ObamaCare: A Non-Existent Health Plan That Begins with Cuts
A Black Agenda Radio Commentary by Glen Ford Click the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary.There is no Obama healthcare plan, “just mouthfuls...
View ArticleObama’s Emerging Legacy: Wars, Bankers and For-Profit Healthcare
by BAR executive editor Glen FordThe first Black president has racked up some impressive victories. Barack Obama has quarantined single-payer healthcare advocates, crushed dissent against the war in...
View ArticleObama’s Single Payer Beat Down
State Sen. Obama (above) in 2003, back when he supported single-payerhealthcare. Obama changed his tune shortly...
View ArticleTop Ten Ways To Tell Your President & His Party Aren't Fighting For Health...
by BAR managing editor Bruce DixonWith the corporate media relentlessly distorting the public discussion around health care reform, it time for some clear, bright lines to help us tell who is doing...
View ArticleSingle Payer Summer
by David SwansonAlthough a single payer health care bill isn't ”even remotely likely to pass” this year, there are lots of reasons to continue the legislative battle. Says the author: “I think one can...
View ArticleConyers: “There is no one more disappointed than I am in Barack Obama.”
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordClick the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary.The nation's senior Black congressman fears Barack...
View ArticleThe Battle For Health Care: Between Now and Labor Day, It's Still On
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. DixonPresident Obama told us to judge his first term on whether he managed to provide quality, affordable health care to the American people, especially the uninsured...
View ArticleProgressives Should be Shutting Down These So-Called 'Health Care Town...
By Dave LindorffFor the most part, the health care "town meetings" staged by members of Congress are shams designed to deceive and disinform the public on the possibilities and progress of health care...
View ArticleWill Obama's Abandonment of the Public Option Take Congressional Democrats...
by BAR managing editor Bruce DixonPresidents run every four years, but Congress is elected every two. This president said we should judge him by whether he delivers comprehensive, affordable,...
View ArticleObama Piddles Away the Public's Options
A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen FordClick the flash player below to listen to or the mic to download an mp3 copy of this BA Radio commentary.“It's all over but the funeral.” In abandoning the...
View ArticleThis Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery
by Chris HedgesThe debate over health care “reform” has devolved to a frenzied assault on the U.S. Treasury, abetted by corporate enablers in both parties. “The proposed plans rattling around Congress...
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