John Boehner Walks Into an Elevator…
Kaiser Health News has compiled a list of things health care experts would say to Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), who is expected to be our next Speaker of the House, if they ever encountered him in an...
View ArticleHOUSE GOP: Health Reform Repeal Still a Priority, Tweaks More Likely, Leaders...
House Republican leaders said yesterday that they plan to use their new majority to follow up on their pledge to repeal or defund the federal health reform law, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports....
View ArticleWill the GOP Need More Than Health Care to Bandy?
Time‘s “Swampland” asks whether health reform is enough of a tenuous issue to fuel the GOP into a favorable 2012 presidential election. Kate Pickert writes: The real political question here is this....
View ArticleThanks, Sarah Palin, for Saving Health Reform
The Hill‘s “Pundits Blog” looks at Sarah Palin’s role in backing Christine O’Donnell and Sharron Angle in the midterm elections. Their defeat in part has kept the federal health reform law safe from...
View ArticleThe GOP-Reign Roundup
While they only took control of the House in Tuesdays’ midterm elections, Republicans will find themselves in a much better bargaining position on issues such as health care reform next year. Thus, the...
View ArticleANTIREFORM: Republican Wins Boost Effort To Resist Overhaul
Wins by Republicans in a number of gubernatorial and attorneys general races on Tuesday likely will boost GOP efforts to resist implementation of the federal health reform law, the Wall Street Journal...
View ArticleNewsweek Says Governors Shmovernors
Remember when we told you for like six posts in a row that GOP governors are now the new great hindrance to health reform? Newsweek says we’re full of it. David Graham writes: As Alan Abramowitz, a...
View ArticleTHE FRIDAY RUNDOWN: The Post-Election, Pre-Republican Repeal Edition
We typically use "The Friday Rundown" to review the week’s five biggest health policy stories. However, Tuesday’s midterm elections meant that one question dominated the landscape: What effect will...
View ArticleOpinions Are Like Lobbyists; Everybody Has One
Here is a short roundup of editorials and opinion pieces related to health care, the recent overhaul and the midterm elections. Editorials Los Angeles Times: “Americans have a hard time accepting...
View ArticleElection-Week Reading
U.S. News & World Report provides a list of the ten most-searched bills on the THOMAS, Library of Congress, website during the week of the midterm elections. The federal health reform law ranked...
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