Health Care

Hypocrisy, thy name is Bachmann! Rep. Michele Bachmann gets a Golden Fleece Award for wasting nearly $14,000 in taxpayer money to fund a November Tea Party event in Washington DC.
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Congressman John Lewis, one of the protagonists of the 1960s civil rights movement and an outspoken advocate for comprehensive healthcare reform, will speak at the Pearl River Hilton on April 8 at 6p as part of the Nyack NAACP’s annual Freedom Fund Dinner.
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Pete Seeger has joined a growing roster of musicians that will headline the HealthCare For All Rally in Memorial Park on Oct. 4. The 90-year-old folk singer and tireless activist will be joined onstage by Grammy Award-winning musician, singer-songwriter and storyteller Tom Chapin. Other musical acts will be announced shortly by the rally’s organizers.
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About a dozen conservative agitators, sent by insurance lobbying groups, tried to disrupt and Organizing for America meeting held in support of health care. Despite their shouting and menacing behavior, the agitators failed and the health-care reform supporters were able to rally around this issue.
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Not only has Assembly member Greg Ball (who's running for Congress against John Hall) been getting government-paid, single-payer health care for most of his adult life, he also recalls how the Kennedy family paid for his health carw when he was a child.
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At the link is an email from Sam Sussman, an Orange County progressive who attended Assembly member Greg Ball's first sham "town hall" last night. It's obvious that what is happening at these events is McCarthyist-style demagoguery. Please read about this misleading and hate-filled event.
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Congressman Eliot Engel has joined House progressives in sternly warning the Obama administration and Senate members that no legislation will pass without a government-run "public option" plan. And look forward to health-care forums and town halls to come to Rockland County soon.
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Assembly member Greg Ball (who is running against Democrat John Hall for Congress) is trying to take down health-care reform by staging his own sham town halls. There will be plenty of choreographed outrage from Ball & Friends for the media to cover. But we can stop them by attending these town halls ourselves.
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Rep. Hall say that he has reservations about using an income tax surcharge on top-wage earners to help pay for public health care. Hall must understand that this is a small price compared to the financial burden that working-class Americans have shouldered over the years.
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Steven White had his health care question answered by the President via YouTube.
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