Unhappy with all the recent tweaks to the Senate’s health care reform legislation, three top Republicans are asking the Congressional Budget Office to re-score the entire bill. In a Monday letter to CBO, Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) argue that “CBO’s complete analysis of More…
Republican leaders in the Senate on Monday asked the top actuary at the Health and Human Services Department for a cost analysis of the Democrats’ health-care reform proposal. That would be exactly as dry as it sounds except for this: the actuary, Richard Foster, is the very same official muffled More…
We wrote here recently about the oddity of congressional Republicans blasting the thought of creating a public plan while at the same time lauding the virtues and successes of Medicare, which just happens to be government-run. Well, they’re still at it.
Sen. Michael Enzi (R-Wyo.), a More…
Unlike the Bush administration — which used a slim election victory to claim a broad policy mandate — the Obama White House has bent over backwards to include minority-party Republicans in the discussions over health care reform this year. The aim, Democrats say, is to get a More…
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