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Idaho First To Sign Law Against Health Care Reform
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18.3.2010 |
WCCO: National |
Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter is the first state chief executive to sign a measure requiring his attorney general to sue the federal government if Congress passes health care reform. Legal experts say the measure, signed Wednesday, will likely be struck down.
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Idaho first to sign law aimed at health care plan
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18.3.2010 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Idaho first to sign law aimed at health care plan |
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Bill O'Reilly quotes false survey: 46% of Physicians May Leave Medical Profession: UPDATED
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18.3.2010 |
Crooks Liars |
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Bill O'Reilly cites a poll taken by the New England Journal of Medicine and here's his headline on how physicians feel about the health care bill.
46.3% May Leave Medical Profession
Here's what the poll actually says:
Health Reform and Primary Care Physicians
46.3%of primary care physicians (family medicine and internal medicine) feel that the passing of health reform will either force them out of medicine or make them want to leave medicine.
Given the amount of false information being put out there about what is in the bill and the fear mongering that's been done by the Republican Party and the media, I've got to wonder if the poll is really a good indication of what these doctors might ... |
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Health bill gains ground; weekend vote likely
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18.3.2010 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Health bill gains ground; weekend vote likely |
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Grayson Introduces Medicare Buy-In as Kucinich Caves
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18.3.2010 |
BradBlog |
| Guest blogged by Ernest A. Canning
Substantively, not much has changed since we analyzed the Senate version of the health care bill in "'Reform' or Legislative Obscenity?"
We noted then:
The Baucus bill is a "legislative obscenity that Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) and a former vice president of WellPoint spent months ... |
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Obama spars with Fox News anchor during interview punctuated by interruptions and chiding
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18.3.2010 |
Star Tribune: Politics |
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Ruth Marcus: Of health care and hot-button ideology
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18.3.2010 |
Star Tribune: Commentary |
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MN Lawmakers Challenge Federal Health Care Reform
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18.3.2010 |
WCCO: Local News |
| Citing the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, some Minnesota lawmakers say it's illegal to force Minnesota to participate in health care reform from Washington. |
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Reconciliation
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18.3.2010 |
Ezra Klein |
| Today, I wrote about the weird reality of bipartisan legislation coexisting with partisan votes , fretted over Chris Dodd's FinReg bill , and pulled a reverse-Brooks on deem and pass .
Here's what I didn't get to:
1) Larry Lessig proposes a constitutional amendment to blunt the impact of Citizens United.
2) Pete Davis thinks the House will vote on health-care reform Saturday .
3) Michael Wolff's profile of The Washington Post .
4) Eliot Spitzer wants a shareholder revolution .
5) I'll be on Charlie Rose's and Rachel Maddow's shows tonight. ... |
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Obama's health care bill wins support from Rep. Kucinich, Catholic nuns; Weekend vote likely
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18.3.2010 |
Star Tribune: Business |
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Obama has testy Fox interview
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18.3.2010 |
Washington Post |
44 | President appears frustrated with focus on process over substance, and interruptions.
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Closing in on an up-or-down vote
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18.3.2010 |
LA Times: Opinion |
| Closing in on an up-or-down vote |
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Obama says new Israeli settlement homes 'weren't helpful' for peace
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18.3.2010 |
Star Tribune: Politics |
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Group: Idaho first to sign law that would sue federal government over health care overhaul
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18.3.2010 |
Star Tribune: Politics |
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Obama says keeping Iran free of nuclear weapons one of his top priorities
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18.3.2010 |
Star Tribune: Politics |
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Could LBJ have passed health-care reform in 2010?
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18.3.2010 |
Ezra Klein |
| Earlier today, I was asked whether LBJ could've passed the health-care reform bill with more ease and grace. I don't really think so, though maybe he would've sped the process a bit. But here's what I do wonder.
LBJ operated in a world where the filibuster was not relevant to most policy initiatives (the major exception being civil rights). When his aides were crafting their Medicare strategy, for instance, the filibuster was not a consideration. But while Medicare experienced some close calls en route to passage, it did pick up a dozen or so Republicans in the final vote.
Some of that, of course, reflects historical differences in the two parties. The Republicans had a wing of Northeastern liberals that have long since become Democrats. The ... |
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Pelosi's strategy to get the votes
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18.3.2010 |
Ezra Klein |
| Dennis Kucinich's decision to switch his vote from "no" to "yes" is interesting. The Senate bill, even with the reconciliation fixes, will be a much more conservative document than the House bill. There'll be no public plan, lower subsidies, an excise tax of some sort, an independent Medicare commission and more. So what you have here is the bill moving to the right even as it picks up votes from the left.
If you want to see how Nancy Pelosi gets the votes, Kucinich offers a hint. She unites her left flank, as these folks may not like the bill, but they love what the bill is trying to do and they don't want to destroy Barack Obama's presidency. And then she goes to however many Blue Dogs and strays as she needs and says, basically, that this ... |
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Republicans in denial over healthcare | Tim Fernholz
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18.3.2010 |
The Guardian -- World Latest |
| They are desperate to persuade Democrats that healthcare reform will spell political disaster – but the opposite is true
Republicans are in denial. They're desperate to convince Democrats that passing comprehensive healthcare reform legislation will be the worst possible move they could make.
"If Speaker Pelosi rams this bill through the House using the reconciliation process, they will lose their majority in Congress in November," Eric Cantor, a top Republican House leader, said on Meet the Press just a few weeks ago .
You'd think Cantor, who could make a move for the speaker's chair if Republicans take back the majority, would be more circumspect about revealing his campaign strategy. Apparently, Republicans are so used to seeing ... |
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Nuns Sign Pro-ObamaCare Letter; AP, Newsweek Fail to Note Left-wing Catholic Group Behind It
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18.3.2010 |
NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed |
| "Hot on the heels of Kucinich's declaration of support for health-care reform, the Associated Press is reporting that Catholic nuns are urging Democratic lawmakers to support health-care reform," Newsweek's Katie Connolly informed readers of the magazine's The Gaggle blog this morning.
"This is a major break with the church's bishops, who have strongly opposed the legislation on the grounds that some federal subsidies may end up funding abortions," Connolly gushed, later closing her blog post with the conclusion that "[a]t the very least, the letter damages the validity of [pro-life Democrat Rep. Bart] Stupak's argument."
Both Connolly's post and the underlying AP story failed to delve into this, but the letter in question was not simply ... |
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Catholic nuns endorse HCR in defiance of bishops' mandate
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18.3.2010 |
NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed |
| Wow. On Monday, Catholic Bishops released a letter opposing the Senate health care reform bill because it didn't contain the Stupak language. While they acknowledged differences with the Catholic Health Association, their message was clear: they were speaking as the official and authoritative voice of the Catholic Church.
This analysis of the flaws in the legislation is not completely shared by the leaders of the Catholic Health Association. They believe, moreover, that the defects that they do recognize can be corrected after the passage of the final bill. The bishops, however, judge that the flaws are so fundamental that they vitiate the good that the bill intends to promote. Assurances that the moral objections to the legislation can be met ... |
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