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Read The Abortion Compromise In Harry Reid's Senate Health Care Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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The health care reform package unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Wednesday night bars the use of federal funds for abortion servi...

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Economists Tout Health Care Reform In Letter To Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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In a boost to the Obama administration's efforts to frame health care reform as an economic boon, a group of 20 health economists sent a letter to th...

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Chamber Of Commerce Solicits Money For Economist Who Will Give Bad Review Of Health Care Bill

Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is soliciting funds to pay an economist $50,000 to study health care reform legislation and issue (what the lobby presume...

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HuffPost Readers Judge Obama's Presidency: "Where Is The Temerity We Saw When He Campaigned?"

Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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One year after Obama was elected we asked HuffPost readers to compare Obama the candidate to the Obama the President. Has he lived up to his promises...

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GOP Health Bill In The Works; Boehner Says Republican Bill Would Extend Insurance Coverage To "Millions"

Wall Street Journal | GREG HITT | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Republicans are preparing an alternative health-care bill to Democratic legislation, House Republican Leader John Boehner said, marking a shift in str...

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Fox & Friends Laugh Over Pelosi "Burn In Hell" Heckler (VIDEO)

Posted 10.30.2009 | Media

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This morning on Fox & Friends, hosts Steve Doocy and Alisyn Camerota jokingly reenacted the exchange between a heckler and Nancy Pelosi Thursday. A...

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AP: Health Care Bill May Cut Employer Mandate

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Businesses would not be required to provide health insurance under legislation being readied for Senate debate, but large firms wou...

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GOP Opposition To Health Bill Goes Beyond Details, Right To The "Core"

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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The Senate Republican leader made clear on Wednesday that his party, despite all its griping over the public health insurance option, abortion-fundin...

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Why Obama Should Have Been Lying

James Heffernan | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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Handicappers who rate this episode a win for Obama overlook the fact that what the president said should have been false. If your parents are illegal, says the bill, we don't care how sick you get, or even if you die.

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President Obama will Pay Lip Service to the Public Option in his Congress Speech, and Scrap it Later

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

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The mixed signal from Obama and the flat rejection by Baucus is simply the latest in the long line of neon bright warnings that the public option will go when it's crunch time.

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Bloodstained Politics

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

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The truth is, the John Birch Society has been framing one side of this country's political debate for years.

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The Baucus Bill's Bad Math: Nate Silver

Five Thirty Eight | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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The AP may be right that Baucus's bill will cost less than $1 trillion, but it accomplishes that by shifting the burden to middle-income families, som...

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Caring For The Uninsured in Wise County, VA (Assignment Desk)

Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

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This weekend, as congressmen, staffers, and lobbyists clamor to pass a bill to provide health coverage to the 75 million under or uninsured, volunteer...

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Health Care Reform Delayed: Congress Unlikely To Meet Obama's August Deadline

AP | Posted 08.12.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Top members of Congress say it's unlikely they will meet President Barack Obama's August deadline for a sweeping health care overha...

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Orszag: Current Health Care Bill 'Not Enough' To Fix System

Bloomberg | Ryan J. Donmoyer and Nicole Gaouette | Posted 08.09.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration pressed House lawmakers to strengthen legislation to revamp health care, saying it doesn't go far enough to fix a system plag...

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Finance Committee Retreats On Health-Care Reform Bill

Ezra Klein, Washington Post | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

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The outline I was given today isn't the Finance Committee's final bill. It's not even necessarily the Chairman's Mark (the bill that will go to the re...

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Dissected: What HuffPost Readers Found In The Health Care Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

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