AP: Health Care Bill May Cut Employer Mandate
WASHINGTON — Businesses would not be required to provide health insurance under legislation being readied for Senate debate, but large firms wou...
WASHINGTON — Businesses would not be required to provide health insurance under legislation being readied for Senate debate, but large firms wou...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as p...
Mike Lux | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics
I think we're still moving forward with health care reform. The next few days will tell us what kind of deals can be cut, but no matter what, I think the strategy for progressives remains the same as it has been.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
The real head-scratcher for serious media-watchers right now is what the "war" between the White House and Fox News was meant to distract us from this week. The "war" itself is laughable, for a number of reasons.
Jane Hamsher | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
"One or two votes shy" of the public option means Reid is allowing members of the Democratic caucus to threaten a filibuster behind closed doors and dictate what will be in the bill he brings to the floor.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is just one or two Senate votes shy of having a filibuster-proof majority in favor of a public option for health ins...
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics
Yesterday, over 300,000 people picked up the phone and called Congress demanding health care reform this year. The phones ringing off the hook certainly did not go unnoticed by Congress.
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
I just got off the phone with Lee Slaughter, the ailing Nevada woman who is starring in a powerful new ad demanding that Harry Reid prove "strong enou...
The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has told colleagues that he was given bad information by the American Medical Association (AMA), which will...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
A majority of Nevadans want a public health care option and are worried about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's leadership on this and other issues,...
New York Times | Carl Hulse | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
While they await their health care overhauls, Congressional Democrats will this week try to make progress on other initiatives that have been moving a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
In a bold push to pass a public option for insurance coverage, a progressive advocacy group is launching an ad campaign directly calling into question...
Roger Hickey | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
Suddenly, all Democratic politicians, even the most conservative, are realizing that their voters will blame them, not the health insurance companies, if the policies the voters are required to buy are too expensive.
Washington Post | Perry Bacon Jr. | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
Three senators are working on the bill behind closed doors. Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) sits at the head of a wooden table at hi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The battle against the health insurance industry is steadily intensifying. House Democrats have formally scheduled a vote to revoke the industry's che...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
We need a broad coalition to immediately repeal the insurance industry's exemption from complying with Federal anti-trust laws.
Paul Loeb | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Forcing Senators like Nelson, Baucus, and Lincoln to respond to the American public, through a petition, would be the right thing politically as well as morally.
AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — When it comes time to vote, every Democrat in the Senate – and perhaps more than one Republican – will support legislat...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
Senator Harry Reid's office is pushing back against reports that the Majority Leader is planning to include Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) among the group ...
Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
Price fixing and deal making is absolutely illegal in other businesses, but in the insurance industry, because of an anti-trust exemption, customers are duped without repercussions.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
A football locker room. Hundreds of Democrats are sitting on benches, to hear Coach's halftime pep talk in the Health Care Reform Superbowl. Some appear exhausted, some appear battered.
Bob Cesca | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics
If there was any lingering doubt about the ethical bankruptcy of the health care cartel, we now have incontrovertible evidence in the form of a new report commissioned by the health insurance lobby.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
UPDATE: Reid pushed back Wednesday afternoon against the consensus that health reform is on him -- after Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), laid the fate of...
POLITICO | Patrick O'Conner and Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
The long-simmering tension between insurers and congressional Democrats is erupting into open warfare, with lawmakers stepping up their push to revoke...
The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
Liberal hero Alan Grayson -- who's suddenly a national figure thanks to his high-octane tirades against Republicans -- is joining the campaign to pres...
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics