Posts tagged Health Care

While Republican leaders in Washington are urging President Barack Obama to start from scratch on a health care bill, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday dismissed the idea as “bogus talk.” It marked the second day in a row that Schwarzenegger strayed from his party’s... [+]

First he called congressional Democrats’ yearlong march toward health care overhaul an ugly process. Now President Barack Obama wants to talk directly with Republicans, the very people his Capitol Hill allies call obstinate and uncooperative. It’s no wonder Democratic lawmakers are less than enthusiastic about... [+]

Shock and awe. That’s what survivors of the Clinton-era health care collapse are feeling as President Barack Obama’s overhaul legislation wobbles in Congress. Aides who shaped Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 1990s plan to cover all Americans, then labored in vain to pass it into... [+]

If President Obama gets to sign a health-reform bill, as I believe he will, one reason may be Rep. Jay Inslee’s difficult experience renovating his kitchen. He told his kitchen story at a House Democratic caucus after Republican Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts sent Inslee’s... [+]

I see over at ABC News’s “The Note” that Senator Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) is the latest lawmaker to preemptively and falsely assign blame for the failure to get health care reform passed: David Plouffe, now current and former campaign guru, to ABC’s Jake Tapper on... [+]

The longest serving member of the House of Representatives says Democrats need to act quickly to pass reform, and that the best way forward may be “Plan B”: to pass the Senate health care bill along with a separate bill amending it in a variety... [+]

One Senate upset, and the president seems ready to deal away health care. Leslie H. Gelb on how he needs to stop prattling on about institutions, grab the reins, and lead. If you want to grasp instantly why President Obama faces the abyss, look no... [+]