http://twitter.com/#!/AnthonyBialy/status/474272103793827841 Another day, another reminder that Obamacare is working just fine: http://twitter.com/#!/MonicaCrowley/status/474273831452811264 Pop the champagne! Or not: http://twitter.com/#!/redsteeze/status/474272331708112897 That’s pretty much the gist of what’s happened: Four years after enactment of what is widely viewed as President Barack Obama’s key legislative achievement, however, it’s unclear whether the health care law is still on track to […]
http://twitter.com/#!/ShannonBream/status/420296422009761792 In June of 2012, Supreme Court Justice John Roberts was the deciding vote when it came to approval of Obamacare’s individual mandate. Today, Roberts again came down on the side of Obamacare after a group of doctors requested a stay: http://twitter.com/#!/KLTV7/status/420315900458598400 The same Justice who upheld Obamacare’s individual mandate as a tax denying a […]
http://twitter.com/#!/dont_audit_me/status/517689663520534530 After his disastrous CNN interview yesterday, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC, posted a confusing tweet in which he asserted that the U.S. shouldn’t isolate countries where Ebola is running rampant. Was he trying to say that the U.S. shouldn’t restrict flights from West Africa? Who knows. Earlier today, he was at it again: [email protected] Evaluation of feverish illness in […]
Last night, Chris Hayes interviewed the Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders Sophie Delaunay to talk about Gov. Chris Christie and the quarantine of Ebola health worker Kaci Hickox. And after the segment, Hayes tweeted out this summary of his chat with Delaunay: So @MSF has had 3300 staff rotate through W Africa caring for Ebola […]
http://twitter.com/#!/SharylAttkisson/status/505117504335642624 Actor and comedian Rob Schneider recently laid on his Caps Lock key to announce the news that a top CDC scientist had admitted to lying about vaccine safety. Schneider tweeted that “CNN is now covering the story!” However, his link led not to CNN.com but to CNN iReport, a site for articles uploaded by random users that […]
http://twitter.com/#!/JeromeEHudson/status/445615545141166080 The White House, hoping that Obamacare can ride on the coattails of the NCAA basketball tournament, is featuring the GIF-heavy “16 sweetest reasons to #GetCoveredNow”: http://twitter.com/#!/WhiteHouse/status/445598183901503488 Among the 16 “competitors” in the Obamacare “tournament” is this: http://twitter.com/#!/charliespiering/status/445611169668009984 Yes, this is actually on the White House website as a reason to #GetCoveredNow: Who hasn’t that […]
http://twitter.com/#!/MarthaPlimpton/status/427906128710627328 Barf. Nothing like watching two women bond over the awesomeness of killing babies, right? Our pal Amanda Marcotte recently penned a piece explaining that the real reason people oppose abortion is that “they’re angry about sex.” Specifically, they hate the idea of women having “non-procreative sex.” Astute analysis there, Amanda. As always. For what […]
