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Health Care, the GOP, and the Consequences of Compromise
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyAbandonment is one of the most effective, though least utilized, public relations techniques ever invented. It works like this: When your prospects for success are doomed, giving up is sometimes the most unpredictable – and devastating – thing you can do to your opponents. This technique appears to be playing out before our eyes. If, as now seems likely, Democrats abandon their prized "public option" on health care reform, the pressure will then shift to Republicans. Those in the minority party will then face their own internecine decisions whether to support a compromise, such ...
Obama's Plan B on Health Care: Co-Ops
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyYou heard over the weekend that President Obama and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius backed off of having a public option in his health care reform package. Then an administration official, who refused to use his name, told The Atlantic that Sebelius "misspoke." The next morning, liberal Democrats like Howard Dean said a bill without a public option is not really reform, while Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) told the AP that "leaving private insurance companies the job of controlling the costs of health care is like making a pyromaniac the fire chief." ...
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