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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 9 hours ago
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Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) still says that President
Obama did not campaign on a public option.
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Lieberman Repeats Claim That Public Option Not Part Of ...
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thinkprogress.org - 6 hours ago
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Today on the Senate floor, Sen. Lamar Alexander
(R-TN) railed against Medicaid, the health insurance program funded
by both the federal and state governments for low-income Americans, by calling it a “medical ghetto” and blasting ...
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Sen. Lamar Alexander Repeatedly Calls Medicaid A ...
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huffingtonpost.com - 9 hours ago
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The debate over health care reform often takes
place in a haze of numbers, cost curves and
acronyms. Lamar Alexander lifted the fog for a moment on the Senate floor Saturday evening as the third-ranking Republican lambasted the health care bill for ...
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While Senators Denounce Medicaid, The Uninsured Turn To ...
moonbattery.com - 10 hours ago
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Senator Mary Landrieu agreed to support the cloture
vote on the health care bill in exchange for
$100 Million in Medicaid subsidies to her home state . Here we see a picture of Senator Landrieu negotiating with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. ...
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How the Senate Works
cbpp.org - 2 days ago
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The initial premium contributions start at 1.5 percent
of income at 133 percent of the poverty line,
rising to 12 percent of income at 400 percent of the poverty line. The amount of the subsidy would be tied to the cost of the three Basic plans with ...
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Changes in Senate Health Bill Make Coverage More ...
usnews.com - 31 hours ago
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Lawmakers' votes should not be based on the
government equivalent of a bribe.
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Landrieu’s Medicaid Deal Hurts Middle Class Taxpayers ...
article.nationalreview.com - 33 hours ago
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S en. Harry Reid needs 60 Senate votes
to pass his health-care bill and, as Jonathan Karl
of ABC News reported last night , is attempting to bribe Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana to be the 60th vote by shoveling money into her state. His bribe takes ...
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A Medicaid Buy-Off -- By: Brian Blase
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2 days ago
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid put sweeteners in
his health care bill to win over reluctant Democrats.
It may be paying off.
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Landrieu, Nelson Win Goodies As Reid Seeks Their Vote On ...
cato-at-liberty.org - 2 days ago
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Michael Cannon has some astute analysis of the
Senate health care bill below. I posted these thoughts
at Politico’s Arena: According to the Chamber of Commerce polls, strong majorities in every state they polled believe the health care bills ...
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What Will the Reid Bill Cost?
washingtontimes.com - 4 days ago
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David M. Dickson As President Obama and Congress
craft the largest national health insurance program since the
creation of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, they insist that the final product will add "not one dime" to the federal deficit. But cost ...
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U.S. health plans have history of cost overruns
soitgoesinshreveport.blogspot.com - 2 days ago
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Via The Dead Pelican , this is probably
Mary's payoff . Harry Reid needs her vote to
proceed on his ridiculous health care bill and this might be what tips her scales: On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid ...
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$100 Million is Mary's Going Price
article.nationalreview.com - 2 days ago
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A s the U.S. Senate weighs a 2,074-page
health-care “reform” bill, supporters of a government option for
medical coverage consider this the finest federal initiative since the Emancipation Proclamation. Yet today’s headlines show government ...
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Medicare: A Glimpse of the Future? -- By: Deroy Murdock
prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com - 3 days ago
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Republican governors claim Democratic health care proposals would
wreck state budgets.
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Republican Governors Warn on Costs to States
gatewaypundit.firstthings.com - 2 days ago
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Senator Harry Reid and the Democrats bought off
Senator Landrieu’s vote for their nationalized health care plan
for $100 million of your money . How does that feel? ABC’s The Note reported: What does it take to get a wavering senator ...
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Dems Buy Off Sen Landrieu’s Vote For $100 Million ...
cnbc.com - 4 days ago
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Improper payments by the U.S. government to people,
firms and contractors rose sharply to $98 billion in
fiscal 2009 and President Barack Obama plans new rules to clamp down, the White House said Tuesday. Over half the mistakes were made in the ...
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Improper US Government Payments Hit $98 Billion
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 3 days ago
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The Congressional Budget Office analysis of the recently
released Senate health bill has concluded that compared to
the Senate Finance Committee’s bill, the merged legislation makes a stronger contribution towards deficit reduction even ...
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REPORT: How The Senate Bill Compares To Other Reform ...
tnr.com - 3 days ago
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tnr.com —
And here we go... Leadership sources say that
the bill Senate Majority Harry Reid is now presenting
to the Democratic caucus would save the government $127 billion over the next ten years. Actual federal outlays would be $847 billion. The money ...
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First Look at the Senate Bill (Updated)
blogs.reuters.com - 5 days ago
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blogs.reuters.com —
Nothing happening in Washington today should give Beijing
any comfort or confidence about what may happen tomorrow.
Healthcare reform was originally promoted as a way to "bend the curve" on escalating entitlement costs, the major part of which is ...
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China questions costs of U.S. healthcare reform
douthat.blogs.nytimes.com - 4 days ago
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Why health care reform will make losers out
of a third of the uninsured.
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The 18 Million
douthat.blogs.nytimes.com - 6 days ago
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I’ve argued before that while the eventual health
care legislation is likely to be a boondoggle, it
at least holds out the hope of partially remedying the present system’s worst injustice: Namely, the way the current mix of semi-free markets, tax ...
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Commentary on Politics and Culture - Ross Douthat Blog - ...
