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Progressive Breakfast: Blizzard of Bad Econ News
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... private health insurance lobby, fearing real reform, score a wet-kiss headline from the Boston Globe: "Health insurers lay out a path to universal care." Similar from WSJ.
But Health Care for America Now! smokes out the smoke and mirrors. "Step 1: Sell health insurance to healthy people. Step 2: Deny them when they get sick. Step 3: Profit!"
OurFuture.org 's Monica Sanchez dissects, point by point, the insurers' scam in great detail.
W. Post previews how Obama will engage the grassroots on health care.
NYT oped from ...
Transition News 12/04
The Stump —
... Daschle
will mobilize
momentum for health care through
grassroots.
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Putting the campaign to good (post-election) use
Political Animal —
PUTTING THE CAMPAIGN TO GOOD (POST-ELECTION) USE.... Barack Obama's political operation was, obviously, both impressive and effective. But now that the campaign is over, what's to be done with the political infrastructure and the people who made it so impressive? Apparently, it's going to be used to pass sweeping healthcare reform . Barack Obama's incoming administration has begun to draw on the high-tech organizational tools that helped get him elected to lay the groundwork for an attempt to restructure the U.S. health-care system. Former senator Thomas A. Daschle, Obama's ...
From Campaigning to Governing
Matthew Yglesias —
... A lot of us were interested during the campaign as to how or whether Barack Obama would try to apply the organization built during the campaign as a tool for governance and legislation. On health care, it looks like that’s where they’re going. ...
Friday Afternoon Round-up
Open Left - Front Page —
... The Obama campaign is organizing "Change is Coming" house parties around the country next weekend to try and help decide what to do with its large, grassroots network in the future. Already, Tom Daschle is holding conference calls with over 1,000 campaign activists who listed health care as their top priority. For more information, ...
The Other Transition: Whither Obama's Movement?
techPresident —
... states has been enlisted to draw up a plan."
What exactly is going on? The Obama people are saying very little. For a team that has been refreshingly open about the transition in Washington--not only posting an extensive list of transition staffers and donors but inviting public comments on top issues like health care and the economy, letting everyone see those comments and rate their value, beginning to engage in open dialogue via YouTube and mass conference calls and community discussions, posting the names of the outside ...
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