Posts tagged Health Care

Scott Brown’s win has Democrats spooked about health reform. Peter Beinart says enacting it is essential to jump-starting the party. Plus, Benjamin Sarlin on the doomsday plans for passage. What should Barack Obama do now that Scott Brown has pulled off the biggest special-election upset... [+]

Less than 15 minutes after the race was called for Republican Scott Brown, the first of what could be many conservative Democrats asks for leadership to put the brakes on health care reform. Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) congratulated Brown on his win and delivered a... [+]

A new way forward on health care is gaining some traction among Democrats, who are preparing for the possibility that Democrat Martha Coakley will lose her bid to replace Ted Kennedy in the Senate, costing Democrats their 60th vote, which they’ll need to overcome the... [+]

Leaders of the labor movement announced Thursday afternoon that they have reached a compromise agreement with the White House and congressional leaders to address union concerns with the health care reform bill. The most contentious issue facing the negotiators was the excise tax on high-cost,... [+]

Both chambers of Congress will skip a formal “conference committee” and instead negotiate informally on their respective health care bills, confirm Congressional aides and sources outside of government. In what one health care reform activist calls a “quasi ping-pong” strategy, House and Senate leaders will... [+]

Opponents of the health-care reform bill are not giving up the fight, and some think their last, best hope to halt the legislation lies not in the U.S. Capitol but in the court across the street. A small but vocal contingent of legal scholars and... [+]

Repeal it already.. It has not passed yet! Republicans hope a push to repeal the Democrats’ health care bill will inspire voters to turn out for them in the 2010 elections — even though some of them admit that it has no realistic chance of... [+]