The health of America is at stake, and continuing to run down the path of providing free care without engaging the consumer is a dead end solution that will turn “Yes We Can” into “What’d We Do?”
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Universal Healthcare
Could this bill, with its proposed expansion of an already unsustainable entitlement program, just be a way of softening up the opposition for what appears to be a bit tamer bill that is expected to emerge from the Senate Finance Committee?
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Yesterday, on this blog, I referred to the national healthcare reform debate as being like a chess game with each side making moves in turn that will eventually lead to the final outcome.
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Time moves quickly inside the Beltway. It was just last week that Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told a press briefing that Congressional leaders “will get to this a little later,” referencing the creation of any new government-run insurance program. Apparently “a little later” was yesterday when Senator Charles E. [...]
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The word coming out of Washington over the last few days dealing with healthcare reform legislation reminds me somewhat of the Jedi hand wave mind trick from the original 1977 Star Wars movie.
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For those of us who are trying to read the health reform tea leaves, things got a bit more interesting this week with signs of a rift in the Democratic Party over the “public plan.” First we had the chairmen of two Senate committees with jurisdiction over health care reform legislation (Baucus and Kennedy) say [...]
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Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House health reform office, is certainly getting her share of press today as healthcare writers try to unwind what she had to say during a forty minute discussion with reporters that was sponsored yesterday by the Kaiser Family Foundation. President Barack Obama’s top health care adviser said that work [...]
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