Republican Health Care Reform

GOP Launches Strategy To Derail Health Care Reform

Roll Call | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics


Senate Republicans, acknowledging they lack the votes to block a health care reform bill outright, have implemented a comprehensive political strategy...

Voters Tiring of Republican Partisanship on Healthcare

Andrew Baumann | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics


Andrew Baumann

Momentum is growing for passage of health care reform, and, because of their continued obstructionism, so is the threat to Republicans.

Sam Stein

DeMint Brings Up Obama's "Waterloo" Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics


When Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) in mid-July projected that the Republican Party would "break" President Obama by making health care "his Waterloo," it m...

A Failure of Citizenship and the Health Care Debacle

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics


Jeff Schweitzer

Voting should be seen as a privilege rather than as a consequence of where one is born. Voting should be a right earned rather than conferred by fate or the accident of citizenship.

The Republican Death March on Health Care

Susan J. Demas | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


Susan J. Demas

Thanks to the town hall turmoil from bigots, birthers and assorted miscreants, Republicans can savor a sugar-high on health care -- a decadent and ultimately short-lived victory.

Mark Kirk's Big Health Care Reform Idea is to Create Huge National Insurance Monopolies That Are Fully Deregulated

Ellen Gill | Posted 09.29.2009 | Eyes & Ears


Ellen Gill

Kirk wants to replace the entire body of state regulatory law with some minimum plan standards that will not be enforced, as there will be no enforcement body to do it.

Blunt: GOP Shouldn't Have Health Care Plan, It Would Just "Confuse" People

Plum Line | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics


Republicans who had promised last month to offer a healthcare reform alternative are now suggesting no such bill will be introduced. Rep. Roy Blunt (...

Orszag: Republicans Trying To Kill Health Care Reform Through Delay

Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics


***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** President Obama's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Peter Orszag, accused Senate Republicans on Sunday o...

Rockefeller On Health Care Reform: "The Good Guys Versus The Bad Guys"

The Charleston Gazette | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics


"There is a very small chance any Republicans will vote for this health-care plan. They were against Medicare and Medicaid [created in the 1960s]. The...