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Health Czar Marches Into the Fray
The Page by Mark Halperin —
Getty/istockphoto.com Obama to do full-scale push for legislation with speeches, town-hall-style meetings, much deeper engagement with lawmakers.
I Know Its Not Cheap And I Still Want It.
Whiskey Fire —
... My hat is off to the president for breaking out of the Washington fishbowl to go talk to people who aren't politicians or policy people about healthcare. Consulting those most effected by this change is a good impulse and will hopefully build him the political capital he needs to dislodge one of our country's most entrenched and powerful destructive interests. ...
Time to deliver
Political Animal —
... , "Fixing what's wrong with our health care system is no longer a luxury we hope to achieve -- it's a necessity we cannot postpone any longer." He added, "It's time to deliver." The comments were as much directed at himself as the rest of the political world. While the president has been largely content to intentionally keep some distance between the White House and congressional Democrats shaping the legislation, as the process unfolds, Obama's role is poised to get much bigger . We got a big hint of this a few days ago, when the president issued a letter to relevant Senate ...
Hugh Hewitt: "The Government Plan" and the End of American Medicine As We Know It
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
The New York Times reports this morning that President Obama is going to throw himself into the "debate" on the radical restructuring of American medicine underway on the Hill. Except that there hasn't been any "debate" to date, just a giant head-fake that kept the GOP, doctors, hospitals and insurance companies frozen while the Obama/Pelosi/Reid march towards a "government option" (which means single payer which means rationing and interference with a patient's choice of doctors and care) was positioned for a summer jam down. The Times also provides an overview of what a "government option" means , and it means skyrocketing ...
Hugh Hewitt: "The Government Plan" and the End of American Medicine As We Know It
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
The New York Times reports this morning that President Obama is going to throw himself into the "debate" on the radical restructuring of American medicine underway on the Hill. Except that there hasn't been any "debate" to date, just a giant head-fake that kept the GOP, doctors, hospitals and insurance companies frozen while the Obama/Pelosi/Reid march towards a "government option" (which means single payer which means rationing and interference with a patient's choice of doctors and care) was positioned for a summer jam down. The Times also provides an overview of what a "government option" means , and it means skyrocketing ...
President Obama will use his bully pulpit in order to get health care reform done
Crooks and Liars —
President Obama has been reading out blogs and now says he will use his bully pulpit to push Congress on health care reform.
The NY Times: Obama to Forge a Greater Role on Health Care
After months of insisting he would leave the details to Congress, President Obama has concluded that he must exert greater control over the health care debate and is preparing an intense push for legislation that will include speeches, town-hall-style meetings and much deeper engagement with lawmakers, senior White House officials say.
Mindful of the failures of former President Bill Clinton, whose intricate proposal for universal care ...
Ignoring Its Own Reporting, NYT Can’t Find Any Supporters of a Public Health Plan Option
Firedoglake —
... The New York Times's informs us that President Obama is launching a major effort to generate support for health care reform, taking personal responsibility for promoting a central piece of his domestic agenda. ...
I Know Its Not Cheap And I Still Want It.
Whiskey Fire —
-By Jake T. Snake
Lots of chatter on the internets this week about health care and the possibility of a national health care plan being created akin to medicare that will help cover those folks without health insurance. The thing that seems to stop people in their tracks is the cost or more precisely the fear of being unable to contain ...
HEALTH CARE SELLOUT
The Moderate Voice —
... Unless the White House rallies constituents to rise up, the Senate sellout will come from lawmakers hiding behind surgical masks–so-called compromises that will effectively kill what the President has called a public plan “to keep the insurance companies honest.” ...
RJ Eskow: A Health Care Bailout For the Middle Class
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... It's on. The President's assuming direct ownership of the health debate. Draft bills are beginning to circulate on the Hill. Dozens of policy details are being debated. Universal coverage is one way to describe the objective, but here's one that might be better: We need a healthcare bailout for the middle class. ...
Polarization and Health Care Reform
The Monkey Cage —
... If that’s true, then perhaps the Obama administration will deal with a polarized Congress by compromising with willing Republicans, even if some Democrats howl and scream. Obama does not, however, seem to be moving in that direction: ...
David Roberts: Will Health Care Eclipse Climate in Congress This Year?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... , which from everything I hear actually made a huge difference), he's now decided to put his face and enormous popularity behind health care, with, the New York Times reports, "speeches, town-hall-style meetings and much deeper engagement with lawmakers." ...
