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guerillawomentn.blogspot.com - 19 days ago
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The health care reform bill passed and it's a bipartisan bill - one (1) Republican came aboard. Thank Gawd the Dems made all those compromises. R epublican Representative Anh Cao of Louisiana voted for the bill. Thirty-nine Blue Dog Democrats voted against the bill. Politics News ...
nytimes.com - 19 days ago
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Lawmakers in the House voted 220 to 215
on Saturday night to approve a sweeping overhaul of...
the nation s health care system. Only one Republican voted for the bill, and 39 Democrats opposed it, including 24 members of the fiscally conservative Blue ...
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House Democrats Who Voted Against the Health Care Bill
nytimes.com - 19 days ago
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in Washington
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Sweeping Health Care Plan Passes House
thinkprogress.org - 19 days ago
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Moments ago, the House of Representatives passed the
Affordable Health Care for America Act by a vote...
of 220-215 , with one Republican — Rep. Joseph Cao (R-LA) — voting for the measure. Once the bill reached 216 votes, the chamber erupted ...
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House Passes Historic, Bipartisan Health Reform Legislation
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Republican Guide to Undermining Health Care Reform
politicalwire.com 28 days ago — GOP strategist Frank Luntz briefed Republican lawmakers this week "on his new plan for undermining Democrats' health-reform without making the GOP look bad," reports Mike Allen . Luntz's 8-page memo is a fascinating read. He notes Republicans ...
politicalwire.com 28 days ago — GOP strategist Frank Luntz briefed Republican lawmakers this week "on his new plan for undermining Democrats' health-reform without making the GOP look bad," reports Mike Allen . Luntz's 8-page memo is a fascinating read. He notes Republicans ...
Kristol Says He Helped Congressional GOP Formulate ‘The Best Arguments Against’ Health Care Reform
thinkprogress.org 27 days ago — In Dec. 1993, Bill Kristol, a current Fox News contributor and the editor of the Weekly Standard, issued a now-infamous memo to Republican leaders, arguing that they should “defeat” President Clinton’s health care reform plan ...
thinkprogress.org 27 days ago — In Dec. 1993, Bill Kristol, a current Fox News contributor and the editor of the Weekly Standard, issued a now-infamous memo to Republican leaders, arguing that they should “defeat” President Clinton’s health care reform plan ...
A Republican Health Care Plan
swampland.blogs.time.com 24 days ago — Better late than never, I guess. While individual Republicans have offered proposals (and hundreds of amendments), there has been no real GOP alternative to the various health care bills that are working their way through Congress. Now, John Boehner ...
swampland.blogs.time.com 24 days ago — Better late than never, I guess. While individual Republicans have offered proposals (and hundreds of amendments), there has been no real GOP alternative to the various health care bills that are working their way through Congress. Now, John Boehner ...
McCain Economist: GOP Will Lose Without Alternative Health Care Bill
huffingtonpost.com 24 days ago — The McCain campaign's senior economist said on Monday that the Republican Party will lose the health care debate unless it presents one, comprehensive alternative plan to compare with Democratic-led effort. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was the main ...
huffingtonpost.com 24 days ago — The McCain campaign's senior economist said on Monday that the Republican Party will lose the health care debate unless it presents one, comprehensive alternative plan to compare with Democratic-led effort. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who was the main ...
Reid Tells Republicans They Can Amend The Health Care Bill, Challenges Them To Post Their Plan Online
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 24 days ago — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told his Republican colleagues today they will get the chance to offer amendments to the health care bill. He noted that the health care bills have been on the Internet "for many weeks" and said he does not ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 24 days ago — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) told his Republican colleagues today they will get the chance to offer amendments to the health care bill. He noted that the health care bills have been on the Internet "for many weeks" and said he does not ...
The Republican Leadership Health Plan: For The Healthy, While They’re Healthy
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 24 days ago — The Republican leadership in the House has sent a health care bill to the Congressional Budget Office and the early details don’t look good : - Insurers could circumvent state-based consumer protections by selling policies across state lines ...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 24 days ago — The Republican leadership in the House has sent a health care bill to the Congressional Budget Office and the early details don’t look good : - Insurers could circumvent state-based consumer protections by selling policies across state lines ...
Applying a single standard
washingtonmonthly.com 23 days ago — APPLYING A SINGLE STANDARD.... The House Republican health care reform plan was expected to be inadequate, but it was hard to predict it'd be this bad. It's tempting to think it was written directly by insurance industry lobbyists, but in...
washingtonmonthly.com 23 days ago — APPLYING A SINGLE STANDARD.... The House Republican health care reform plan was expected to be inadequate, but it was hard to predict it'd be this bad. It's tempting to think it was written directly by insurance industry lobbyists, but in...
John Campbell: Health Care Update: Republican Reading Room
townhall.com 22 days ago — Factoid of the day: President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people...
townhall.com 22 days ago — Factoid of the day: President Barack Obama's economic recovery program saved 935 jobs at the Southwest Georgia Community Action Council, an impressive success story for the stimulus plan. Trouble is, only 508 people...
Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican Health-Care Plan
voices.washingtonpost.com 22 days ago — Republicans are learning an unpleasant lesson this morning: The only thing worse than having no health-care reform plan is releasing a bad one, getting thrashed by CBO and making the House Democrats look good in comparison. Late last night, ...
voices.washingtonpost.com 22 days ago — Republicans are learning an unpleasant lesson this morning: The only thing worse than having no health-care reform plan is releasing a bad one, getting thrashed by CBO and making the House Democrats look good in comparison. Late last night, ...
Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Almost Nobody
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 22 days ago — Earlier this week, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner made a prediction . The Republican health care plan, he said, "will cover millions more Americans" than the Democrats' plan. Bold. But here's what the experts say: By 2019, CBO and ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 22 days ago — Earlier this week, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner made a prediction . The Republican health care plan, he said, "will cover millions more Americans" than the Democrats' plan. Bold. But here's what the experts say: By 2019, CBO and ...
GOP Health Bill: Insurers Can Ignore ‘All Of the Consumer Protection Laws’ & ‘Restricitons On Rate Changes’
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 22 days ago — The new Republican health care plan expands “coverage” and “choice” by permitting health insurers to sell policies across state lines. Under the Republican proposal, the insurer can choose a ‘primary state’ ...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 22 days ago — The new Republican health care plan expands “coverage” and “choice” by permitting health insurers to sell policies across state lines. Under the Republican proposal, the insurer can choose a ‘primary state’ ...
Republican Leaders Couldn’t Find Affordable Coverage Under Their Own Health Plan
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 21 days ago — The Congressional Budget Office has concluded that under the $61 billion Republican amendment to the House health care bill, the number of uninsured Americans would increase to 52 million by 2019, but deficits would decrease by $68 billion over ...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 21 days ago — The Congressional Budget Office has concluded that under the $61 billion Republican amendment to the House health care bill, the number of uninsured Americans would increase to 52 million by 2019, but deficits would decrease by $68 billion over ...
GOP Plan: Even Worse Than You Are Hearing
tnr.com 21 days ago — From the moment the the Republican leadership released its alternative approach to health care reform, critics (including me) pointed out that it was unlikely to make a dent in the number of people without insurance. On Wednesday, the Congressional ...
tnr.com 21 days ago — From the moment the the Republican leadership released its alternative approach to health care reform, critics (including me) pointed out that it was unlikely to make a dent in the number of people without insurance. On Wednesday, the Congressional ...
Dueling Health Care Plans
liberalvaluesblog.com 21 days ago — There was a lot of reaction and reaction to both the Democratic and Republican health care plans today. The tea baggers protested once again against what they have been misled to believe to be the Democratic Plan. Two groups which really understand both the issue and what is actually being ...
liberalvaluesblog.com 21 days ago — There was a lot of reaction and reaction to both the Democratic and Republican health care plans today. The tea baggers protested once again against what they have been misled to believe to be the Democratic Plan. Two groups which really understand both the issue and what is actually being ...
Republicans wouldn’t find coverage under their own health plan.
thinkprogress.org 21 days ago — The Congressional Budget Office has concluded that the overwhelming majority of Americans would remain uninsured and continue paying higher premiums under the Republicans’ health care alternative. In fact, it’s unlikely that any of ...
thinkprogress.org 21 days ago — The Congressional Budget Office has concluded that the overwhelming majority of Americans would remain uninsured and continue paying higher premiums under the Republicans’ health care alternative. In fact, it’s unlikely that any of ...
GOP Health Plan Would Allow For ‘Sweatshop Insurance’
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 21 days ago — Under the Republican health care alternative filed in the House, young and healthy individuals can purchase policies from insurers that don’t abide by local benefit or rate standards . The Republican bill allows the health insurer to choose a ...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org 21 days ago — Under the Republican health care alternative filed in the House, young and healthy individuals can purchase policies from insurers that don’t abide by local benefit or rate standards . The Republican bill allows the health insurer to choose a ...
They Got Nothing… Except the Media
balloon-juice.com 19 days ago — Why is this not a bigger story : Late last night, the Congressional Budget Office released its initial analysis of the health-care reform plan that Republican Minority Leader John Boehner offered as a substitute to the Democratic legislation. CBO ...
balloon-juice.com 19 days ago — Why is this not a bigger story : Late last night, the Congressional Budget Office released its initial analysis of the health-care reform plan that Republican Minority Leader John Boehner offered as a substitute to the Democratic legislation. CBO ...
The Dems Who Cast the Toughest Votes — Daily Kos
While many Democrats in red districts voted against the House healthcare bill, quite a few representatives who hold tough seats did the courageous thing and voted "aye." These are the members of Congress who sit in Republican-leaning districts but still did the right thing : District ...
Mocking the GOP Health Care Plan — MoJo Blog Posts: mojo
Here's Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), chairman of the education and labor committee, mocking the Republican health care plan in a very effective 90-second speech on the House floor on Saturday:
When he talks about the Republican plan "leaving people behind," Miller is ...
Lieberman Says Again He'll Join Filibuster — Taegan Goddard's Political Wire
In an interview with Fox News , Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) pledged again to join a Republican filibuster against any health care plan that has a public option.
Said Lieberman: "If the public option plan is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote."
Dems Make History in US House: Health Insurance Reform Passes 220-215 — Democracy for New Mexico
In an historic vote that ended at 11:14 PM Eastern Time, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3962 by a margin of 220-215. Every Republican except one -- Rep. Anh Cao (LA-02) -- voted nay. A total of 219 Democrats voted for the bill and 39 voted nay.
Unfortunately, the ...
GOP Health Plan Would Allow For ‘Sweatshop Insurance’ — Think Progress
Under the Republican health care alternative filed in the House, young and healthy individuals can purchase policies from insurers that don’t abide by local benefit or rate standards . The Republican bill allows the health insurer to choose a “primary state” “whose covered laws shall govern the ...
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for November 6, 2009 — BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash
BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE So much for a Repuglican healthcare plan and the Repuglican Party! -- " The GOP Health Care Plan: A Cruel Joke ...the Republican Party thinks the solution is a health care plan that gives MORE leeway to insurance companies? The one thing that all Americans agree ...
links for 2009-11-06 — J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles
Menzie Chinn on Why the Hodrick-Prescott Filter Is Not a Terribly Interesting Device
Ezra Klein: Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican Health-Care Plan - Congressional Budget Office Thrashes Republican Health-Care Plan
Michał Kalecki ...
Deepak Bhargava: The GOP Health Care Plan: A Cruel Joke — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
The Republican alternative health care reform bill would be funny if it weren’t so cruel.
For months now, the nation has been engaged in a serious health care debate. The GOP stood on the sidelines jeering, saying it had the real solution, but keeping it a secret from the American ...
So the Republican health-care plan is -- surprise, surprise -- an abysmal failure — The Reaction
By Michael J.W. Stickings As Ezra Klein explains , the House GOP's new plan, presented as an alternative to what the Democrats have offered, falls... well... a tad short: Republicans are learning an unpleasant lesson this morning: The only thing worse than having no health-care reform plan ...
Responsible Reform — RedState
I wanted to share this video with you, which focuses on the health care debate and outlines the Republican plan for health care reform.
GOP Health CARE Place Rated Awesome By CBO — Stop The ACLU
Unshockingly, it isn't a plan that will bankrupt the country
The Congressional Budget Office Wednesday night released its cost analysis of the Republican health care plan and found that it would reduce health care premiums and cut the deficit by $68 billion over ten years.
The Republican plan ...
GOP Health CARE Place Rated Awesome By CBO — Pirate's Cove
Unshockingly, it isn’t a plan that will bankrupt the country
The Congressional Budget Office Wednesday night released its cost analysis of the Republican health care plan and found that it would reduce health care premiums and cut the deficit by $68 billion over ten years.
The ...
Republican Health Care Reform Plan Would Save Money and Reduce Costs — Moonbattery
Well, we can't have that can we?
Their (Republican) plan, which relies on interstate competition, HSAs, and tort reform, would only cost $61 billion in the first ten years of the plan...
So, it would reduce future deficits by a minimum of $1,339,000,000,000 compared to the Neo-Marxist ...
The Sideshow — TalkLeft
The Congressional Budget Office (PDF) has preliminarily scored the Republican health care alternative proposal. Not surprisingly, the GOP plan is a joke. But it is also a sideshow. There is apparently only one Republican who might vote for health care reform. Her name is Olympia Snowe. What I ...
GOP Health Care Plan Pulverized by the CBO — Firedoglake
The House floor, the Senate floor... (photo by swanksalot)
The CBO did a preliminary estimate of the Republican amendment to the House health care bill. There are now hard numbers to compare between the Democratic and Republican notions for health care.
Coverage:
Democrats – 36 ...
Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Almost Nobody (CBO Report) — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]Talking Points Memo[/b]
Republican Health Insurance Reform Bill Insures Almost Nobody
Brian Beutler | November 5, 2009, 9:05AM
Earlier this week, a spokesman for House Minority Leader John Boehner made a prediction. The Republican health care plan, he said, "will cover millions ...
House Republicans Health Care Plan: 12 Hour Live Telecast — Right Soup
House Republicans are holding a 12-hour live online telecast today starting at 1pm Eastern to expose the perils and pitfalls of Pelosicare — and to spotlight the GOP alternative. The CBO has scored the Republican plan , and…shocker…it costs a whole lot less than the proposed ...
House To Vote On PelosiCare Saturday Despite Election Results — Below The Beltway
The battle is on in the House of Representatives:
Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — House Democratic leaders, undeterred by delays in the Senate or this week’s Republican electoral triumphs, plan to call a vote Saturday on the most sweeping overhaul of U.S. health-care policy in four decades.
The ...
CBO: Republican health plan would reduce premiums, cut deficit — Rantburg
The Congressional Budget Office Wednesday night released its cost analysis of the Republican health care plan and found that it would reduce health care premiums and cut the deficit by $68 billion over ten years.
The Republican plan does not call for a government insurance plan but rather ...
Michael Steele and Rep. Mike Pence to host a 12-hour online health care town hall called ‘Pelosi Plan Exposed.’ — Think Progress
Today, the Republican National Committee (RNC) sent out a press release announcing that Chairman Michael Steele and Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) will be hosting a 12-hour online town hall called “ Pelosi Plan Exposed ” tomorrow from 1:00 p.m. to Friday 1:00 a.m. ET. The intent of the ...
