The most recent Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll finds that the percentage of Americans who think the new health care law will make their lives and their families’ lives better is at an all time low. Only 25 percent think it would personally make their lives better while 31 percent think it would make them [...]

Enthusiasm for the new health care law is trending down, a poll shows. It’s hard to stay excited about a plan that doesn’t take effect until 2014.

I have written about this issue before, but I think it is important for people, Democratic Congressional members, consultants, and political pundits to realize just how completely and totally Democrats failed with their health care messaging, especially when it comes to the issue of the deficit. Democrats easily wasted more than two months waiting around [...]

Matt Yglesias analyzes the “failure of the progressive block strategy,” and chalks it up to progressives not picking issues that “centrists” care about. He doesn’t note his own role in that failure, vilifying the leader of the progressive block Raul Grijalva as “the world’s greatest monster” unless he backs down. (Our own whip effort started [...]

The Kaiser Family Foundation is a often a good source of health care information. I appreciated what they a trying to do with their subsidy calculator, but, unfortunately, it could leave many Americans with a false impression of how much reform will cost them once the bill is implemented. The issue is that the calculator [...]

I think the single greatest political disaster in store for Democrats over the issue of health care reform is not about policy, mandates, or taxes; it is about time. Americans for the most part do not know that they will be forced to wait for three years before reform really starts. A recent Kaiser Family [...]