In this potential summer of his discontent, Obama is running into the same buzz saw that killed health care reform in the last Democratic Administration.
James Moeller | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics
The one lesson this White House failed to heed from the last failure was one of message. Effective messages are simple and salient. Obama's economic argument for health care reform is neither.
Robert Creamer | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
History shows that swing-district Democrats have the most to lose if Congress fails to pass President Obama's sweeping health care proposal.
Peter A. Ubel | Posted 07.24.2009 | Politics
The Obama administration is steeped with people knowledgeable about behavioral economics, who hope to keep the public from slipping into a state of loss aversion.
Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media
Harry-and-Louise-style ads are powerful, not because they tell ignorant Americans what to worry about, but because they remind well-meaning Americans of what could be lost in the name of progress.
Mike Lux | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics
Having been in the Clinton Health Care War Room, I knew that moments like this would come, times I would describe as "the troubles." We are officially in that phase.
Mike Lux | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics
Clinton did not deliver the big lasting progressive changes he promised because he was largely unwilling to stand up to the big special interests in corporate America.
Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
The most transformative health care overhauls that succeeded in the last century employed the same strategy: build on what we've got and let the changes happen organically.
Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
With unemployment and homelessness on the rise in general and among veterans in particular, tens of thousands of low-income veterans will likely wind up without healthcare.
Mike Lux | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics
Obama knows how messed up our health care system is, and he knows we need big change. I'm glad he has the guts to take it on, and I'm glad to see his early strategic moves on it are smart ones.
AP | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Bill Clinton said Monday that President Barack Obama has a chance to develop a universal health care system because he is free to spe...
Linda Bergthold | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
Why will 2009 be different from 1993? Obama is not making the same mistakes the Clintons did, and that is good news for all of us.
Art Levine | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
Maybe the Democrats, including Hillary's own most ardent supporters, will find winning health care reform a good enough reason to unite behind Obama.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics
Elizabeth Edwards continued her passionate advocacy of universal health care on today's morning shows, appearing on both The Today Show and Morning Jo...
Boston Globe | Susan Milligan | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Hillary Clinton, who has frequently described herself on the campaign trail as playing a pivotal role in forging a children's health insurance plan, h...
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Hillary often discusses the unfairness built into the healthcare system: That discrimination by race and gender is barred, but that insurance companie...
The Hill | Jeffrey Young | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
en. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-N.Y.) proposal to mandate that all people purchase health insurance would be a boon to the industry, filmmaker Michael...
AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
MILWAUKEE — Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign released a 13-page blueprint for fixing the economy Monday, detailing the former first la...
Political Radar | Sunlen Miller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama put out big gun backer Sen. Ted Kennedy and the Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle to respond to the negative Cli...
Dallas Morning News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Former President Clinton on Friday offered voters an image of his wife as the only Democratic presidential candidate with a plan to offer universal he...
NY Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The principal policy division between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama involves health care. It's a division that can seem technical and obscure -- an...
Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
[Note: Headline updated. See end.] Ben Smith reports: The Clinton campaign convened a conference call with health policy experts to denounce Obama's...
Media Matters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
A September 19 New York Post article on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's (D-NY) proposed health-care plan bore the headline: "Hill Care-ried Away: Employ...
Neil McCarthy | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics