Yesterday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius unveiled a detailed analysis of how individual states would fare under the Senate's health care reform bill. Here's the estimated take-away in Illinois (this analysis does not factor in the local impact of a public option):
- 1.8 million residents who [...]
Here's Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky speaking Saturday evening during the debate over the debate on health care reform:
We know that Americans oppose this bill. And here's Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio speaking earlier last week on MSNBC: An overwhelming number of the public [...]"The family, Dan and Midge Hough, of Chicago, spoke in favor of health care reform and in support of U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-3rd) at a Nov. 14 town hall meeting in Oak Lawn."
Only the be mocked by anti-reform Tea Partiers by
an organizer for [...]
Some key polling numbers from the past month:
FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll. Nov. 17-18, 2009
Do you think you and your family would be better off or worse off under the health care reforms being considered, or would the reforms not make much of a difference to your family?
Better [...]
Some key polling numbers from the past month:
FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll. Nov. 17-18, 2009
Do you think you and your family would be better off or worse off under the health care reforms being considered, or would the reforms not make much of a difference to your family?
Better [...]
Yesterday afternoon, as part of the Campaign for a Better Health Care's annual conference, Gov. Pat Quinn and Democratic primary challenger Dan Hynes engaged in an hour-long debate on health care reform. Because it costs the state money to provide coverage to the poor and to protect public health, the [...]
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) kicked off its annual conference in Chicago this morning and health care reform is sure to be a major topic of discussion. Just over two weeks ago, AHIP CEO Karen Ignagni said her organization -- the nation's top health insurance lobby -- was "concerned" that the recently-passed House bill [...]
Turns out, Bush’s tax cuts hurt the economy. Wha…?
From the Citizens for Tax Justice:
And yet, many of the lawmakers who argue that the health care reform legislation is “too costly” are the same lawmakers who supported the Bush tax cuts. Their own voting record demonstrates that health care [...]
Over the past year, Capitol Hill has been portrayed as ground zero in the health care debate. But the heart of the fight was never in D.C. Rather, it was in the millions of households across the country, where the uninsured and the underinsured live in fear, knowing that they [...]
Over the past couple of day, we've highlighted statements of disgust from Illinois congressmen and candidates about the restrictive anti-choice amendment added to the House health care bill that passed last weekend. But abortion isn't the only hot-button issue that could complicate the Democrats' reform effort. Immigration is emerging as a potential sticking' [...]
Rep. Jan Schakowsky isn't the only Chicago Democrat taking a stand in favor of reproductive rights. In a statement released this afternoon, Rep. Mike Quigley said he too will vote against a final health care reform bill if it contains the Stupak-Pitts amendment language:
On Saturday, we entered the final stretch of a 100-year' [...]
There aren't many lawmakers in Washington who have worked as hard as Rep. Jan Schakowsky to protect the reproductive rights of women. So it was with a lot of pain that the Northside Democrat ultimately swallowed a last-minute amendment to the historic health care reform bill limiting elective abortion' [...]
The legislative landscape for health care after House passage
Posted By kbh On November 9, 2009 @ 12:45 pm In budget, featured, health | 8 Comments
The House passed their version of health care reform Saturday night on a 220-215 vote. Today I’m going to update my projections and [...]
The legislative landscape for health care after House passage
Posted By kbh On November 9, 2009 @ 12:45 pm In budget, featured, health | 8 Comments
The House passed their version of health care reform Saturday night on a 220-215 vote. Today I’m going to update my projections and [...]
The legislative landscape for health care after House passage
Posted By kbh On November 9, 2009 @ 12:45 pm In budget, featured, health | 8 Comments
The House passed their version of health care reform Saturday night on a 220-215 vote. Today I’m going to update my projections and [...]
Just because the House passed a health care reform package on Saturday night doesn't mean the "debate" about the bill's provisions is complete. First, the Senate has to pass its own version. Then both chambers will have to approve whatever legislation emerges from the conference committee. In other words, there's a lot of work' [...]
The president's top domestic policy priority is one step closer to being made law. As you've read elsewhere, the full House passed its final health care reform bill late Saturday night by a slim 220-215 margin. Although 39 Democrats eventually voted against the bill, none of Democrats hailing from President [...]
by Ralf Seiffe
You have to hand it to Nancy Pelosi, the first female Tyrant of the House, for squeaking the health care bill through by just five votes. The news media was agog this morning, telling its diminishing audience that “health care reform” had passed, noting in every story that [...]
In today's Weekly GOP Address, Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) acknowledges the need for 
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