OK this is very interesting. The Washington Post has an interactive feature up where you can view all kinds of things about health care reform, including this: Compare that to what the CBO letter says today: CBO and JCT estimate that, on balance, the direct spending and revenue effects of enacting the Patient Protection and […]
Obama’s grass roots organization is starting to really feel the heat on health care reform: On Wednesday morning, Organizing for America, as Obama’s reconstituted campaign organization is now known, e-mailed its list of 13 million Obama supporters asking them to “call your senators now and help us ‘ring in reform.’” The campaign yielded 150,000 calls […]
I’m just spit-balling here, but something has struck me. For years we have talked about how banning abortion was a necessity for Republican victory, as backed up by the evidence of them actually not doing much to deliver once in office. The thought is that Republicans need to keep the abortion debate alive to insure […]
This is something I never thought I would see: Senate Republicans said Thursday that they would try to filibuster a massive Pentagon bill that funds the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an unusual move that several acknowledged was an effort to delay President Obama’s health-care legislation. Late into the night, Democrats emerged from a huddle […]
Here’s why the White House will go after Howard Dean but not the actual people who are derailing health care reform: People wondering why the White House does tough, public pushback against Howard Dean but not against the likes of Ben Nelson or Joe Lieberman ought to take a deep breath and consider that Nelson […]
Dean was supporting the bill with the Medicare buy-in but that has changed now: In a blow to the bill grinding through the Senate, Howard Dean bluntly called for the bill to be killed in a pre-recorded interview set to air later this afternoon, denouncing it as “the collapse of health care reform in the […]
11/2/10 is Election Day and given the current state of health care reform and the Senate constantly ignoring the will of the people, I have decided if this bill isn’t change that I’m going to do something I have never done – skip an election. Having been a life long Democrat and getting involved in […]
We heard time and time again how Republicans believed everything should be between you and your doctor when it comes to healthcare. They don’t want the government in the decision making and they believe the information should be confidential. Well there was a bill passed under Bush and the Republican controlled Congress that lead to […]
There’s a lot of bitching by Senators about the cost of health care reform. For example: And on Sunday, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) echoed her colleague, telling “Fox News Sunday” that should the latest version of health care reform prove insufficient in bending the cost curve, she and others would “have to go back to […]
Health care reform is being totally screwed up by the party that has pushed for it for years – the Democrats. Here’s two very interesting stories that go along with the cost containment issues I have been talking about this week. First up we have some Democrats, along with the White House and Pharma working […]