Protesters demand health reform at a rally outside Blue Cross headquarters in Los Angles last month.
Nothing about health care reform has inspired more overheated rhetoric than the so-called public option.
Opponents say it would unleash a government juggernaut against which no…
Update (Oct. 27, 3:30 p.m.): Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond’s spokeswoman said today that the senator is not on Medicare. The senator’s office has requested the report from Rep. Weiner’s office, but it has not been provided a copy of the…
Mom always said to be careful what we wished for, lest we actually get it. The warning is apt now that the health care reform debate in Congress seems headed into the home stretch, or maybe just the back stretch.
Several big…
Sen. Tom Harkin
There was a lot of talk about the public health insurance option over the weekend. From a steak fry fundraiser in Iowa to the Sunday morning talk shows to a rally in Minnesota attended by the president, the…
President Barack Obama will try to retake the initiative on health care reform this evening with a nationally televised address to Congress. Conventional wisdom holds that it will be among the most important speeches of his political career.
That’s entirely backward.
Whatever…
Critics are questioning whether health care reform will force middle-class families out of the insurance plans that currently cover them. The better question is whether the insurance plans that currently cover them — or, more precisely, the price of that…
Sen. Max Baucus
The Washington Post reports today that Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and who has expressed skepticism of a public health insurance option, has been the recipient of much generosity from health care…
