We’ve been covering the dangers of a pure regulatory structure to deal with insurance company abuses, rather than competition through a public option, for some time, mostly in real time during the health care debate. It didn’t take the insurance companies more than a few minutes once the Affordable Care Act was passed to dispute [...]

I wrote about the insurance industry’s attempt to delay the piece of the Affordable Care Act providing guaranteed issue for children back on Thursday. The NYT hits this again today, describing how the industry considers it an issue of semantics and drafting: Insurers agree that if they provide insurance for a child, they must cover [...]

The Senate is in the middle of the second of seven procedural votes on health care reform. In the first, lawmakers voted down a point of order on the Constitutionality of the individual mandate proposed by John Ensign and Orrin Hatch. The party-line vote failed, 39-60. Other votes include a series of additional points of [...]

As Joe Lieberman threatens to destroy anything meaningful in the Senate health care bill, the President, who through aides is pushing to give Holy Joe everything he could possibly want, has summoned the entire caucus to the White House, to, um, tell them all the same thing? President Barack Obama will meet with Senate Democrats [...]