Health Care Reform

    New DNC chief needs refresher on Obama health care program

    By: Beltway Whispers (Diary)  |  April 6th at 06:00 PM  | 

    President Barack Obama on Tuesday tapped Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to succeed former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine atop the Democratic National Committee after its members gather later this month. The Florida firebrand was an obvious choice for Obama, who faces a contentious re-election bid next year and counts Wasserman Schultz among his fiercest defenders. But the president’s new attack dog’s talking points don’t always jibe | Read More »

    Beware of Narrow ObamaCare Victory

    By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  January 31st at 11:59 PM  | 

    From the diaries by Erick The biggest news in today’s ruling that the ObamaCare individual mandate is unconstitutional is the court’s decision to strike down the entire ObamaCare statute because the unconstitutional mandate cannot be severed – that is, separated – from the rest of the statute’s provisions.  Today’s decision signals, not only that the individual mandate is unlikely to survive its now-inevitable review by | Read More »

    Nancy Pelosi: Hey, quit your job. We got your back!

    By: Tabitha Hale (Diary)  |  May 17th at 02:59 PM  | 

    Nancy Pelosi spoke at the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Summit on Capitol Hill last Friday, informing them that because of the new health care reform, they would no longer be “job locked.” Here’s the quote: “We see it as an entrepreneurial bill,” Pelosi said, “a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can | Read More »

    Obama Nominee Donald Berwick’s Radical Agenda

    By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  May 12th at 11:15 AM  | 

    “Any health care funding plan that is just equitable civilized and humane must, must redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.” – Donald Berwick President Obama’s nomination of Donald Berwick as the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is a gathering far less attention than a certain | Read More »