Deficit Plays Into Health Reform
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 14th, 2009 4:32 am by HL
Deficit Plays Into Health Reform
With polls showing rising concern over the government’s grim financial situation, key Republicans and a growing number of Democrats say it will be hard to push an ambitious health reform bill through Congress unless it reduces projected federal spending on medical care and begins to bring the nat…
Obama to Take On Health-Care Critics
President Obama is embarking on a final public relations push on health care Friday before heading off on vacation, wading into the same kind of often hostile town hall meetings that members of Congress have endured for much of August.
Reform Politics: The View From Both Sides
Raucous town hall meetings have become the political story of August. Images of angry Americans confronting their elected officials fill the screens on cable television and form the backdrop for the commentary surrounding a sharply polarized debate over the future of the nation’s health-care system.
