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voices.washingtonpost.com - 7/1/2009

Ezra Klein - Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Coalition of the Unwilling

— voices.washingtonpost.com — On the issue of the filibuster, Sanders nailed it. Senate Conserva-Dems, at the very least, should always... vote for cloture (not just when they support a particular bill). Then like their fellow conservatives in the Republican party, they're more than ... (more) Ezra Klein - Sen. Bernie Sanders and the Coalition of ...

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reason.com - 7/7/2009

Ezra Klein: Better to Subsidize Big Media Than Let Them Experiment

— reason.com — Over at the Washington Post , omniscient child pundit Ezra Klein attempts to solve the inevitable underlying... economic context behind the Post getting caught last week trying to peddle its own ass to health care lobbyists: The question, then, is ... (more) Ezra Klein: Better to Subsidize Big Media Than Let Them ...

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voices.washingtonpost.com - 7/7/2009

Ezra Klein - The Five Most Important Pieces of Health-Care Reform That Aren't the Public Plan

— voices.washingtonpost.com — Excellent point Ezra and one that isn't made nearly often enough. I tend to think of it... is a pie chart of 47 million uninsured, with two big slices being: 1. Medicaid Expansion, i.e., catching all the Alabama’s up to all the Massachusetts’ 2. ... (more) Ezra Klein - The Five Most Important Pieces of ...

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HELP Committee Draft & CBO Score
Firedoglake — ... Now that the holes have been filled in, the CBO has scored the whole thing cheaper, at $600 billion over ten years (small potatoes next to the $750 billion in TARP money in less than one year). So, with a public plan added, health care is actually LESS expensive. So Joe Lieberman, Mr. "fiscal responsibility" who says he won't support a public plan because it's a "cost we can't take on," can officially go Cheney himself. **** Ezra: ...

CBO envisions only 27 million in so-called "public plan" -- and that's highballing it
Corrente — Ezra Klein: Given the composition of the exchanges that HELP is contemplating, CBO estimates that by 2019, they will have 27 million Americans enrolled. That's not all that many. And the public plan will be one of the many options on the exchanges. So imagine that a bit more than half enter the public plan -- which I'd suggest is optimistic. That's 15 million or so people in the plan. That's not a small number, but nor is it a number likely to lead to real changes in the health-care system. But wait! There's more! ...

Health Care Friday
Daily Kos — ... to a government-funded health insurance option for people without coverage. Dr. J. James Rohack told CNN that the AMA supports an “American model” that includes both “a private system and a public system, working together.” In May, the AMA told a Senate committee it did not support a government-sponsored public health insurance option. However, Kossack wbramh notes that the AMA's position is not so clear. Ezra on the HELP bill: This goes back to my point the other day: ...

Health Care Reform Battle Moves To Senate Finance Committee-- Where Blanche Lincoln Needs To Make A Decision
DownWithTyranny! — ... it's looking like the tiny handful of senators who actually see themselves as tribunes of the people-- Sherrod Brown, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley-- are allowing the sworn enemies of working families (i.e., the GOP plus the bad Democrats like Baucus, Lincoln, Lieberman, Nelson, Landrieu, all the corrupt, steaming garbage)-- are allowing themselves to be bamboozled into a weaker reform program in order to satisfy the paid off shills of the insurance companies. As Ezra Klein pointed out in the Washington Post yesterday, the new ...

BREAKING: Senate HELP Committee Passes Health Care Reform; House Starts Markup
Firedoglake — The Senate HELP Committee has just passed their health reform bill. As Jon Cohn noted yesterday, this isn't quite historic, as HELP's predecessor committee passed a bill out during the health reform fight under Clinton, but taken in context, health reform is moving in a way it never has before. As a review, here's what HELP was discussing, and likely what just passed (I'll have an update once I've seen all the amendments): ...

Senate HELP Committee Passes Health Reform Bill
Daily Kos — ... The Senate HELP Committee beat everyone to the punch, passing out a marked up bill before Senate Finance and the House Tri-Committees. Here are the basic outlines that HELP has been working within: ...