Posts Tagged ‘medicare’

Politics of Process and Policy

Democrats will do anything to pass health insurance reform, even, it seems, subvert the constitution. Knowing that they still lack the votes to pass the kickback-filled Senate health reform bill word-for-word, Democrats in the United States House of Representatives have concocted what they think may be a way around having an up-or-down vote on the [...]

Obama’s Accidental Case Against Reconciliation and the Senate Bill

Health care reform is expected to dominate U.S. headlines for another week as the latest reform push is underway in Congress. While varying analyses place the odds for passage of the increasingly complicated reform scheme, opposition builds on both the left and the right. President Obama has nonetheless been hard at work pushing the proposals of [...]

Budget news could mean pragmatism from the President-elect.

Two stories appeared in yesterday’s (Wednesday’s) New York Times which deal with the budgetary situation in the country as President-elect Barack Obama prepares to be sworn in later this month.  In noting a forecasted $1.2 trillion deficit, the article appearing in the business section noted that the president-elect desires to spend $800 billion on a new economic stimulus package. [...]