The GOP has already been saying that they will run on repealing healthcare. Let’s look at the things that will already be enacted at that time. NO DISCRIMINATION AGAINST CHILDREN WITH PRE?EXISTING CONDITIONS — Prohibits new health plans in all markets plus grandfathered group health plans from denying coverage to children with pre?existing conditions. Effective […]
This is NOT the way to debate issues: U.S. Rep. Steve Driehaus, D-Cincinnati, says an ad showing his two young daughters went too far in the heated debate over health care. A spokesman says Driehaus was outraged by an advertisement Wednesday in The Cincinnati Enquirer featuring a large photo of him with his daughters. The […]
That’s the cost of the House health care bill. The full CBO report isn’t out yet, but it should be rather soon now. The Hill has some other early numbers: The nonpartisan budget office told lawmakers that the health bill set for a vote this weekend would cut the deficit by $130 billion over the […]
Let’s face it – there’s tons of problems with the current health care reform package, but it beats the alternative, which would be the status quo. Liberals are realizing that: Dennis Kucinich’s flip on the health care vote this morning is symbolic of a broader shift among liberals. Last month 73% said they supported the […]
Dennis Kucinich is holding a press conference tomorrow morning to announce his vote on the health care reform bill. Just now on MSNBC, Howard Fineman just reported that his sources are telling him that Kucinich will announce he is supporting the bill now. If this is the case, then this is very big news and […]
The Democratic Party has become an utter train wreck since Tuesday night. Now we have this from Diane Feinstein: Feinstein said it is clear that attempts to pass sweeping legislation to address climate change by capping carbon emissions cannot pass this Congress. So if Democrats are just going to cave in on any important legislation […]
One of the staunchest bill backers out there seems to be getting fed up with President Obama. After summing up President Obama’s statement today on the future of health care reform as, “Run away, run away!”, Krugman finishes with this: Maybe House Democrats can pull this out, even with a gaping hole in White House […]
Jim DeMint is on the losing end of an argument and instead of saying “oops, sorry”, he is down right determined to dig in and continue his crusade to keep this country less safe: A Republican senator who has been blocking President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration complains that Democrats are […]
Ezra Klein interviewed Sen. Tom Harkin and this really caught my eye: Tell me a bit about your reform bill. When you first introduced this, Joe Lieberman was your co-sponsor, right? Well, I introduced that first in 1995, when we were in the minority. I’m going to reintroduce that again in January. And people are […]
She is the first one to officially come out against the Senate bill: The Senate health care bill is not worthy of the historic vote that the House took a month ago. Even though the House version is far from perfect, it at least represents a step toward our goal of giving 36 million Americans […]