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Next week, there are going to be major gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia. Many political observers will look at these races and will try to understand how their results foreshadow what the national mood will be in the midterm elections next year. However, even before the election, one...
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Now that the full Senate is close to having a debate about major health care reform, Senators now seem to be making their preferences undeniably clear about certain parts of such a plan. This week, for instance, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid went public with his preference for bringing a government...
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Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT), once a minor player in the health care debate, has emerged as a major voice in opposition to a public health care option, placing liberals on the defensive in their pursuit of a government option. Earlier this week, the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid made a major announcement...
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As various news sources have reported, the Obama White House is now actively involved in the health care reform negotiations on Capitol Hill. As The Washington Times has reported, the White House has a representative at many of the meetings where a new health care reform bill is being written. However...
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This week has not been a good one for advocates of massive health care reform. The Majority Leader of the United States Senate Harry Reid suffered a legislative defeat earlier this week when a health care bill he advocated that would have spent approximately 250 billion dollars to prevent Medicare cuts...
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It looks like Senator Harry Reid of Nevada has suffered a major legislative defeat on the issue of health care with only a few weeks to go before the Senate is expected to vote on massive reform. As I wrote about earlier this week, some in Congress have been pushing for a doctor fix that would cost the...
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Several weeks ago, I wrote about a Rasmussen poll that showed how unpopular a new Obama stimulus plan is . In that piece, I linked to an NBC First Read article that stated that the phrase "second stimulus" was not being used by the White House to describe plans that were being developed to...
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When the president talks about health care reform, he often takes about his price expectations for such reform. As many people who have followed the debate carefully know, President Obama said he will not supportreform that adds to our nation's deficit, a pledge that he repeated in his address to...
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Underscoring the fact that our economy has not yet fully recovered, a recent Gallup poll showed that many Americans have continued doubts about the availability of good jobs in today's job market. With the unemployment rate a little below ten percent and with talk of a new but politically unpopular...
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In the battle over health care reform, there are still numerous questions about how much the final piece of legislation will ultimately cost. Recently, an early positive report from the Congressional Budget Office and a Finance Committee vote in favor of the Baucus bill gave that specific bill some added...
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Senator Snowe's controversial vote in favor of the Baucus bill on the Finance Committee yesterday definitely created some additional momentum for advocates of massive liberal health care reform. However, that momentum may be as temporary as the momentum from the Congressional Budget Report released...
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Advocates for massive health care reform had a good week last week. In addition to the positive news stories about the Congressional Budget Office's report on Senator Baucus' bill , reform advocates also received endorsements from the right about the subject. President Obama even celebrated that...
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As our leaders on Capitol Hill debate health care and the implications of Senator Baucus' health care reform bill, our nation's economy continues to suffer and some on Capitol Hill are discussing the jobs situation behind the scenes. NBC's First Read reported yesterday that "For the...
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Yesterday, I wrote a piece about the consequences of a positive or a negative Congressional Budget Office report about Senator Max Baucus' (D-MT) health care bill. That report was released today and he represented a major victory for Baucus and for some advocates of massive health care reform. Politico...
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The cost of health care reform has always been an important part of the debate considering President Obama's promises on the subject and our nation's current financial situation. With that in mind, a favorable report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office could dramatically affect a...