In the face of widespread suspicion that health care reform is stalled indefinitely, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters this afternoon that Democrats will succeed in passing the party’s top domestic priority, adding that “we are very close to doing that in a comprehensive way.”
How? Well, it won’t More…
So suggests Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), who ushered the Democrats’ health reform bill through the Senate HELP Committee last summer. Party leaders have been scrambling for ways to pass some version of their sweeping reform proposals in the wake of Scott Brown’s astonishing Senate victory in Massachusetts Tuesday. More…
Perhaps the strangest element of Capitol Hill’s months-long health reform debate has been that Democrats — proposing to cover tens of millions of uninsured Americans while banning the worst abuses of the insurance industry — have been branded a public enemy, while Republicans — hell bent on killing the reforms More…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) press conference at the Capitol this morning is churning dramatic headlines about how health reform is dead. But she really doesn’t say that. In fact, she says just the opposite.
“We have to get a bill passed — we know that,” she More…
First of all, take all the weeks of merger negotiations and throw them out the window: It’s looking more and more like the only way the Democrats can pass health care reform — and they must pass health care reform — in the wake of yesterday’s election in More…
A group of powerful Senate Democrats is urging leadership today to repeal the federal anti-trust exemption that insurance companies have enjoyed for more than six decades. In a letter to President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the Democrats More…
So says CongressDaily’s Anna Edney, who reports that Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, predicted today that the Democrats will have a merged bill to the Congressional Budget Office in a “couple days.”
That’s a much different message than the one coming More…
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman (R) might be balking at the deal Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb) secured to have Washington pick up Nebraska’s entire tab for a proposed Medicaid expansion, but California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) said today that he’d gladly accept the same arrangement for his More…
Defending the special Medicaid deal that Democratic leaders gave to Nebraska to entice Sen. Ben Nelson’s (D-Neb.) support for health care reform, Nelson has said that he pushed for that perk on behalf of the state’s governor, Republican Dave Heineman, who was concerned about the increased pressure that More…
That’s the word coming from Capitol Hill, where Democratic leaders are wary that Republicans would stall a formal conference, thus delaying passage of the health care reform at the center of President Obama’s domestic agenda. Instead, leaders reportedly will meet informally to merge the House and Senate bills.
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