Kevin Sack reports on ruling from a federal district judge in Virginia. (NYT)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/health/policy/14health.html?ref=health
Tag Archives: healthcare
Live!
Live! From Hollywood Washington – it’s YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUR GOVERNMENT
Things are going to heat up next week in the healthcare reform arena – Obama has called an open forum meeting to talk the issue out with Congress live on CSPAN. That’s right. Live, on TV, and with Congress present. What’s not to love? And the AP has an article with what to expect — a play-by-play of what each side is expecting, arguing, and should avoid. Short, concise, and well-worth the read.
I’m off – gotta give my bookie a call.
seriously, then
for a more… realistic overview of the healthcare reform debate/process, nytimes.com offers this blog: http://prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com/ (like all things NYT, you should be able to get the facts — just be careful about tripping over all the biases).
healthcare reform (a simple overview)
want to know what’s going on with healthcare reform? well, this is my brief, over-simplified take on what’s happened to date. I tried to mix in a little pop culture to help assuage all the technical terms (heh heh heh):
the hill
i’m telling you – it’s better than reality tv.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/14/health/policy/14health.html?_r=1&hp
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/13/AR2009101301771.html?hpid=topnews
divided you fall
some things really are too long to tweet:
If [health care reform] doesn’t happen now, I don’t want to hear any carping from the left. Your own party had a shot and screwed it up. Democrats, you will have no one to blame but yourselves. It’s now or never. So stop whining about the Republicans and get your own house in order. -Roland Martin, cnn.com
congressional angst
how is this not a huge step towards tyranny?!?!?!?! forget about the health care bill itself — its the method of passing it that i’m now horrified about!
Democratic success could depend on an obscure tactic called reconciliation, a type of budget maneuver that requires only a simple majority — 51 votes — to pass.
Congressional Democrats authorized the maneuver specifically for health care reform legislation during the debate over the 2010 budget, which passed in April.
One top Senate Republican warned at the time that using reconciliation to pass such a measure would be “like a declaration of war.”
Going it alone could be risky for Democrats, not because they couldn’t raise the votes, but because Republicans could cast it as a power play, accusing them of failing to win bipartisan support. A Quinnipiac University survey released two weeks ago showed that 59 percent of registered voters nationwide oppose passage of health care legislation if the bill fails to win bipartisan support.
But it’s a fight Democrats might nevertheless be willing to enter.
“If we have to push it through this way, no one is going to remember how messy it was,” a top White House adviser told CNN. “At the end of the day, they’ll remember we got health care reform done. A win is a win.”
read the whole article here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/19/health.care/index.html
