Tag Archives: health care reform

Read. The. Damn. Bill.

By Bryan Packman | Published: February 9, 2010
I just finished reading the transcript of Ezra’s interview with Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.). I thought Senator Alexander’s responses were thoughtful and intelligent … until this: Ezra: But you liked at least part of it. The Senate health-care bill seems like Wyden-Bennett on the margins. If you were willing to build on Wyden-Bennett, which is [...]
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What Needs To Happen In The SOTU

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 27, 2010
So, tonight, Obama doesn't need to hit a homerun. Well, he can, but he doesn't have to, at least not a walk-off homerun. A walk-off homerun isn't even possible, since he can't win the game all in one night. What he needs to do is get on base. He's got to get a rally going and get everyone else in dugout on their feet feeling some "hope", as cheesy as that sounds.
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HOUSE – Pass The Senate Bill

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 25, 2010
Alright, so the title is actually a play on an inside joke I have about a former employer (quite a quirky guy) showing off his home in a local news segment. Particularly when he says “HOUSE – lower the attic stairs” at around the 1:45 mark: Guess you had to be there. But seriously. [...]
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The New Campaign

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 22, 2010
Without a doubt, the Massachusetts Special Election was a setback. But as big of a blow as losing a 60 vote super-majority may have been, there's something much bigger at stake. Unless the president does something to rekindle the enthusiasm of 2008, the Democratic party is in danger of having a generation of young voters simply saying, "fuck it".
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The Strategy For 2010

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 19, 2010
Despite what anyone says, the result from the Massachusetts special election is not a repudiation on health care reform, President Obama, or Liberalism. Instead this was a perfect storm of 10% unemployment, opposition enthusiasm that always occurs in off-year elections, and a really shitty candidate in Martha Coakley. Regardless, the Democratic Party got [...]
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America, Fuck Yeah!

By Bryan Packman | Published: January 18, 2010
A depressing day: I can tell you when this country will get real health care reform. It will come when insurance premiums are so high, and when so many people die from lack of health care, and when so many people go bankrupt from paying medical bills, and when the rest of the system is so [...]
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If Denying Funding and Support for Defense Is Treason …

By Bryan Packman | Published: December 21, 2009
Last week, Glenn Beck jumped on a rumor, supplied by Michael Goldbarb, and subsequently denied by all involved parties, that alleged “the White House threatened to put Nebraska’s Offutt Air Force Base on the BRAC list if Nelson doesn’t fall into line”. Beck claimed that “if it is true”, which it isn’t, then it [...]
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My Sister Is A Teabagger: Ideology

By Bryan Packman | Published: November 22, 2009
The brand of conservatism embodied by the teabaggers is nothing but an adherence to a defined ideology. Andrew Sullivan has written many blog posts discussing conservatism’s movement from a pragmatic resistance to ideology to nothing but demagogic propaganda. His best definition of this new, strict ideology comes after reviewing Sarah Palin’s new book: “In [...]
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CNN FAIL!

By Bryan Packman | Published: October 15, 2009
It’s hard enough passing Health Care Reform legislation with the corporate ties that exist between the Health Insurance Industry and Congress. But it appears that the Health Insurance Industry now has a business partner and spokesman working inside major media outlet, CNN. Apparently, CNN Republican pundit Alex Castellanos is “the media buyer for [...]
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Something Doesn't Quite Sit Right with This Event

By Bryan Packman | Published: October 7, 2009
A friend of mine just forwarded me an email he received from his alma mater with the following text: Don’t miss this opportunity to network with Fairfield alumni and parents at the… Fairfield University Manhattan Briefcase Breakfast Michael Ferrante ‘90 Executive Vice President and Chief of Operations, MultiPlan, Inc. will speak on “Health Care Reform – Could It Actually Happen, and What Would [...]
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