Archive for July, 2009

• The Waxman-Pelosi Health Care Alliance (Friday, July 31st, 2009)

• U.S. Rep. Barney Franks (D-MA) Spills the Beans on the Public Plan Option (video) (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• U.S. Senate Finance will Not Mark Up prior to August Recess (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• Clyburn, #3 U.S. House Leader: “Absolutely No Idea” if Blue Dog Deal Holds (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• Poll: Dem Lead over GOP on Health Care still in Double Digits (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• Pew Poll: Obama’s Health Care Approval Rating Drops from 51% to 42% (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• Pelosi Pounds Health Insurers: They are the villains (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• Interview with a Blue Dog on Health Care (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• MSNBC: Polls: Obama Loses Health Care Ground (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• Obama: No Health Vote until the End of Sept. or Early Oct. (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• NYT: New Poll shows Growing Unease with Obamacare (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• Medicare Cuts to Pay for Obamacare Scare Seniors (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• Obamacare’s Great Scare (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• Maxine Waters Pounds Rahm & Moderate Dems on Health Care Delays (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• Dem Health Care in Fighting Intensifies (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• Senate Dems Reject Public Option in their Plan (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• NPR Poll: Obama’s Tough Numbers on Health Care (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• Dems say House may Miss Deadline (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• Politico: Dem Political Dangers re: Health Care Mount (Thursday, July 30th, 2009)

• The First Pro-Life Health Reform TV Ad (Wednesday, July 29th, 2009)

• Once you Accept that President Obama has Always Supported a Single Payer System… (Friday, July 24th, 2009)

• Obama has Always been for a Single Payer Plan (Friday, July 24th, 2009)

• Dems Block House GOP Constituent Mailing with Health Care Chart (Thursday, July 23rd, 2009)

• Obamacare in a Tail Spin — House and Senate Analysis (Thursday, July 23rd, 2009)

• DEM on DEM Political Violence Escalates — DNC Launchs TV Ads Against its Own (Saturday, July 18th, 2009)

• Dem Lead over GOP on Health Care Shrinks to 4 Points (Friday, July 17th, 2009)

• Americans Split on Health Reform as Obama’s Poll Numbers Sink (Friday, July 17th, 2009)

• The BEST Drug — Ever (Friday, July 17th, 2009)

• The BEST Drug — Ever (Friday, July 17th, 2009)

• Blue Dog Ross (D-AR): We have the Votes, It Can’t Leave the Committee (Friday, July 17th, 2009)

• Washington Post reports CBO Director Delivered Devastating Blows to Obama’s Reform (Friday, July 17th, 2009)

• U.S. Chamber of Commerce Chart Regulations from Health Reform (Friday, July 17th, 2009)

• CBO: President Obama’s Health Plan will Increase Spending (Friday, July 17th, 2009)

• AMA Supports Dem Health Bill, get a New Doc Payment Formula (Friday, July 17th, 2009)

• Public Plan Scam (Friday, July 17th, 2009)

• WSJ: Big Budget Blow for Obamacare (Friday, July 17th, 2009)

• Economist: Obama’s Health Surtax Lacks Common Sense (Friday, July 17th, 2009)

• CBO: Dem Health Plan will Weaken U.S. Economy (Friday, July 17th, 2009)

• CBO: Dem Health Reform will Bring No Savings, Just More Spending (Friday, July 17th, 2009)

• NYT: Why We Must Ration Care (Thursday, July 16th, 2009)

• Chart for New Yorkers on their New Tax Rate with Obama’s Health Surtax (Thursday, July 16th, 2009)

• President Obama’s Grassroots Group Targets Democrats with TV Ads! (Thursday, July 16th, 2009)

• House Dems to Tax the Uninsured in Health bill, but not give them Insurance (Thursday, July 16th, 2009)

• President Obama Targets Members of his Own Party with Health Ads (Thursday, July 16th, 2009)

• IBD: House Bill to make Individual Health Insurance Illegal (Thursday, July 16th, 2009)

• House Bill to make Individual Health Insurance Illegal (Thursday, July 16th, 2009)

• Pomeroy (D-ND) says he will vote against health care reform (Wednesday, July 15th, 2009)

• GOP Chart of Obamacare (Wednesday, July 15th, 2009)

• National Taxpayers Union on the House Health Bill: George Orwell is spinning in his grave (Wednesday, July 15th, 2009)

• Blue Dog Dem says He has Votes to Block Health Bill in Waxman’s Committee (Wednesday, July 15th, 2009)

• Blue Dog Dem says He has Votes to Block Health Bill in Waxman’s Committee (Wednesday, July 15th, 2009)

• Another Issue Disrupting Health Care Reform for the Dems (Wednesday, July 15th, 2009)

• 5.4% Health Surtax to Fund $1.5 Trillion Reform Plan (Wednesday, July 15th, 2009)

• Dems Only Vote for Passage likely on Health Reform (Wednesday, July 15th, 2009)

• Obama Group Airs Health Reform Ad (Wednesday, July 15th, 2009)

• The Coming Political Earthquake in 2010 (Wednesday, July 15th, 2009)

• Politico: Healthcare Deadline Unlikely to be Met (Tuesday, July 14th, 2009)

• Trillion Dollar Deficit Complicates Obama’s Agenda (Tuesday, July 14th, 2009)

• LA Times: Concerns Grow that Healthcare Overhaul Won’t Cut Costs (Tuesday, July 14th, 2009)

• SALON: Lind: Against Comprehensive Reform of Anything (Tuesday, July 14th, 2009)

• Dems at Odds over Financing $1.6 Trillion Health Care Reform Plan (Friday, July 10th, 2009)

• Patients, not lawmakers, should control health care expenditures (Friday, July 10th, 2009)

• Washington Post Editorial Board Discouraged by Health Reform Events this Week (Friday, July 10th, 2009)

• Blue Dog Objections may Delay Health Care Bill (Friday, July 10th, 2009)

• Obama’s Health Care Surtax to Push U.S. Tax Rates Higher than France, Italy (Thursday, July 9th, 2009)

• Health Care Surtax to Push U.S. Tax Rates Higher than France, Italy (Thursday, July 9th, 2009)

• More Intra-Dem Disputes Roil Health Reform Waters (Wednesday, July 8th, 2009)

• Waxman says House and White House Not Bound by Pharma, AARP or Hospital Deals (Wednesday, July 8th, 2009)

• Obamawellian (Wednesday, July 8th, 2009)

• No Wonder Only One Third of Seniors Support Obama’s Health Reform Plan (Wednesday, July 8th, 2009)

• TIME: Could Health Care Coverage for Abortion Sink Health Care Reform (Wednesday, July 8th, 2009)

• Testimony: Health Savings Accounts Can Save Money for the Michigan Government (Wednesday, July 8th, 2009)

• Dealing with Abortion in Health Care Reform (Monday, July 6th, 2009)

• Senator Schumer: No Need to Compromise with Sen. Franken Seated (Monday, July 6th, 2009)

• Rationing Wolves in Sheeps’ Clothing (Monday, July 6th, 2009)

• Chart of Title One of the Kennedy-Dodd Health Reform Bill by AHIP (Monday, July 6th, 2009)

• Chart of Title One of the Kennedy-Dodd Health Reform Bill by AHIP (Monday, July 6th, 2009)

• Clinton Health Care Pollster: Why health reform could fail again (Monday, July 6th, 2009)

• Clinton Pollster: Polls Show Health Reform Could Fail Again (Monday, July 6th, 2009)

• For $645 Billion Kennedy-Dodd will Leave 35 Million Uninsured (Monday, July 6th, 2009)

• For $645 Billion Kennedy-Dodd will Leave 35 Million Uninsured (Monday, July 6th, 2009)

• President Obama’s Oct. 15th Deadline “increasingly difficult” (Monday, July 6th, 2009)

• Senator Dodd: Obama’s Oct. 15th Deadline for Health Care Reform “increasingly difficult” (Monday, July 6th, 2009)

• Are the Democrats Partying like its 1994? (Thursday, July 2nd, 2009)

• The Cost of Doing Nothing (Thursday, July 2nd, 2009)

• Suddenly, a Trillion Dollars is Too Much? (Thursday, July 2nd, 2009)

• ‘Reconciliation’ to Pass Health Bill Won’t Work (Thursday, July 2nd, 2009)

• Self-service Health Plan Use Growing (Wednesday, July 1st, 2009)

• CNN Poll: Only 20% Believe they will be Better Off with Obama’s Health Reforms (Wednesday, July 1st, 2009)

• Clear and Clever Analysis of Health Care Reform Arguments (Wednesday, July 1st, 2009)

• Parsing the Health Reform Arguments (Wednesday, July 1st, 2009)