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  • ObamaCare's excuses | The Wall Street Journal | February 4, 2010

    Despite the assessment by supporters of congressional health care legislation that they need to explain it better to the public, a Wall Street Journal editorial comments that the American people understand full well the damage that could be done if Congress imposes a new set of health care taxes, subsidies and mandates. The public also understands that insurance premiums will rise, the quality of care will decline and taxes will increase.

  • GOP finds loophole in reconciliation ploy | The Hill | February 3, 2010

    The Hill reports that opponents of the current health care legislation in Congress claim that if the budget reconciliation process is used to try to pass bad health care legislation, they may offer amendments stall the process.

  • What to do before spending more on health care | The Washington Post | February 3, 2010

    Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson finds it to be paradoxical for the Administration to promote expanded government health spending while pledging to control future budget deficits. Samuelson writes, “It's like promising to go on a diet but first treating yourself to one last binge.”

  • Democrats change health-care tack | The Wall Street Journal | February 3, 2010

    The Wall Street Journal reports that supporters of health care legislation currently before Congress “acknowledged they had no time frame for doing so and no feasible strategy in sight” but hope to pass something. The current legislation is publicly unpopular, and many believe Congress should “start from scratch on health care.”

  • Rhetoric of fear behind health care agenda | Washington Examiner | February 1, 2010

    Washington Examiner reporter Matt Patterson points to scare tactics being used to try to convince Americans to support health care legislation – a ploy that does not work well given how many Americans are satisfied with the current health care system.

  • Brown: Start again with health bill | Politico | February 1, 2010

    Senator-elect Scott Brown has called for health care legislation to be scrapped and for Congress to start over. Politico quoted the Senator elect as stating that even members of the majority party want to “go back to the drawing board and do it in a transparent, bipartisan manner.”

  • This week's Economist/YouGov poll | The Economist | January 29, 2010

    After the State of the Union, The Economist released a poll, which shows that more Americans (37 percent) think that a health care reform bill will cause their own care to worsen as opposed to improving (17 percent). Also, 54 percent of Americans anticipate paying more for health care if a reform bill passes, while 8 percent expect to pay less.

  • Health care moves to back burner | Politico | January 29, 2010

    While Senator Harry Reid recently said, “We are going to move forward on health care,” acording to Politico, health care reform has moved to the back burner, while jobs and the economy are on the forefront of the Democrats’ agenda.

  • Poll: Half say start anew on health care bill | CNN | January 27, 2010

    A recent CNN opinion survey finds that Americans oppose the health bills passed by Congress by a 58 to 38 margin. Half of the public would like to see Congress work on an entirely new bill. Further, two in ten Americans want Congress to stop work on the issue completely – a sentiment that among seniors rises to three in ten preferring a complete halt.

  • Backroom health care deals fuel voter anger | The Associated Press | January 27, 2010

    Associated Press writer Charles Babington discusses how the country’s voters have been angered by special legislative favors, especially the Nebraska deal meant to secure Senator Ben Nelson’s vote. Because the public is so outraged, the Administration is calling the favors a “mistake,” and Babington writes that House leaders will not revive the bill “unless such sweetheart deals are scrapped.”