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From The New York Times: Editorial Board– June 21, 2011 Leading Republicans — after proposing to gut Medicare — are still trying to pose as the program’s saviors. How cynical can they get? At the recent Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire, Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota warned that health care reform will take $500…
From Talking Points Memo: Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) Brian Beutler| June 20, 2011, 6:08PM Democratic members of Congress who pressed the consulting giant McKinsey & Company to open the books on its disputed health care study are piling on, now that the firm’s released its survey materials. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), who…
From Think Progress: By Igor Volsky on Jun 14, 2011 at 9:07 am The seven Republicans who took part in yesterday’s presidential debate in New Hampshire all promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act without offering alternatives for expanding access to insurance or lowering health care costs. Instead, the GOP fudged the facts of the law and…
From The New York Times: By PAUL KRUGMAN–Published: June 12, 2011 Every once in a while a politician comes up with an idea that’s so bad, so wrongheaded, that you’re almost grateful. For really bad ideas can help illustrate the extent to which policy discourse has gone off the rails. And so it was with…
From Talking Points Memo: Brian Beutler| June 10, 2011, 4:40PM The political damage to President Obama’s health care law may already be done. But there’s a curious backstory to the report this week from a major consulting firm study that found “ObamaCare” would lead to fairly dramatic unintended consequences. The consulting firm McKinsey & Company…
From The Post and Courier: By Renee Dudley–Friday, June 10, 2011 State Medicaid cuts announced earlier this week will cause Charleston-area hospitals to lose tens of millions of dollars, forcing at least one of them to shed jobs and reduce services, hospital officials said. Reductions announced Monday will cost the Medical University of South Carolina…
From The Washington Post: By Ezra Klein | 04:59 PM ET, 06/09/2011 By Akira Hakuta/The Washington Post “The safer Medicare is, the more endangered Medicaid is,” sighs Sen. Jay Rockefeller. “Reading the tea leaves and being in a lot of meetings over the last couple of days, I worry that people are saying, ‘great, now…
From The Huffington Post: Ron Pollack–06/ 9/11 02:22 PM ET There’s encouraging news out of Atlanta today for all Americans. The third hearing before the court of appeals left me feeling optimistic about the future of the Affordable Care Act. But let’s start from the beginning. There have been approximately two dozen suits filed against…
From The Herald: U.S. Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C. Jamie Self– Thursday, Jun. 09, 2011 LAKE WYLIE — The debate over how to get the nation’s fiscal house in order – and whether all will carry a fair share of the burden – came to northern York County on Wednesday night at a town hall meeting hosted…
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