tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/27/2009
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House Democrats have removed a provision from their stimulus bill that would exempt states from the need to get waivers for covering family planning under Medicaid. The family-planning aid has been the subject of repeated Republican attacks over the past few days, and health care advocates were ...
thinkprogress.org - 1/26/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
In recent days, conservatives have been stepping up
their opposition to any stimulus proposal that favors smart...
spending over tax cuts for businesses. To push their argument — which most economists have discredited — they have tried to ...
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New Right-Wing Stimulus Myth: Progressives Want To Spend ...
washingtonindependent.com - 1/27/2009
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President Barack Obama has signaled he will not
go to bat for birth control in the economic...
stimulus bill — a move likely to set off a firestorm among powerful forces in the Democratic Party. Obama has asked House Energy and Commerce Committee ...
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Obama Begs Waxman to Yank Birth Control from Stimulus
blog.heritage.org - 1/27/2009
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With countless news stories, papers, editorials and experts
giving their view of why Congress should or shouldn’t...
enact the Pelosi-Reid-Obama Debt Plan, we thought it would be helpful to give you a short index of why spending does not equal ...
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Stimulus 101: The Pelosi-Reid-Obama Debt Plan
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Breaking: Family Planning Revision Removed from Stimulus Bill
Feministing —
Well, this is great.
House Democrats have removed a provision from their stimulus bill that would exempt states from the need to get waivers for covering family planning under Medicaid. The family-planning aid has been the subject of repeated Republican attacks over the past few days, and health care advocates were dismayed by the Democrats' decision to give in on its removal.
The revision the Dems have caved on would have merely allowed states to continue doing what they already do. As I mentioned this morning and Ann mentioned in ...
Contraceptives And The Stimulus Plan--Yes, It's A Big Deal
Open Left - Front Page —
... . According to Elana Schor at TPMDC, "Family Planning Aid is Gone For Good From the Stimulus". True or not, we need to fully realize just how bad this is, so we understand the parameters that Obama is operating within. Hopefully they can and will be changed, but we cannot be effective in changing them if we don't understand them--particularly if we will fully mis-understand them. First off, Robert in Monterrey, aka "Eugene" had an excellent recommended diary at DKos yesterday, ...
About That Family Planning Provision
Comments from Left Field —
... Women’s health advocates were dismayed this week to see the removal of family-planning aid from Congress’ economic recovery bill after a ...
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/29/2009 — Women's health advocates were dismayed this week to see the removal of family-planning aid from Congress' economic recovery bill after a push by Republicans to politicize a generally cut-and-dry issue of Medicaid waivers. ( Time has some good ...
Behind the Family-Planning Flap
time.com 1/29/2009 — Early Wednesday evening, the House of Representatives passed President Obama's $819 billion plan to stimulate the struggling U.S. economy . But while the package that passed on a 244-188 near-party-line vote (and didn't garner a single Republican ...
Getting family planning back on track
washingtonmonthly.com 1/30/2009 — GETTING FAMILY PLANNING BACK ON TRACK.... It was unfortunate that family-planning aid to states was pulled from the economic stimulus package at Republicans' behest. Fortunately, though, it may have been a temporary move. Elana Schor reports: A source ...
The Family Planning Fracus
swampland.blogs.time.com 1/30/2009 — There's been a lot of huffing and puffing this week about a provision to expand access to Medicaid-covered family planning services. First it was Republicans, who grew faint at the idea of voting for a stimulus package that contained such a ...
The Wrong Stimulus for Health Care
corner.nationalreview.com 2/11/2009 — As part of the stimulus bill, the House wants to pump least $160 billion into our already-bloated health sector, and members say they intend to fight for every penny when the bill goes to conference with the Senate.
The health-related provisions ...
Analysis of Stimulus Bill
corner.nationalreview.com 2/2/2009 — ...from House Republicans:
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Medicaid: Family-Planning Provision Makes Its Way Into Budget Plan
online.wsj.com 2/26/2009 — LAURA MECKLER During debate over the economic stimulus package, Republicans protested a provision that would have made it easier for states to expand coverage of contraceptives through their Medicaid programs. The GOP portrayed the measure as ...
Within Stimulus Bill, Democrats Move to Expand Medicaid
cqpolitics.com 1/26/2009 — CQ WEEKLY – VANTAGE POINT Jan. 25, 2009 – 2:12 p.m. Within Stimulus Bill, Democrats Move to Expand Medicaid By Rebecca Adams, CQ Staff Democrats and President Obama are moving on so many fronts to change policies of the Bush administration that ...
Poor Women are Not "Pork"
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/30/2009 —
Responding to President Obama's request, House Democrats cut a provision from the stimulus package that would expand contraceptive family planning for Medicaid patients--usually poor women and girls. He, in turn, was responding to Republicans' ...
Moves to nationalize health care
betsyspage.blogspot.com 1/31/2009 — Kimberley Strassel notes that the House spending bill is going a long way to nationalizing health care for everyone not just poor people through Medicaid and the elderly for Medicare, but a whole lot of more people. First there was the already-passed ...
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