tnr.com - 27 days ago
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With the House set to vote on a full health care reform bill as early as this week, Republican leader John Boehner has announced that the GOP leadership will introduce a formal alternative of their own. The proper response, I suppose, is "Are you kidding?"
By my count, ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 25 days ago
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
Republicans are learning an unpleasant lesson this morning:
The only thing worse than having no health-care reform...
plan is releasing a bad one, getting thrashed by CBO and making the House Democrats look good in comparison. Late last night, ...
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Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 25 days ago
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
Earlier this week, a spokesman for House Minority
Leader John Boehner made a prediction . The Republican...
health care plan, he said, "will cover millions more Americans" than the Democrats' plan. Bold. But here's what the experts say: By 2019, CBO and ...
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Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Almost ...
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"A Doozy That Essentially Does... Nothing"
Fired Up! Missouri —
... is a necessary reform. Nor would it expand health insurance coverage to people who don't have it. It will, in fact, make existing insurance coverage [worse] by gutting regulation. ...
An embarrassing alternative
Political Animal —
... Their bill fundamentally fails to repair our broken health care system." Now, keep in mind, Republican leaders concede that their approach effectively ignores those who currently lack coverage. As far as the GOP is concerned, helping those with no insurance costs too much, so their plan barely tries to address this aspect of the health care crisis. Instead, they argue, the key to reform is cutting costs, so that's where Republicans focused their energies. But this is wrong, too. Jonathan Cohn explained this week, "This is a politically clever construction, since it creates a ...
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washingtonmonthly.com 10/30/2009 — FAILING TO MEET THEIR OWN STANDARDS.... The House Republican leadership "guaranteed" that they would offer an alternative health care reform bill. If my count is right, that was 134 days ago. Asked about when Americans can expect to see the...
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