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Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted today (15 hours ago) Whether it’s Intrade, the polls, or the increasingly panicked predictions of doom from Republicans, the signs all suggest that the prospects for passing health care reform have been improving. And that's not just luck. Although President Obama and his allies have benefited from exogenous events, particularly the Blue Cross rate hikes, it seems clear they’ve made smart strategic moves, too. In particular, they’ve managed to simplify the debate and speed it up.So it’s a bit unnerving to read, and to hear, that House Democrats want to slow things down and make them more complicated. It started earlier this week, when Majority Whip Steny Hoyer made clear the House might... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted today (15 hours ago) Washington (CNN) -- House Democratic leaders hoping to pass a health care reform bill by the Easter congressional recess face increasingly difficult odds, as several of the party's rank-and-file have come out against the plan passed by the Senate in December. Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted today (15 hours ago) Slate ContentsThe page you are trying to view cannot currently be displayed.Our servers are probably too busy. Please try again in a few minutes.If you feel you have reached this page in error, please contact  Feedback | About Us| Help | Advertise | Newsletters  �2006 Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC | User Agreement and Privacy Policy | All rights reservedvar SA_ID="wpost;slate"; Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted today (15 hours ago) Americans do not want this massive government takeover of our health care. Fearing that Cajun extraterrestrial James Carville is correct, Obama is intent on ramming it down our throats. This is not about what's right; it's about politicians perpetuating their power. Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted today (15 hours ago) A group of Hispanic lawmakers on Thursday will tell President Barack
Obama that they may not vote for healthcare reform unless changes are
made to the bill's immigration provisions.The scheduled meeting comes as Democratic leaders and the White House are struggling to craft a final bill that will attract 216 votes in the lower chamber. Unlike abortion, immigration has flown beneath the radar, and almost seemed to vanish altogether as House Democrats have wrestled with how to accept a Senate healthcare bill far different from the one they passed in November.But immigration remains just as explosive an issue and carries the same potential... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted today (15 hours ago) As the Massa implosion fades, Capitol Hill returns today to health care reform with both chambers considering obscure parliamentary procedures in order to pass legislation before Easter recess, which officially starts March 28. The House is on a shorter leash, with the White House pushing them to get something done before President Obama leaves for a tour of Indonesia and Australia next Thursday (the CW being that massive legislation is more easily passed with the president physically in Washington). Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, though, noticeably left the door open for missing that deadline in a pen and pad with reporters yesterday: "None of us have mentioned the 18th other... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted today (15 hours ago) The lights must dim around Google's data-storage centers every time someone does a search for "government bureaucrat coming between you and your doctor." Foes of the Democrats' health-reform proposals have been chanting this on the hour for a year -- with a surge after Democrats put money for "comparative effectiveness research" in the stimulus bill.
This involves comparing treatments for the same condition to find which works best. The reform-killers insist that "government-run" health care would use these findings to tell doctors what to do, largely in the name of saving money. The stimulus legislation clearly states that cost may not be a factor in determining best practices -- the... Tags: election 2008, articles Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted today (15 hours ago) There's a lively debate going on in the blogosphere and the press about whether Democrats would be better off passing or not passing a health care bill.
Some liberals claim that Democrats would be better off passing a bill, any bill, even if it's unpopular with the general electorate. The idea is to energize the Democratic base, currently demoralized by the prospects of failure. Current polls show Democrats far less enthusiastic and far less likely to vote -- passing a law might change that.
Others, mostly conservatives but also some liberals speaking privately, figure that Democrats would be better off letting the issue drop. Back in January, Barack Obama said he would emphasize "jobs,... Tags: election 2008, articles Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted today (15 hours ago) Tracking the national health-care reform debate |More » Most big employers plan to shift a larger share of health-care costs to their workers next year, according to a survey to be released Thursday.Many say they may charge more to cover spouses, tighten eligibility standards for their health plans and dispense financial rewards or penalties based on the results of certain lab tests. At some companies, employees who are overweight could be excluded from the most desirable plans.Meanwhile, employees at many companies can expect significantly higher premiums, deductibles and co-payments, according to the annual survey by the National Business Group on Health, a coalition of big... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted today (15 hours ago) Are there enough votes in the House to pass the Senate's health-care bill? As of today, it's clear there aren't. House Democratic leaders have brushed aside White House calls to bring the bill forward by March 18, when President Barack Obama heads to Asia. Nevertheless, analysts close to the Democratic leadership tell me they're confident the leadership will find some way to squeeze out the 216 votes needed for a majority. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has indeed shown mastery at amassing majorities. But it's hard to see how she'll do so on this one. The arithmetic as I see it doesn't add up. The House passed its version of the health bill in November by 220-215. Of those 220, one was a Republican... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted today (15 hours ago) WASHINGTON -- There are legislative miles to go before the government will be emancipated from its health care myopia, but it is not too soon for a summing up. Whether all or nothing of the legislation becomes law, Barack Obama has refuted critics who call him a radical. He has shown himself to be a timid progressive.
His timidity was displayed when he flinched from fighting for the boldness the nation needs -- a transition from the irrationality of employer-provided health insurance. His progressivism is an attitude of genteel regret about the persistence of politics.
Employer-paid insurance is central to what David Gratzer of the Manhattan Institute calls "the 12 cent problem." That is... Tags: election 2008, articles Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted yesterday. According to John Harwood in The New York Times, public support for "reining in Wall Street" has Democrats about as exuberant as Democrats ever get any more. Scared Senate Republicans are looking for deals to cut. The public wants this thing, with three-fifths supporting it in a recent poll. Democrats -- who always do the public's bidding -- are ready to close the deal.
If there's time, that is, after Congress and the president force the public to take a deal on health care that only a distinct minority seems to want.
What the average Democrat thinks of public opinion these days seems to depend on which big government measure is on the table.
Financial regulation? Can't let it die -- the... Tags: election 2008, articles Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted yesterday. Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted yesterday. One of the more amazing aspects of the health-care debate is how steady public opinion has remained. Despite repeated and intense sales efforts by the president and his allies in Congress, most Americans consistently oppose the plan that has become the centerpiece of this legislative season. In 15 consecutive Rasmussen Reports polls conducted over the past four months, the percentage of Americans that oppose the plan has stayed between 52% and 58%. The number in favor has held steady between 38% and 44%. The dynamics of the numbers have remained constant as well. Democratic voters strongly support the plan while Republicans and unaffiliated voters oppose it. Senior citizens—the people who... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted yesterday. And now the House Democrats line up at the instruction of their blind commanders for a final charge into glory as they battle to foist a health care system on a country that neither wants it nor can afford it. The charge may or may not reach its objective. But one thing is certain: The carnage among those who vote for health care will remind Civil War buffs of Pickett's Charge on the final day of the Battle of Gettysburg.
As a French general who witnessed the spectacle said, "C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre." (It is magnificent, but it's not war.) The sight of so many Democrats throwing away their political careers may be arresting, but it is not politics.
Before this last,... Tags: election 2008, articles Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted yesterday. Have you noticed something about the audiences that President Obama has cherry-picked to cheer his government health care takeover roadshow? They're getting younger and younger.
On Wednesday, Obama brings the traveling campaign to St. Charles High School in St. Louis, Mo., for a closed-door, invitation-only speech. If he doesn't end the endless "No More Time For Talk" talks soon, he'll be peddling Democratic reconciliation tactics on "Dora the Explorer" and "SpongeBob SquarePants."
But desperate times call for demagogic measures. True to form, the Obama White House is wielding the human kiddie shield as its last-stand defense for Demcare.
On Monday, Obama surrounded himself with a... Tags: election 2008, articles Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted yesterday. Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted yesterday. For anyone who cares about medical costs — which is to say anyone who cares about the take-home pay of American families or about the budget deficit — President Obama’s health reform plan is a terribly mixed bag.President Obama held a bipartisan meeting last month to try to find agreement on health care. Economix: Health-Care Reform and the "�Doc Fix'It does so much less than the ideal plan would do. It would not come close to eliminating Medicare’s long-term budget deficit. It would reduce that deficit only if a future Congress did not tinker with the various taxes and spending cuts scheduled to be phased in over the next decade.On the other... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted yesterday. WASHINGTON -- Whatever the legislative fate of health reform -- now in the hands of a few besieged House Democrats -- the health reformers have failed in their argument. Their proposal has divided Democrats while uniting Republicans, returned American politics to well-worn ideological ruts, employed legislative tactics that smack of corruption, squandered the president's public standing, lowered public regard for Congress to French revolutionary levels, sucked the oxygen from other agenda items, re-engaged the abortion battle, produced freaks and prodigies of nature such as a Republican senator from Massachusetts, raised questions about the continued governability of America and caused the... Tags: election 2008, articles Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted yesterday. Bart Stupak has problems.Big problems.Here's the situation. He and his bloc of pro-life Democrats want Stupak's pro-life language in the final health care bill. The talk of late is that this might be done by inserting the Stupak language into the reconciliation bill that is currently being negotiated. Here's how this scenario would go down: the House votes for the Senate bill, which does not have the Stupak language; then it votes for the reconciliation "fixer," which does have the Stupak language; then the Senate votes for the reconciliation fixer; in the end, the Stupak language becomes law.That's a mess.For starters, Stupak has to hold his anti-abortion coalition through the House. ... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted yesterday. Sometimes the most obvious derangements of our politics are staring us in the face but we don't see them. Take, for instance, the health care reform bill for which President Obama and the Democrats are forever lusting. Many people have protested it isn't really a reform bill, because reform implies improvement and this isn't an improvement.
But it isn't the "reform" part of the Democrats' health care bill (if they ever agree on one) that strikes me as most perverse. It's calling this voluminous monstrosity a bill. Can you have a bill, a single law, that is almost 3,000 pages long? In the old days, that would have constituted a whole code of laws. When our founders thought about law, they... Tags: election 2008, articles Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted yesterday. WASHINGTON -- Skipping through the Candy Land of the health care bill, one is tempted to hum a few bars of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart."
What a deal. For deal-makers, that is. Not so much for American taxpayers, who have been misled into thinking that the sweetheart deals have been excised.
Not only are the deals still there, but they're bigger and worser, as the bard gave us permission to say. And the health care "reform" bill is, consequently, more expensive by billions.
Yes, gone (sort of) is the so-called "Cornhusker kickback," extended to Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson when his 60th vote needed a bit of coaxing. Meaning, Nelson is no longer special. Instead, everyone is. All states now will... Tags: election 2008, articles Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted yesterday. WASHINGTON -- Whatever the legislative fate of health reform -- now in the hands of a few besieged House Democrats -- the health reformers have failed in their argument. Their proposal has divided Democrats while uniting Republicans, returned American politics to well-worn ideological ruts, employed legislative tactics that smack of corruption, squandered the president's public standing, lowered public regard for Congress to French revolutionary levels, sucked the oxygen from other agenda items, re-engaged the abortion battle, produced freaks and prodigies of nature such as a Republican senator from Massachusetts, raised questions about the continued governability of America and caused the... Tags: election 2008, articles Source: RealClearPolitics - Homepage Posted on Mar 9, 2010 (2 days ago) Chris Horner, Washington Times PoliticsObama on the road to pitch health billPoliticsPoll: U.S. has lost global standing under Obama BusinessDespite fears, big powers resist trade warsPoliticsActivists tell Obama to protect illegalsSecurityArmy tech seminar shows warfare's futurePoliticsObama picks retired general for TSA postNationalPRUDEN: Joe's Israeli adventureTuesday, March 9, 2010Rate this storyAverage 0.00after 0 votes Login or register to rate this storyBy Chris Horner Barack Obama promised many things on his way into office. Key among these was transparency and a vow to banish lobbyists from... Tags: am update Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 9, 2010 (2 days ago) A recent Paul Krugman zinger laments how Democrats and Republicans inhabit parallel universes. He left no doubts which one he lives in. As a libertarian who finds it difficult to be consistently loyal to either party, let me say why in this instance the Republicans have not behaved as badly as Krugman's caustic rhetoric suggests on three issues: unemployment benefits, the estate tax and health care. In his view, only hard and insensitive elitists worry about the second. In hard times, all the action should go on the first and third items, where his impatient more-now-is-better mentality flourishes, almost without reason.So let's start with the estate tax and ask whether a tax that exempts... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 9, 2010 (2 days ago) Media Inquiries and Reprint Permissions://';l[1]='a';l[2]='/';l[3]='';l[19]='"';l[20]='|109';l[21]='|111';l[22]='|99';l[23]='|46';l[24]='|110';l[25]='|111';l[26]='|115';l[27]='|97';l[28]='|101';l[29]='|114';l[30]='|64';l[31]='|108';l[32]='|108';l[33]='|101';l[34]='|104';l[35]='|99';l[36]='|116';l[37]='|105';l[38]='|109';l[39]='|46';l[40]='|115';l[41]='|105';l[42]='|114';l[43]='|104';l[44]='|99';l[45]=':';l[46]='o';l[47]='t';l[48]='l';l[49]='i';l[50]='a';l[51]='m';l[52]='"';l[53]='=';l[54]='f';l[55]='e';l[56]='r';l[57]='h';l[58]=' ';l[59]='a';l[60]='= 0; i=i-1){if (l[i].substring(0, 1) == '|') document.write("&#"+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+";");else... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 9, 2010 (2 days ago) A handful of House committee chairmen are either undecided about or
plan to reject the healthcare reform bill that is expected to be voted
on as early as next week.The prospect of several panel chairmen voting against the healthcare bill comes as the White House and Democratic leaders are ramping up their efforts to attract the necessary votes to move the Senate-passed bill. The White House wants the House to clear the bill by March 18 and then have the upper chamber amend the measure through reconciliation. A survey conducted by The Hill of more than 100 possible Democratic defectors shows that President Barack Obama and House Democrats... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 9, 2010 (2 days ago) We all have our emotional hot and cold spots. If you asked me about the New York Mets, you’d see a glow in my eyes. If you asked me about banking reform, words might come out of my mouth, but you’d notice me nodding off midsentence.David Brooks David Brooks and Gail Collins talk between columns. For the Democrats, expanding health care coverage is an emotional hot spot. Over the past year, Democrats have fought passionately for universal coverage. They have fought for it even while the country is more concerned about the economy, and in the face of serial political defeats. They have fought for it even though it has crowded out other items on their agenda and may even cost them their... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 9, 2010 (2 days ago) Googling to my heart's content on a recent eve, I decided to match "health care" with "ram" to see what would happen. What I got was about 9.8 million hits, some of them right on the nose and reflecting the current conservative meme that after more than a year, several votes, countless presidential speeches and having to look upon the face of Harry Reid some 10,000 times, the health care bill is being "rammed" through Congress -- an absurdity that now has currency through sheer repetition. It is not exactly the renowned vaunted Big Lie, just a miserable little one.
The vaunted reasonable man might protest that an entire lifetime of attempted health care reform does not amount to a ramming,... Tags: election 2008, articles Source: RealClearPolitics - Homepage Posted on Mar 8, 2010 (3 days ago) Christopher Buckley, Daily Beast Enter your email address:Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas:Message:Kristoffer Tripplaar / SIPA In a revelatory Q & A, Christopher Buckley explains that health insurance is well and good, but driving the country into bankruptcy isn't going to help anyone in the long run"”and why we'd all be better off if Warren Buffett were president.For anyone who, like your faithful blogger, is a) thoroughly confused, b) thoroughly anxious, or c) thoroughly bored by health-care reform, herewith a Q... Tags: pm update Source: RealClearPolitics - Homepage Posted on Mar 8, 2010 (3 days ago) John Harwood, NYT For President Obama and Congressional Democrats, public opinion this past year has mostly gone in the wrong direction — on his job performance, on health care and economic stimulus, on midterm elections.Senator Christopher J. Dodd is working on a finance-regulation bill. The latest on President Obama, his administration and other news from Washington and around the nation. Join the discussion. But there’s one conspicuous exception: the president’s call for reining in Wall Street. The nation’s continuing angst over bailouts,... Tags: pm update Source: RealClearPolitics - Homepage Posted on Mar 8, 2010 (3 days ago) Sen. Max Baucus, Roll Call Ten years ago, Dan DeJong, a fourth-generation rancher from just outside Libby, Mont., was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Dan worked hard all his life, but when faced with massive bills to treat his cancer, Dan and his wife, Pat, had no choice but to sell the family’s land and apply for Medicaid and food stamps.When Dan passed away, Pat had to move just to find affordable housing. She still had no health insurance, but this time there was no ranch to sell if she developed health problems of her own.The DeJongs’ story is all too common. Today, the average... Tags: pm update Source: RealClearPolitics - Homepage Posted on Mar 8, 2010 (3 days ago) Al Hunt, Bloomberg Late last week, the best topic for this column seemed to be warfare inside the White House: dueling op-eds, blogs and articles debated whether Rahm Emanuel was the cause of Barack Obama’s winter of discontent, or was it that the president and his other top adviser, David Axelrod, had ignored the chief of staff’s sage counsel.More than the war in Afghanistan or the fate of health care or the economy, that was the chatter of Washington. Several smart people were queried about this juicy stuff. Tags: am update Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 8, 2010 (3 days ago) The idea of jamming major legislation through Congress usually crops up whenever there's serious popular desire for change, and equally serious Congressional resistance. In the past, reconciliation has typically only ever made it to the table when one factor of Congress -- at the behest of special interests -- has set themselves squarely in the path of popular legislation, threatening its passage with delays, obfuscation, and parliamentary maneuvers.
This has been true of just about every major fight I can recall, from gun safety measures to mandatory gas mileage requirements. In every case, the public debate had generated majority support, but Congress was blocking it because of special... Tags: election 2008, articles Source: RealClearPolitics - Homepage Posted on Mar 7, 2010 (3 days ago) Dessler & Hayhoe, et al, Houston Chronicle In recent months, e-mails stolen from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit in the United Kingdom and errors in one of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's reports have caused a flurry of questions about the validity of climate change science.These issues have led several states, including Texas, to challenge the Environmental Protection Agency's finding that heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide (also known as greenhouse gases) are a threat to human health.However, Texas' challenge to the EPA's endangerment finding on carbon dioxide... Tags: pm update Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 7, 2010 (4 days ago) David Brooks thinks it. David Gregory thinks it. The Washington Post editorial page thinks it. And, what the heck, I think it. If health care reform passes Congress, the final legislation probably won't cut the cost of medical care as quickly as seems possible on paper.But would the legislation make a good start--as good a start as possible, given political reality? Brooks, Gregory, the Post, and plenty of other critics seem to think the answer is "no." I think they are nuts. And since arguments about costs are likely to loom large in the thinking of nervous House Democrats, it's worth explaining why.The issue here isn't, or shouldn't be, whether the legislation will save the government... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 7, 2010 (4 days ago) President Barack Obama's furious, final push to get a health care bill passed threatens to shove aside the message he promised would top his list this year: creating jobs.Even as the White House juggles several enormous issues at once, the public takes its cues about the president's chief concern from how he spends his time, energy and capital. As Obama himself put it on Wednesday, from now until Congress takes a final vote on a health care overhaul, "I will do everything in my power to make the case for reform."That kind of now-or-never campaign means the nation can expect a debate consumed by health care, again, for weeks.The White House is trying mightily to focus it on real people and... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 7, 2010 (4 days ago) Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 7, 2010 (4 days ago) Search iniPhone app & edition | Mobile site | Text alerts | TwitterDuring last week's health-care summit, President Barack Obama pointed out a fatal flaw in the most recent major expansion of a federal entitlement: When a Republican-controlled Congress and the president (George W. Bush at the time) pushed through a prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients in 2003, they neglected to include a means for paying for it.Unfortunately, the current president and a now Democratic-controlled Congress appear determined to make the same mistake.The president, in pushing the Senate's version of health-care reform, insisted again this week that the plan not only would be fully funded but would... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 7, 2010 (4 days ago) WEDNESDAY’S health care rally was one of President Obama’s finest hours. It was so fine it couldn’t be blighted even by his preposterous backdrop, a cohort of white-jacketed medical workers large enough to staff a hospital in one of the daytime soaps that refused to be pre-empted by the White House show. Frank Rich Obama’s urgent script didn’t need such cheesy theatrics. At last he took ownership of what he called “my proposal,” stating concisely three concrete ways the bill would improve America’s broken health care system. At last he pushed for a majority-rule, up-or-down vote in Congress. At last he conceded that bipartisan agreement... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Homepage Posted on Mar 6, 2010 (5 days ago) Patricia Murphy, Politics Daily 6 days agoIt's hard to believe that most members of Congress, if they worked at any private company in America, would still be employed after their last year on the job. How would Democratic and Republican...8 days agoPresident Obama began the bipartisan health care summit Thursday morning by framing health care costs as a catastrophic drag on the American economy, and by imploring Republicans to abandon their...19 days agoSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid seemed to have achieved the impossible. On Thursday morning of last week, after a year of partisan battles and dashed hopes of... Tags: am update Source: RealClearPolitics - Homepage Posted on Mar 6, 2010 (5 days ago) Wes Pruden, Wash Times PoliticsRep. Gingrey: Health care reform has to pass by EasterEditorialsEDITORIAL: Guns in the saloonNationalSenators ask FDA to lift gay blood donor banNationalResearchers seek 'super' bee cure for a deadly disorderNationalBrutal DEA agent murder reminder of agency priorityNationalPRUDEN: No flip-floppery, just flim-flammeryWorldChina rhetoric raises threat concernsFriday, March 5, 2010Rate this storyAverage 5.00after 6 votes Login or register to rate this storyBy Wesley PrudenOPINION/ANALYSIS:If someone is determined to embrace suicide, there's not much someone else... Tags: am update Source: RealClearPolitics - Homepage Posted on Mar 6, 2010 (5 days ago) Thomas Sowell, RealClearPolitics Some years ago, one of my favorite doctors retired. On my last visit to his office, he took some time to explain to me why he was retiring early and in good health.Being a doctor was becoming more of a hassle as the years went by, he said, and also less fulfilling. It was becoming more of a hassle because of the increasing paperwork, and it was less fulfilling because of the way patients came to him. Receive news alertsHe was currently being asked to Xerox lots of records from his files, in order to be reimbursed for another patient he was treating. He said it just wasn't worth it.... Tags: am update Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 6, 2010 (5 days ago) One of the oddities of the health care reform saga is that, amid a debate that raises profound questions about a citizen’s right to medical attention and the appropriate structuring of an entire industry, public discussion has come to focus on an issue that is both picayune and utterly phony: the legitimacy of Democrats using budget reconciliation to pass a final bill.Reconciliation is a congressional procedure used to expedite votes on budgetary matters. Its main attraction is that it allows a bill to be passed with a majority vote in the Senate. As the filibuster has evolved from a rarely used signal of unusually strong dissent into a routine requirement for a supermajority,... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 6, 2010 (5 days ago) One of the oddities of the health care reform saga is that, amid a debate that raises profound questions about a citizen’s right to medical attention and the appropriate structuring of an entire industry, public discussion has come to focus on an issue that is both picayune and utterly phony: the legitimacy of Democrats using budget reconciliation to pass a final bill.Reconciliation is a congressional procedure used to expedite votes on budgetary matters. Its main attraction is that it allows a bill to be passed with a majority vote in the Senate. As the filibuster has evolved from a rarely used signal of unusually strong dissent into a routine requirement for a supermajority,... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 6, 2010 (5 days ago) » » » » » October 30, 2009 » February 25, 2010 » February 25, 2010 »Updated March 05, 2010By Ellen Ratner - FOXNews.com The Democrats may lose seats in the mid-term elections but in the end getting access to health care and eliminating the games played by the health insurance industry will make many reticent Americans come over to the Obama side.The White House has gone on the offensive this week and it's about time they did. The President... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Homepage Posted on Mar 5, 2010 (6 days ago) Timothy Wirth, SF Chronicle The status quo has many guardians, but the future is an orphan. From our out-of-control health care system to lax banking regulation, vested financial interests are having a field day distorting the facts in service of another year's or decade's profits. Climate change is the latest issue to take a beating. The formula for legislative obstruction is now well established: When confronted with facts about a future threat, today's vested interests unleash an army of attack dogs to scour the landscape for the irrelevant anomaly or misleading mud with which to sow doubt. Thus, a... Tags: pm update Source: RealClearPolitics - Homepage Posted on Mar 5, 2010 (6 days ago) Kellman & Margasak, AP A rash of ethics lapses has given Democrats an election-year headache: how to convince skeptical voters that they're any cleaner than Republicans they accused of fostering a "culture of corruption" in 2006.From the conduct of governors in Illinois and New York to back-room deals over President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, Democrats are drawing their own criticism when it comes to the ethics of public officials.The party that pledged to "drain the swamp" if given control of Congress finds itself sinking in the muck nine months from Election Day, when every... Tags: am update Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 5, 2010 (6 days ago) When you consider the differences between Democrats and Republicans on health care, you probably think in terms of scale. Democrats want to enact a big reform, while Republicans favor incremental progress. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor coos, “We want to take a much more commonsense, modest, incremental approach, trying to address the first issue first, which is cost, and then go on to try to deal with some of the things that the president and Speaker Pelosi want to do.” Within a recent six-month span, Republicans on the Senate floor used the phrase “step-by-step” to describe their approach to health care an astonishing 173 times.The reality is quite different. What... Tags: election 2008, entries Source: RealClearPolitics - Health Care Posted on Mar 5, 2010 (6 days ago) President Barack Obama on Wednesday endorsed congressional Democrats' plans to use a controversial process known as "budget reconciliation" to nationalize American health care, turning it over to a vast new trillion-dollar bureaucracy via simple majority vote -- bypassing Senate rules that allow 41 senators to block controversial measures.And the president said he's willing to stake Democrats' long-term political fortunes on the Hail Mary maneuver."The American people want to know if it's still possible for Washington to look out for their interests and their future," said the president. "They are waiting for us to act. They are waiting for us to lead."Mr. Obama said health care deserves... Tags: election 2008, entries |
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With a constant flow of the most current information coming into our system on health plans like AETNA, Humana, Cigna, United Healthcare, Wellpoint, Anthem, Assurant, Coventry, Health Net and BCBS professionals can be confident that they're receiving the latest information in the health insurance business and for healthcare reform for your state and the nation.
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