Good news today for health care reform. William Kristol claims that Sen. Reid doesn’t have the 60 votes to get the health care reform bill through:
The much hyped (if utterly incoherent) deal that Harry Reid is touting doesn’t look as if it’s doing the trick — the trick [...]
It looks like a compromise of some type has been found.
It also sounds like the “public option” is sort-of gone. Instead of the federal government acting as an insurance company, there will be federal minimum coverage standards for the insurance pool. And the public option will be an [...]
The Senate narrowly rejected an amendment that would have restricted abortion coverage in the pending health-care bill...
Good news, right? Yes! But it could wind up derailing health care reform entirely or killing the public option...
So assuming Nelson is unyielding on his filibuster threat, which seems like a [...]
Sounding upbeat at TPM...
Way back when, the plan progressives were really behind was just allowing people to buy into Medicare—an approach that had a lot of political logic to it. It now seems like a very limited version of that may be back on the table as something [...]
“Baucus is the the most anti-charismatic Montanan in the state,” writes Kidder, a Livingston, Mont., resident. “The hideous truth is that this empty suit-person almost singlehandedly took the reform out of health care reform, has introduced and somehow passed more legislation to abet the cornucopia of crime that [...]
Steve Benan has now compiled seven excuses from Holy Joe for opposing the public option in health care reform.
Sen. Lieberman has literally come up with an excuse each month since June, 2009. And each excuse has been debunked.
If nothing else, this suggest a series of epic failures [...]
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., talks with reporters after a meeting on health care reform in this September file photo in Washington. A spokesman for Baucus said late Friday the Montana Democrat was in a romantic relationship with the woman he nominated for U.S. attorney. Billings Gazette story here. (AP [...]
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 Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% now oppose the plan. [...]
Sixty: Senate Democrats put together enough votes to open debate on health care reform. That doesn't guarantee whatever bill the Senate comes up with will pass though.
Jesus Is Mean: An orthodox Catholic bishop has banned U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving communion—which is important to those guys—in' [...]
The Senate health care reform achieved the first of several critical milestones on the road to passage tonight: The bill achieved the 60 votes needed to move forward to debate:
At its core, the legislation would create insurance exchanges beginning in 2014 where individuals, most of them lower income [...]
With Senator Lincoln's agreement resulting in the magic number of sixty, the Senate's version of the health care reform bill will proceed to debate—a key step.
This version, like the House bill that passed earlier, contains a public option. The senate's bill allows states to opt-out of the public [...]
The Battle Continues: The Senate votes on whether to begin debate on health care reform today. Democrats were close to reaching the 60 vote threshhold last night. Every fucking Republican still pledged to vote against it.
Shooting on Capitol Hill: A man was shot in the chest last night, [...]
I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Media Matters for watching every minute of every Glenn Beck show for us. That way, they catch moments like this, where Beck compares health care reform to raping an underage girl:
Keep it classy, GB.
President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House about health care reform Sunday.
"U.S. President Barack Obama can add another accolade to his already long list of awards after being named the world's most powerful person in an inaugural ranking by Forbes magazine.
Obama, whose popularity at" [...]
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This comment posted below this article, Public Option is Just Another Private Party – and We’re Not Invited, says it all about what is happening to the health care reform legislation:
mujeriego November 6th, 2009 3:53' [...]Already up at the Urban Dictionary:
Stupak–A medical condition (subset of sepsis) resulting from unsafe – unnecessarily so – back alley abortions as a result of the “Stupak Amendment” to the 2009 Health Care Reform Bill.
Doctor: Unfortunately, while this would have been covered under private insurance carriers, public plans [...]
Posted by news intern Garrett McCulloch
One Step Closer: 219 Democrats and one Republican pass House health care reform bill. Rep. Brian Baird offers a half-assed explanation of his no vote, the only from a Democrat representing Washington state.
The Suspect: Alleged cop-killer appears to have kept guns and [...]
Cool. President Barack Obama achieved a major victory today when the House passed a health care reform bill by 220 to 215.
As an added bonus, it is a bipartisan bill—one Republican voted in favor.
I wonder if Republican have any creeping sense of foreboding that their obstructionism will come [...]
