voices.washingtonpost.com - 6/19/2009
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"I don't know where that came from." "I didn't say that." You missed a follow up opportunity, Ezra: Did ABC News screw up its report that badly? "But we were concerned that the ongoing health reform debate is beginning to show signs of fracture on the public plan issue, so in order to advance ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 6/18/2009
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i remember when we planted an american flag
on the moon. it seemed that the united states...
could accomplish anything. reading this, and lamenting over what is happening in california. all of the money spent in iraq, and our hopes being dimmed with ...
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Ezra Klein
- Health Care Reform in Danger
voices.washingtonpost.com - 6/18/2009
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I've been biting my tongue on pronouncing health
care 'reform' dead on arrival, but the ambulance has...
arrived at the ER and rigor mortis has set in on the extremities. It was a strange death, not subject to anything resembling a democratic process and ...
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Ezra Klein
- EXCLUSIVE: The Finance Committee's Health ...
voices.washingtonpost.com - 6/19/2009
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The plan as outlined would be a very
hard sell politically. Requiring an individual mandate unless premium...
costs (not total out of pocket if I'm reading it right) exceed 15 percent of income while subsidies are only available to people under 300 ...
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- The Finance Committee's "Comprehensive ...
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Daschle: I emphatically support a public plan
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... A public healthcare option for consumers is an essential part of a final healthcare deal, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) said Friday. Daschle, rebutting earlier reports that he'd backed off support for the plan, which Republicans say is "government-run," told the Washington Post's Ezra Klein that compromises would be needed to get a deal. "I have said emphatically I support a public plan," Dashcle said, adding that he has no idea where reports that he didn't support a public option came from. "I have said emphatically I support a public plan," he added. ...
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [82] -- Is Obama The Only Person Who Remembers What America Did In Iran In 1953?
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... This week's Most Disappointing Democrat Of The Week is none other than former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Daschle, along with his new buddies Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich, and Trent Lott (I wish that were hyperbole, but Daschle himself cites these three), introduced the mother of all compromises as a "bipartisan" healthcare reform plan, which conveniently left out the public option. Reaction was swift, and two Huffington Post headlines sum up the depth of the feeling: ...
Nancy L. Cohen: Death by Bipartisanship
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Health care reform is wildly popular. Three separate polls show over 70% of Americans favor a public insurance plan. Remarkably, the majority of us are even willing to pay higher taxes to provide health insurance for our uninsured compatriots. (see here, here, and here).
But elder statesmen and the Washington commentariat warn that it would be a grave political mistake to include a public option in health care reform. Why? Because it doesn't have bipartisan support.
When the ever elusive bipartisanship becomes a more important ...
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