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Details of the health care overhaul plan
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17.3.2010 |
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A look at Democrats' health care overhaul
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17.3.2010 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| A look at Democrats' health care overhaul |
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Nancy Pelosi’s Theory of Change
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16.3.2010 |
The New Republic - The Treatment Feed |
| House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a longtime advocate for universal health care. She"s also demonstrated that she has a good feel for the politics of her chamber and her party, simply by passing so many major pieces of legislation this year. So when Pelosi says that the votes to pass a public option in health care reform just aren"t there, I assume she"s right—or, at the very least, that she"s more likely to be right about it than, say, I am.
Apparently not everybody thinks that way. Last week, after Pelosi made clear the public option would not be part of the final House-Senate compromise on health reform, some public option advocates turned on her. And, on Monday, a coalition of three liberal groups, led by the ... |
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Media Pile on Pro-Life Stupak, Whitewash Abortion in ObamaCare
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16.3.2010 |
NewsBusters |
| As the House gears up for a final move on ObamaCare, the media are doing everything they can to pressure pro-lifers to accept federal funding for abortion while helping the Obama administration downplay what that means.
Instead of respecting the conscience of a pro-life politician, news outlets have launched an all-out campaign to blame House Democrat Bart Stupak for thwarting ObamaCare. Of course he's not pro-life, he's "anti abortion," and he's willing to let millions of helpless Americans go without healthcare to satisfy some personal agenda.
The AP's Liz Sidoti set the tone on Saturday with a snarky, pouty article about Democrats who don't go along with what Obama wants. Gone were the days of patriotic dissent as Sidoti blamed ... |
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The Contradictions of Reform Opponents
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16.3.2010 |
The Atlantic - Matthew Ygblesias |
| Rachel Slajda brings us Rep Mike McIntyre (D-NC)’s stated explanation for opposing the health reform bill: “Health care reform is needed, but the bill before us is too expensive, does not adequately address rising medical costs and skyrocketing insurance premiums, and tries to do too much too soon.”
What’s disturbing about this is that it’s totally [...] |
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What the in-play Dems are saying About ObamaCare
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16.3.2010 |
Red State |
| The following was emailed to me from a friend:
Rep. John Adler (D-N.J.): If the House and Senate can’t work out cost containment, I don’t see how I could support a bill that doesn’t help our business community,” Rep. John Adler (D., N.J.) said on “Fox News Sunday.” (John D. McKinnon and Jared Favole, “Democrats Voice Health-Bill Doubts,” The Wall Street Journal, 3/8/10 )
Rep. John Adler (D-N.J.): “If the House and the Senate can’t work out cost containment, I don’t see how I support a bill that doesn’t help our business community and create more jobs.” ( Fox News Sunday, 3/7/10 )
Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA): “Is she going to be able to hold everybody that was for it before?” Altmire asked. ... |
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Op-Ed Contributor: The Health Care Letdown
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16.3.2010 |
International Herald Tribune: Editorials |
| A failure to recognize the magnitude of the task, and a toxic political environment, undermined the effort to achieve health care reform. |
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Pelosi Under Pressure From Progressives on Public Option
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16.3.2010 |
Truthout.com |
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insists that the public option is dead, but progressive organizations are mounting an aggressive campaign to resurrect it as Democratic lawmakers gear up to pass a final health care bill this week via a budgetary process known as reconciliation.
Democracy for America, Credo Action, and the Progressive Campaign Change Committee (PCCC) raised $75,000 for a 60-second spot that will air on MSNBC, CNN and a local station in Pelosi's home district of San Francisco.
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Palin resurrects bogus ‘death panels’ and ‘rationing’ claims
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15.3.2010 |
NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed |
| Sarah Palin infected the health care debate with damaging misinformation last year when she claimed the package includes "death panels." And as Democrats make their final push to enact the bill, she has reiterated it again.
Palin coined the term in a Facebook entry last August, leading to heated controversies about the reform effort. Republican lawmaker [...] |
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Media Reality Check: A Year of Spin for Liberal ObamaCare
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15.3.2010 |
NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed |
| The end of Congress’s long debate over ObamaCare could be near, as the President pushes for a final vote this week before his Asia trip, and House Democrats want a resolution before next week’s Easter break.
Yet whether or not liberals’ dreams are ultimately realized, they have had a huge advantage throughout the process. Over the past twelve months, journalists have continually stacked the deck in favor of a big government takeover of health care.
A review of the worst spin: ... |
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Does The ‘Shell’ Health Care Bill Have Any Teeth?
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15.3.2010 |
NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed |
| The short answer is: Do not trust. And verify.
Upon the release of the ’shell’ 2,300 page reconciliation health care bill , which includes a public option, immediately some started issuing calls to calm down, that it’s a shell bill that will allegedly be stripped by the Rules Committee. Allegedly is the key word. While it is what we are being told, there is no guarantee. In fact, the air drop rules committee strategy allows for any provisions that they need to pass the bill, and that can include the public option or anything else that they wish to insert.
Public option is technically back on the table. And the only way it will come off the table, is if it is stripped out. If.
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Big Government Burrito: A taste of the 2,309-pg Demcare/Student Loan Reconciliation Bill; Update: A tortilla shell fake-out
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15.3.2010 |
NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed |
| If the TARP bank bailout was a “crap sandwich,” the Democrats’ Student Loan Nationalization plan wrapped inside the latest version of the health care takeover is a Big Government Burrito.
The House Democrats’ 2,309-page reconciliation bill headed for House Budget Committee markup tomorrow has just been posted this evening and you can download the whole PDF [...] |
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Oberstar says he'll vote for health care bill
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15.3.2010 |
Post-Bulletin: Local Politics |
| DULUTH — Congress will pass a health-care bill in the next two weeks, U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar's predicted Saturday. |
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Feeling Down Down Under
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15.3.2010 |
Daily Kos |
| Between large kangaroos and small wallabies there is a critter of intermediate scale known as a wallaroo. There are several species of wallaroo, but I have to admit that I was completely unaware of their existence until I was standing in a field at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, surrounded by dozens, if not hundreds, of the the waist-high 'roos. At first glance, Lone Pine could seem like a somewhat shabby little zoo. It has none of the spectacular enclosures found at the the best known American zoos. What it does have is several hundred native Australian animals, all of which appear to be healthy, and most of which have plenty of room to roam. It also has the audacity to let people and animals mingle. You can stroll through several acres of ... |
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Evolution
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15.3.2010 |
NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed |
| Perfect, meet good. You two play nice now.
If only.
The Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party has a reputation to uphold. During the darker days of the Bush Administration, it was the Democratic Wing of Howard Dean that stood up to the outrages, the excesses, and the likely crimes, both overt and covert, perpetrated by the previous residents of the White House and Foggy Bottom. In those days, no stance of opposition could have been too strong. The extreme and reckless path of the Bush administration and the Republican Congress that did its bidding was gradually shifting the Overton Window of political acceptability further and further to the right--or more accurately said, to positions that were, and continue to be, anti-democratic and ... |
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"We Have 51 Senate Votes for Public Option" Adam Green to Ed Schultz (VIDEO)
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14.3.2010 |
Truthout.com |
| Adam Green, of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, told Ed Schultz yesterday that he counts 51 votes in the senate for the public option, and cites details on senators who have not yet signed the letter, but who have clearly publicly stated that they will vote FOR the public option if they get that bill from the house.
Nancy Pelosi has said the votes aren't there, so she won't include the public option in the House legislation. Read this and try not to be angry. read more  |
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Answers for thoughtful ObamaCare opponents | Sahil Kapur
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14.3.2010 |
Guardian: Comment is Free |
| The Cato Institute has put forth a list of questions for supporters of the healthcare reform bill. Here are my answers
The conservative/libertarian Cato Institute has put forth a list of questions for proponents of the Democratic healthcare reform package. Here they are, along with my answers.
1. What does it say that the American polity has consistently rejected a wholesale government takeover of healthcare for 100 years?
It says the issue is very tough politically. It says Washington is unresponsive to the interests of the American people, who overwhelmingly want healthcare reform . It says insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies and other health industry special interests (including the AMA until just last year ) are ... |
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Obama's Health Care Legacy Hangs on 216 House Votes
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14.3.2010 |
Truthout - All Articles |
| Washington - The looming vote for final passage of the historic health-care bill is the stiffest challenge House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn has faced in his three-plus years as the lawmaker responsible for counting heads and ensuring passage of major legislation.
The South Carolina Democrat has spent the past week in endless meetings and conversations with key factions of Democrats in the House of Representatives, among them black, Hispanic and the fiscally conservative "Blue Dog" lawmakers. read more |
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For insurers, health care debate is a prescription for uncertainty
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14.3.2010 |
Star Tribune: Business |
| The fortunes of UnitedHealth Group and other insurers are tied to the twists and turns of health reform. |
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The Crack Cocaine That Is The Nanny State
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14.3.2010 |
Red State |
| Karl Marx famously stated that religion was the “opiate of the masses”. But Marx (unsurprisingly) had it wrong: the government nanny state is the real opiate of the masses. It is injected into our lives by the Leftist drug pushers who wish to control us, hook us on their DC-manufactured “progressivism”, and depend upon them for all of our needs. They know that once we’re hooked, we like it. We may not want to like it, because we know it’s really wrong to have such a dependency upon government. But we can’t help ourselves. There’s all that free stuff, just waiting for us to swallow it and make us feel good.
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