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R.J. Eskow is a business person with healthcare and policy experience, and is also a musician and writer. He frequently contributes to The Huffington Post, as well as Crooks and Liars, and maintains three other blogs: The Sentinel Effect for health industry and policy issues, Future-While-U-Waitfor science, technology, and futurist issues, and Night Lightfor music, culture, and general interest. He has also been published in Common Dreams and a number of other publications, and has appeared on television and radio debating conservatives such as Tucker Carlson, Gary Bauer, and Sean Hannity. He sometimes serves as substitute host for The Young Turks, a radio program on Air America.

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RJ Eskow: No, Rachel, No! This "Health Reform" Could Lose the Middle Class for Dems

And this weekend, the House grabbed the brass ring that president after president and Congress after Congress have wanted to grab and failed: health reform at last-the kind of once in more than a lifetime historic achievement that could brand the ...

From RJ ESKOW, Huffington Post,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Rachel Maddow,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Republican Party

RJ Eskow: A Short Vocabulary Lesson for Sen. Lieberman (With Some History Thrown In At No Extra Charge)

People who label Malik Hasan a "terrorist," like Joe Lieberman just did, literally don't understand the meaning of the word. And how can they keep us safe from terrorism if they don't even know what it is? Here's what Sen. Lieberman said: ""There are ...

From RJ ESKOW, Huffington Post,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Al-Qaeda,  Joe Lieberman,  Scott Roeder,  U.S. Congress,  William McKinley

RJ Eskow: Democratic Party Out of Bounds

Who's to blame when situations degenerate? Disgusting things you'd never anticipate. People get sick, they play the wrong games Ya know, it can ruin your name! - The B-52s, "Party Out of Bounds" Would I have voted for the House health reform bill? ...

From RJ ESKOW, Huffington Post,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: White House,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Rahm Emanuel,  Nancy Pelosi

RJ Eskow: Base to Obama: Come In, Please

As Year One of the Obama Era draws to a close, the Arianna/David Plouffe exchange illustrates a structural defect in the broad coalition Obama's seeking to build. And make no mistake: What appears to some as waffling or weakness is far more likely the ...

From RJ ESKOW, Huffington Post,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  David Plouffe,  Bill Clinton,  Tony Blair,  U.S. Republican Party

RJ Eskow: Time to Kill the Pseudo-Public Option - and Other Things to Tell Your Representative

The other day I wrote that the final Democratic bill was probably going to be worthy of support, however compromised it may be in certain ways. It should be understood that progressives won't get everything they want, or anything close to it, in the ...

From RJ ESKOW, Huffington Post,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Aetna Inc.,  Jane Hamsher

RJ Eskow: Three Reasons You May Be Uneasy With Health Reform

I'm hearing a lot of ambiguity about health reform today, from people who support its objectives unequivocally. Providing coverage for those who can't afford it, allowing portability of insurance, ensuring that nobody can be denied coverage for ...

From RJ ESKOW, Huffington Post,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: White House,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Steve Forbes,  Warren Zevon

RJ Eskow: Health Reform: Look How Far We've Come. Now Where the Heck Are We?

The public option is dead: Long live the public option. Wait. Maybe it is dead. The rocky road to health reform is likely to induce severe mood swings, considering the elation after Harry Reid's announcement yesterday and the gloom after Joe Lieberman' ...

From RJ ESKOW, Huffington Post,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Harry Reid,  Joe Lieberman,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Joe Hill,  Paul Krugman

RJ Eskow: Health 'Opt-Out': Brilliant Maneuver or Crippling Compromise?

Democrats on the left and right are expressing interest in a new compromise that would provide a public option in the health bill but allow individual states to opt out of it. People may well be right when they say this is a deft way to pass a bill ...

From RJ ESKOW, Huffington Post,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Sherrod Brown

RJ Eskow: Why Would Anyone Call Their Book "Going Rogue"? Answer Below.

Why would Sarah Palin - or anyone, for that matter - write a book about themselves and call it "Going Rogue"? Granted, she's not exactly going to write it, but that begs the question: Why that name? Consider the Free Dictionary's definitions of the ...

From RJ ESKOW, Huffington Post,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Glenn Beck,  Barack Obama,  Penn Jillette

RJ Eskow: Why, Oh Why, Do They Never Listen?

... Questions about tax increases are part of an emerging Republican line of attack. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Sunday said "... We don't think it's a good idea to raise taxes on small businesses and on individuals in the heart of a ...

From RJ ESKOW, Huffington Post,  21 Sep 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Olympia Snowe,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Max Baucus

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