Results tagged “healthcarereform”

• World economies grow, but surprisingly, China's economy poised to kick everyone's ass.
• FAA says our state-of-the-art air traffic control system is running smoothly (after a large blip earlier this morning).
• South African runner whose gender was questioned will keep medal.

• Poll says Americans are divided on health care. Yup.
• NY 23 election, two weeks later: Hoffman un-concedes after nudging from Glenn Beck.
• Don't worry, you can still have your raw oysters - bacteria and all!

• In case you didn't hear...public option lives to see another day.
• Recession is "over"...but job losses continue, so who cares?
• Sobering words from a Foreign Service officer who is resigning because of the Afghanistan war.

• 16 Americans dead in Afghanistan helicopter crash
• NY Times: Iraqi blast toll worse than feared
• 800,000,000,000,000 pennies in those healthcare couch cushions?

• This may explain why the Fail Whale keeps appearing this week.
• Al Franken schools Right-Wing Health Care Analyst.
• About time: Treasury to order bailed-out banks to cut executive pay in half.

• Afghan election will happen all over again.
• Attn politicians: Most Americans STILL support the public option.
• Pakistani university gets hit hard.

• Come on, Olympia Snowe. Come into the light.
• US and Russia to Iran: How dare you have nuclear weapons? That's our game!
• Coal plants working towards cleaner air, polluting the water instead.

• Civilian goals still unmet in Afghanistan
• Two Americans share Nobel economics prize; this is the first year a female has been awarded the prize for economics.
• Insurance industry advocacy group claims premiums will rise under healthcare reform

• Reuters: Iran flexes muscle ahead of talks
• Big win, conservative course for Germany's Angela Merkel
• Republicans push for more troops in Afghanistan

• The uninsured are more likely to have Republican or Blue Dog representatives in Congress.
• The Southeast floods; 8 people lose their lives.
• Obama at the UN to talk about climate today.

• This Week in Obama: Letterman, U.N., Afghanistan
• The healthcare media blitz: Resistance is Futile...
• ... or is it?

• Unions decry lack of flowers and love songs from President Obama
• Green jobs activist Van Jones resigns
• Another happy story about the economy

• Health care reform rally at the First United Methodist Church on Saturday had people shouting at each other across a median on 12th Street, (on a block between Lavaca and Colorado.) See the picture of Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) making his own devil horns!
• Three boaters rescued after being lost for 8 days in the Gulf of Mexico! They survived on crackers, gum and beer, before being picked up by a yacht where they were served steaks!
• Have you seen this escapee from the Burnet County Jail?

• Regime change in Japan...
• U.S. to see post-bailout profit?
• US business economists: No need for a second stimulus package?

• White House considering compromise on health care reform
• Senate Dems propose nonprofit health care co-ops
• American Public: Whazzat?

RNC chair says the "death panel" falsehood started by Palin is "appropriate." The end (of the recession) is near. Or so they say. Planet overcrowding to continue. One-year-old boy found dead in car at Freescale. Last public boat ramp on Lake Travis closed due to drought. You think it's hot in Austin? You too can rent Rupert Murdoch's sailboat - only $319K/week!

Since his first town-hall meeting didn't go so well, Congressman Lloyd Doggett appeared at the CommUnity Care healthy kids fair in Northeast Austin this weekend to further discuss the health care reform bills now being discussed in Washington. As before, impassioned citizens—both for and against the proposed reform plan—came out in droves, though this one seemed to encourage less of the disruptive vitriol that spewed forth from angry "Tea Party Patriots" last week.

• OMG! The socialists are coming, the socialists are coming!
• Cash for clunkers program boosts auto sales, expected to continue…
• …Unless it doesn’t…

China rising: US, Beijing, prepare for "G2" summit Pelosi vows passage of healthcare overhaul Bill Moyers: Obama and healthcare execs -- BFFs? More economic indicators: The "Big Mac" exchange rate No more body counts in Afghanistan as mission focus shifts Business Week: "Skilled Immigrants on Why They're Leaving the U.S." MJ's hair to be made into "diamonds", whereabouts of nose still uncertain

• Obama pushes on with health reform, Republicans push back
• US Military searches for captured Afghanistan soldier
• Six (more or less) out of 10 (approximately) economists say recession could be kinda sorta maybe easing... or not.

• Iran's supreme leader says the country will not yield to protests "at any cost"
• Doctor who treated her own breast cancer at the South Pole back in 1999 dies at 57
• South Carolina governor was in Argentina, not Appalachia

• Boy who vanished in 1955 may have reappeared.
• Preparing for opposition rally in Iran.
• Another downtown attack targets intoxicated club goers.