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GOP's Health Care Plan Remains A Mirage

New York | Posted 05.17.2012

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How long can the Republicans keep up the pretense that they plan to come up with their alternative health-care-reform plan? I'm going to go with "fore...

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GOP To Embrace New Tactics In Fight To Repeal Health Care Law

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.20.2012

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WASHINGTON — Republicans are revamping their strategy against President Barack Obama's health care law: If they can't repeal the whole thing, th...

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Despite Major Warnings, Controversial Health Care Program Was Added

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 11.14.2011

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WASHINGTON — Even as leading Democrats offered assurances to the contrary, government experts repeatedly warned that a new long-term care insura...

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Health Care Reform Taking Root In Divided Nation

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — One year after President Barack Obama signed his historic health care overhaul, the law is taking root in the land. Whether it bear...

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For GOP-Led States, Fighting Health Care Proves A Complex Battle

The Washington Post | N.C. Aizenman and Amy Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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With battles over the president's signature health legislation underway in the courts and on Capitol Hill, a third line of attack is forming in the st...

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Corporate Contributions Surging For New Republican Leaders In House

The Washington Post | Dan Eggen and T.W. Farnam | Posted 05.25.2011

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The new Republican leaders in the House have received millions of dollars in contributions from banks, health insurers and other major business intere...

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Ad Campaign: Netroots Turns Its Sights From Obama To The GOP

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- A coalition of Democratic groups and progressive bloggers launched a new campaign on Thursday focusing attention on Republican members o...

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Chuck Schumer Calls Out GOP Leadership On Health Care Hypocrisy

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) took aim at GOP leadership Tuesday, asking if incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) would ask Republicans see...

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GOP Rep.-Elect Joe Walsh To Reject Federal Health Insurance

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Incoming GOP Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois has decided to put his money where his mouth is and turn down the federally funded health insurance package pr...

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Lies, Damned Lies and Republican Hypocrisy

Ethan Rome | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Republicans will say and do anything to help their rich friends. In the world of post-shame politics, they're the poster children -- they just don't seem to care how extreme and unconscionable their hypocrisy is.

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Democrats Ask Anti-Health Care Reform GOPers To Forgo Their Own Coverage

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Progressive Democratic legislators are crying foul at recent reports that GOP Congressman-elect Andy Harris (R-Md.) complained about the limitations o...

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GOP's Health Care Strategy: Fight Shadow War Rather Than Make Painful Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even though Republicans won a share of power because of voters' concerns about the economy, GOP leaders want to put something other than jobs, taxes or budget cuts per se at the center of their plan to retake the White House. It's repeal of the health-care law. Having watched Obama spend a year's worth of political capital on the measure -- a move that even many Democrats regarded as questionable -- the GOP seems eager to do the same. But for a number of reasons, the GOP thinks it can get more mileage out of the issue than almost anything else they can try.

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GOP Has No Clear Path For Health Care Repeal

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Republicans say they'll repeal and replace President Barack Obama's health care law, but tinker and tweak is as far as they're like...

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Dems Adopted Conservative Cost-Control Principles In Health Care Bill, GOP Ceded Control Of Their Own Debate

The New Republic | Neera Tanden | Posted 05.25.2011

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By unilaterally ceding control over the contents of the health bill, Republicans have also ceded any claim to the policy innovations therein. Ideas th...

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Paul Ryan: The GOP's Smooth Talker on Health Care

Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you don't like the ingredients listed on the cereal box, you can buy something else. With private health insurance, you and your medical record essentially lock you into the company that provides your policy.

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Senate Parliamentarian Rejects First GOP Complaints On Health Care Bill

The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 05.25.2011

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The parliamentarian ruled that changes to a proposed excise tax on high-cost plans would not violate the 1974 Budget Act by changing contributions to ...

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Many, But Not All, Republicans Call For Health Care Bill Repeal

Posted 05.25.2011

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Ever since the passage of the health care reform bill in the House of Representatives on Sunday, many GOP lawmakers -- though not all of them -- began...

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Senate GOP Launching New Campaign Against Health Care Law

Roll Call | Posted 05.25.2011

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Senate Republicans are poised to try to reignite the health care debate by launching a coordinated political messaging offensive to target Democrats a...

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Lamar Alexander: Health Care Bill A 'Political Kamikaze Mission'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said on Sunday that if Democrats push health care through under the majority only process known as reconciliation, it w...

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GOP Health Care Alternative: Push The Private Sector At Summit

Washington Post | Shailagh Murray and Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republicans are preparing to use Thursday's White House health-care summit to sell their own ideas for using the private marketplace to expand coverag...

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DNC Chairman Tim Kaine: GOP Call To Start Over 'Is Like Dr. Kevorkian Giving You Healthcare Advice'

The Hill | Jordan Fabian | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republicans' calls to start from scratch on health reform legislation "is like Dr. Kevorkian giving you healthcare advice," Democratic National Commit...

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Karl Rove Encourages Republicans To Accept Obama's Health Care Summit Invitation

Wall Street Journal | Karl Rove | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some congressional Republicans want to turn down President Barack Obama's invitation for a nationally televised, Feb. 25 White House pow-wow on health...

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Cantor: Only Route To Health Care Reform Is For Dems To Embrace GOP Plan

Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Cantor's office responds to Obama's announcement of a bipartisan summit on health care with the most explicit and direct assertion I've seen yet ...

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Dept. of Rationalization

Michael McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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From your comedy friends in Hollywood, CA. ...

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Health Care Bill May Not Get Single GOP Vote In The House

Washington Post | Ben Pershing | Posted 05.25.2011

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The House is inching closer to voting on a comprehensive health-care bill, even as the chamber appears so divided that the measure may not attract a s...

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