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 Baucus Sweetens Subsidies as Bill Goes to Mark-Up 

Democrats, Republican Snowe wanted lower costs for health insurance

Sep 22, 09 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate Finance Committee finally meets today to consider Max Baucus' health care reform bill—a bill Baucus has already reworked to counter complaints that it puts too much burden on the middle class. Baucus has upped subsidies to those too strapped to buy insurance, and says he may also... More »

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health care • health insurance • Olympia Snowe • Senate Finance Committee • health care reform • Max Baucus • subsidy • committee

Climate Groups Look to Avoid Health Care Repeat

But administration reluctant to push climate legislation this year

Sep 21, 09 8:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - Environmental groups are struggling to convince Democrats that the fight for cap-and-trade legislation won’t be as damaging as the one over health care, and to keep them from punting on the issue, Politico reports. Climate supporters say they have a grass-roots network in place that health care reformers didn’... More »

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climate change • health care • environment • cap and trade • environmentalists

TALKSHOW ROUNDUP

 Obama 'Skeptical' 
 About More Troops 
 in Afghanistan 

Pres calls Russians 'paranoid' and refuses to comment on ACORN

Sep 20, 09 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - If it’s Sunday, it’s President Obama, who took to five Sunday talk shows today (including Univision, but excluding Fox) to promote his agenda. Among the highlights:
  • Obama warned US commanders on This Week he’s “skeptical” that more US troops in Afghanistan will make a difference.
... More »

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Afghanistan • Russia • health care • Barack Obama • missile defense system • unemployment • troop levels • Sunday morning talk shows

Michelle Pushes Reform, Recalls Sasha's Illness

First lady turns attention to health care and its impact on women

Sep 18, 09 11:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michelle Obama joined her husband's push for health care reform today with a personal pitch aimed at women, reports Politico. She recalled her father's fight with multiple sclerosis as well as an illness daughter Sasha suffered as an infant. "I think about what on earth would we have done... More »

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health care • Michelle Obama • health care reform • first lady • Obama administration • Sasha Obama

Obama Story Turns Out to Be (Partially) False

Patient was dropped by insurer, but fought back, and got treatment

Sep 17, 09 8:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of the most poignant passages from Barack Obama's recent address to Congress concerned an Illinois cancer patient who died, the president said, because his insurer dropped him after discovering an unreported gallstone. In fact, reports the Wall Street Journal, Otto Raddatz did have his coverage rescinded in 2005—but... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • chemotherapy • health care reform • Jan Schakowsky • rescission

 Michelle Will Join Health Debate 

First lady's no Hillary, but she'll help president will soft sell

Sep 17, 09 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michelle Obama will be joining the push to pass a health reform bill, but the first lady won't be entering into the booby-trapped terrain that Hillary Clinton braved 16 years ago. Instead, Obama will focus on what Politico calls "the soft, soccer-mom sell," focusing on nutrition, exercise,... More »

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health care • Michelle Obama • White House • health care reform • first lady • Michelle Obama hula hoop

OPINION

 Keillor Faces 
 Mortality 
 as 'Nice  
 67 y.o. Man' 

Author Garrison Keillor's stroke leads to realization that it's time for change

Sep 16, 09 1:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Garrison Keillor got “bitten in the butt” by mortality when he suffered a stroke earlier this month, realizing that he is now—as one doctor wrote in her report—a “nice 67 y.o. male,” he writes for Salon. “I never wanted to be a nice... More »

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health care • hospital • stroke • health care reform • Garrison Keillor

Wife-Beating Branded a  'Pre-Existing Condition'

Eight states allow insurance firms to deny coverage to abused spouses

Sep 15, 09 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - It is legal in eight states and in DC for insurers to reject victims of domestic violence because being beaten up by your spouse qualifies as "a pre-existing health condition" the Huffington Post reports. If you're in a marriage where it's happened once, the logic goes, you're more likely... More »

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health care • health insurance • domestic violence • health care reform • domestic abuse • Mike Enzi • health insurance industry • pre-existing condition

OPINION

 America 
 Needs to 
 Embrace 
 Death 

Lowering health care costs means cutting unnecessary end-of-life treatment

Sep 13, 09 1:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Nobody wants to talk about rationing health care, but “the need to spend less money on the elderly at the end of life is the elephant in the room in the health-reform debate,” Evan Thomas writes in Newsweek. To expand coverage and lower costs, Americans must overcome their... More »

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health care • health care costs • death • rationing • health care reform • death panel • end-of-life care

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP


 Wilson: 'I Am 
 Not Going to 
 Apologize 
 Again' 

Gibbs denies Obama opposition motivated by race

Sep 13, 09 9:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Responding to threats by Democrats demanding he apologize to President Obama on the House floor, Rep. Joe Wilson was adamant today: “I am not going to apologize again.” The South Carolina Republican told Fox News Sunday, “I apologized to the president on Wednesday night. I believe... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Congress • race • Claire McCaskill • Maureen Dowd • Lindsey Graham • Joe Wilson

OPINION

Forget Health Reform—We Can't Afford It

The economy should
be Obama's top priority: Henninger

Sep 10, 09 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama makes health care sound like the most pressing issue in American life, but with unemployment at 10% and the country still officially in recession, Daniel Henninger wonders why he's "draining a dwindling reservoir of presidential capital." The cost of health care may be a problem for... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • health care costs • recession • unemployment • US economy • health care reform • economy • Obama administration • Wall Street bailout • TARP

OPINION

 Universal Health Care: 
 We Already Gave it to Iraq 

Constitution America fought to give Iraq guarantees its citizens health care

Sep 10, 09 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Many US lawmakers opposing health care reform need to be asked why it's OK for Iraqis but not Americans, Mark Dorlester writes for the Huffington Post. Article 31 of the Iraqi Constitution—made possible by the war, and hailed as a victory by the Bush administration—guarantees every Iraqi state-funded... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • health care • health insurance • health care reform • Iraq war

ANALYSIS

 Fresh-Faced Prez 
 Scores His Jimmy 
 Stewart Moment 

Mr. Obama goes to Washington 

Sep 10, 09 4:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - A joint session of Congress might not have been the perfect setting for Barack Obama's health care reform speech last night, writes Washington Post critic Tom Shales. All that "pomp, circumstance, and folderol," including 16 minutes just to get to the lectern, may have led voters to change... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Congress • health insurance • health care reform • speech • Obama administration • Jimmy Stewart • death panel

ANALYSIS

Wilson Wasn't Only Republican Behaving Badly

Boorish foes steal
show during
president's speech

Sep 10, 09 3:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rep. Joe Wilson was far from the only rude Republican at last night's joint session of Congress, Dana Milbank writes in the Washington Post. Shouts of "Shame!" and "Not true!" could be heard at various points, along with plenty of boos, hisses, and grumbles. Other... More »

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health care • Congress • Senate Republicans • health care reform • speech • House Republicans • President Obama • heckling • Congressional Republicans • Joe Wilson

OPINION

Swallow It, Liberals: Obama Needs to Compromise

Pragmatic president must reassure his supporters tonight, Tomasky writes

Sep 9, 09 8:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - "The summer has been a bummer for American liberals," writes Guardian America editor Michael Tomasky; after the heady optimism of President Obama's first 100 days, "reality has set in, and with force." Not only is conservative opposition "as Leninist as ever," but liberals... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Congress • liberals • health care reform • Michael Tomasky • George W. Bush • conservatives

OPINION

 Obamacare Will 
 Make Us Poorer, 
 Palin Writes 

Former Alaska governor says in op-ed she won the debate on  'death panels'

Sep 9, 09 5:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ahead of Barack Obama's clutch address to Congress tonight, Sarah Palin writes in the Wall Street Journal that the president's health reform plan "will increase our deficit, decrease our paychecks, and increase the power of unaccountable government technocrats." In a surprisingly wonky op-ed, the former Alaska governor lambastes... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • health care reform • Sarah Palin • death panel

OPINION

Obama Needs to Find His Backbone for Health Speech

Prez should use speech to show leadership and rise above partisan bickering

Sep 9, 09 4:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama needs to rediscover that "Yes We Can" spirit in a hurry if he's going to make a convincing case for health care reform in tonight's speech, Steven Pearlstein writes in the Washington Post. The president needs to wrest control of the debate not just from the right... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • health care reform • speech • President Obama

Health Care Reform '90%' Done: Reid

But Senate, House leaders not united
on public option

Sep 8, 09 5:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Harry Reid declared "90% agreement" in the Senate on health care reform today after a meeting with President Obama. Reid and Nancy Pelosi expressed optimism that the president's address to Congress tomorrow will bolster support for reform, the Hill reports. The Senate Majority Leader is confident that the speech... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Congress • Senate • Harry Reid • health care reform • public option

House Dems Back to Work
in Same Quagmire

Public health insurance option still splitting party after hectic summer break

Sep 8, 09 4:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - House Democrats returned to work yesterday in the same position they were in before they spent their summer break getting an earful from the public, the Washington Post reports. House lawmakers are still expected to move first on the health care bill. But while broad support remains for some kind... More »

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health care • Congress • House of Representatives • Steny Hoyer • health care reform • town hall meeting • House Democrats • Blue Dog Democrats • Blue Dog Coalition

ANAlYSIS

 Clinton Health Care 
 Defeat Molds 
 Dem Strategy 

Democrat's all-encompassing issue is 'too big to drop,' warn Bill's aides

Sep 6, 09 8:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Top aides to Senate Democrats met with former Clinton administration advisers before the congressional summer break in another bid to determine where the last health care reform push went wrong, and how to avoid a repeat of the mistakes, reports the New York Times. Here are a few of the... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Congress • Clinton administration

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