tnr.com - 10/6/2009
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The biggest story in health care reform this year has not been the town hall meetings, or President Obama’s big speech on health care. It’s that the Senate Democrats have decided they’re going to pass a bill. You just haven’t heard much about this story because ...
redstate.com - 10/7/2009
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redstate.com —
I am told quite reliably that in a
meeting today on Capitol Hill, Republican Senators began to...
rapidly move toward concessions on health care because they are afraid they cannot hold their members. Some Republicans are now thinking of supporting a ...
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BREAKING: Senate GOP Folding Over Health Care Reform
washingtonpost.com - 10/5/2009
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Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or
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Some Republican Ideas for Health Care Reform
voices.washingtonpost.com - 10/7/2009
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voices.washingtonpost.com —
You probably can't see that table particularly well.
Click on it, and it'll enlarge. It comes from...
one of the final pages of the Congressional Budget Office's score (pdf) of the Senate Finance Committee's bill, and it lays out the CBO's ...
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Meet the New Health-Care System, Not That Different From ...
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Rope a dope, cont'd
Ben Smith's Blog —
Jonathan Chait muses:
It’s very strange. We’ve had months of sturm and drang, and massive attention focused on the question, Whither health care reform? It’s just quietly turned into a fait accompli.
"It’s very strange. We’ve had months of sturm and drang, and massive attention focused on the question, Whither health care reform?"
Althouse —
"It’s just quietly turned into a fait accompli."
The coming (Democratic) victory on health-care reform
The Reaction —
... I think TNR's Jon Chait, like his colleague Jon Cohn, has done some fantastic work writing on the health-care reform issue, and one of his latest posts at The Plank is worth quoting in full: ...
Michael J.W. Stickings: The Coming (Democratic) Victory on Health-Care Reform
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... I think TNR's Jon Chait, like his colleague Jon Cohn, has done some fantastic work writing on the health-care reform issue, and one of his latest posts at The Plank is worth quoting in full: ...
Health Care Reform: ‘A Fait Accompli’?
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... New Republic:
A month ago I wrote that it’s nearly impossible to see health care reform failing because it would entail a Democrat voting to filibuster the central progressive goal of the last sixty years. That proposition was looking shaky for a while because there were some Democratic Senators who acted as if they actually wanted to kill health care reform. (Hi, Senator Conrad.) But they’re all now pretty clearly acting like they really want to pass something.
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Is health on the way?
Paul Krugman —
Jonathan Chait may be tempting fate a bit here, but it is increasingly looking as if reform has weathered the storm. The key point about health care is that the Democrats have the votes if they hang together. Against that, there are clearly some Democratic senators who are lukewarm at best about change, out of some mix of industry influence and personal conviction. So the scenario for failure to pass a health reform bill went like this: (1) there would be a mass public backlash against Obamacare (2) this backlash would empower relatively conservative Democratic senators to ...
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CNN.com - Politics 10/7/2009
Conservative Senate Republicans added another firecracker to the politically explosive health care debate Wednesday, introducing a resolution requiring all bills to be made public at least 72 hours before being brought to a vote.
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