Health care reform

Entries Tagged as 'Health care reform'

More About Abortion & Health Care for Women and Children

March 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Health care reform

Yesterday I wrote that I didn’t think Diana DeGette and other strongly pro-choice Democrats would scuttle health care reform over the crappy deal women are bound to get out of any bill that eventually arrives at some compromise language on abortion. Matt Yglesias cites Theda Skocpol and offers further support for my read of the [...]

Health Care Reform, Abortion Language, and Diana DeGette

March 5th, 2010 · No Comments · Health care reform

The Denver Post highlights House Democrats’ health care conundrums relative to endangered seats (Betsy Markey) and abortion language (Diana DeGette).
I can see the challenge facing a fractured Democratic caucus in an election year, and to be frank I’m not getting my hopes up for Betsy Markey’s vote. DeGette is a different story, however, and contra [...]

Colorado Democrats Need to Show Some Leadership

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Health care reform

Democrats are disheartened now, and with good reason. Any time a Democratic president has to remind a Democratic majority that they are indeed the majority, things can’t be going well.
And back home in Colorado, our elected officials are playing safe on the topic of health care reform, all except for Jared Polis, who, alongside a [...]

What Colorado Can Gain from the Senate Health Bill

November 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Health care reform

TPM links to a new bit of promotion from Health and Human Services regarding the state-by-state impact of the current Senate health care reform bill. So if you want to know, for example, what Colorado stands to gain in the whole health care reform mash up just approved for debate, click here. I’ll try not [...]

Stupak Costs Taxpayers More

November 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Health care reform

Kevin Drum mulls the Stupak Amendment and nails it:
I wonder what the insurance industry thinks of this? I know that if I were an insurance company, I’d sure rather cover an abortion (cost = $500 or so) than a pregnancy carried to term (cost = $10,000 or so). But they’re probably too scared to speak [...]

Betsy Markey and the Democratic Party: Rogue Dissent or Political Genius?

November 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Health care reform

Health care reform has passed the House. Betsy Markey didn’t vote for it. My guess is she really must feel threatened up in Larimer County, despite–or perhaps because of–having been elected on the coattails of Barack Obama’s ‘08 sweep through the Front Range (Larimer Co. election results available here). To be sure, Markey’s opponent [...]

How Conservative Dems (and Joe Lieberman) Can Advance a Public Option Plan They’ll Vote Against

October 28th, 2009 · No Comments · Health care reform

Josh Marshall breaks down some of the static and pushback emanating from centrist Senate Dems and Joe Lieberman:
And expect the rest of the conservative Democrats to hold out until pretty much the last minute too because it’s in their interests to do so, both to maximize their leverage and to wait as long as possible [...]

Beutler on Schumer on Reid: We’ve Got the Votes

October 26th, 2009 · No Comments · Health care reform

I can’t pretend to know what twists and turns health care reform still must take before a bill is presented for a vote, but this write up from Brian Beutler is pretty interesting. Essentially, Beutler has Charles Schumer saying he and Harry Reid convinced the White House that the Senate could carry a strong public [...]

Comparing Health Insurance to Car Insurance is Misleading

September 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Health care reform

Via Jon Caldara, Ari Armstrong argues that comparing mandatory health insurance coverage to mandatory car insurance coverage is flawed:
It is simply not true that states “require you to carry auto insurance.” Rather, you must buy auto insurance (or face fines) only if you drive an automobile on politically operated roads.
For example, Colorado’s statute 10-4-619 states [...]

Loneliest Man in the Senate

September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Health care reform

From the opening line, Carolyn Lochhead paints a sorrowful picture of Max Baucus’ less-than-triumphant moment as he unveiled his committee’s long-awaited health care reform plan yesterday in the Capitol. “Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus stood alone Wednesday, delivering his long-awaited health care plan without one Republican at his side and a chilly welcome from [...]

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