Confronted with big job losses and no sign the U.S. economy is ready to stand on its own, Democrats are working on a growing list of relief efforts, leaving for later how to pay for them, or whether even to bother. Proposals include extending and perhaps expanding a popular tax credit for first-time home buyers, and creating a new credit for companies that add jobs
Confronted with big job losses and no sign the U.S. economy is ready to stand on its own, Democrats are working on a growing list of relief efforts, leaving for later how to pay for them, or whether even to bother. Proposals include extending and perhaps expanding a popular tax credit for first-time home buyers, and creating a new credit for companies that add jobs
AP – Senate Democrats said Thursday they have reached a deal to extend unemployment insurance benefits to the… Read the rest here: (AP)”> (AP)”> Senate Democrats agree to extend jobless benefits (AP)
The public option is the moral compass of health reform. In the last 100 years, Democrats have yet to be on the wrong side of progressive reform. Let’s not start now.
House Democrats are floating a windfall profits tax on the private health insurance industry as a way to finance their health care overhaul….View original post here: House Democrats looking at windfall profits tax on insurance industry…
House Democrats are floating a windfall-profits tax on the private health insurance industry as a way to finance their healthcare overhaul.
Senate Democrats have begun discussions on a compromise approach to health care reform that would establish a robust, national public option for insurance coverage but give individual states the right to opt out of the program. The proposal is envisioned as a means of getting the necessary support from progressive members of the Democratic Caucus — who have insisted that a government-run insurance option remain in the bill — and conservative Democrats who are worried about what a public plan w
I am, or was until today, a member of Democrats for Life of America. To date, they’ve done a good job encouraging Democratic politicians to support programs which help poor mothers keep their child, and care for it after they’re born. But this morning, I received a Facebook message from an employee of Democrats for Life of America
Some influential centrist Democrats in the Senate and a small group of Republicans are warming to a compromise that envisions health-insurance plans run by state governments
guardian.co.uk Some Democrats Say Healthcare Public Option Is Not Out U.S.
Over the last few months the Democrats have been demonizing private health insurance companies and condemning them for denials of coverage, while touting the AMA’s endorsement of the public option (which followed an appeal from the …
Rep. Gene Taylor testified on his observations on the experiences of his Mississippi constituents with the insurance companies in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
You knew this was coming : The Senate Finance Committee was supposed to convene for a vote on its controversial health care bill tomorrow. Now, that’s looking doubtful
Bobby Jindal’s remarkable article in today’s Washington Post makes a conservative case for health reform by outlining a 10-point plan that looks very much like the plan that President Obama outlined in his September speech to the joint session of Congress back in September. Let’s compare: Voluntary Purchasing Pools
With so much speculation on whether Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) will support the health reform bill finalized by the Senate Finance Committee last week, the world might be surprised to learn that some panel Democrats are also wary of the legislation. Yet Sens.
With so much speculation on whether Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) will support the health reform bill finalized by the Senate Finance Committee last week, the world might be surprised to learn that some panel Democrats are also wary of the legislation.
