With the death of Air America, Head On Radio became the last all-liberal talk network in America. (Pacifica doesn't reach me in Alabama and it's not "all liberal.") Hosts Bob Kincaid and James Guy were in DC last Thursday when they learned the news, but they were too busy to mourn a failed experiment in left-wing talk media supported by a right-wing revenue format.
An entirely listener-supported experiment in internet broadcasting, practically the entire resources of H.O.R.N. were at the Families USA Conference interviewing advocates for patients' rights and medical issues. They spoke to Representative De Lauro of Connecticut, Anthony Wiener, and other health care reform advocates on a broad range of issues. It was a two day marathon of musical chairs-interviews.
And they might have caught the most important and unheralded aspect of the current reform: an end to means testing for Medicaid. Here's Jennifer Sullivan, Senior Health Policy Analyst for Families USA:
Bob is right to sound shocked, and he's correct to mention southern resistance to Medicaid's success. An end to Medicaid means-testing would be the most progressive thing that has happened to states like Alabama and Mississippi since the literacy test for voting was overturned -- I DO NOT exaggerate.
The funny thing is, I remember Parker Griffith talking about the need to do this at the town hall where he threw red meat to keep the zombies at bay. His attempted appeal to their Christian charity resulted in a death panels wingnut scolding him for preaching; it was all downhill from there.
See why I say the GOP is terrified of the teabag terror?
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