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On the Baffling Push to Prohibit Illegal Immigrants From Buying Insurance

By | 12.08.09 | 2:58 pm

As we’ve written here many times, it’s tough to find any justification — outside of political pandering — for the decision by Senate Democrats to prohibit illegal immigrants from buying health coverage on the insurance exchanges proposed under their health reform bill. Sure, it makes those lawmakers appear More…

Claiming No Threats, Stupak Threatens

By | 11.12.09 | 10:08 am

Rep. Bart Stupak, the adamantly anti-abortion Michigan Democrat, has stirred up a firestorm with his amendment prohibiting abortion coverage under insurance plans targeting low- and middle-income women on the exchange. And he isn’t backing down.

In an interview with Detroit News, the 57-year-old Catholic More…

Harkin Non-Committal on Preservation of CHIP

By | 11.10.09 | 3:14 pm

Though it’s been little mentioned throughout the health reform debate, there’s a showdown brewing between House and Senate Democrats over the future of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, previously know as SCHIP.

House lawmakers have proposed to do away with the program at the end of 2013, More…