For those who believe reconciliation was an option to circumvent Democrats that have sold their souls to the insurance companies, Nate Silver’s analysis is very sobering. I think when all is said and done if Healthcare Reform passes, then the negotiating tactic performed by the President will ultimately go down in history as genius as […]

  My late husband, Ted Kennedy, was passionate about health-care reform. It was the cause of his life. He believed that health care for all our citizens was a fundamental right, not a privilege, and that this year the stars — and competing interests — were finally aligned to allow our nation to move forward […]

I love DailyKos’ Markos Moulitsas’ passion for healthcare reform. I share that same passion. In a Senate that needs a super majority to pass this bill with some controls on the health insurance companies, incrementalism is necessary given the insurance paid off Democratic Senators. Though many want the bill passed by reconciliation, any bill passed […]

  By JOE BIDEN Published: December 19, 2009   IF I were still a United States senator, I would not only vote yes on the current health care reform bill, I would do so with the sure knowledge that I was casting one of the most historic votes of my 36 years in the Senate. […]

  The Senate Democratic caucus is unified following a Saturday meeting and poised to pass a much-weakened health care reform proposal before Christmas day. "The mood was great," said Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) of the party gathering earlier Saturday. "It was a very, very good mood, even [among] those of us who have disappointments about […]

Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman gets it right again. December 19, 2009, 3:55 pm The insincere center Matthew Yglesias makes a good point: The health care bill represents a return, after fifteen years, of the idea that congress should be trying to pass major legislation that tackles major national problems. And even beyond that, […]

Jim Inhofe made a fool of himself in Copenhagen today and was summarily ignored. It is time that we give the GOP and others that misinforms Americans the same regards. COPENHAGEN — Sen. Jim Inhofe flew across the Atlantic and — on little sleep — braved the snow, the cold and the dark to deliver […]

  The nation’s largest union group said Thursday that it will not support the Democratic health-care bill unless "substantial changes" are made to the current Senate version. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement to reporters that without a public option for insurance coverage or an employer mandate – and with a tax on […]

This is of not much value but it is sure nice to see Lieberman get a symbolic pushback. Joe Lieberman may have been wondering if his colleagues’ respect for him went out the same window that he tossed the public option and the Medicare buy-in compromise that was to replace it. He got an answer […]

Paul Krugman, the great Liberal Nobel Prize winning economist says it much better than any of us have thus far. Illusions and bitterness There’s enormous disappointment among progressives about the emerging health care bill — and rightly so. That said, even as it stands it would take a big step toward greater security for Americans […]