Blogs: Health Care for All

It was just one month ago when conservatives were complaining that ABC's George Stephanopoulos was displaying his "bias" while moderating a Republican presidential debate by being "obsessed" with cont more »

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On the menu this morning:

• MORNING MESSAGE: China Cheats—Push May Come To Shove
• Trade Battles with China
• Florida Vote: From SuperPACs to Super Crash
• More Mortgage Fraud Settlement Fears
• Freddie Mac's Bets against Homeowners
• Unemployment Compensation Fight
• Breakfast Sides

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President Obama will host a forum on insourcing jobs Wednesday. The forum will feature leaders of several companies who have already shifted jobs back home and are encouraging others to do the same. According to the White House, more »

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It's adorable that Politifact's "lie of the year" is being touted as some kind of overwhelming proof that the Republicans didn't vote to end Medicare when they all voted to replace it with an inadequate voucher program. Does everyone know that the Republicans stuffed the ballot box?

Dave Weigel flagged this back on December 7th:

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In case you were wondering whether the Village would be dizzy with excitement over the Ryan-Wyden plan, here's NBC's First Read:

*** Wyden gives Romney cover: When he was asked about the new Paul Ryan (R)/Ron Wyden (D) Medicare proposal at last night’s debate, Romney said, “I hope people understand just how big today is for this country.” And if he’s the nominee, he won’t be kidding. Wyden partnering with Ryan on a plan to give seniors a choice between Medicare and a privatized system -- which just happens to be Romney’s own plan -- gives the former Massachusetts governor LOTS of cover on Medicare.

Earlier this week, we mentioned that President Obama hasn’t been performing well among seniors, and that Democrats are hoping that the Paul Ryan plan would help them narrow that margin. Consider this: At a time when Olympia Snowe or Susan Collins is hesitant to partner with the White House on any kind of legislation, specifically health care, here comes Ron Wyden embracing Paul Ryan. We know in political circles (especially in Chicago) Democrats have to be furious right now.

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Many of the big supporters of the Health Care reform have said that the idea was to eventually apply apply its logic to Medicare. That is, that Medicare would eventually be a subsidy system with "choice" among private insurers and perhaps a public option (as long as the industry says it's ok.) I don't know that people understood that to be the eventual goal of the health care reforms, but evidently that was understood by many of those who were most enthusiastic about it.( In fact, a lot of people understood the opposite --- that the health care reforms would eventually lead to single-payer.)

Last night Democratic Senator Ron Wyden took a step toward making that "dream" a reality. He and Paul Ryan announced that they have teamed up to promote a plan to make Medicare a voucher plan by 2022, (just as the second half of the baby boom enters the system.) One might have thought the prudent thing would be to wait and see how the health care reforms work before throwing the sickest population into the mix, but apparently we just "know" it's the way to go.

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Each morning, Bill Scher and Terrance Heath serve up what progressives need to effect change on the kitchen-table issues families face: jobs, health care, green energy, financial reform, affordable education and retirement security. Bill Scher returns Wednesday.

MORNING MESSAGE: Let's Talk Serious Economic Recovery

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On the menu this morning:

• MORNING MESSAGE: Tell Obama To Stop Protecting Bankers
• Bair: Pain Relief for Mortgage Headache?
• Business Try To Milk Payroll Tax Deal
• Krugman Calls It A Depression
• Occupy Update

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It's awards season and the Village press is first in line:

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