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Progressive Breakfast: Health Care vs. Politics
The daily Progressive Breakfast serves up what progressive movement members need to know to start their day. President Takes On Obstructionist Foot-Draggers Obama tells PBS: "I want this done now. Now, if there are no deadlines, nothing gets done in this town. You've...
Progressive Breakfast: House Health Bill Has Prog Tax Plan
Progressive Tax Plan Funds House Health Care Bill Politico Pulse reports House bill coming today: "The House is expected to introduce a health reform bill that will cover its estimated $1 trillion price tag by levying higher taxes on people making $350,000 or more and...
Progressive Breakfast: Deadlines Get Nudged Back
Search For Revenue May Affect Health Care Timing Politico Pulse reports: "Both the House and Senate may delay their summer breaks by a few days in order to get health-care bills off the floor. A House leadership aide: 'If we need to, we’ll go longer.' Ditto from a...
Progressive Breakfast: Deadlines Get Nudged Back
Search For Revenue May Affect Health Care Timing Politico Pulse reports: "Both the House and Senate may delay their summer breaks by a few days in order to get health-care bills off the floor. A House leadership aide: 'If we need to, we’ll go longer.' Ditto from a...
Progressive Breakfast: Taxing Health Benefits Losing Traction
Congressional Dems Push Back on Baucus, Rahm Baucus gets blowback from fellow Senate Dems. Bloomberg: "Senate Democratic leaders are pressing Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus to reconsider a plan to tax employer-provided health benefits because they say it would...
Progressive Breakfast: Prime-Time Public Plan Pitch
President Holds Prime-Time Health Care Town Hall Health Care '09 rally and lobby day in DC today, organized by Health Care for America Now! Jonathan Cohn on presidential prime-time health care town hall: "…he used the occasion to hammer away at a key point--one...
Progressive Breakfast: Prime-Time Public Plan Pitch
President Holds Prime-Time Health Care Town Hall Health Care '09 rally and lobby day in DC today, organized by Health Care for America Now! Jonathan Cohn on presidential prime-time health care town hall: "…he used the occasion to hammer away at a key point--one...
Progressive Breakfast: Beware Incomplete CBO Health Care Analysis
Beware Incomplete CBO Health Care Analysis NYT and AP hand obstructionists new talking points and hype preliminary CBO analysis of Sen. Ted Kennedy's health care bill showing a "cost at least $1 trillion over 10 years but [would] only insure about 16 million" leaving...
Progressive Breakfast: Beware Incomplete CBO Health Care Analysis
Beware Incomplete CBO Health Care Analysis NYT and AP hand obstructionists new talking points and hype preliminary CBO analysis of Sen. Ted Kennedy's health care bill showing a "cost at least $1 trillion over 10 years but [would] only insure about 16 million" leaving...
Progressive Breakfast: Beware Incomplete CBO Health Care Analysis
Beware Incomplete CBO Health Care Analysis NYT and AP hand obstructionists new talking points and hype preliminary CBO analysis of Sen. Ted Kennedy's health care bill showing a "cost at least $1 trillion over 10 years but [would] only insure about 16 million" leaving...
