Where is the Luv??? Obama Live @ 3:15 Today (Friday 7/17)
July 17th, 2009
The President will end the week with a 3:15 press event on healthcare. For sure, not the way he was hoping to end the week on his top domestic policy. The week started with the President’s return to the states and his re-engagement in the health reform push. Momentum from the release of the House [...]
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Blue Dawg Growls
July 17th, 2009
Mike Ross, Blue Dog in chief on health reform re: Dems opposition in House. Don’t mess with the Daawgs…. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102×3972671
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Beware of Blue Dogs
July 10th, 2009
We have all heard the deafening rhetoric from the extreme political right and left that accompanies any major legislative initiative. On the health reform issue, the piercing calls from the left for a “Single Payer Plan” or a “Public Option” are routinely met with cries warning of the evils of “nationalization” and “rationing” from the right. [...]
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Vetoes & Vacations: The Future of Health Reform in CT
July 9th, 2009
What’s more important to you: a veto or vacation? State legislators may soon have to decide. Governor Rell’s veto yesterday of the Healthcare Pooling and Sustinet bills comes as no surprise. Citing the cost ($69 million for pooling, $1 billion for Sustinet), the ongoing and growing state budget deficits and the movement for reform on a [...]
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Hope, Concern, Lies & Half-truths: What the Public Really Thinks About Health Reform
July 7th, 2009
Everywhere I turn these days I get hammered with questions about state and federal health reform initiatives. Yesterday alone I had extensive discussions on the topic with the President of a local hospital, a state lobbyist and my buddy who is a very successful Orthopedic surgeon. Today it was the President of growing IT consulting [...]
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