After exiting a meeting with the Senate Democratic caucus, President Obama approached the microphone and proceeded to tell a bald-faced lie about health care reform: You talk to every health care economist out there, they will tell you that what ever ideas exist in terms of bending the cost curve and starting to reduce cost [...]

The blame for the death of the public option should not fall on Joe Lieberman. Joe Lieberman’s relentless campaign against the public option has not helped the cause, but Joe Lieberman never had the power to truly kill the public option. Joe Lieberman has never made a secret about his desire to bring down the [...]

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Without the option of a government-run insurance entity or extremely tight regulations to guarantee everyone has access to quality, cost effective health insurance, an individual mandate is both immoral and bad policy. If the Senate refuses to provide Americans with the guaranteed choice of decent health insurance policy, it must not mandate people buy insurance. [...]

Steny Hoyer says the House will pass this bill. Well, not unless almost everyone in the progressive caucus goes back on their word.

Call progressive members of Congress now and ask them if they intend to deliver on their promise to vote against this bill.

Politico is reporting that President Obama is going to tell the Democratic senators to do anything to pass a bill with the title of “health care reform. His message will be that their only goal should be to pass something with the label of “health care reform.” Getting the something labeled “health care reform” is [...]

Money paid to spouses is one of the primary ways that campaign finance laws are skirted, and the natural question should be, “is this money being paid because of someone’s special abilities, or is it just a pass-through to avoid detection by the FEC?” It’s a question that has legitimately been asked about members of both parties, including John Doolittle, Evan Bayh, Tom DeLay, Chris Dodd, and Tom Daschle. If Senator Lieberman would like to talk about the “merits,” he should explain what his wife has done to merit $328,000 in speaking fees in one year rather than trying to obscure the issue with his theatrical brand of “outrage.”

The sole defense of this massive corporate giveaway, formally known as the Senate health care reform bill, is that it would still do some “good,” helping millions of the uninsured. Unfortunately, the bill would dramatically worsen the quality of current insurance coverage for tens of millions Americans, thanks to the new excise tax on insurance [...]

Joe Lieberman flip-flops on his support for Medicare buy-in. Lieberman’s back stab sent health insurance stocks soaring. Will the Senate majority finally opt for reconciliation? It seems that is the only path Lieberman has left the Democrats if they want to pass reform. The White House, on the other hand, wants Reid to give Lieberman anything [...]

The CBO has just reached an absurd conclusion that will doom one of the other components in Harry Reid’s grand compromise on the public option. The strange decision on the part of the CBO could force Reid to drop the medical loss ratio of 90 percent. The CBO came to the ridiculous conclusion that requiring [...]