health care debate

As many of you have surely noticed, I haven’t been spending much time blogging recently. Sure, I dropped in every now and again to comment on the health care debate or a few economic issues, but my focus has been elsewhere and now I want to show you why.

If you like your health care debates boiled down to their essential elements, you’ll love the following video…which sums up what has happened in the past year in pretty succinct fashion.

If you can watch the following 20 minutes, it’s hard to argue that the President’s proposals are anywhere close to radical.

In fact, some of the more “radical” parts started out as Republican ideas.

Don’t believe me?

Take a look…

Much of the health care debate in the Senate has so far focused only on a few issues: Medicare, abortion and a government-sponsored public option.

Union members on Thursday tried get lawmakers to focus on their top issue: opposition to a tax on high-cost health plans.

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It’s happening…

Two final holdouts, Sens.

Mary Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, announced in speeches a few hours apart on the Senate floor they would vote to clear the way for what is expected to be a bruising, full-scale health care debate after Thanksgiving.

Independent Voters

Health care debate tide turns — again…

Republicans spent much of the summer framing the health care overhaul debate in terms of big government versus small government — or even socialism versus liberty.

In his speech to Congress Wednesday night, the president laid out what changes he wants to see to the health care system.

Did the president succeed in reframing the debate?

News Headlines for Independent Voters 9/9/09 Independent voters Read this article for a good straight-forward anti-socialist perspective on the health care debate.

The word "rationing" has been tossed around quite a bit in the current debate on overhauling health care.

But what does it mean? Atul Gawande, a surgeon in Boston who works at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, talks with Ari Shapiro about what rationing means, and how it could impact the debate over health care.

Every effort to remake America's health care system since the 1930s has been scuttled by the same technique — scaring the public.

The opponents have been different, ranging from the AMA to the insurance industry to conservative ideologues.

But the playbook has remained the same.

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