Welcome to New Hampshire!

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We're here at Current's Headquarters in Manchester, NH...The Current Lounge! (We're at 52 Hanover St. if you want to stop by...we've got free coffee and hot chocolate.)

Tune into Current tonight at 11pmEST/8pmPST for the kick-off of our Current Election '08 coverage.
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  • Me_im_kg
  • heliarc
  • spoon
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      spoon  
    • I think the Republicans think they can beat Hillary or Obama, and I'm afraid they might be right. Edwards bothers and worries them more because he would do the most to counter the damage they have done, and polls show him the most likely to defeat any Republican running. Pay attention to what the media is doing and where the money is going. We really should not allow who gets the best media coverage or most campaign dollars to determine who our candidates are. A quote from Michael Moore after the Iowa caucus: "So Barak...if you can, tell me why you are now the second largest recipient of health industry payola after Hillary. You now take more money from the people committed to stopping universal health care than any of the Republican candidates"... (Mitt Romney is third.)

    • 4 years ago
  • spoon
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      spoon  
    • Let's not talk race or gender but substance on issues? Obama represents the Audacity of False Hope on health care. Specifically, his plan says "health insurers would have to JUSTIFY charging large premium differences" (as if financial discrimination against people when they are sick and at their most vulnerable is justifiable at all). With friends like this who needs enemies? Other legislation he sponsored says the rest of us will have access to the same health care plan as he and Congress do "except for the way (we) are rated" (sigh). He leaves that part out, but I'm pretty sure he knows it's there, and neglects to mention that federal employee plans also cost more than the $12,100/year national average. Hillary's unsurance plan says insurance companies will be prohibited from charging "large" premium differences based on "modified" community rating, whatever that means, but that is the only loophole health insurance companies need. SHAME on them. Both Obama and Clinton swear they will NOT support Single Payer-Single Pool, and insist profit-driven health insurance middlemen must be part of any solution when they are in fact most of the problem. John Edwards's plan says insurers will have to charge "fair" premiums, which admittedly is a bit wishy-washy too, but at least his rhetoric says that he believes Single Payer (Single Pool) is obviously the best way to go, that the inordinate greed of insurance companies is the main part of the problem (which it is), and if forced to work on a level playing field health insurers will lose (which they will). But HERE IS THE IMPORTANT PART: Edwards is the only one of the top three that even wants to create a level playing field with REAL (not fake) community rating and guaranteed issue. The difference is Edwards "gets" what needs to happen while Obama and Clinton don't. American lives and the future of our economy depends upon voters not being too busy to notice the devil in their details.

    • 4 years ago
  • isotaupe
  • sajh
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      sajh  
    • Current TV AND Free Hot Chocolate!?!?! If I were in Manchester, I'd hurry over there as fast as I could without slipping on the ice and snow and stuff. And bring a friend.

    • 4 years ago
  • sforte
  • Scott_Bromley
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