney tax
There’s Mitt Romney, praising then what he detests now as a tax. There is one big difference between the Romneycare tax and the ACA/Obamacare tax: under both plans people who can easily afford health insurance but choose to put the risk on the rest of us pay a small fine. That’s what the tax part really …
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Jul 07 2012
Nerdy Saturday: What can James T. Kirk & lava aliens say about healthcare?
Commentary, healthcare, SCOTUS
by Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew
Sometimes when I hear the old ‘both sides do it’ mantra so beloved by the Beltway press, I think back to my childhood and a campy episode of Star Trek. Come on! Maybe you remember this one, The Savage Curtain, where Kirk and Spock join forces with Surak and Abe Lincoln to fend off Genghis Kahn and …
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