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A provision to allow 55-65 year-olds to purchase Medicare entices liberals
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A once-in-a-generation new health insurance study has health care wonks lining up to declare it an indictment or defense of the future of Obamacare. Who should you believe?
A provision to allow 55-65 year-olds to purchase Medicare entices liberals
The right gives Harry Reid a history lesson on slavery and civil rights
How Senator Ben Nelson's anti-abortion amendment could make or break health care reform
The New Yorker's resident health-care genius compares reform today to agriculture reform 100 years ago
And why health care reform could make it worse
Is the $460 billion reduction a cut in care or just cost control?
Democrats and Republicans are taking opposite conclusions from a Congressional Budget Office report
President Obama hands it out as mandatory reading
Why the start of the health care debate in the Senate is a prelude to big trouble
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has scheduled the vote to open debate on Saturday night
Judging cost, abortion restrictions, coverage levels, political viability and more
Ruth Marcus sees both sides in the health care-abortion debate
Some Republicans are already planning to dismantle Democrats' reform efforts
Pundits across the spectrum react with frustration
A Goldman Sachs report finds that private insurers profit most if there's no health care reform
The threat of a Senate filibuster may be the greatest obstacle to passage
Pundts wonder if Democrats can stick together in the Senate
Fifteen years later, Bubba heads to Capitol Hill to make good on reform
Democrats face major hurdles in the Senate and beyond
Why the pro-life amendment is actually about class
Evaluating his liberal district, Obama's lobbying, and the intricacies of Vietnamese-American politics
The abortion-limiting Stupak amendment may save health care reform at the cost of a divided party
Did House Republicans walk into a political ambush?
What does the passage in the House mean for Democrats, health care reform, and abortion?
Speaker Pelosi says the bill could be voted on by Saturday, but is it any good?
Congress gained two new Democrats who support a public option
House Minority Leader John Boehner has proposed a Republican health care alternative
The much-touted savior of the public option could be a dud
It's being unveiled today. Here's what to expect.
Theories explaining the senator's threat to filibuster the health care bill if it includes a public option
A few health care-happy pundits applaud themselves for putting Obama's feet to the fire
As Congress negotiates health care's most discussion provision, all eyes fall on the White House
Debating the financial pros and cons of mandatory health insurance
Some believe women are more likely to support reform because the current system tilts against them
Democrats think a provision to let states decline the public option could do the trick, but experts are dubious
Reid's much-derided $247 billion increase to doctor payments is an embarrassing defeat
A majority of Americans back a public option health care bill, even without Republican support
Before the health care bill passes, columnists have a few revisions to propose
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has few allies and a tough road ahead in the health care fight
Predictions for what happens after the Baucus bill passed the Senate Finance Committee
Columnists dig through the Maine senator's biography for clues to her character, independence and media savvy
The moderate Republican announced she will vote for reform today, but that could be bad news for liberals
A public radio report says insurance companies may not be the culprits after all
Nessa at The Minority Report invokes Mel Brooks and the Sheriff of Nottingham to denounce health care
A big showdown over the Baucus bill begins Tuesday morning at 10 A.M. All eyes are on Olympia Snowe.
A proposed tax on "Cadillac" plans could pay for reform--unless it backfires
New insurance industry report says health care bill raises costs, but some bloggers suggest a side of salt
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