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Why Did The GOP Think It Had To Delay The Health Reform Repeal Vote?

By Bill Scher
January 11, 2011

As Republicans prepared to take over the House, they announced one of their first bills would be the repeal of health reform because "that's what the American people want." more »

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Health Care Repeal Will Add $230B To Deficit, Finds CBO. Which "Fiscal Conservative" Will Denounce Repeal First?

By Bill Scher
January 6, 2011

The Congressional Budget Office today released its preliminary analysis of the Republican health reform repeal bill, and the 10-year increase to the deficit is higher than previously assumed: $230 billion instead of $143 billion. That's because the 10-year window now ends in 2021 instead of 2019, and health reform's impact on the deficit increases over more »

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The "Undo Everything" Congress Begins, With Health Care

By Terrance Heath
January 6, 2011

Did you think that, having regained control of the House, the GOP will stop being the "party of No" and start governing, or at least doing something about the challenges facing the country? Think again.

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Repealing Health Care Reform Could Kill 32,000 People A Year

By Richard Kirsch
January 5, 2011

Why are we beating around the bush? Yes, there are a lot of good benefits in the health care law that would be lost if it were repealed. But there's also a basic truth: health insurance saves lives. more »

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If GOP Thinks CBO Was Manipulated By Dems on Health Care, Why Won't It Let CBO Review Repeal Now?

By Bill Scher
January 5, 2011

The House Republican leadership is scrambling to defend the obliteration of its own budget rules, as it prepares to pass repeal of health reform without offsetting the $143 billion 10-year cost, let alone the $1 trillion 20-year cost. more »

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With Multi-Billion "CutGo" Loophole, House GOP Admits Its Health Reform Repeal Explodes Deficit

By Bill Scher
January 4, 2011

Instead of the House Republicans breaking their own proposed "CutGo" rule to offset the cost of all spending increases, they have chosen to carve a multi-billion dollar loophole, specifically exem more »

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House GOP Will Obliterate Its Own "CutGo" Rule When It Repeals Health Reform

By Bill Scher
January 3, 2011

The House Republican leadership has announced it will enact two things immediately upon taking control of the House this week: a new "CutGo" rule to require revenue offsets for any increases in spending, and the more »

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Conservative Activist Judge Makes Conservative Activist Decision

By Bill Scher
December 13, 2010

In a completely expected development, a conservative activist judge made a conservative activist decision, ignoring decades of judicial precedent to declare the main provision of the health reform law -- requiring most Americans to purchase health insurance -- unconstitutional. more »

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Health Care Reform Is Deficit Reduction. Remember That?

By Bill Scher
December 3, 2010

When health care reform was signed into law, President Barack Obama correctly described it as "biggest deficit reduction plan since the 1990s." In fact, the Congressional Budget Office projected it would save more than $1 trillion during the next two decades. more »

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America Speaks. Will Washington Listen?

By Terrance Heath
November 30, 2010

"Americans Have Spoken." It's a phrase we've heard from the right after every election — special election, run-off or midterm — following the 2008 election in which voters sent Barack Obama to the White House and Democratic majorities to both houses of Congress. Though more Americans voted in that election than any that has followed, the conservative media would have you believe that Americans did not speak in 2008, but really spoke most the most recent midterm elections. The reality is that Americans did speak in 2008. They've been speaking ever since then, the reason midterm elections turned out as they did is because almost no one in Washington has been listening.

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