After Scott Brown’s win in the Massachusetts special election yesterday, Democrats are scrambling to save the future of healthcare reform. The situation is bleak, but they still have a couple options.
Here is the best one so far: House Democrats would accept the Senate version of the bill, then make a list of things to change [...]

Today is voting day in Massachusetts, where a special election is being held for the Senate seat once held by the late Ted Kennedy. The Republican candidate Scott Brown has all the momentum, despite an impassioned appeal Obama made to Democrats in the state this weekend. The most recent polls show Coakley falling from a [...]

One of the final hurdles in the healthcare reform process has reportedly been overcome. The Obama Administration, after long negotiations, have reached a compromise with prominent union leaders. The deal: union and state workers would be exempt from any tax on Cadillac health plans until 2018.
Healthcare HMO stocks rallied on this news, as it is [...]

Leading Democrats met on Tuesday night and agreed that they would not go through the formal reconciliation process. According to The Hill:
The decision was made to scrap a conference committee out of concern that Republicans in both the House and the Senate would employ a series of procedural delaying tactics, only serving to delay the [...]

CNBC’s Power Lunch had a short segment yesterday debating the winners and losers of the Senate healthcare bill.

Matt Nesto gave a short report later in the afternoon regarding growth in the healthcare sector.

Both of these videos are very good with specific stocks that are on the way up. We highly recommend that potential investors to [...]

Our original idea, way back in August when we started covering healthcare reform, was that health insurance companies were going to take a huge hit. But over the course of negotiations in the House and Senate, this idea has been turned on its head.
The public option – basically the biggest prospect for “reform” – was [...]

This afternoon, Senator Lieberman delivered a message to many of his Democratic colleagues that carried a distinctly different tone than his other recent statements. An article on The Hill said Lieberman “stopped short of apologizing,” although some Democrats still took it as an apology.
This shift in tone is could very well indicate a new willingness [...]

In order to guarantee the votes of more conservative members of their party, Democrats have offered some sort of complex compromise on the health insurance issue. According to The Examiner:
the compromise included eliminating the controversial public option from the bill. Medicare would be expanded as a “buy in” option for those between the ages [...]

The two biggest schisms in the Democratic party regarding healthcare are abortion and the public option.
Both sides generally agree that they do not want public money to fund abortions; rather it is a question of wording in the bill. While it is possible a compromise here could lead to more and more restrictions, it is [...]

Centrist Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) recently wrote a piece for the Omaha World Herald in which he speaks skeptically about the reconciliation process.
Earlier this year, though, I voted against the 2010 budget resolution, in part because it contained language allowing health care reform to be brought up under reconciliation.
Reconciliation is an extraordinary tool designed to [...]