At least one lawyers’s group isn’t so enthused about the President’s nod to tort reform last night. From a flak at the American Association for Justice: Of particular interest to this community are the President’s comments regarding medical malpractice. The pilot programs outlined by President Obama will require more detail. But we all know the [...]

Reader comments from the New York Times site: Listening to Pres.Obama, who I happily voted for, pains me. He sounds no different than any of the other in office guys I hear try and make a point on the cliches of others. He says, “These are the facts… we need to reform the system. Single [...]

The Healthcare Economist, annotating Obama’s health care address: We are the only advanced democracy on Earth – the only wealthy nation – that allows such hardships for millions of its people. One must keep in mind that although health insurance is important, it is only a means to an end. That end is better health. [...]

Huh. There seems to be a lot of negativity about President Obama’s speech on the Republican National Committee Twitter feed. Go figure. The Republicans are also tweeting up a storm on #healthcare, per Tweet Congress. Meanwhile, the House Democrats haven’t tweeted on their feed since early August. They’ll really need to narrow the Tweet-gap if [...]

Tomorrow we’ll be covering reaction to Obama’s big speech, but for today we thought it would be interesting to take a look at some of the many blogs addressing health care reform. While the town-hall clashes have driven a lot of the media coverage and informed the debate to perhaps an outsize degree, medical professionals [...]

In case you took a vacation from thinking about health care over the holiday weekend and missed the latest town-hall stunt to draw the adoring praises of the anti-reform crowd, here it is. You have to watch or fast forward to 1:13 for the money (literally) shot. The congressman is Norm Dicks (D – natch, [...]

As we’ve already seen, courtesy of the health care debate: Ideologies are colliding within people’s very own Friends List on Facebook. Another such interaction:

The blogosphere is filled with commentary on Ted Kennedy, vitriolic and hagiographic, and a portion in-between. THE AFL-CIO blog has two Kennedy items up, one on his fight for universal health care and the other on his support for unions and working-class issues. For those who want to remember him in the best light, his [...]

Supporters of one or other of the current health care reform proposals wending their way through Congress might have gotten a vicarious thrill when a Democrat—in the person of Barney Frank—finally gave as good as he got at a town-hall confrontation. WOMAN: “Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy, as Obama has, expressly [...]

Perhaps, in the middle of this national free-for-all of a health care debate, you’ve found yourself in an argument with friends, family, or a stranger on the Internet masquerading as the same avatar your 13-year old uses. Here is one such mini-drama, spied on Facebook. (Disclaimers: Certain emoticons have been changed to protect the innocent, [...]