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Health Care

The reckoning

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse nails it during this weekend’s health care debate. When it turns out there are no death panels, when there is no bureaucrat [...]
December 21, 2009 | Posted in: Health Care, US Senate | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Impasse broken on Health Care Bill

The manager’s amendment is being read in now. TPM healthcare wire
December 19, 2009 | Posted in: Current Events, Health Care | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

The speaker’s skillz

Had a discussion late night about the Health Care Reform bill and Nancy Pelosi’s role in getting it through. Not a lot of people seem [...]
November 8, 2009 | Posted in: Health Care, Politics, US House | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Contact made with rebels

Evidently, the major networks will have one-on-one interviews with the rebel leader Obama. Perhaps they will be able to pin him down on his socialist [...]
September 20, 2009 | Posted in: Health Care | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Town Hall breakdowns

After leaving Triple A ball in Raleigh and heading up to The Show, Mr. Beckwith pens his first major piece for Roll Call — a [...]
September 8, 2009 | Posted in: Current Events, Health Care | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

Memo to Raleigh

All the cool states are doing it. Despite budgets ravaged by the recession, at least 13 states have invested millions of dollars this year to [...]
July 19, 2009 | Posted in: Administration, Current Events, Health Care | Tags: | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

The rest of us thank you

Thanking all you millionaires in advance for your contribution to universal health care. Reuters: House bill to hit millionaires with 5.4 pct surtax
July 15, 2009 | Posted in: Health Care | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink

The Long Struggle

Via the White House: . . . The American people are the most insurance-minded people in the world. They will not be frightened off from [...]
July 9, 2009 | Posted in: Administration, Health Care | Tags: , | Comments closed | Full Story Permalink