It’s Health CARE

Christina Turner was drugged and brutally raped. Fearing that she may have been exposed to HIV, her doctor recommended that she undergo treatment with anti-AIDS drugs. Fortunately, she never developed HIV. Months later, she lost her health insurance and discovered that the preventative treatment had morphed into a pre-existing condition and she could not get [...]

Redegredation

You see, back in 2006 Montana had this good idea that you shouldn’t be allowed to screw up the water that flowed to your neighbor before he got his chance to use it. So, they wrote a simple rule; “For all state waters, existing and anticipated uses and the water quality necessary to protect those [...]

Wellpoint bill goes to vote tomorrow

Today, the health insurance industry put forth the strongest argument yet for including a public health insurance option in any bill that comes out of Congress. The day before the Finance committee votes, they released a report done by PriceWaterhouseCoopers for America’s Health Insurance Plans, the PR arm of the industry. The report concluded that, [...]

What’s not to like?

Cripes! What happened? I took a few days off to visit some relatives down in Mormondom and I came back to winter! What is this, Montana?
I see by an article in the Missoulian this morning that the Montana health insurance cabal is positioning itself for passage of the Baucus Boondoggle. They certainly have nothing to [...]

Thanks for the help

Just what’s up with all those out of state tourists catching all my fish and killing all my elk? Why don’t we just tell them all to go home so we can have Paradise all to ourselves? Well, as you might expect, there are folks studying just those questions. The Institute for Tourism and Recreation [...]

Max’ed Out

This morning, Max Baucus was finally forced to give voice to what most of us have known for months. In voting against two public option amendements in the Senate Finance Committee, Max has shown that he is more interested in subsidizing his large campaign donors than in listening to the people who elected him. The [...]

Best Health Care System in the World

Why would we want to change this wonderful system and move to a rational system that provides affordable health care for our families?

Dennis Rehberg aide, Dustin Frost is out of the hospital following a serious head injury from a boating accident. Friends and family are selling T-shirts, hats and teddy bears to help defray his [...]

Word Warrior

I don’t know anything about the folks who are on the panel to choose the Montana Poet Laureate, but I do know that they have a tough job. There’s something about the climate in Montana that nurtures language and grows  masterful writers and poets like cheatgrass in the sagebrush.
Yesterday, Governor Schweitzer announced the selection of [...]

Lemon Tort

Your Congressional representative Dennis Rehberg again stood up in Bozeman this week and said that we don’t need health care reform. What we need are more tax breaks for the wealthy and tort reform. We shouldn’t “force” good health on people if they don’t want it. People should be free to “force” the cost of [...]

Being Neighborly Ain’t Socialism

I was reading an article the other day about the building of an early irrigation project in an arid part of the West and I was reminded of these teabagger dweebs. We live in Montana, in what is, by necessity, probably one of the most socialist parts of the world. Early in our history, and [...]