NEWS

For Public, Affordability A Key Issue In Health Bill - NPR

Lawmakers debating health care on Capitol Hill have spent months worrying about the potential cost. But mostly it’s been the total cost of the bill, not how much individual families who could soon be required to buy insurance for the first time might have to pay.

Health Reform: Is Tax on ‘Cadillac’ Plans Fair? – Associated Press

Schoolteacher Kinzi Blair makes only $46,000 a year, but she has what many would consider a ”Cadillac” health plan, now targeted for a big tax increase by health reformers.

Bishops search for Senate sponsor - Politico

Roman Catholic bishops have yet to find a senator willing to sponsor their amendment for a tougher ban on use of taxpayer money for abortion coverage in the Senate health care reform bill.

Centrists Get Ad Deluge From Both Sides – CongressDaily

Centrist Democratic senators will face a barrage of advertising from the left and the right as they return to their districts for the Thanksgiving holiday in the wake of Saturday’s key procedural vote to move comprehensive health reform legislation forward.

Public option at center of debate – Washington Post

Democrats had little time to savor their weekend Senate health-care victory, as two of the lawmakers who voted to move the debate forward Saturday night indicated Sunday that they will not vote to pass the package if it includes a government-run insurance program.

Senate Democrats at odds over health care bill - Associated Press

Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren’t met, while more liberal members warned their party leaders not to bend.

White House Report llustrates Impact of Health Insurance Reform on Ohio – The Business Journal

A report released Monday by the White House projects that 1.4 million Ohioans who now lack health insurance and 533,000 who are insured through non-group plans could get affordable coverage as a result of health insurance reform.

OPINION

The small-d democratic case against the filibuster – Ezra Klein

"Are progressives really willing to take their chances with a future GOP-controlled Senate empowered to pass whatever they have 51 votes for?" asks Scott Winship. "With the Supreme Court nominees who could be seated (to say nothing of other judgeships)? With the restrictions on abortion and LGBQT rights? With welfare reforms?"

Let me say this once, and slowly: Yeeeeeeesssssssss.

(compiled for Health Care for America Now)