Even under pressure from the Obama Administration and Nancy Pelosi, there are at least 25 House members who will almost certainly vote no on the Senate bill. However, this article from The Hill makes an important distinction:
The Hill has not yet put Democrats who are insisting on Rep. Bart Stupak’s (D-Mich.) language on abortion in [...]

It’s no secret that here at Election Stocks we have been monitoring the progress of healthcare reform since its very beginnings. Our official prediction is that it will pass (making this a good idea to buy insurance companies), but we acknowledge the great uncertainty surrounding the politics of this issue.
That’s why we would like to [...]

President Obama made an official statement today urging Democrats in the House to pass the Senate bill and then smooth out the differences during budget reconciliation. This is a tactic that many Democrats, like Barney Frank, have strongly supported for quite some time. As it draws closer to November Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi [...]

President Obama’s healthcare proposal, based heavily off of the already passed Senate bill, has a few very specific market implications. An article in Bloomberg claims:
To help pay for the overhaul, he’s proposing the first Medicare tax on unearned income such as capital gains, and higher fees on drugmakers such as New York-based Pfizer Inc. and [...]

There is a very good article in Time regarding the recent GOP (gridlock, obstruction, paralysis) politics.
Rhetorically, they derided Washington as ineffective and conflict-ridden, and through their actions they guaranteed it. Their greatest weapon was the filibuster, which forced Democrats to muster 60 votes to get legislation through the Senate.

In light of this recent Republican strategy, [...]

We haven’t heard an awful lot about healthcare in a while, especially since the election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts, but policymakers on The Hill are still fairly confident reform will pass. A recent Washington Post article on the bipartisan summit notes:
…when it comes down to it, the question of process is really going to [...]

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 [...]