Karen Tumulty
Finishing 'The Treatment'
And Now the Real Work Begins (Cont'd)
President Obama and his Democratic allies should enjoy the moment. This was a hard-fought victory, one not years but decades in the making. Still, there is work to be done. And some of it must begin soon. In the new issue of Time, Karen Tumulty and Kate Pickert with Alice Park sketch out the major challenges ahead. Among them are action at the state level: READ MORE >>
Blast from the Past
Op-eds by members of Congress, present or former, are rarely worth reading. Today's Washington Post provides one that is. It's about health care reform and its author is Marjorie Margolies. READ MORE >>
'We Will Likely Vote Friday or Saturday'
Somewhere in the White House or Capitol Hill, I imagine, is a whiteboard that looks like this: August recess September Columbus Day Thanksgiving Christmas New Year's State of the Union Valentine's Day St. Patrick's Day READ MORE >>
How To Deal With Recalcitrant House Dems
Now this is the kind of Democratic primary challenge I can get behind: READ MORE >>
If This Doesn't Excite Liberals, Nothing Will
Via Joe Klein, here's Rush Limbaugh confronting the increasingly likely enactment of health care reform: I'll just tell you this, if this passes and it's five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented--I am leaving the country. I'll go to Costa Rica. READ MORE >>
The GOP's Pre-Existing Ideology
You’d have to be pretty cold-hearted to think somebody should go without insurance just because she has a kid with asthma, was born with diabetes, or survived a bout of breast cancer--just three of the conditions that today would render an individual “uninsurable” in the eyes of the industry. READ MORE >>
The Inkblot Test
An article that ran in Politico on Friday provided a Rorschach test for those of us following the health care reform debate. READ MORE >>
Do You See a House Majority in that Inkblot?
An article that ran in Politico on Friday provided a Rorschach test for those of us following the health care reform debate. READ MORE >>
Sticker Shock
When it comes to health care reform, many Americans are still asking: What’s in it for me? They should put that question to Californians who have individual insurance coverage from Anthem Blue Cross--and just learned their premiums will be going up by almost 40 percent this year. READ MORE >>
