House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has an impressive record with passing big votes, but according to this article on The Hill a robust public option may be too much for the Congress to handle. Pelosi is relying on a complex series of whips to keep the factional Democratic party in line. There are two votes that [...]

House Majority Leader Harry Reid called a special press conference today to announce that the senate healthcare bill will not pass without a public option.
Politically speaking, this does little to make the passage of a bill with a public option more probable. This is a longshot strategy considering Senator Reid did not yet have 60 [...]

A bill to freeze cuts to doctors’ Medicare payments – one that should have been heavily bipartisan – is now in serious danger of passing. The American Medical Association (AMA) promised Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) 27 Republican votes, but now it appears there are as few as two.
Undoubtedly, 27 is an ambitious number for [...]

A recent Wall Street Journal article has confirmed what we have been saying here at Election Stocks for weeks. They astutely note that the Senate Finance Committee bill will likely “form the backbone of any final legislation.”
This lends itself easily to our shared conclusion, as seen in this below excerpt from our post on September [...]

The very prospect of healthcare reform seemed at peril last week, when the more moderate of two public option bills was defeated in the Senate Finance Committee. But according to a recent article in the Washington Post, Baucus now believes he has the capability to pass “a package of reforms that would extend coverage to [...]