prospect.org - 2/23/2009
—
Why progressives should stop worrying and learn to love today's White House Fiscal Summit.
rasmussenreports.com - 3/2/2009
—
rasmussenreports.com —
President Obama told the nation last week that
health care reform is one of the top three...
priorities of his administration, but 49% of U.S. voters say the president should wait until the economy improves before moving forward on the health care ...
(more)
49% Say Obama Should Delay Health Care Reform Until ...
thehill.com - 2/23/2009
—
thehill.com —
President Obama will host a White House summit
on health reform next week, he said Monday, signaling...
that he means to push forward aggressively on an issue some thought would fall by the wayside. "We've scheduled a healthcare summit next week," Obama ...
(more)
Health reform next on Obama's agenda
Comments
Blog Reactions
The Story Behind That Scrapped White House Social Security Task Force
TPM Election Central —
... In the end, of course, the task force was put on the back burner and the mantra of "health reform is entitlement reform" became the order of the day, thanks in large part to the work of White House budget chief Peter Orszag. ...
The Liberal Entitlement Conference
TPM Election Central —
There are plenty of reasons liberals should like today's entitlement summit. My colleague, Elana Schor, notes them here and TAP's Ezra Klein here. Bob Greenstein, head of the liberal Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, made the liberal case for alarm in his remarks. He notes that the problem is primarily a health care problem If health care costs could just be brought in line with economic growth we'd be largely okay. "We will need to act before mounting debt and interest payments make this problem worse than it already is. The mere fact that Greenstein ...
Entitlement Reform Is Health Care Reform
Wonk Room —
... Ezra Klein sums up the theme of today’s White House Fiscal Summit: “Fiscal responsibility, in other words, is no longer a stand-in for entitlement reform. In Obama’s Washington, it means health reform.” ...
What We Learned About the Future of Social Security at the Fiscal Responsibility Summit
Firedoglake —
... to task for making what seems to me a quite obvious statement: "Obama wants to tackle the insolvency of the big three entitlement programs: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security." Ezra says: "There is no Social Security threat. And that can't be wished away or dismissed. The administration knows that." How that gets rationalized with Summers' and Sperling's comments I'm not sure.) ...
The Root Of The Problem?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Ezra Klein says not to worry about entitlements per se: Where a decade ago the looming fiscal threat of entitlement spending led economists and budget wonks to wear out their worry beads, today a more subtle understanding of our fiscal future dominates. In this telling, there's no such program as SocialSecurityandMedicareandMedicaid. There's Social Security, which has modest long-term liabilities and needs little, if any, help. And then there's health-care reform. "That," says Henry Aaron, a senior economist at the Brookings Institution, "is ...
Tab dump
Ezra Klein —
1) Entitlement reform is health-care reform.
2) The meaninglessness of shootings.
3) Health-care strategery.
4) Bruce Bartlett on deficit commissions.
Recipe of the day: A tomato soup that includes blue cheese and sriracha.
The House might pass health-care reform this weekend. Exciting!
Related Content
Health Reform is Budget Reform
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 2/2/2009 —
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 ...
‘Reform’ With No Reform
truthdig.com 4/23/2009 — The defenders of the health care status quo have been frantically arguing these past few weeks that any coming reform of the health insurance system cannot include a public insurance plan, even if that’s the whole point. READ THE WHOLE ITEM ...
The Entitlement Crisis is a Health Care Crisis
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 2/20/2009 — Ben Smith’s article about Peter Orszag’s influence winds up getting a bit vague on the policy specifics, but does capture Orszag’s key idea about long-term budgetary problems:
Orszag’s long-running project — something that has ...
A Conservative Take on Health Care Reform
themoderatevoice.com 2/5/2009 — I’ve told this story a few times, but I will tell it again:
In November of 1996, I fell ill. It started as a flu which became pnuemonia and then a massive infection. The end result was that I was in the hospital for two weeks as they tried to ...
Health Reform As Self Reform
themoderatevoice.com 8/16/2009 — This article in the Atlantic is the best “conservative” argument against the health system/reform that I’ve read. Regardless of how you feel about the policy proposal, the description of the root problem is entirely accurate and rarely addressed.
For my money, I find two ...
White House Forum on Health Reform
healthreform.gov 3/6/2009 — President hosts the White House Forum on Health Reform. Read the Report on Health Care Community Discussions and join the health reform discussion. The Forum will include remarks by the President and five breakout sessions discussing health reform.
Re: Reform
corner.nationalreview.com 11/3/2008 — Good points Jonah, it sounds like we don't disagree on much. And for the record, I have been and remain a determined Palin booster. I think she was a smart pick, did far more good than harm for McCain's chances, and remains a Republican to watch ...
Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
