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Last Call for Health Care: Dems Reach 60 Votes
The end is in sight for Democrats pushing through health care reform. However, Olympia Snowe is opting out, Nelson's compromise is making pro-choicers and anti-choicers tear out their hair, and Politifact explains that "reducing costs" really depends on the metric. More »"Kill The Bill" Mantra Splitting Progressives & Democrats Over Reform
Politics can make for strange bedfellows. Over the last two days, progressives have joined conservatives in their calls to delay or kill the health care reform bill, but party icons like Bill Clinton are advocating to stay the course. More »Prick Me: Is A Tax On Botox Discriminatory Towards Women?
"This tax is not just a luxury tax... This is a tax on the middle class, which is directly against what President Obama campaigned on." People, including the plastic surgeon quoted, are outraged at the proposed tax on cosmetic procedures. More »The "Rebel" Yell
[Washington, D.C., December 15. Image via Getty]
More »"Kill The Bill": Is Real Health Care Reform Still Worth Fighting For?
Senators Joe Lieberman and Olympia Snowe can rejoice: the public option and the Medicare buy-in are off the table. What will happen next? Howard Dean's soundbyte is to "kill the bill," but his actual stance is much more nuanced. More »Filibuster: Joe Lieberman Continues To Be A Jerk Of The First Order
In the grand tradition of cartoon villains Snidely Whiplash and Dick Dastardly, Joe Lieberman scored a blow to health reform by engaging in what Matt Yglesias describes as "the old double cross." More »Nancy Pelosi Not Set On Public Option; Tea Partiers Ready To Protest
Congress is launching itself headlong into the issue of reform, with House leaders indicating they are willing to work through the recess to pass a bill by New Year's Day. More »"Poisoned Pills:" What IHS Tells Us About Health Care, The Public Option & Abortion
Sen. Russ Feingold is thrilled: a deal toward a public option is creeping forward. However, the abortion battle still threatens to derail progress on health care - and history has always shown us how this could play out. More »Senators Protect Mammograms, Screening Tests for Women
From the AP: Senators Barbara Mikulski (left) and Olympia Snowe sponsored an amendment that "would allow the Health and Human Services secretary to require insurers to cover preventive health screenings free of charge." It passed. [AP]Miles To Go Before They Sleep: Saturday Vote Is Just The Start
On Saturday, the Senate voted to move forward and debate on the health care reform, but many of the continuing talks on the issue are still circling around the same fault lines of party affiliation and religion. More »Congress, Catholics, Conservatives Gear Up for Saturday Night Showdown
Healthcare reform news: Reid is ready to force a reconciliation. Pelosi wants to combine the Senate and House bills. Catholic Bishops and the GOP want to stop everything. Ladies and gentlemen, more proof that making law is like making sausage. More »The New, Looming Battle Over American Womens' Breast Health
Blood On The Senate Floor: Majority Leader Drops Stupak-Pitts
The anti-choice crowd is frothing at the mouth. Yesterday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid went Sweeney Todd on the Stupak-Pitts amendment, stabbed insurers with an excise tax, and threatened to go to reconciliation on the holdouts. More »Health Care Bill Is Still Full Of Drama
It's been ten days since the announcement of the Stupak-Pitts amendment, and health care reform hasn't been the same. News bites, including the Massachusetts senate race, circumventing a filibuster, and how the Wall Street Journal got it wrong after the jump. More »Nancy Pelosi: "This Is Not A Bill About Abortion"
Health Care Mud Wrestling Match To Continue Until Christmas
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has high hopes that the finished bill will be handed off to the President by Christmas. Other Dems aren't so sure. Enter Bill Clinton, saying "the perfect is the enemy of the good." More »Message To Obama: Abort The Stupak-Pitts Amendment
Health Care Reform Still Affixing Blame To Fat
The battle over weight discrimination has hit Capitol Hill, with fat acceptance activists like Marilyn Wann (pictured) and Lynn McAfee facing off with insurance lobbyists and lawmakers. Specifically targeted? The health care industry's policy of denying coverage based on weight. More »Reproductive Rights Left Behind After Health Care Bill Passes House
Saturday night, Congress threw a party, jubilant that its members had passed a version of a health care bill. Which version? That would be the one that traded the right to choose for a majority vote. More »Dirty Diana
[Washington, D.C., November 5. Image via Getty]
More »Anti-Choice Democrats Hold Up Healthcare Bill
House Democrats are pretty much ready to get started debating the monster healthcare reform bill, except for those conservatives who are trying to seize the opportunity to block more women's access to abortion. More »