How to explain the public option for healthcare reform, reprise

by: los anjalis

Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 10:00:00 AM PDT

Share this with friends and family, if folks still have questions about the public option.

Two weeks ago we posted a piece here at Cure This -- How to Explain the Public Option for Healthcare reform. Really -- featuring Chris Hayes, DC editor at The Nation magazine, discussing the public option.  That post was the top search result on Google for "public option explanation" for quite a few days.  Clearly, Americans are looking for ways to better comprehend the proposed public option and other pieces of the larger healthcare reform discussion.  The number of hits on that search declined in the two to three days after President Obama's speech on healthcare reform last week.  Perhaps his description of the public option, among other pieces of his proposal, answered many Americans' questions.

On President Obama's historic address and healthcare reform

by: los anjalis

Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 08:00:00 AM PDT

A television station crew was present at Senator Feldman's house, to capture our thoughts after the speech.  There was a resounding sense of support for Obama's speech and for his healthcare proposals (including unanimous support for the public option piece).

Now, the speech was nothing less than historic on several levels...  

How to explain the public option for healthcare reform. Really.

by: los anjalis

Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 09:00:00 AM PDT

The speaker is Chris Hayes, DC editor of The Nation magazine, and the setting is the Netroots Nation blogger/media conference in Pittsburgh, August 2009.

After the conference, a blogger named Nicholas Beaudrot transformed Hayes' flowchart-gesturing and converted it into an easy to read and share flowchart about the public option. Click on the image to enlarge it.

FINALLY, easy to understand, right?  Precisely why you should share it with your colleagues, friends, and foes alike.  

the sound of music + train station dancing = brilliant

by: los anjalis

Sun Apr 12, 2009 at 15:28:54 PM PDT

Dinner time: Western Spagetti style

by: los anjalis

Thu Jul 31, 2008 at 21:21:11 PM PDT

More short films by these innovators at eatPES or their YouTube channel.

A standing ovation for a health care question

by: los anjalis

Fri Aug 10, 2007 at 19:02:30 PM PDT

At the AFL-CIO democratic presidential candidate debate this past week, retired union member Steve Skvara asked a simple health care question of the candidates.  In response, he received a STANDING OVATION from thousands of audience members in the stadium.  This is phenomenal, it is amazing how front-and-center health care is in the peoples' minds, during this election.  Check out the video:

And Mitt Romney was challeneged on health care while giving a stump speech in a restaurant, where he mentioned his desire to export "healthcare diplomacy" to other nations, and a waitress really prodded him on the american health care system.  Video below:

Read on...