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  • Heat rises on Nebraska's Nelson | The Wall Street Journal | January 4, 2010

    Many Nebraskans are adamantly against Senator Ben Nelson’s position on health care reform, leading Senator Nelson to launched an advertising campaign in an effort to defend his position on the bill, The Wall Street Journal reports. A December Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found more Americans prefer the health system as it is over the Democrats' health overhaul.

  • In health bill for everyone, provisions for a few | The New York Times | January 4, 2010

    According to The New York Times, labor unions carved out special provisions in the Senate health care legislation to benefit unionized construction workers. The provision was one of the many that senators rushed to enact by Christmas Eve.

  • Deficit, budget woes need solutions as U.S. nears the precipice | The Wall Street Journal | January 4, 2010

    The Wall Street Journal reports that amid the President’s efforts to enact health care legislation, the United States nears a financial precipice, which has economists worrying about how the country can afford to pay for growing health care costs. Funds the government set aside to pay Medicare and Social Security benefits will be used up in 2017 and 2037, respectively, after which a big portion of benefits may have to be paid from current taxes.

  • A Fine Mess | The Weekly Standard | December 30, 2009

    In the most recent issue of the Weekly Standard, James C. Capretta and Yuval Levin write in a joint article on health reform that "In the Democrats' rush to pass some kind of health care legislation before public opposition overwhelms them, tactics have long since overtaken substance. Their only remaining goal is to pass a bill, any bill. As the endgame has unfolded, all eyes have been fixed on the unseemly process taking place in the halls of Congress: backroom legislating with rushed votes to minimize scrutiny and public review; secret deals with deep-pocket industries; outright and outlandish vote buying using taxpayer funds; procedural maneuvers to shut off debate and prevent meaningful amendments."

  • Blue State Govs. Rip Senate Health Bill | Politico | December 30, 2009

    According to Politico, "The governors of the nation’s two largest Democratic states are leveling sharp criticism at the Senate health care bill, claiming that it would leave their already financially strapped states even deeper in the hole. "

  • The Tyranny of the Majority Party | The Wall Street Journal | December 30, 2009

    In a Wall Street Journal opinion piece, Fred Barnes writes, "Democrats in Washington do have large majorities in Congress. But instead of reflecting popular opinion, they are pursuing wide-ranging initiatives in defiance of the views of the majority of Americans."

  • Obamacare's dirty deals | The Washington Times | December 28, 2009

    The Washington Times reports, "There are scores of provisions in the 383 pages of changes Mr. Reid made to the $871 billion Senate bill that benefit only a handful of states, sometimes even a single institution. Lawmakers facing tough re-elections and those who held out their votes fared particularly well, receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in pork. What Mr. Obama hailed as a victory is business as usual in a very dirty business."

  • Like Mushrooms, Health Care 'Reform' Flourishes in the Dark | The Wall Street Journal | December 28, 2009

    An editorial in The Wall Street Journal discusses how "[m]any who have long touted health care reform are turning up their noses at the final product. Michael Bloomberg, New York's independent mayor, told 'Meet the Press' over the weekend: 'I have asked congressperson after congressperson. Not one can explain to me what's in the bill, even in the House version. Certainly not in the other version. And so for them to vote on a bill that they don't understand whatsoever, really, you've got to question how -- what kind of government we have.'"

  • The not-so-sweet side of closing 'doughnut hole' | The Washington Post | December 28, 2009

    The Washington Post reports, "The Democrats and President Obama have been clear that the 'doughnut hole,' as the gap is known, would disappear gradually over the next 10 years. They have not mentioned that Medicare patients would, according to House figures, face a slightly larger hole in coverage during two of the next three years than they do today."

  • Polls: Majority disapprove of health care legislation | The New York Times | December 23, 2009

    The New York Times reports, "Despite the increasing confidence of Senate Democrats that they will pass health care legislation later this week, the American people are still unhappy with Congressional attempts at an overhaul, according to two new polls."