Health Care Deform Jacob Hacker and Rahul Rajkumar,  The New Republic via Our Future.org, 6-30-09  Getty Images The issue sucking up the oxygen in Washington today is whether to have a public health insurance plan compete with private insurers for the business of...

By Bill Scher on OurFuture.org, 7-2-09 When the CBO scored an early draft of the health care form bill [1] from the Senate HELP committee as costing $1 trillion over 10 years but only covering one-third of the uninsured, obstructionists pounced and proclaimed the public plan...

Congress's $1.2 Million a Day Drug Habit—and Pharma's Phony "Gift" to Health Care Reform by James Ridgeway in Mother Jones via CommmonDreams.org, 7-1-09 Big Pharma pulled off a first-class PR coup last week with its widely celebrated pledge to support health care reform by offering...

By Joe Bageant, AlterNet, 6-22-09 (This writer's book, Deer Hunting with Jesus, is a very brutally honest but sympathetic account  of the experiences of the working-class poor.  Be warned, his language and style are colorful.) In looking back on growing up, I always remember 1957 and...

Obama and the Stone Tablets By E.J. Dionne on truthdig.com via OurFuture.org, 6-29-09     Every general studies the mistakes of the last war, and President Obama’s style has been much influenced by the difficulties of...

By Robert Scheer, Truthdig via alternet.org, 6-27-09 It's not working. The Bush-Obama strategy of throwing trillions at the banks to solve the mortgage crisis is a huge bust. The financial moguls, while tickled pink to have $1.25 trillion in toxic assets covered by the feds, along with hundreds...