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Progressive Breakfast - 8/21/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. Choice of Public Option Still Popular Speaker Pelosi says only public option will pass House. Bloomberg quotes: "There’s no way I can pass a bill in the House...
"Guaranteed Choice" Will Win The Health Care Debate
This week, the NBC/WSJ poll was knocked for dropping the word "choice" from its monthly question about the public health insurance plan option, which led to a drop in support for the idea. Today, Huffington Post reports SurveyUSA has a new poll out showing a whopping...
Hacker Defines Strong Public Plan (It Ain't Co-Ops)
Today, the Institute for America's Future released a new report by policy architect of the public health insurance option Jacob Hacker, sizing up the existing House and Senate bills, and the expected compromise out of the bipartisan Senate Finance Committee talks. The...
Progressive Breakfast - 8/20/2009
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. WH Re-Engages Grassroots On Health Care Today LA Times previews today's presidential outreach: "Obama will hold a strategy session today with many of his...
Someone To Craft Manufacturing Policy
Bloomberg News reports that the Obama administration may elevate Ron Bloom, head of the government’s auto task force, to a job that would set U.S. manufacturing policy more broadly. The U.S. desperately needs a national industrial policy, including strong enforcement...
You Either Support America’s Manufacturers Or You Don’t
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) has done it again. In contrast to their stated interest in supporting American manufacturers, they’ve criticized someone who wants to strengthen U.S. manufacturing. In a recent item, NAM praises Dan Ikenson’s criticism...
National Association of Manufacturers Blasts … American Manufacturing?
Last week Harold Meyerson wrote a great column in the Washington Post, Just One Word: Factories, promoting American manufacturing. Meyerson wrote, “Since 1987, manufacturing as a share of our gross domestic product has declined 30 percent. Once the world's leading net...
Boehner To PhRMA: Please Be Greedier
Almost as telling as the fact that a whopping 62% of Republicans think the federal government should stay out of Medicare is the following vignette. First, let's make sure everyone is up to speed on the so-called "PhRMA Deal", which was essentially a detente agreement...
Majority of Republicans Say "Keep Gov. Out of Medicare!" (Really)
Wow. I just saw new national survey from Public Policy Polling (h/t TPM) that seriously has me floored (and by "floored" I mean on the floor laughing). It highlights, in a very stark manner, how unbelievably ignorant conservatives are when it comes to health care. Are...
You Can't Compromise Away What Is Not In The Bill
The new NBC/WSJ poll is being interpreted by some as evidence that opposition is growing against the President's health care plan, but reading the whole poll tells a different story. And unlike other news outlets in recent weeks, kudos to NBC for actually telling the...
