What began as one of the most controversial issues of the months-long health care debate continues to be so: The public option — a government-backed insurance plan designed to compete with private companies — wasn’t included as part of the Democrats’ reconciliation bill, sending some liberals More…
Republicans dismissing as inaccurate the Congressional Budget Office’s cost analysis of the Democrats’ health care reform bills seem to have forgotten history.
In 2004 — amid controversy over the Bush administration’s efforts to bury unflattering cost estimates of the Republican’s More…
With a good number of reservations, the American Medical Association, the country’s largest doctors lobby, today put its significant weight behind the health reform bills the House will take up this weekend.
By extending health coverage to the vast majority of the uninsured, improving competition and choice in the insurance
The new poll, conducted by the non-partisan Kaiser Family Foundation, found that 46 percent of Americans support the health reform bills moving on Capitol Hill, while 42 percent oppose them. Furthermore:
Six in 10 Americans say they have heard little or nothing about budget reconciliation. And many people
House Democratic leaders just ended a much-anticipated press conference to unveil the details of their health care reform bill. Trouble was, the details were few and far between.
Rather than lending many specifics about the changes to the Senate bill, party leaders stuck with talking points about the general need More…
By any objective measure, the $138 billion in deficit savings the Democrats’ health reform bill would rack up over the next 10 years (while extending coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans) is quite an accomplishment — particularly coming from a Congress not exactly known for paying all its More…
Different week, different sales pitch from Democratic leaders about why heath care reform is worth supporting. The Washington Post’s Paul Kane reports:
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) told reporters Thursday that the legislation is “the largest deficit-reduction bill that members will have a chance to vote on”
So says Fox News, pointing out that the Ohio liberal — who voted against the House health care reform bill last year because it didn’t include a public insurance plan — has been under intense pressure from Democratic leaders to change his tune this time around.
Looks like More…
The House Budget Committee this afternoon approved a budget reconciliation bill that jumpstarts the process that Democrats hope will end in the Senate passing sweeping health care reforms by a simple majority.
The reconciliation bill, which will be the vehicle for the health care “fixes” the Democrats will More…
For all the criticisms Republicans are lobbing at the House Democrats’ plan to pass the Senate health care reform bill without actually passing the Senate reform bill, even the senior Republican on the House Rules Committee conceded today that there’s nothing the GOP can do to block the More…
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