Healthcare

Just What DO they Want?

September 16, 2009

Ah, another day, another development in the Healthcare debate. As I mentioned last night, Senator Baucus, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was on the verge of releasing his plan to solve this issue. Well, that plan has been released, and bipartisanship is nowhere to be found as of yet. It is increasingly clear...

Just Compromise on Something Already, Please: An Analysis of the Long-awaited Framework of the Healthcare Plan by the Senate Finance Committee

September 15, 2009

By bassitone

Today, we finally heard that Senator Baucus and the “gang of six” Senators on the Finance Committee are close to a compromise, which I have linked here from CNN. (be warned: it is a PDF, and so may take a little while to download.) The proposal that the Senate Finance Committee has been working...

Why the Trigger Option Should Be Considered

September 14, 2009

By bassitone

Lately, there has been talk of a so-called “trigger option” in the healthcare debate. While the idea of a single-payer public healthcare plan has been tossed around and debated for months, this has only come up very recently as the healthcare debate lost momentum over the August recess. Some people say that it is...