Ezra Klein on the CBO's Report's Hidden Provision
A health care reform advocate says Baucus's won't be as cheap as we think
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 health care reform advocate says Baucus's won't be as cheap as we think
Keli Goff says paying for others' personal choices stinks, so down with AIG and obesity
Enthusiasm for the Congressional Budget Office report obscures some pitfalls
Could this be the moment to secure health care reform?
Plans in Tennessee, Texas, and Massachusetts offer lessons and warnings
Signs of growing confidence among liberals that an end is in sight
Why have major conservative figures started speaking out in support of health care reform?
Behind the scenes, the president is quietly trying to win over moderate Democrats to push the reform
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal pushes a Republican plan for health care reform, but the reviews are mixed
The Senate Majority Leader inspires confidence and skepticism
Reform-minded liberals find a new hero, and cause for hope
Michael Moore, Howard Dean and others attack Democrats who voted down the public option
Bloggers break down the Senate Finance Committee's votes
A liberal thought leader on health care cites the Dutch model
After a summer of furious political fighting over health care reform, the Senate finally tackles the "public option" today
Embracing imperfection or pushing too hard could both mean political catastrophe for Democrats in 2010
Obama's Sunday skirmish with George Stephanopoulos sets off a debate over constitutionality, health care policy, and taxes
He may just want exchanges, but either way he joins progressive Dems, briefly
It's deeply flawed, columnists say, but it's a start. Three takes on what to do with Max Baucus's health care bill.
Amid the sea of reactions, we've identified the biggest opinions shaping debate
Finding the good news in Baucus's proposed health care reform
They have little in common, other than a distaste for the Baucus bill as it has been written
About 24 hours later, experts and columnists have digested the 220 page document
Republicans and Democrats can agree on one thing: the only one who loves the Baucus plan is Baucus
Max Baucus's 200 pages, dropped this morning, draws criticism, praise and shock
Max Baucus contradicts his own calls for patience and bipartisanship
Sen. Olympia Snowe backs out, leaving zero Republican support, but Democrats continue to hope
Michael Lind says it's no coincidence that ethnically homogeneous countries have the most generous health care
There's nothing new to be said about the health care debate, right? Wrong!
Writers from around the country see the new census data as more reason to pass a bill, any bill
A brief round up of strange reactions to the President's health care speech
Reacting point by point, he rebuilds the intelligent case for dissent
Many of the country's poor are obese—is it fair to guilt them?
Obama descends into the fray to pick a fight with health care foes. How have they responded?
The Atlantic Wire sorted through scores of columns and blog posts to find the sharpest observations and assess the landscape of opinion after this all-important moment
Max Baucus, a crucial Democratic senator, urges his party to sacrifice Republican support as well as the public option
Camille Paglia opens fire on health care, mows down Dems, drugs, Ivy Leaguers
Obama may have already secured health care's biggest change for the better
Joe Weisenthal takes a step back to poke an elephant in the room
Columnists pile on with advice on how Obama can nail or fail his bottom-of-the-ninth speech to Congress tonight
He finds the good and fixes the bad from this liberal bogeyman
The day before Obama delivers a make-or-break speech on health care reform, liberals tell the president to go for broke
Marcy Wheeler and Ezra Klein throw down on Sen. Baucus's new health care bill
Ze Frank, usually a jokester, takes a semi-serious look at health care in this video
David Goldhill's proposed reform has got conservatives and economists rallying for change, but liberals protest
First takes on Obama's plan to take back the health care debate with a speech to a joint session of Congress
HuckabeeCare is so crazy it might just work, says one liberal. Another calls him too socialist.
Conservatives are calling for Obama to finally lay out a specific plan
Steele inarticulately attempts to repair his image after an op-ed, and liberals move in for the kill
Should it? Some are pushing for it, others push back.
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