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
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.
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There were few surprises this morning from President Obama, who was in Strongsville, Ohio, to promote the health reform proposals the Democrats hope to move through the House this week. The president pointed out that (1) health costs, both public and private, are on an unsustainable More…
Among the myriad criticisms that opponents of the Democrats’ health reform bills have leveled at the legislation, perhaps none resonates as strongly as the emotionally charged claims about how the proposals approach abortion coverage. For almost 35 years, federal law has prohibited the federal funding of abortions, and the More…
Just hours after Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced that he’d whip “aggressively” for the public option if the House includes it in its reconciliation bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) killed the idea. The Washington Post quotes Pelosi saying today that the public option won’t be a part of More…
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) caused quite a stir this week when he suggested that he’d urge liberal Democrats to vote against any amendments to the health care reform bill sent over from the House — even provisions like the public option that a vast majority of More…
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