washingtonmonthly.com - 11/20/2008
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BRINGING ALL THE HEALTHCARE PIECES TOGETHER.... Following up on Hilzoy's overnight item, momentum for major healthcare reform in the next Congress got a little stronger yesterday, when the health insurance industry said it would support extending coverage to everyone, in...
thehill.com - 11/17/2008
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thehill.com —
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) will
sit down with Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) and other...
key senators Tuesday to begin divvying up jurisdiction over the coming legislative push on healthcare reform. “The healthcare system is ...
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Baucus-Kennedy healthcare powwow set
boomantribune.com - 11/20/2008
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boomantribune.com —
Rahm: President-elect Barack Obama's incoming White House chief
of staff challenged chief executives and other business leaders...
Tuesday night to join the new administration in a push for universal health care, saying incremental increases in coverage ...
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Bringing Change
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/19/2008
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tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com —
After an earlier round of hand-wringing about whether
President-elect Obama would push off health care reform out...
of fear of its economic and political costs, some experts and advocates in the field are increasingly optimistic that the incoming ...
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Optimism Grows Among Experts That Obama Will Act Quickly ...
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Insurance Industry For Universal Health Care
TalkLeft —
... Steve Benen has a good post on it and what it means. As I have said repeatedly, not knowing a damn thing about health care policy, I leave commenting on this to those who do. ...
Health Insurance Industry Offers Conditional Support To Accepting All Customers
TPM Election Central —
... As Steve Benen says, this is important news given the industry's role in killing Hillarycare, and suggests more political momentum for reform heading into 2009. ...
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Stones Cry Out —
... I think that the notion that the insurance industry has “buy in” on the “universal” healthcare … which includes a requirement that everyone must get it is clueless. What industry would not support a legal requirement requiring their services? ...
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Teddy: I'd Like To See Obama Sign Health Care Bill In First Year
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/17/2008 — Pundits may be predicting that Barack Obama won't take up health care in his first year, but someone who actually knows what he's talking about on the issue says Obama will push hard to get it done right out of the gate.
Teddy Kennedy just made a ...
THE BAUCUS WHITE PAPER: THE PLAN.
prospect.org 11/13/2008 —
I'm going to split my commentary on Max Baucus's policy paper (pdf) into two posts: The plan and the politics. First, the plan:
Do not think of this as Max Baucus's health care plan. It isn't. Not yet. As of now, it's a policy paper, not a ...
Daschle's healthcare push
politico.com 12/11/2008 — Mike Allen, who I've realized -- after losing the argument to him about Hillary -- is always right, has a riff this morning on the direction of healthcare reform that is very much worth reading:
Daschle, who was developing a passion for health ...
Baucus Health Plan
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 11/13/2008 —
One of my first print articles ever was dedicated to bashing Max Baucus so let’s say I’m a Max Baucus skeptic. But earlier today while I was out on the Toblerone Line (anti-tank fortifications, not candy) and the global financial ...
Health Care in a Sick Economy
themoderatevoice.com 11/21/2008 — As jobs disappear and economic anxiety spreads, the incoming Congress is showing signs of getting serious about health care reform, and the entrenched health insurers are signaling their willingness to negotiate.
Two trade groups, America’s Health ...
Obama’s funny business
neoneocon.com 11/10/2008 — One thing Barack Obama needs to learn is that, despite his much-vaunted coolness, he’s not a funny man. I noticed this and wrote about it quite some time ago, and now he’s proven it once again at his first post-election press conference ...
Who the hell does Caroline Kennedy think she is?
majikthise.typepad.com 12/16/2008 — Caroline Kennedy has reportedly asked to be considered for the Senate seat that Hillary Clinton will vacate to take up her post as Secretary of State in the Obama administration. Kennedy is in no way qualified to be a senator. Which bothers me a ...
Daschle setting healthcare goals
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 11/21/2008 — Daschle is looking forward to his job in the Obama administration.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle told CNN Thursday that he is excited about the possibility of heading Health and Human Services in an Obama ...
Argument analysis: As Kennedy goes…
scotusblog.com 11/11/2008 — Analysis
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s reputation as a “swing” vote in the Supumereme Court is well known, and frequently validated. It is not often, though, that the tendency to swing is evident as early as the oral argument in a ...
Caroline Kennedy for Senate?
blogs.wsj.com 12/6/2008 — Susan Davis reports on politics.
Of all the New Yorkers on the potential list for Hillary Clinton s soon-to-be-vacated Senate seat, Caroline Kennedy is perhaps the most notableand unusualchoice.
The Associated Press cited Democratic ...
First thoughts: Tracking the transition —
First Read 11/20/2008
From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Carrie Dann*** Tracking the transition: Today's unofficial pick of the day appears to be Janet Napolitano for Homeland Security. A Napolitano pick would show that Obama views the immigration part ...
Down the ballot: Challenge to Prop. 8 —
First Read 11/20/2008
CALIFORNIA : A challenge to California's Prop. 8 gay-marriage ban will be heard by the state Supreme Court early next year. Could gay marriage end up making its way to the Supreme Court?
GEORGIA : "Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday ...
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