politico.com - 10/29/2009
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Pelosi will unveil a bill that falls short of the liberal vision of a public option -- and many liberals are OK with it.
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voices.washingtonpost.com - 10/22/2009
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There are three "compromise" public options currently being
considered in the U.S. Senate (and yes, I know...
many argue that the public option is itself a compromise, and there's something to that). Ben Nelson is advocating one. Olympia Snowe is ...
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A guide to the public option compromises in the Senate
mahablog.com - 10/23/2009
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Lori Montgomery and Shailagh Murray write in the
Washington Post : House Democrats are coalescing around an...
$871 billion health-care package that would create a government-run insurance plan to help millions of Americans afford coverage, raise taxes on the nation’s richest families and ...
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Uncompromising Compromises on the Public Option
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Signal Visit: Powerful images as president prepares weighty decision
The Note —
... "After months of public hand-wringing and strident proclamations in support of the strongest possible government-run health coverage, liberal Democrats are bowing to the reality that party leaders don't have the votes," Politico's Patrick O'Connor reports. ...
Settling for good enough
Political Animal —
SETTLING FOR GOOD ENOUGH.... You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you can pass in a House caucus with 51 Blue Dogs. Speaker Nancy Pelosi will unveil a bill Thursday that falls short of the liberal vision of a public option -- and the liberals, so far and somewhat surprisingly, are going along with that. After months of public hand-wringing and strident proclamations in support of the strongest possible government-run health coverage, liberal Democrats are bowing to the reality that party leaders don't have the votes. ...
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The Three Compromises
voices.washingtonpost.com 9/21/2009 — There are three major compromises still to be struck on health-care reform. The first is what to do about the public option. The second is affordability. And the third is financing.
Increasingly, I'm seeing the glimmers of a rough consensus on ...
Liberals want no more compromises
firstread.msnbc.msn.com 7/30/2009 —
From NBC's Luke Russert House members of the Congressional Tri-Caucus -- comprised of the Asian Pacific American, black and Hispanic caucuses and the Progressive Caucus stated they would not vote for health-care reform legislation that did not ...
House Compromises on Public Option
online.wsj.com 10/29/2009 — House Democrats signaled that the health-care bill will include a government insurance plan that would negotiate payment rates with hospitals and doctors instead of having them tied to Medicare rates.
House Compromises on Public Option
online.wsj.com 10/30/2009 — House health-care legislation includes a compromise version of a public insurance option and carries an overall cost of $894 billion over 10 years.
The Klein Guide to Public Option Compromises
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 10/23/2009 — Give it a read . The essence of compromising is, I think, to have a clear sense of which compromises count as a pretty good deal. And to me this is pretty clear. If you can’t get the public option of your dreams, the “opt-out” idea ...
Public Option Compromises
voices.washingtonpost.com 9/30/2009 — Sen. Tom Carper is floating a compromise that would allow states to individually decide whether to offer a public option, a co-op or another form of insurance competitor. Call it the federalist option:
In a one-page document he began circulating ...
The Many Public Option Compromises
voices.washingtonpost.com 10/1/2009 — This is all getting a bit hard to keep track of. First there was Olympia Snowe's trigger . You remember. "This amendment establishes a non-profit government corporation through which a ‘safety net’ plan would be provided in any state in which ...
Thune: Public option compromises still public option
politico.com 10/18/2009 — No matter what Congress calls it, the various public option compromises under consideration in Congress would do the same thing, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) said on "Fox News Sunday."
"It is still a government plan," he said. ...
Snowe cool to public option compromises
washingtonmonthly.com 10/14/2009 — SNOWE COOL TO PUBLIC OPTION COMPROMISES.... Since Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) is apparently the most influential lawmaker in the known universe, it's probably worth keeping an eye on her public comments regarding health care reform. This morning, for ...
Liberals Fret Over Obama's Compromises
online.wsj.com 5/18/2009 — JONATHAN WEISMAN WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's decision to maintain Bush-era military commissions is the latest in a series of compromises and delays that allies on the left see as a disappointing shift away from campaign pledges. On ...
House Dems announce health bill —
First Read 10/29/2009
From NBC's Mike Viqueira, Luke Russert and Tony CapraHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the outline of the House healthcare bill this morning on the West Front steps of the Capitol.
The bill is available on the House Rules Committee Website.
The ...
House Dems move forward on health bill —
First Read 10/29/2009
From NBC's Mike ViqueiraHouse leaders hope to have their health-care bill on the floor late next week, perhaps Thursday, according Democratic Rep. George Miller, chairman of the education and labor committee and close confidant of Speaker Nancy ...
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