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White House Denying Its Own Health Care Concession: AP Fact Check
President Barack Obama has indicated a willingness to drop a government-run health care plan from any overhaul. The White House says that’s not a shift. Actually, it is.
Fierce proponents of a government-run health plan for months, Obama and senior administration officials, bowing to pressure from Republicans and skeptical voters, suggested that such a public option [...]
POTUS Calls Biden ‘Off The Bench’ To Influence Senate Votes On Health Care
Even as the White House concedes that its options for recruiting Republican support on health care have dwindled, if not passed altogether, administration officials say they have one last weapon in an effort to curry elusive bipartisan support.
Vice President Joseph Biden has, to this point, been noticeably silent in the health care debate, his time [...]
Obama To Shift His Pitch On Health Care – Will Take The Moral High Road
POLTUS WILL STAY AWAY FROM DETAILS, AND TRY TO TALK TO AMERICANS ABOUT THE ‘MORAL IMPERATIVE’ OF HEALTH CARE
President Barack Obama, trying to regain control of the health-care debate, will likely shift his pitch in September, White House and Democratic officials said, as he faces pressure from supporters to talk more about the moral imperative [...]
WSJ Opinion: Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein Explains Why ObamaCare Is All About Rationing
Although administration officials are eager to deny it, rationing health care is central to President Barack Obama’s health plan. The Obama strategy is to reduce health costs by rationing the services that we and future generations of patients will receive.
The White House Council of Economic Advisers issued a report in June explaining the Obama administration’s [...]
3 Savvy Ways To Save Money
With home equity evaporating like dry ice on a hot day, many Americans no longer can rely on their homes as a source of quick cash. Likewise, credit card issuers are lowering credit limits for many consumers, imposing constraints on spending.
Americans are realizing that the spending party is over and it’s time to build wealth [...]
Robert Scheer/Truthdig: You’re Broke, But The Bankers Are Doing Fine
By now everybody must know that the top banking executives responsible for our economic meltdown have no shame. Otherwise they would not have dared give themselves such hefty bonuses as a deeply perverse reward for actions that caused millions of Americans to lose their jobs and homes. The $33 billion that the executives of the [...]
Manufacturing Overload Causes Delays In Swine Flu Deliveries
Faced with an unexpected delay, health officials are trying to counter new problems with swine flu vaccine production including a logjam at factories that put the precious liquid into syringes.
The newest calculations show the nation won’t have the long-promised 120 million doses ready to dispense by Oct. 15, but just 45 million instead. It appears [...]
Associated Press Analysis: Liberals Tired Of Health Care Compromise
Frustrated liberals have a question for President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers: Isn’t it time the other guys gave a little ground on health care? What’s the point of a bipartisan bill, they ask, if we’re making all the concessions?
A case in point:
Sen. Charles Grassley, a key Republican negotiator on health care, was on a [...]
Opinion/WSJ – Dorothy Rabinowitz: Obama’s Tone-Deaf Health Campaign
It didn’t take chaotic town-hall meetings, raging demonstrators and consequent brooding in various sectors of the media to bring home the truth that the campaign for a health-care bill is, to put it mildly, not going awfully well. It’s not hard now to envision the state of this crusade with just a month or two [...]
White House Reassures Allies on Health Plan ‘Public Opiton’
The White House sought Monday to reassure allies that its enthusiasm for a government-sponsored insurance plan remains strong, following an uproar over comments by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
The White House sent an email to members of Congress and other supporters saying that President Barack Obama wants a public insurance option as part [...]
