Strom Thurmond Wanted Health Care for All!

Thurmond on Health Care March 15, 1973 Watch the Video

We’d rather have a good bill than a bipartisan one.

We’d rather have a good bill than a bipartisan one. In advance of the health care summit later this week, President Obama put forward a proposal this morning to start the process of passing health care reform. But the president’s plan is largely based upon the negotiations that were happening before Jan. 19th’s election in [...]

NPR: How Health Overhaul Would Affect The Uninsured

As Democrats have pushed for a comprehensive overhaul of the country’s health system, much of their plans and rhetoric have focused on providing coverage for America’s uninsured. Although that effort stalled following Massachusetts Republican Scott Brown’s election to the Senate, President Barack Obama reiterated that imperative in his State of the Union address last month. [...]

Kirby: Hospitals, Public Need Health Reform

The State Newspaper Thursday, Feb. 04, 2010 I wonder if Scott Brown will ever accomplish as much as a sitting U.S. senator as he did on the day he won the election. And how ironic that Ted Kennedy’s death has had such an adverse impact on health care reform – the very issue about which [...]

Tax cigarettes for health care

  Tax cigarettes for health care Sunday, February 7, 2010 Given the sad economy, increasing South Carolina’s cigarette tax offers lawmakers the best opportunity to get their hands on a pot of new money next fiscal year. The Legislature should hike the measly 7-cent tax — the nation’s lowest — and use it to support [...]