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If you haven’t noticed yet, the conservative wedge issue for 2014 is going to be health care.

Democratic Senators like Mary Landrieu have noticed.

They simply don’t appear to have much of a strategy to date: 1) apologize for the horrible website, 2) focus on the economy, and 3) keep explaining to conservatives why a conservative solution is not such a bad thing.

If we can’t do better, well before November, expect to lose the Senate.

Recently I was asked a question on Chris Weigant’s blog that helped me clarify how I feel about government and the relationship between government-run programs and private sector programs. I realized, and I think many progressives feel the same way, that I view government programs and private sector programs as […]

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Steve Driehaus spoke to hundreds of supporters and critics of health-care reform last night at the First Unitarian Church. Tea Party folks were given instructions before the meeting on how to disrupt the event. Apparently, opponents feel they cannot win without resorting to disruptive tactics. Here’s some samples:  Artificially Inflate […]

I read an interesting article in the AP this morning: Are lobbyists silver lining in health care system? The crux of the argument was that lobbyists were actually keeping the debate around health care alive. The article argues that the health care industry “sees a strategic opportunity.” The questions I […]

Insurers,  large hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies.

Surprise!

Witness how much these interests have amped up lobbying to prevent any kind of real health care reform.

I heard a very interesting discussion of our health care system this evening on NPR. On the show, health care reform was framed like so: the government plays either the role of financier or the role of insurer. In the role of financier, the government helps subsidize health care in […]

This past week the Senate passed an anti-smoking bill that will give regulators new powers in the fight against smoking. On the surface, passage of this bill seems like a liberal victory. Until you look closer. Philip Morris (now Altria) has come out in favor of the bill. Now why […]

I happened across an interview with Victoria Wulsin in CityBeat this week and was struck by her concise framing of the health care issue. “What we all want is quality,” Wulsin said. Wulsin believes what has gotten lost in the health care debate is the patient. The current administration has […]

As Americans, we spend more on health care than any other nation and get less. Why is this the case? Just for a second, I’d like to ask you to tune out all that you’ve heard about health care and to think like an insurance company. I used to work […]