Health Care Reform

Health Care Moves

Members of the House and Senate will return to Washington the evening of Tuesday, September 8th. Over the following several days they will compare constituent feedback on health care reform. There will be thousands of small informal discussions — Members talking to each other on the House and…

Debating the President’s Portsmouth pitch (part 14)

We continue reviewing the President’s remarks on health care reform in Portsmouth, New Hampshire:

THE PRESIDENT: Now, in terms of savings for you as a Medicare recipient, the biggest one is on prescription drugs…

Debating the President’s Portsmouth pitch (part 7)

Here’s still more from the President in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire town hall on health care reform:

THE PRESIDENT: We have the AARP on board because they know this is a good deal for our seniors.

Debating the President’s Portsmouth pitch (part 2)

This is the second in a series of posts on the President’s comments about health care reform at yesterday’s town hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

What is reconciliation?

A lot of people are trying to look forward in time, attempting to predict how the health care legislative process will play out this fall. It is way too soon to make any concrete predictions — I can confidently say that the political dynamics will look quite different four weeks from…

A health care fallback strategy, or merely a messaging shift?

The President and Speaker Pelosi have shifted their health care message for the August Congressional recess. They are no longer talking about health care reform and covering all of the uninsured. They are instead: