WASHINGTON -- Health care overhaul now looks like it really will happen, with a compromise coming together in the Senate to give uninsured Americans options they've never had before. But it won't be a free ride.Have your checkbooks and credit cards r ...
After days of secret talks, Senate Democrats tentatively agreed Tuesday night to drop a full-blown government-run insurance option from sweeping health care legislation.
CBS News Obama Rallies Senate Democrats to Agree on Health-CarePlan Bloomberg Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama urged Senate Democrats today to agree on health legislation as lawmakers struggle to resolve disputes over issues including a proposed government-run insurance plan. ... Obama Rallies Democratic Senators on Health Care Reform Voice of America Obama...
The Senate health care plan ensures universal coverage, but when it comes to controlling costs, all it offers is…pilot programs. Sounds pretty flimsy, right? “Two thousand seventy-four pages and trillions of dollars later, this bill doesn’t even meet the basic goal,” complained Mitch McConnell, “to lower costs.” But pilot programs...
Currently, the only people left defending the Massachusetts health care reform are liberals who want to see Obamacare passed ... and Mitt Romney. On Sunday, while the Senate debated a bill...
Nate Silver looks at a recent Ipsos/McClatchy poll that found 34% favored "the health care reform proposals presently being discussed", versus 46% opposed, and 20% undecided. These results are in line with many other recent polls on health care. However, "it turns out that a significant minority of about 25% of the people who opposed the plan -- or about 12% of the overall sample...
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... However, "it turns out that a significant minority of about 25% of the people who opposed the plan -- or about 12% of the overall sample -- did so from the left; they thought the plan didn't go far enough." "But the conventional wisdom -- and certainly my assumption -- has been that people oppose the plan because it's too liberal. In fact, some of the opposition...
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Obama to Rally Senate Democrats on Health-CarePlan (Update1) By Laura Litvan Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama heads to the U.S. Capitol to press Senate Democrats to agree on health legislation as lawmakers struggle to resolve disputes over issues including a proposed government-run insurance plan. Democrats met throughout yesterday to seek an alternative to Senate...
How can you get a socialist in favor of a single-payer health care system and a libertarian who favors people paying for health care themselves to agree? Just ask them whether they support the Affordable Health Care Act of 2009 being debated in Congress.
An open letter to my congressman - Dear Sir, I am writing this letter to express my concern about our nation's health care. There have been a lot of plans floating around lately to remedy the obvious shortcomings of the current system. I think that these courses of action have varying degrees of validity, but I have a plan that would put all of these to shame. Send every American...
... enough? It turns out that a significant minority of about 25 percent of the people who opposed the plan -- or about 12 of the overall sample -- did so from the left ; they thought the plan didn't go far enough . Ipsos also asked a parallel question of people who supported the plan: did any of them support the plan because they oppose health care reform and thought that...