Archive for December, 2009
Mills Health Care Forum
Author: AdminOn December 7, Cal Dems Robbie Bruens and Nik Dixit spoke at a health care forum hosted by the Fem Dems at Mills College. Thanks to the Fem Dems for arranging the fantastic event! Photos are below, and videos can be found here.
Read moreA Socratic Dialogue on Senate Sausage Grinding
Author: RobbieJeremy Pilaar: “Kill The Health Care Bill! Start Over!” – Howard Dean Robbie Bruens: Yeah, because if we start over now we’re not going to end up waiting another decade or two. Killing a bill does not mean we will get bolder reform in the future. It means we will get less bold reform in [...]
Read moreCal Dems at the Concessions!
Author: MaximOn Saturday, December 5, a group of nine Cal Dems volunteered their time to go work the concession stand at the Men’s Basketball Game vs. Iowa State. To be honest, at first I wasn’t looking forward to spending 6 hours of my Saturday evening selling hot dogs, but hey, for 10% of the revenues, I figured it [...]
Read moreNate Silver: The Health Care Elevator Pitch
Author: AdminNate Silver addresses criticism from the left and makes another great argument for health care reform. His elevator pitch: Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln are probably willing to sign off on $900 billion in public subsidies so that poor and sick people can have better access to health care. Is there really no way we [...]
Read moreMills Health Care Forum
Author: AdminOn December 7, Cal Dems Robbie Bruens and Nik Dixit spoke at a health care forum hosted by the Fem Dems at Mills College. Robbie discussed his work with Organizing for America, and the moral case for health care reform. Nik discussed the policy and politics behind the legislation in Congress. Watch excerpts of their [...]
Read moreKrugman: Pass the Bill
Author: AdminPaul Krugman has a column which makes the same points I did, only more eloquently. I strongly recommend you read it: The result would be a huge increase in the availability and affordability of health insurance, with more than 30 million Americans gaining coverage, and premiums for lower-income and lower-middle-income Americans falling dramatically. That’s an [...]
Read morePass Health Care Reform
Author: AdminSince Joe Lieberman killed the public option, many liberals, from Howard Dean to Keith Olbermann to Markos Moulitsas, have called on Democrats to shelve health care reform. They argue that without a public option reform is worthless, and Democrats should wait to pass “real” reform at a later date. Such a view, while understandable, is [...]
Read moreOpen Letter From a Concerned Student
Author: Admin[Note: This was written on Friday, December 11th in response to the arrests at Open University. It is an open letter and is intended as such and someone suggested that I also put it on our blog. If you are not informed about the arrests of Friday, December 11th, the San Francisco Chronicle has a [...]
Read moreThe Need for Health Reform
Author: AdminOn Monday, Cal Dems visited Mills College for a health care reform panel discussion. Members Nik Dixit and Robbie Bruens were among the presenters. Below is a screencast of Nik’s presentation: Part One: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-aGVvc3SOM Part Two: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFemwtebEwI Thanks to the Fem Dems for hosting the great event!
Read moreNo More Compromises
Author: RobbieThe word out of the developed world’s most dysfunctional national legislative body is that there is going to be some kind of grand compromise suckdown on the public option of the health care reform bill next week. Here is my message to every Senate Democrat except Bernie Sanders, Sherrod Brown and Roland Burris (!), the [...]
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