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• The True Cost Of Health Care Reform: $ 2,500,000,000,000

  —Below The Beltway

  

  Jeffrey Anderson runs the numbers:

  Senate Republicans have just released an outstanding chart highlighting the accounting games that Democrats are playing with the costs of their proposed health-care overhaul. The Democrats assert that their Senate bill would cost $848 billion over [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:41pm EST
  by Doug Mataconis

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• Perriello "more interested in doing what he thinks is right than getting re-elected"

  —Blue Virginia

  Here's Stuart Rothenberg's analysis of Tom Perriello reelection chances next November.
  Freshman Rep. Tom Perriello (D) seems more interested in doing what he thinks is right than getting re-elected. That's the only way to explain his votes supporting House Democrats' cap-and-trade and health care reform bills. State Sen. [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 2:24pm EST
  

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• FDL Action Health Care Update: Tuesday (12/1/09)

  —Blue Virginia

  Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, December 1.
  
  1. Jon Walker has some advice "for every potential manufacturer and transnational company looking to expand...don’t start a single business–or expand an existing one–in this country until we really try to rein in" [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:03pm EST
  

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• FDL Action Health Care Update: Tuesday (12/1/09)

  —Blue Commonwealth

  Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, December 1.

  1. Jon Walker has some advice "for every potential manufacturer and transnational company looking to expand...don't start a single business-or expand an existing one-in this country until we really try to rein in health care'" [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 7:21pm EST
  

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• Coburn: Health Care Reform Will Make Seniors "Die Sooner"

  —Blue Virginia

  
  For more on the latest Republican scare tactics/insanity, click here. Have they no shame? Apparently not. [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 2:54pm EST
  

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• FDL Action Health Care Update: Monday (11/30/09)

  —Blue Virginia

  Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 30.
  
  1. To put it mildly, Jon Walker believes that the Urban Institute's new report "endorsing the idea of a super-hard trigger for a robust Medicare-style public option" is off base. Walker argues [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 11:04pm EST
  

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• Only 13 percent

  —Fishersville Mike

  Abortion continues to be the tar gumming up the works of health care reform. Despite the fact that only 13 percent of abortions in 2001 were paid for with private insurance money.
  Megan McArdle doesn't understand all the complaining from abortion rights groups.
  So I don't get the [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:56pm EST
  

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• Joe Biden Asks: "Who do you trust" on Health Care Reform?

  —Blue Virginia

  
  Yeah, I think I'll trust the doctors and nurses rather than the healthcare-for-profit industry or their paid lackeys (aka, Republicans and Joe Lieberman) in Congress. Yeah, I think I'll trust people who actually know something about health care than right-wing blowhards like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh (or people [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:35pm EST
  

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• A town without pity

  —Fishersville Mike

  Blue Commonwealth liked this column about health care reform.
  Professor Bainbridge ripped it apart.
  Kristoff here invokes a single but attractive and sympathetic example as an argument for a major shift in national policy. Presidents do this when they invite a symbolic figure to sit next to [...]

  Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:31pm EST
  

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• Why health care reform will fail

  —Fishersville Mike

  I was taking my dog out for a walk this morning. Our neighbors have family visiting, including their dog. Their dog watches my dog, seems to know it's supposed to stay on their lawn, but can't help himself. He runs to meet my dog, while his family yells at him.[...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:00am EST
  

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• Howard Dean Says Republiucans Are Right On Health Care Bills!

  —Virginia Right!

  While Left Wing nut Howard Dean is still wrong in believing a Public Option is the only way to go to provide Health Care, he is absolutely correct in what he says about the House and Senate bills for Health Care Reform. Dean’s comments in this video echo those in [...]

  Posted: November 27, 2009, 8:58am EST
  by Tom White

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• 5 of 10 Longest Bills Were Written By...Republicans!

  —Blue Virginia

  You know how Republicans like to criticize the Democrats' health care reform bill on the oh-so-substantive grounds that it's "so long?" Well, all I have to say to that is...Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
  
  
  
  That's right, it only took 68 more words for Democrats to reform the nation's enormous,' [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• The one curve they've bent

  —Fishersville Mike

  Kausfiles has the latest roundup of part of the health care reform bill that you'll really hate/won't make it to the real world.
  h/t Instapundit [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:49am EST
  

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• Chris Graham at the AFP has a Health Care Reform Plan!

  —Augusta Conservative

  
  Chris Graham, who operates the Augusta Free Press, has an article that details his idea for Health Care Reform. Surprisingly enough it includes a tax break for all Americans. Chris, "A" for effort, however I still don't think a Government Option is either Constitutional' [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:39am EST
  

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• A response to Rep. Bob Goodlatte Letter to the Editor.

  —Augusta Conservative

  
  The News Leader ran a Letter to the Editor in response to Congressman's Bob Goodlatte's. This person counters that while Congressman Goodlatte makes good points on Health Care Reform, where were these ideas when the Republicans had control of the Congress in 1993. An' [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 9:04am EST
  

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• FDL Action Health Care Update: Tuesday (11/24/09)

  —Blue Virginia

  Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, November 24.
  
  1. Jon Walker explains "the difference between really trying and pretending to try" by Majority Leader Harry Reid on the public option. Walker quotes Gerald Seib of the Wall Street Journal, who [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:48pm EST
  

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• Health care soundbite

  —Fishersville Mike

  On the health care reform bill, Sen. Chuck Schumer said "Failure is not an option."
  He's right. Failure is a feature. [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 5:13pm EST
  

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• Black Knights of Health Care Reform

  —SLANTblog

  
  
  You've got to give it to them, the shameless shills for the health insurance industry are delivering on their end of a deal with the devil. They are going to resist health care reform as long as they have the capacity to do so.
  
  Like some of' [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:43pm EST
  

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• Senators Webb and Warner get Ear full!

  —Augusta Conservative

  
  Senators Webb and Warner were featured in the Richmond Times Dispatch this morning. The story covered how they were getting a lot of feedback from Virginians on Health Care Reform. The spokesperson said that the office normally fields about 1,000 calls a week, but [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:52am EST
  

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• Support For Health Care Reform Hits New Low

  —Below The Beltway

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  The numbers continue to look bad for the Democrat’s health care reform plans:

  Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.

  The latest [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 10:19am EST
  by Doug Mataconis

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• Maybe Glenn Nye Will - and Other Democrats - Will Get Reelected After All?

  —Blue Virginia

  Given his votes against clean energy/climate action and health care reform, I'm not exactly thrilled with Rep. Glenn Nye (D-2nd) right now. In fact, I'd go so far as to say I'd be happy to see him primaried by a strong progressive candidate. However, this doesn't look likely right [...]

  Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:25am EST
  

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• FDL Action Health Care Update: Monday (11/23/09)

  —Blue Virginia

  Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 23.
  
  1. Yesterday, Jon Walker took on Nate Silver, who "believes progressives should trade the public option away, but what he wants in return is far more useless and an even tougher political" [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 10:43pm EST
  

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• FDL Action Health Care Update: Monday (11/23/09)

  —Blue Commonwealth

  Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 23.

  1. Yesterday, Jon Walker took on Nate Silver, who "believes progressives should trade the public option away, but what he wants in return is far more useless and an even tougher political battle."

  2. [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 8:01pm EST
  

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• A Message from Mark Warner

  —What IS Right for Virginia

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  Saturday evening, my Senate colleagues and I were given an opportunity to take the next step in fixing our nation's health care system.
  
  I voted in favor of bringing the health care reform bill to the Senate floor because I want an opportunity to work on strengthening and [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:13pm EST
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• Howard Dean: Dem's Should Use Reconciliation on Health Care Legislation

  —Blue Virginia

  I completely agree with Howard Dean on this:
  The former Vermont governor warned that if the party allowed the four moderates to further water down the [health care reform] bill (or defeat it altogether) it could lead to primary challenges or a drop in fundraising from the party's base.
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:04pm EST
  

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• What Effects Would ObamaCare Have on Medical Advancements?

  —Crystal Clear Conservative

  H/T ReasonTV This is a question that some Senators and the American people should consider, especially since health care reform legislation is being debated in the U.S. Senate. Recently, we are fortunate to be in a country that has led with medical advancements, whether it is utilizing adult stem cells to [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 7:14am EST
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• Trying To Provide Cover

  —From On High

  Feebly.
  
  From today's Roanoke Times, a laugher:
  A real threat to Medicare
  editorial
  
  There is one real and immediate threat to Medicare patients that touches on the health care reform debate: Republicans and some fiscal hawks among Democrats are balking at a measure to avert a 21 percent [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 6:23am EST
  

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• Bob Goodlatte Speaks out in NL.

  —Augusta Conservative

  
  Congressman Bob Goodlatte, of Virginia's 6th Congressional District, had a piece in the NewsLeader today explaining his vote against the Health Care Reform Bill. He admits that our current health care system needs reform, however, he points out that the current legislation doesn't implement' [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:08pm EST
  

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• Sen. Jim Webb on HCR

  —Blue Ridge Data

  From Senator Jim Webb's website
  
  During the course of the health care reform debate, my staff and I have met with health care providers, community leaders, and concerned citizens from across Virginia about the need to reform our nation’s health care system. In addition, we have received and [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 9:44pm EST
  

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• 47% of American’s trust private sector to lower health care cost, only 33% trust the goverment

  —On The Right

  Another great poll by Rasmussen, besides the numbers in the headline, 45% of American’s also belive government ran health care will lower the quality of care. While the Senate is now preparing to debate Democratic Leader Harry Reid’s 2000-plus-page version of the health care reform plan, 47% of Americans still believe [...]

  Posted: November 22, 2009, 3:14pm EST
  by Garrett Watson

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