politico.com - 3/24/2009
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Health care advocates are asking congressional leaders to "protect health care reform from a filibuster."
Reconciliation
motherjones.com 2/4/2009 — RECONCILIATION.... Elana Schor reports that Mitch McConnell is being cagey about whether Senate Republicans will filibuster the stimulus bill. Cue McConnell: Our goal is to produce a bill that makes a difference; not to kill the measure. So the ...
Reconciliation Is Key To Health Care Reform
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 4/24/2009 — The White House is strongly urging Senators to include budget reconciliation language in the health care section of the budget, a move Republicans have characterized as a “deceleration of war.”
Indeed, after pushing everything from the ...
Reconciliation: This Changes Everything
blogs.tnr.com 4/23/2009 — Even Republicans seem to be conceding that, as reported here and elsewhere a few weeks ago, the Senate will go along with the House and include reconciliation instructions for health care. Assuming all of us are correct, it means the Democrats will ...
If You Want Health Reform, Reconciliation Must Be On the Table
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 4/24/2009 —
The debate over the use of the “budget reconciliation” process has taken on a weirdly circular quality. On the one hand, folks say that going through reconciliation will wreck the chances of Republican cooperation. On the other hand, ...
Reconciliation
balloon-juice.com 8/3/2009 — Rockefeller says he’s for it if it’s the only way:
“If it is a choice between getting a good health care bill and doing it in reconciliation, I will take that in a shot,” Rockefeller said. “What I don’t like ...
Reconciliation May Push Health Reform to the Left
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 9/1/2009 — US Capitol Building
The “public option” that’s been so vigorously debated at the moment is actually a pretty wimpy public objection. You could imagine a much more robust one that would do more to squeeze providers and cut down ...
The Need for a Public Option
anonymousliberal.com 5/12/2009 — Opponents of health care reform have begun to focus their efforts on building opposition to a "public option." For those of you unfamiliar with health care policy debates, the phrase "public option" refers to a government health care plan that people ...
The Simple Calculation On Health Care Reconciliation
openleft.com 4/3/2009 — Let's play Democratic political strategist for a moment. Which of the following two options do you think would be more popular with voters? Is it:
Less expensive, more widely available health care delivered through a partisan legislative process ...
Public Health Care Option
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 6/8/2009 — This is the objection the health insurance industry is putting forward in opposition to Obama's plan to include a public plan option in the health care reform bill.
But critics argue that with low administrative costs and no need to produce ...
Truth and Reconciliation
tnr.com 4/20/2009 — 'Reconciliation" means "restoration of harmony." But as a term of art in budgeting, it has become an act of war. President Obama and most Democrats in Congress hope to include health and education reform in reconciliation instructions as part of the ...
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