Health legislation update: baby steps through the Senate
Submitted by EricLykins on Fri, 2009/12/04 - 7:01am

I'm giving the 2009 "What the Heck is Really Going On?" Journalism Award to Carrie Brown. There's very little if anything I could tell you about the deals being crafted right now that she hasn't covered (somewhere there's a rolling list of amendments as they are submitted, but only 4 were brought up 4 consideration yesterday, anyway).

She is an example of what AP hacks (who we can almost replace with a computer program) read before they turn the information into a 3rd grade watercolor to show the masses.

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President Obama will be

Submitted by EricLykins on Sat, 2009/12/05 - 2:58pm.

President Obama will be attending a rare Sunday session of the Senate Democratic Caucus to crack some heads. Key targets: Lincoln, Nelson

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Running out of

Submitted by EricLykins on Mon, 2009/12/14 - 3:44pm.

Running out of options

Leiberman flip flops

Rahm needs to blow the sand out of it

Snowe for Christmas?

PREMIUMS and "cost curve", Incentive structure, Medicare expansion vs. other plans, adverse selection death spiral, alternate Republican proposal,

**Chicken/egg quandary in the Medicare basket: "Imagine living in a house with a crumbling foundation and trying to repair it by adding more bedrooms." That's a cute thing to say to a reporter, but it's an attitude that neglects the fact that doing both is entirely possible and necessary.

The next move depends on the CBO scoring of the current Medicare buy-in proposal which should come early this week. Similar legislation from last year did not pass the budget test.

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Submitted by EricLykins on Sat, 2009/12/19 - 1:28pm.

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