White House Watch Archive: Health Care
Public Actually Supportive of Health Plan
How troubled are Americans by President Obama's proposed health-care overhaul? Less than you might think after reading Ceci Connolly and Jon Cohen's story in The Washington Post today. They write: A majority of Americans see government action as critical to...
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June 24, 2009; 1:02 PM ET |
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Head-Knocking Time
There's a consensus emerging among liberal pundits about what needs to happen for President Obama to achieve genuine health care reform: He's got to get tough with the legislators who are standing in his way. Michael Tomasky writes in a...
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Dan Froomkin
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June 22, 2009; 1:04 PM ET |
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Health Care Watch
In a nearly hour-long speech to the American Medical Association yesterday, President Obama tried to persuade doctors that elements of his plan that some doctors think of as bitter medicine will, indeed, be good for them. Robert Pear and Jackie...
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June 16, 2009; 12:58 PM ET |
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The Health-Care Bargaining Chips
As the White House and Congress get to the horse-trading part of putting together a viable health-care plan, there will inevitably be some winners and some losers. For instance, when it comes to raising the money to pay for expanding...
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June 15, 2009; 12:25 PM ET |
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Stumping for His Health Care Overhaul
President Obama today launches the outside-the-Beltway part of his campaign to overhaul the American health-care system. Philip Elliott writes for the Associated Press: Administration officials said the president's speech in Green Bay would contain no new policies, but would instead...
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June 11, 2009; 10:54 AM ET |
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Obama Ready to Tax Benefits
Responding to demands that he further explain where the money would come from to pay for his dramatic health-care overhaul, President Obama is said to be on the brink of endorsing the limited taxation of employer-sponsored health benefits -- benefits...
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June 10, 2009; 12:00 PM ET |
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