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NewslettersOur newsletter features a commentary by Grace-Marie Turner on the major developments and issues of the week as well as summaries of writings by participants in the Health Policy Consensus Group and other articles of interest from the health policy world, plus announcements of coming events. It is emailed in an HTML format from the galen@galen.org email address, via Constant Contact, and you may have to adjust your email settings and junk mailbox to ensure that you don’t miss an issue.< Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Next >February 18, 2010
Expert AdviceWe hosted a conference call on Tuesday with the former parliamentarian of the Senate, Robert Dove, so colleagues and journalists could ask the authority with 36 years of experience in Senate procedures about using reconciliation to pass health reform legislation. Dr. Dove concluded it would be a long, exhaustive process that would likely produce a Swiss cheese of legislation because reconciliation simply isn’t designed for such complex policymaking.
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Health Reform February 15, 2010
A Summit Primer100 votes short? One of the more telling comments about the prospects for final passage of health reform came from a top House Democratic official quoted in a Politico article today entitled, Family Feud: Nancy Pelosi at Odds with President Obama. "Though Pelosi and other House Democrats have made it clear that they're angry with the Senate, they're also frustrated with the president, upset that he hasn't come to terms with the problems of getting legislation through the upper chamber -- or done enough to overcome them."
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Health Reform February 5, 2010
Starting OverThe Democrats seem to be in the anger phase of grief over the collapse of their health overhaul, with a sharp and heated meeting between top White House advisers and Senate Democrats on Wednesday. Politico reports: "Sen. Al Franken ripped into White House senior adviser David Axelrod this week during a tense, closed-door session with Senate Democrats. Five sources who were in the room tell Politico that Franken criticized Axelrod for the administration's failure to provide clarity or direction on health care and the other big bills it wants Congress to enact."
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Health Reform January 28, 2010
StalemateCongress is at war with itself over the best way to proceed after Massachusetts transformed the political landscape, and Mr. Obama needed to do a lot more than restate the problems in our health sector which virtually everyone agrees must be fixed in order to move Congress off dead center. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) crystallized the dilemma, telling reporters yesterday: "The Republicans are our opposition. The Senate is our enemy."
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Health Reform January 22, 2010
Listening to AmericaAs Washington continues to reel from Scott Brown's astonishing victory in Massachusetts, Democratic leaders still are not giving up on trying to pass their health overhaul legislation, despite today's news reports that health reform is dead. Here's a scenario that should send chills up anyone's spine: In yet another rebuff of representative democracy, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday "We will move forward" as she tried to convince colleagues to swallow the despised and pork-laden Senate bill.
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Health Reform January 15, 2010
Big Labor, Big FavorsThe Cornhusker Kick: Just when we thought the health care legislation could not possibly get any worse, any more damaging, or any more disgusting in its vote-buying kickbacks and special favors, then along comes this! In marathon meetings at the White House, the president and congressional Democrats came up with a "big, fat wet kiss for labor unions" (New York Post) in exempting them from the tax on high cost health plans until 2018. The deal exempts them from one of the "revenue generating" parts of the Senate health overhaul bill that exposes expensive health plans to a 40% excise tax.
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Health Reform January 7, 2010
Reform Will Be an Albatross Around Democrats' NecksHealth reform is the Holy Grail for Democrats, but it may turn out instead to be their political death march. President Obama has told Democrats in Congress they must usher in "historic change" by courageously voting for reform, assuring them the voters will thank them later. But "later" may be too late for many members who feel they are being forced to walk the plank and vote for a bill that becomes more unpopular by the day.
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Health Reform December 18, 2009
The CountdownThe Senate's countdown to Christmas Eve is on, with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid facing an almost impossible schedule that has to go precisely as timed to get his health care vote by 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve. And that means working nights and all weekend long. But the bigger problem is that Sen. Reid still doesn't have the 60th vote to carry him over the finish line. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) is a brave man who is standing up to incredibly intense pressure, telling Sen. Reid that the compromise language he's been offered guarding against abortion coverage in the bill "is not sufficient." And even if that is fixed, he says that he still has other problems with the bill.
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