Tag: Health Care Reform
Hissy Fit
As the passage of health care reform becomes more and more likely, the Republican hissy fits have become more and more vehement and more dishonest. First the Republicans were throwing public tantrums about the use of reconciliation, despite the fact that reconciliation had been used multiple times by Republicans (ones currently servng in the Senate). […]
Health Care Reform: The Endgame
Robert Gibbs was on the Sunday shows yesterday and said that by next week health care reform will be the law of the land: “We’ll have the votes when the House votes, I think, within the next week,” Gibbs said on “Fox News Sunday.” Gibbs added that those on next week’s Sunday talk shows “will […]
BREAKING: House Democrats Release HCR Bill
Late last night the House Budge Committee released the legislation that will serve as the basis for debate this week. Note this is the same legislation that made it through the Education and Labor Committee and Ways and Means Committee last year. Download and read the pdf.
Mr. President, One More Thing Before You Go
Well, it looks like we finally might be getting down to it. After all this time, there might soon be an actual health care reform bill for the President to sign. According to Karen Tumulty at Swampland, the House is looking to schedule a vote on the Senate’s health care bill for next Friday or Saturday. […]
I Have The World’s Smallest Violin
My violin weeps for Bart Stupak. He went from the U.S.’s most important Congressman to irrelevant. He went to a publication that has only the Democratic party’s best interest in mind, the National Review Online to have a pity party complain: Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a […]
Harry Reid Eats His Wheaties
I’d like to start this post with a sincere wish for the rapid recovery of Harry Reid’s wife and daughter, who were in a serious car accident yesterday. Health care reform looks more certain to pass any day now. One hold-up has been the distrust between the House and the Senate. The Senate is now an almost completely dysfunctional body and the House is worried that the fixes to the health care bill will not see action. There are now at least 54 Senators on board with reconciliation for the sidecar bill containing fixes to the Senate bill and Harry Reid has sent a letter of notice to Mitch McConnell that Democrats are going to pursue reconciliation:
Congress and the Exchanges
No, it’s not a new indie band, it’s an aspect of the health care reform debate that just might end up being important. Remember back to last summer? Of course you do. Tiger Woods was a respected public figure, Beau Biden was going to announce his candidacy any day now, and teabagging wingnuts were screaming all sorts of nonsense at Congressmen. One of the not-so-nonsensical things they were yelling, though, was the challenge of, “If the public option/exchanges is so great, why don’t you use it?” Well, this time the Senate listened.
A Bill We Should All Support – Medicare Buy-In
Progressive hero Alan Grayson has introduced a short 4-page bill to allow Americans to buy into Medicare coverage (without subsidies). Think Progress‘s Wonk Room describes the bill, called the “Public Option Act” or “Medicare You Can Buy Into Act”: Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) has provided the White House with a real opportunity to win back […]
How Progressives Have Shaped Health Care Reform
We’re now in the final stretch of the health care reform battle. Within the month we’ll either have a vote or the Democrats will give up on health care reform for the near term (or make some tiny improvements). President Obama is out giving a strong defense for the need for health care reform (many […]
President Obama at Arcadia University
The video is from CNN, where the President told the crowd that the time for an up or down vote on health reform is now and that he wanted a bill on his desk by Easter.
Obama To Republicans: Go Ahead And Vote Against HCR
Today President Obama drew the line on where HCR will go. (Via Ezra Klein – full transcript posted there) And so Obama gave no quarter today. Gone was the pretense that Democrats and Republicans basically agree on health-care reform. “Many Republicans in Congress just have a fundamental disagreement over whether we should have more or […]
Health Care Reform By Easter
A Democratic memo was released that laid out the timeline for health care reform. Democrats want to have the bill finished by the Easter recess. The thought is that right before a recess might reduce Republican shenanigans because they want to go home for recess (Jim Bunning want won’t to miss the NCAA tournament, I’d […]
GOP Will Campaign On Repealing Health Care Reform
Let’s put aside the fact that as of now there’s nothing to repeal and consider what the Republicans, according to Senator Alexander, are going to be campaigning for. denying coverage for pre-existing conditions rescissions annual or lifetime caps I think every Republican should campaign on repealing HCR. Looks like a winning strategy.
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