Robert Pear, NYT WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Thursday to reinvent the nation’s health care system, passing a bill to guarantee access to health insurance for tens of millions of Americans and to rein in health costs as proposed by President Obama.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived for the vote at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday.
The 60-to-39 party-line vote, on the 25th straight day of debate on the legislation, brings Democrats a step closer to a goal they have pursued for decades. It clears the way for negotiations with the House, which passed a broadly similar bill last month...
Scott Gottlieb, Wall Street Journal Democrats are touting the American Medical Association's endorsement of President Obama's health plan. But there's an important reason why the American College of Surgeons and 18 other specialty groups are opposed. The plan's most tangible efforts to restrain medical costs are through its controls on specialist physicians. Based on the government's premise that they often make wasteful treatment decisions, the health-care legislation in Congress will subject doctors to a mix of financial penalties and regulations to constrain their use of the most costly clinical...
Jonathan Chait, The New Republic American liberals have a habit of withdrawing into cynicism and ennui at the most inopportune moments. The 2000 presidential election, and subsequent recount, was one such moment. The most die-hard reaches of the left, deeming the Democratic Party hopelessly corrupt, rallied to Ralph Nader's fulsome populist denunciation of Al Gore's subservience to the corporate agenda. Among more moderate quarters, an attitude of wry detachment prevailed. ("G.O.P.-lite, Democrat-lite," sighed Frank Rich, "For the 95 percent of the country unwilling to go for Ralph Nader...
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