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Once the health bill passes, Republicans have to choose between calling for its repeal and not calling for its repeal. Neither choice is attractive. My heart bleeds for them.
Archive for the ‘Health Care’ Category
December 27th, 2009
Category: Health Care
Anemona Hartocollis has a long piece in today’s NYT about the fine line physicans and families walk with patients at the end. New to me: in addition to pain, agitation and anxiety are now accepted reasons for giving patients a variety of CNS depressants, even though – or is it really because? – they are [...]
December 22nd, 2009
Category: US healthcare reform, Watching Conservatives
Sheldon Whitehouse on the insurance business model that reform will displace. Good stuff.
December 21st, 2009
Category: Health Care, US healthcare reform
The Senate health bill will provide $196 billion per year in subsidies to poor and working people. That’s a big number…
December 19th, 2009
Category: US healthcare reform
It looks like there are now sixty votes in the Senate to pass the healthcare bill: all of them Democrats. Now can we end the filibuster?
December 15th, 2009
Category: US healthcare reform
Harry Reid may have to give in to blackmail from Lieberman and Snowe. But he should make them pay a price.
December 7th, 2009
Category: US healthcare reform
Instead of a “public option”: Medicare buy-in for those 55-64, Medicaid up to 150% of poverty, an a private health plan or plans negotiated nationally by the Office of Personnel Management.
