Kerry and Hatch want health care reform to pay people to pray for you

I can't even get my insurance company to cover my allergy pills, or a year's supply of my asthma drugs, and these guys are worried about whether health care reform covers prayer? Are they kidding? Why not have it cover sex as a treatment for migraines? (It actually works.
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How John Hoeven Can Save America

Among the sixty Senators voting to begin debate on Harry Reid’s 2,074-page health care bill were thirteen from states which voted for John McCain last fall, five of them from states which haven’t voted for a Democrat for President in forty-five years.
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Democrats’ Stealthy Saturday Strategy: Another weekend vote on Obamacare

Having used creative bribery (with our tax dollars), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid apparently has all sixty Democrats on board for a cloture vote to begin debate on his 2,074-page health care bill.
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Reid has 60 Votes for Health Care Bill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has Democrats united behind him -- for now -- for a health care reform bill vote Saturday night.
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Not a Priority

by Stephen H. Miller

The House-passed health care bill included one decent provision that would have extended the tax exclusion on employer-provided health benefits that spouses receive to domestic partners (or, actually, "any eligible beneficiary," as the House bill put it, in an effort to achieve that end).
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RachelWatch: Cloture to Fine

Today: Senator Amy Klobuchar looks at the health care bill and Rachel takes a look at Richard Nixon’s gap.
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Provision in Reid Health Care Bill Could Hurt Dems in California

When I read last night that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released his healthcare proposal, I was all but certain that no matter what was in the bill, California’s junior Senator, Ma’am Barbara Boxer, would vote for it, given how she marches in lockstep with her party.
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Cost Control, Cost Control, Cost Control, Ctd

Tyler Cowen, who is against the current health care bill, lists his desired reforms. Austin Frakt adds: Any health reform passed this year (or next) is unlikely to include Cowen’s cost-related suggestions or any other serious measures to reduce costs.
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It's Medicare, Stupid

DiA defends the Medicare commission in the health care bill: There's no way we can keep people from getting old.
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RachelWatch: Health Care in the Home Stretch

Today: Senator Tom Harkin talks about the health care bill, as do some total loons. Breaking News Rachel started us off with the news that a district judge in Lousiana ruled that shoddy work.
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Harry Reid’s Massive Health Care Bill Emerges from the Back Room

Democrats sure do like to hold big health care votes on Saturdays when most people are paying more attention to their families and devoting more time to recreation and relaxation than to politics.
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Reid "cautiously optimistic" about getting health insurance bill to the Senate floor

David Dayen reports the Senate health insurance reform bill will be available for Democratic Senators tomorrow.
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As Senate preps for debate, support for public option remains strong

At FDL, Jon Walker examined the numbers from the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll on health care.
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Cost Control, Cost Control, Cost Control

Tyler Cowen argues that "the proposed reforms will make the core problems of U.S. health care worse not better" after reading a new Center on Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) report (pdf).
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Monday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.Your president is in China today. Congress returns this week. All eyes are on the Senate where Democratic leaders are awaiting the CBO score for their health care bill.
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Digest for November 11th through November 14th

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for November 11th through November 14th: That Old Republican Revival – Robert Creamer: 10 Reasons Why Democrats Who Opposed the Health Care Bill Made a Political Mistake – Cold-Hearted: Conservative Gov Blocks Same-Sex Partners from Making [.
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Health Care Bill Would Make Domestic Partner Benefits Tax Free

The new health care bill passed by the U.S. House on Saturday would do more than help reduce the amount of people without health insurance.
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In letter To Pelosi, 41 House Dems pledge to vote against bill with anti-abortion amendment

Which is good news, since today we also learned that the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs didn't have an opinion on the extreme anti-abortion provision that was added to the House health care reform bill at the least minute.
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Slogging Towards 2013

One of Josh Marshall's readers notes that many parts of the health care bill, should it pass, won't be implemented until after 2012.
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House passes LGBT-inclusive health care bill

House passes LGBT-inclusive health care billBay WindowsIt makes people with HIV infection and low income eligible for Medicare coverage earlier in their illness.
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