Milbank: An ugly finale for health-care reform
Hot Air: Don’t despair about ObamaCare
Classy: RI Dem Senator Calls ObamaCare Opponents Part of 'Aryan Support Groups'
Cash for Cloture: Harry Reid’s Vote Buying Cost Taxpayers $1.2 Billion
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Pethokoukis: The political blowback from healthcare reform
Kimball via Insty:
Since it was Ben Nelson of Nebraska that finally got Harry Reid his desperately needed 60th vote for socialized medicine, I hope 1) that the [...]
Waaaaayy more health care hash to sort through ...
Howard Dean "steps back from the ledge" this AM on MTP."$100,000,000 for a 'Health Care Facility' 'at a public research university'" [...]
With Senator Ben Nelson coming on board after a hard fought compromise on abortion was reached the Democratic Party has reached the 60 vote margin necessary to pass the Senate version of health care reform. Nelson achieved more than changes in language dealing with abortion, securing legislative advantage on several [...]
And here's the Manager's amendment.
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Nelson is in with some new anti-abortion language ... TPM has the big fat stories:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid seems confident that he has the 60 votes he'll need to pass health care reform. Asked by a reporter at a press conference moments ago whether his caucus is united [...]
"We're there,"' [...]
The President spends his weekly address on health care, talking about the past failure of a patient bill of rights, and decrying the parliamentary obstruction of the Republican Party on health care. Meanwhile the Senate Democrats continue to struggle to get to sixty, with Ben Nelson proving a difficult vote [...]
Howard Dean wants state-based exchanges, among other things: "To be clear, I'm not giving up on health-care reform. ... Improvements can still be made in the Senate, and I hope that Senate Democrats'" [...]
I drove down to DC with Congressional candidate Bill Hudak and' [...]
Just do it.
Yesterday, I wrote that a bad bill is the worst possible outcome. I've changed my mind.
Even Howard Dean, speaking on On Point on WBUR yesterday, said the Senate bill does some good things. OK, then. Let's take it.
I'm not crazy about the mandate; [...]
Borowitz Report: Senate unveils "Compromise Care:"
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) - The United States Senate today unveiled details of its health care plan, tentatively called CompromiseCareTM:
-- Under CompromiseCareTM, people with no coverage will be allowed to keep their current plan.
-- Medicare will be extended to 55-year-olds [...]
Special to Charley
We both worked for John Edwards in NH. I think we were both moved by Edwards' condemning the destructive influence of corporations and lobbyists on democratic government and believed his stated commitment to fighting it if elected.' [...]
The old American proverb states that, "where there is smoke, there is fire." It is in that vein that yesterday a public records request was filed with Dr. Judy Ann Bigby the Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
To recap, on Wednesday Scott Brown filed an [...]
