New White House Health Care Proposal May Destroy PhRMA Deal
This morning the White House released a new health care proposal that may be used as a blueprint for a compromise between House and Senate versions of...
This morning the White House released a new health care proposal that may be used as a blueprint for a compromise between House and Senate versions of...
The Hill | Molly K. Hooper | Posted 05.25.2011
A House Republican congressman is pushing the Obama administration to reveal the specifics of deals it struck with various groups on healthcare reform...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
The bill unveiled by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has been blasted as a major giveaway to insurance companies. But the even bigger win...
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011
The president, though a dedicated student of history, has failed to learn the lesson of our nation's most significant political confrontations.
Drew Westen | Posted 05.25.2011
The American people did not vote for "bipartisan" solutions that split the difference between the failed ideology of the last eight years and the change the president and the super-majorities they elected in both houses of Congress promised.
Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm a strong supporter of universal health insurance, and a fan of the Obama administration. But I'm appalled by the deal the White House has made with the pharmaceutical industry's lobbying arm to buy their support.
Merrill Goozner | Posted 05.25.2011
Reformers were naïve if they thought the world had changed simply because there were new tenants in the majority offices on the Hill or in the White House.
Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011
The White House may be willing to cave on drug price negotiations and having a public option. Giving us health care reform without those key ingredients is like serving a PBJ sandwich without the peanut butter or the jelly.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011
In the latest in a series of conflicting statements, White House officials on Monday insisted that they never entered into a deal with pharmaceutical ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
In closed-door negotiations with President Obama and his top aides throughout the spring, Big Pharma offered its support for comprehensive health care...
Sunlight Foundation | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.25.2011