How Karl Rove and fiends are bankrolling opposition to health care reform.

Plus, how $19 million in lobbyist money can buy five Democratic senators. If nothing else, hopefully these scumbags can get replaced with actual friends of the American people in their next primaries.

Republicans love demanding that the federal government pay for their property damage but refuse to sign on to offering health care to American citizens.

So…building in a know flood plain is excusable, but just happening to catch cancer isn’t?

Compassionate conservatism strikes again.

In line with the RAM program distributing Third World health care to Americans, TV Dr. Mehmet Oz offered free care to Texas citizens. Two thousand showed up.

Texas apparently has the highest amount of uninsured residents in this country. I bet absolutely NO Texas Republican votes for the President’s health care reform. I hope the bastards who voted those pricks in get good insurance anyway.

Senator Rockefeller accused Texas’ Cornyn of doing the insurance industry’s bidding by referring to Cornyn’s support of a proposed amendment to allow health insurance folks to look at the pending bill and waiting 72 hours to vote on it so the execs can tell their paid politicians how to vote.

Granted, that’s not how Cornyn, other Rethugs, and Sellout Dems see it, but that’s how it exists in reality.

Senator Debbie Stabenow made her stand against Arizona’s Other Moron Senator John Kyl, who argued against including maternity care in the bill because – you know – he doesn’t need it.

KYL: I don’t need maternity care, and so requiring that to be in my insurance policy is something that I don’t need and will make the policy more expensive.

STABENOW: If I could just interject once with my colleague — I think your mom probably did.

More on this.

Democrats have dirty fiends paid by the health and insurance industries too. Kent Conrad of North Dakota has been arguing against a public health option because he believes that France doesn’t have one and they have GREAT health care.

France DOES have great health care, recently rated the best in the world. France also, however, DOES have a public plan that covers 3/4ths of their citizens – and has since the end of World War II.

Keep calling out the idiots when they are wrong. Keep calling out the idiots when they are working against the desires of the majority of Americans who desperately want reform.

Want to know why we need health care reform? Read this.

I’m sure there are a solid hundred stories like this happening every day in this country. And it should not be legal for these insurance jerkoffs to do this to our people.

Hat tip to All Hat No Cattle

What do ya know? An insurance company scaring their elderly customers into lobbying on their behalf.

Again, I’m shocked!

Please, can some of these jerks do time for this or something?

Turns out this story is going subscriber only. Check out Huff Po’s coverage on it.

Remember awhile back when Arizona considered (and probably still is) passing a bill to ban it’s residents from joining any possible public health insurance that might be passed?

Well, turns out they are hypocrites. Not only do the Rethugs already have a public option, they’ve managed to find a way to make it work.

Do you still like your insurance company?

It takes people who lack a moral compass to justify nine figure salaries while denying cancer patients care because they failed to disclose previous bouts of acne. It is no surprise that insurance executives, who are always busy chasing after the next five figure bonus, are coming up with a novel way to deny people access to medical care: labeling survivors of domestic violence as “individuals with pre-existing conditions.”