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TPM NewsStream Battle For Health Reform

NYT: Obama Returning To Plan That Provoked 'Death Panels' Stir

DOJ To Appeal Health Care Lawsuit, Says It Shouldn't Be Fast Tracked

Judge Rules Part Of
Health Care Law Unconstitutional

Bachmann: GOPer Should Vote On HCR Repeal Or Face 'Insurrection'

The Small Error That Could Ruin Dem's Health Care Efforts

Snowe Joins Anti-Health
Care Reform Lawsuit

Health Insurers Paid Chamber $86.2M To Oppose Health Care Law

Boehner Calls Health Care
Reform A 'Monstrosity'

GOPer Runyan Admits He Hasn't Read Health Care Bill Either

Jon Runyan, the former pro football player and now Republican candidate for the House against freshman Rep. John Adler (D-NJ), had a fun exchange at a debate Tuesday night. He says members of Congress should read all the bills they pass; he wants to fully repeal the health care reform bill; and, it turns out, he hasn't read the health care bill.

Health Care Ruling
Expected Later This Year

Litigants in one of the most high-profile health care reform lawsuits in the country today presented their arguments to Virginia district court judge Henry Hudson, who later this year will rule on the constitutionality of the law's individual insurance mandate.

Health Care Judge Skeptical Of 'Unprecedented' Law

Judge Calls Health Care Reform 'Novel,' 'Unprecedented' Law

The Health Care Reform Lawsuits

The wheels of justice are turning in several cases challenging the constitutionality of health care reform, and it can be difficult to keep track of them all. Here are the basics.

Federal Judge Upholds Key Provisions Of Health Care Law

Daschle Admits -- Then Denies -- WH Agreed To Scrap Public Option

In a candid interview with the Center for American Progress this afternoon, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle acknowledged that the public option didn't survive the health care debate because of a "understanding" the White House had reached with health care industry stakeholders, particularly hospital and insurance company trade associations. But the White House has long denied this suggestion -- until now based mostly on speculation -- and within hours of the report's initial publication, Daschle, a close White House ally, retracted his statement entirely.

Sebelius: Secretive Ad Spending Distorting HCR Is 'Alarming'

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sounds a political note, decrying shadowy spending against health care. Will she run for president? 'No time soon.'

Huck Against Insurance For People With Pre-Existing Conditions

When Republicans attack health care reform, Democrats like to counter by accusing Republicans of wanting to repeal a law that requires insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions. According to Republican Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, that's exactly right. People with pre-existing conditions, he explains are like houses that have already burned down.

States Fighting Health Care Law Also Fighting For Law's Grant Money

Don't underestimate Republicans' desire to stymie or unwind the health care law. But not all of them are as committed to its demise as is, say, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who yesterday issued an executive order forbidding his state's officials from applying for grant money from the new law.

CNN Poll: 56% Of Americans
Oppose Health Care Law

Poll: 13% Oppose Law Because It Is Not Liberal Enough...

GOP Hails Purely Symbolic Victory In MO's Anti-Health Care Reform Vote

Voters in the Show Me State overwhelmingly voted yesterday to change Missouri statutes so the mandate for insurance coverage wouldn't apply -- a symbolic gesture that everyone acknowledges is highly unlikely to have any effect on the federal health care reform law (absent major and unexpected changes to established legal precedent). But don't tell RNC Chairman Michael Steele, House Minority Leader John Boehner or former Alaska governor Sarah Palin that.

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