mediamatters.org — Glenn Beck advanced the discredited claim that federal funding will go to fund elective abortions in Pennsylvania in order to suggest that President Obama lied when he promised federal funds would not pay for such abortions.

huffingtonpost.com — The first stage of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul is expected to provide coverage to about 1 million uninsured Americans by next year, according to government estimates.

news.yahoo.com —  Emergency rooms, the only choice for patients who can't find care elsewhere, may grow even more crowded with longer wait times under the nation's new health law.

news.yahoo.com — President Barack Obama is marking the first 90 days since he signed the landmark health care overhaul by packaging a series of consumer safeguards into what the administration is calling a "patients' bill of rights."

news.yahoo.com — After a week of partisan wrangling, the Senate on Friday passed legislation to spare doctors a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments . But the last-ditch effort came too late. Moments after the Senate acted, Medicare announced it would begin processing claims it has already received for June at the lower rate. The reason: the House cannot the House cannot

aclu.org — In a last-ditch, 11th-hour move Florida’s legislators tagged two harmful amendments onto a health care bill (H.B. 1143) without opportunity for public comment, review by any committee of the legislature or expert testimony. The ACLU and 35 partner organizations sent Gov. Crist a letter urging him to veto H.B.1143. Gov. Crist responded by vetoing the bill

news.yahoo.com — She may have been born into a Republican family, but Barbara Bush, the 28-year-old daughter of former President George W. Bush, sounded more like a Democrat this weekend during an interview with Fox News. When "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace asked her whether she supports President Obama's health care reform plan, she responded: "I guess I'm glad th

kiplinger.com — Employer health care costs in 2011 are likely to increase 7%-8%. As much as 20% of that is due to the health care law enacted by Congress in March. It imposes new requirements on many firms right away, while hoped-for savings will take years to materialize, if at all. NOTE: 8% increase with only 20% of that attributed to HCR. That's 1.6%

rollcall.com — Under the slogan “second opinion,” Republicans plan to communicate their message on multiple fronts, including on the Senate floor, in press conferences, via the Internet and through television and radio appearances. A Republican Senate aide described the effort as intended “to draw attention to the consequences of the health care law that the White House hopes people miss.” Democrats rebuked the strategy as typical of what the Republicans offered throughout the contentious health care debate. “I guess it takes Republicans a ‘second opinion’ to ignore all the benefits of the new law,” a Democratic Senate aide said. “Their second opinion pretty much sounds like their first opinion — just the same old rehashed obstructionism at its worst.”

earthblognews.wordpress.com — “Left” vs “Right”, “Liberal” versus “Conservative”. This simple minded paradigm is involuntarily hoisted on Americans by the corporate media while at the same time both parties have sold out the population to the multinational corporations, banks and special interests who run Washington D.C. To think that every American can be divided into one of two simple categories represents a mass delusion concocted and promoted by the media solely for the purpose of distraction and avoidance of discussing real issues that affect all Americans while the country is looted and power is consolidated.