Michael Grimm has only been in Congress for a few days, but he is already taking major fire from Democrats for voting to repeal the new health care law while still accepting the government-sponsored health care that comes with his new perch.
Making matters worse, Grimm told The Daily News (the piece hasn’t appeared online yet) ”What Read More
Of all the pieces that have been written in the last year, there are few that convey the cosmic heft of American health care while also having an emotional impact that isn’t saccharine, partisan, annoyingly anecdotal or all three. Atul Gawande’s iconic New Yorker piece on McAllen, Texas, from last June is one example, Read More
Two major pieces of President Obama’s agenda are heading toward legislative action of some sort over the next several months. The first is health care reform, recently endorsed by both the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP). The second is climate and energy legislation, approved by the Senate Environment Read More
Not long ago, we wrote about how the Obama administration’s inability to develop a credible Economic Surrogate in Chief had contributed, in part, to the perception that the president was overexposed, as he went on seemingly every talk show and news program in the country to pitch his economic recovery proposals.
All of which Read More
First, it was NBC News and its legions of anchors, and reporters, and photographers who descended on the White House. Now, ABC News is getting its shot.
ABC’s field trip to the White House will kick off early on Wednesday, June, 24 when Good Morning America broadcasts from the South Lawn. That evening, Charles Read More
Uplifting as it was to see insurance executives, pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospital officials and doctors gather at the White House on May 11, pledging cooperation toward health care reform, nothing they said or did was inconsistent with precisely the opposite objective. According to the famed pollster who is helping Republicans in Congress to block reform, in Read More
Uplifting as it was to see insurance executives, pharmaceutical manufacturers, hospital officials and doctors gather at the White House on May 11, pledging cooperation toward health care reform, nothing they said or did was inconsistent with precisely the opposite objective. According to the famed pollster who is helping Republicans in Congress to block reform, in Read More
