yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/2/2009
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My colleague Igor Volsky tells me that at a health policy forum for bloggers this morning Ron Pollack from Families USA was questioning policymakers’ commitment to health care reform. They might, he thought, want to focus on other things like bringing the budget deficit under control. ...
blogs.tnr.com - 2/4/2009
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blogs.tnr.com —
Buzz this morning is that Phil Bredesen, governor
of Tennessee, is under consideration to replace Tom Daschle
in the administration. It's not clear whether this would be at the Department of Health and Human Services (more likely) or the White House ...
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Bredesen for Health Reform?! (Updated With Alarm Bells)
blogs.tnr.com - 2/3/2009
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Can health care reform go ahead, this year,
even without Tom Daschle? Yes. Does this episode--and Daschle's
absence--make the task of enacting health care reform harder? Yes, although how much harder is difficult to say right now.
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The New Republic: Daschle is Done. Health Reform Is ...
blogs.tnr.com - 1/29/2009
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Barack Obama has said he wants to pursue
major health care reform this year. Two key committee
chairmen in the Senate, Max Baucus and Ted Kennedy, have said they watn to pursue health care this year. But what about the House? The leadership has ...
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Waxman: Health Care Reform This Year
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In Speech, Lambrew ‘Aggresively’ Links Health Care Crisis To The Economy
Wonk Room —
... (D-CA) have voiced conflicting opinions on the probability of imminent reform and on Friday, Matt Yglesias noted that Ron Pollack, the President and CEO of Families USA, and a man with his ear close to the ground, has his own doubts about whether reform will actually happen. Pollack told a group of bloggers at his Health Action Conference, “it’s unclear if the president and key leadership in Congress are prepared to move on health care reform. There are real temptations to do something else earlier. Things like balancing the budget…” ...
Baucus: Health Reform Might Not Happen This Year
Wonk Room —
Over the past few days, before the Daschle story broke, several news outlets began arguing that health reform isn’t happening this year. Key stakeholders sounded less than optimistic and some prominent Democratic lawmakers questioned the imminence of reform.
Today, the Washington Times’ Sean Lengell reports (before the Daschle story broke, it seems) that even Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a big supporter of comprehensive reform, thinks that health care may have to ...
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