Reality Check: For Opponents, It Was Never About the Bill
Today’s Republican talking point of the day is that the historic health reform bill passed today represents the first major piece of social legislation to be passed without a single vote from across the aisle.
Well that may be true. But it’s not a commentary on this bill. It’s a commentary on the Republican Party, whose [...]
Annual Medicare Fraud: $60 Billion; Annual Profits of Top Ten Insurance Companies: $8 billion
As 60 Minutes reported last week, Medicare fraud is rampant and has now replaced the cocaine (ahem) business as the major criminal activity in South Florida. Both 60 Minutes and the Washington Post report that Medicare fraud now costs American taxpayers roughly $60 billion a year. That may sound like a lot of [...]
Now Comes the Hard Part
July came late this year.
In all the euphoria over the news that the Senate Finance
Committee has approved its version of health care legislation,
some context was missing. With a 60-vote majority in the Senate
and a 79-vote advantage in the House of Representatives, it was
all [...]
Snowe Supports Committee Bill
The Washington Postreports:
Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Me.) said that she will vote for the $829 billion reform legislation under review by the Senate Finance Committee. She said her support signals her desire to “continue the process” of reviewing reform legislation and should not be interpreted as a “yes” vote on all health care reform bills under [...]
Word from the White House: AHIP Report on Senate Finance Committee Bill
It’s no secret that institutions of all stripes focus their communications on certain messages day to day. We thought it would all be a little more open and transparent if we went ahead and published what our focus will be for the day, along with any related articles, documents, or reports.
Supporting article: "Accounting Firm Admits [...]
McConnell Statement on CBO Report
A statement from Sen. McConnell on the CBO’s report on the Finance Committee bill:
“This partisan Finance Committee proposal will never see the Senate floor since the real bill will be written by Democrat leaders in a closed-to-the-public conference room somewhere in the Capitol. The real bill will be another 1,000-page, trillion-dollar experiment that slashes [...]
