I thought Bernie Sanders was God, but I was wrong. Anthony Weiner is God.
"It's the amendment of your dreams!" "I dare ya! I double dare ya!"
Weiner: Single payer "is a better plan and now it's center stage"
Washington, DC - Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA), Chairman of the Energy & Commerce Committee announced today that Speaker Nancy Pelosi has pledged to give Single-Payer an up or down vote when healthcare reform is considered before year’s end.
Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Co-Chair of the Middle Class Caucus and member of the Energy & Commerce Committee who led the effort with Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI); Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA); Rep. Elliot Engel (D-NY); Rep. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL); Rep. Janice Schakowsky (D-IL); and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT), released the following statement:
Pelosi to offer single payer floor vote
[Because I forgot to classify this under the Department of the Happy Dance, I'm leaving it sticky for a bit. -- lambert]
Pressure works. Bring the pain!
Public option advocate: We never said what Year One of Day One would be!
Remember those HCAN principles that are supposed to explain what public option is all about?
Ready on day one: The private health insurance industry has utterly failed to control health care costs or provide their customers the quality they've paid through the nose for. With one person going bankrupt every 30 seconds due to health care costs, we cannot afford to wait any longer for a real fix. We need the public health insurance option to start lowering prices now. That means no trigger.
That's the bait. The switch? Here it is in action in comments at FDL:
The [Health E]xchange is open from day one (i.e. Jan 1 2013)
Classic! With a loophole like that, I'm amazed that the whip effort isn't even more successful than it is!
Fuck The Washington Post, Part II
Melissa McEwan asks a really good question about the cesspool that is the Post:
I'd love to hear the Washington Post explain how they feel confident their reporters are giving balanced coverage to female public figures when they're willing to unabashedly use sexist slurs in public.
Comment of the day
I agree that Medicare for All will be different here than single payer in other countries, but not so different that there is reason to believe that it wouldn’t work. And you and I both agree that it would, and also that it would be best if we could pass that. So, we also seem to agree that it comes down to the politics of what’s more practical to try to get passed. So let’s get to that again.
Corazon Aquino has died
according to the New York Times.
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Finance is a feminist issue (some reading)
This isn't the post I want to write, but a few links (since Lambert asked). I think there are many respects in which finance is a feminist issue: these articles address some of them. So this is your summer reading list. :)
The first is a paper which is very dense with analysis, but worth it if you get through it: The Demystification of Global Finance: A Feminist Interpretation by Stacey Mayhall.
The second is an opinion piece from the Christian Science Monitor: More Women in Finance, A More Sustainable Economy.
Not saying I entirely agree (or disagree) with either of these authors, but they provide a good start to the discussion.
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller: Making waves? Standing up for actual health CARE reform?
I caught the tail end of Sen. Rockefeller's interview on NPR this evening, and he seemed to be saying the there must be an actual government run plan that can compete with the Big Insurance Parasites (BIP). One that is non-profit, but I missed the entire list of requirements.
Mcjoan wrote a diary at DKos titled "Rockefeller Rebelling?"about Rockefeller's appearance on The Ed Schultz Show on MSNBC (Is Schultz becoming the actual program for the people's interests?), and it looks like one Democrat is finally talking turkey about the amorphous "plans" being discussed. He's demanding detail and substance. She notes that it was Rockefeller who mentioned the Baucus gang's idea of dropping S-CHIP.
Sign of the times?
On one side of the street: a recently redesigned-to-look-upscale Payless Shoes store, its spacious aisles empty but for a pair of shoppers.
Directly across the street: The $5 Shoe Emporium (yes, that's its name), crowded with shoppers.
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