Sen. Pat Roberts, Republican of Kansas, has written a column explaining his opposition to Medicare reductions planned in the Senate version of health care reform legislation.
"Seniors are particularly at risk," Roberts writes. "This bill slashes half a trillion dollars from Medicare, and uses it to establish a huge [...]
Thomson Reuters has conducted a huge survey of Americans attitudes towards health care reform and found that an eye-popping 57 percent of independents favor a public option -- with 60 percent of all those polled saying they favored the controversial provision...
On Roy Blunt's campaign website, his health care issues page includes the following line:
We must complete the work of ending denial of coverage due to a pre-existing condition.
This obviously sounds great, but when Blunt and the House GOP put together their health care plan this year, they refused prevent [...]
Yesterday, the American Medical Association endorsed the thrust of the Senate Democrats' health care bill. Though they objected to a tax on "elective cosmetic medical procedures" and the creation of an Independent Medicare Advisory Board, they praised its health insurance regulation and new tax credits to help low- and' [...]
Senate Republicans don't have an alternative health care proposal, but they have a detailed plan to delay, distract, distort, deny and derail the Democratic proposal.
Rep. Russ Carnahan is the new Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight.
From the office of Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts:
Today, Sen. Roberts said the huge cuts to Medicare in the partisan health care reform bill would be devastating to seniors.
On the Senate floor today, Senator Roberts spoke in favor of an effort by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) to eliminate the devastating Medicare [...]
President Obama has informed his senior advisers of his Afghanistan war strategy decision and ordered his commanders on the ground there to begin carrying out the plan.
The Senate officially opened their health care debate.
Rex Sinquefield is on track to become this year's largest individual [...]
Update: Matthew Ygelsias has a powerful graph breaking down the findings of the study.
A new analysis by MIT economist Jonathan Gruber claims that the Senate health-reform bill will "make health insurance much more affordable for individuals facing purchase in' [...]
The Beacon's Jo Mannies spoke with the office of Rep. Todd Akin (R-You Serious) about his Thanksgiving lecture series (first noted in this space yesterday). Apparently, the Congressman is quite serious when he says the Pilgrims can help us understand the horrors of Democratic health [...]
A new article in The New England Journal of Medicine makes a powerful argument for real change in our health care system to dramatically reduce the number of uninsured. Sadly, the House Republicans' health care plan would actually increase the number uninsured (while doing nothing to stop discrimination because' [...]
Brownback health care town hall in Olathe today
The particulars of the Manhattan Declaration
Thoughts on Nixon and Kinder's strained relationship
The blogosphere is abuzz over the number of potential candidates running for U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore's seat, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer wants more information on frequent flier programs, and [...]
If you've been listening to much of the health care debate in Washington lately, it would be hard to miss complaints from Republicans about how the complicated health care bill happens to be pretty long when it's printed with big type and double spaced.
It's a pathetic' [...]
The New York Times' "Prescriptions" blog breaks down a host of claims made by Senators in the health care debate this weekend. This statement from Sen. Kit Bond stands out:
“The government-run plan will have higher premiums, and the C.B.O. said it will drive up the cost' [...]
Why Cauthen's out and Schulte's a better fit
Bond: Health care bill something Madoff would envy
Which Dems might run for Moore's seat?
Everybody wants to weigh in on former Gov. Sarah Palin's new book, a look at what the Missouri Senators had to say in relation to Saturday's vote [...]
Kit Bond suggested last night on the Senate Floor and again this morning on Fox News Sunday that the Senate Health Care bill is like Bernie Madoff's criminal ponzi scheme. Does it make any sense? Of course not. But it sounds scary, and that's [...]
Durbin
WASHINGTON — Chances are that Arkansas Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln won’t be sharing her big secrets with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., anytime soon.
Durbin, the Senate majority whip, spent Friday afternoon backtracking from comments that appeared to out Lincoln as a supporter…
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Organizing for America is planning to begin airing this ad on national cable next week. It was picked from thousands of entries submitted from across the country, and was created by Eric Hurt.
A pretty powerful ad.
[...]Sen. Claire McCaskill yesterday twittered this:
"If we printed the health care bill in regular size font it would be same legnth as Sarah Palin's book, but with more meat on the bone."
Snappp!
