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OPINION

Mammogram Backdown
Hurts Health Reform

Sebelius played politics, missed chance to show leadership

17 hours, 40 minutes ago
(Newser) - Health secretary Kathleen Sebelius has set back the cause of health care reform in her rush to distance herself from the recommendation of her own department's task force concerning mammograms, writes Steven Pearlstein. The advice that women under 50 shouldn't get annual mammograms was based on science, and Sebelius should... More »

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health care • breast cancer • mammogram • health care reform • Kathleen Sebelius

CBO Estimate: Senate
Health Bill Costs $849B

Figure clears the way for Reid to get measure rolling

Nov 18, 09 4:09 PM CST
(AP) - Legislation headed to the Senate floor would extend health care coverage to 31 million uninsured Americans at a cost of $849 billion over a decade, says a senior Democratic aide. The long-awaited figures come from the Congressional Budget Office, clearing the way for Harry Reid to move forward. The bill... More »

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health care • Senate • Harry Reid • Congressional Budget Office • health care reform

Wanted: Economist to Trash Health Bill

Foes look for an
expert to prove that Obamacare kills jobs

Nov 16, 09 9:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Pro-business groups opposed to the president's health care reform are raising funds to hire a "respected economist" to study the impact of the reform—and find that it is a threat to jobs and the economy. In an email obtained by the Washington Post , a top official at the... More »

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health care • health care reform • bias • President Obama • US Chamber of Commerce

Puppetmasters

Big Pharma Lobbyists Put Words Into Reps' Mouths

We 'didn't know' where the language came from, reps plead

Nov 15, 09 8:37 AM CST
(Newser) - Yep, that's an echo you hear in the House chamber. The New York Times has obtained emails showing that language drafted by lobbyists working for biotech giant Genentech made it almost unchanged into statements and speeches made on health care—by Democrats and Republicans alike. A Genentech lawyer told staffers,... More »

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health care • lobbying • Genentech • lobbying blitz • House Democrats • pharmaceutical industry • House Republicans

ANALYSIS

Why the Senate Health Bill Will Move at a Crawl

Dems will be lucky to get it through before xmas

Nov 12, 09 4:55 AM CST
(Newser) - The House version of the health bill galloped from introduction to passage in just 10 days, but the Senate's version won't be through until Christmas at the earliest. Suzy Khimm at the New Republic explains the reasons for the snail's pace.
  • The Senate has to vote on a “
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health care • Senate • Harry Reid • filibuster • health care reform

OPINION

 Democrats Ought 
 to Thank Stupak 

Congressman brings the party in line with the public on abortion

Nov 11, 09 1:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Liberal Democrats are angry at Bart Stupak for forcing an amendment restricting abortion into the House’s health care bill. But one day, they may view the unassuming congressman as a savior of health care reform. Polls show the American public is evenly split on abortion, and most don’t... More »

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health care • abortion • Democrats • Bart Stupak • conservatives

Steven Pearlstein

Dems Should Embrace a Health Care Filibuster

Open, Senate debate is preferable to backroom negotiations

Nov 11, 09 1:07 PM CST
(Newser) - The Senate is broken, writes Steven Pearlstein , its members so mired in dysfunction they don’t even realize how undemocratic current legislative practice is. The mere threat of a filibuster is enough to kill a bill, a fact that "violates the letter and spirit of the US Constitution."... More »

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health care • Congress • Senate • filibuster • health care reform • public option

 GOP Wants to Resurrect 
 That Town Hall Feeling 

Party hopes to drum up anger over health bills

Nov 11, 09 12:23 PM CST
(Newser) - Republicans are hoping to re-create the late-summer town hall meetings at which angry voters lashed out over proposed health care legislation. Sen. Lamar Alexander tells Politico the party is planning 50 phone and in-person gatherings over the next few weeks. "If every American has a chance to read the... More »

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health care • Democrats • health insurance • Senate Republicans • Republican Party • town hall meeting • House Republicans • Gallup poll

BLOWBACK DEPT.

Dems Who Dissed Health Bill Feel Their Party's Wrath

39 House Democrats voted against it

Nov 11, 09 10:51 AM CST
(Newser) - They can't win. The 39 House Democrats who voted against the health care bill may have thought the move would win them the favor of their often Republican-heavy districts; instead they're fending off attacks from constituents and interest groups from the left, Politico reports. In Florida, about 60 people protested... More »

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health care • health insurance • Daily Kos • MoveOn.org • House Democrats

 Lack of Health 
 Insurance Kills 
  2K Veterans 
 a Year 

2,266 died last year, a study finds

Nov 11, 09 8:16 AM CST
(Newser) - Some 2,266 US veterans under 65 died last year because they didn't have health insurance, a team from Harvard Medical School estimates. Although most vets get medical care through the VA, there are about a million and a half, under 65, who were not wounded and are "too... More »

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health care • veterans • health insurance • uninsured • Veterans Day • Veterans Administration

OPINION

 Time to 
 Drop-Kick 
 the Dems, 
 Ladies 

Is the party prepared to get reelected without women?

Nov 11, 09 3:59 AM CST
(Newser) - House Democrats got their health care package through, but not before selling women down the river (again) by "restricting access to abortion in unprecedented ways," complains Kate Harding in Salon . The latest betrayal is just more evidence that it's time for women to dump the Dems, "who... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • abortion rights • women's rights • Right to Life • House of Representatives • pro-choice • Stupak-Pitts

 Senate Health Bill 
 Runs Into Abortion Divide 

Both sides have vocal opponents, could halt bill without compromise

Nov 10, 09 12:05 PM CST
(Newser) - With a last-second concession barring federal dollars from funding abortions, Nancy Pelosi largely skirted the full brunt of the issue, but Harry Reid may not be so lucky. The Senate majority leader likely won't get the 60 votes he needs without similar language— which a Planned Parenthood VP calls a... More »

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health care • abortion • health insurance • Senate • Harry Reid • Planned Parenthood • House of Representatives • health care reform • NARAL • public option • women's issues • abortion debate

 Abortion Dispute Could
 Derail Health Care Bill

Some Dems vow to block final passage

Nov 9, 09 7:42 AM CST
(Newser) - The abortion funding ban included in the health-care bill passed by the House Saturday could doom it down the road, as abortion supporters in the Senate threaten revolt, and those who voted for it in the House vow they won't back the final bill if it's still included, the Washington... More »

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health care • abortion • health insurance • Senate • House of Representatives • Roman Catholic bishops • public option

Meet the Lone GOP Rep to Vote for House Bill

La. freshman Cao cites district's health woes, abortion concession

Nov 8, 09 9:47 AM CST
(Newser) - House Democrats are wryly proclaiming their health care bill a bipartisan victory—and thanks goes to Ahn "Joseph" Cao, the New Orleans freshman who was the lone Republican to support the bill, reports the New York Times in a look at the man behind the vote. The new abortion... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Medicare • Louisiana • health care reform • bipartisanship • Joseph Cao

 House Passes Landmark 
 Health Care Reform 

Measure passes 220-215, with only one Republican in favor

Nov 7, 09 10:24 PM CST
(AP) - The House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation tonight to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. The measure passed 220-215 with only one Republican—Louisiana's Joseph Cao—in favor and 39 Democrats opposed. "Oh, what a night,... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Congress • House of Representatives • universal health care • health care reform • government run health care

heatlh care push

 Obama:  
 'Let's Finish the Job' 

President rallies Democrats as House debates bill

Nov 7, 09 12:34 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama rallied the Democratic troops today and told the nation that "this is our moment to deliver" on health care reform. In a brief Rose Garden address that took place as the House debated its long-awaited bill, Obama again stressed the need for reform and urged lawmakers to... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Congress • Democrats • House of Representatives • health care reform • President Obama

House Opens Debate
on Health Care Bill

Final vote is expected sometime tonight

Nov 7, 09 9:11 AM CST
(Newser) - It's crunch time in the House for health care reform. Representatives opened debate this morning on the monumental plan to provide universal coverage to Americans for the first time. A final vote is expected to take place tonight, maybe in the wee hours, and Nancy Pelosi continues to wheel and... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Congress • House of Representatives • health care reform

 GOP Health Plan 
 Would Leave 
 52M Uninsured 

Bill saves some money, expands coverage by only 3M

Nov 5, 09 7:50 AM CST
(Newser) - The GOP health care bill has no chance of passing—but if it did, most people who already have coverage would see their premiums drop, while 52 million Americans currently uninsured would stay that way. So says a report by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, which largely confirms Dems' claims... More »

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health care • health care costs • Congressional Budget Office • health care reform • uninsured • House Republicans

 Healthcare 
 Bill Boosts 
 Pay for 
 Prayer 

Insurance firms urged to cover praying healers

Nov 3, 09 5:34 AM CST
(Newser) - A little-noticed provision in a Senate version of the pending health care bill would require insurance companies to consider paying for prayer as a medical expense. The addition was inserted by Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch and backed by Democrats John Kerry and Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, the home state... More »

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health care • health insurance • Senate • Ted Kennedy • Massachusetts • church • Orrin Hatch • prayer • shark attack • Christian Science

ANALYSIS

Lieberman, Bayh Wives
in Bed with Health Biz

Ties to pharma, insurers  make filibuster threats suspect

Oct 30, 09 9:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - The threats from Sens. Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh to help filibuster any health reform bill with a public option should come as no surprise to anybody familiar with their family finances, writes Joe Conason. Lieberman's wife Hadassah spent 30 years working in the corporate health sector for pharmaceutical firms... More »

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health care • Joe Lieberman • health care industry • lobbying • health care reform • Evan Bayh • WellPoint • public option • Susan Bayh

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