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Obama's Health Care Pledge: Getting a Deal Trumps Making the Process Transparent
10 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
When candidate Barack Obama was criss-crossing the country in his two-year presidential campaign, a standard part of his stump speech -- lines that always won him applause -- had to do with his promise to negotiate health care reform in public, on C-SPAN, for all to see. As the wrangling over health overhaul legislation heads into its final stretch, it's clear that was a promise President Obama did not keep. The dealmaking remained behind ...
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47 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
In an interview with The Washington Post on Tuesday, President Barack Obama challenged his critics to identify any "gap" between what he campaigned on last year and the health care legislation Congress is on the verge of passing. Critics, however, do have a few of his campaign pledges to point to. Most notably, Obama launched high-profile attacks against two of his campaign opponents for taking policy positions that are now reflected in the ...
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1 hour, 47 minutes ago ago from Huffington Post
President Barack Obama, in an interview with The Washington Post , said on Tuesday that in the two years leading up to his election he "didn't campaign on the public option" for insurance coverage. Could that possibly be true? A plan for government-run insurance has been the focal point of the soon-to-be-concluded health care debate; the catalyst of white-hot partisan warfare; and the provision that progressive and conservatives alike have ...
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