Let’s wait to see if this is true, but the Wall Street Journal says that the FCC will move to reclassify broadband services to give them a greater ability to regulate in that space, protecting their intentions to reinforce net neutrality and transform broadband access for the 21st century: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski [...]

On a conference call just now, Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) addressed the Stupak bloc in the House of Representatives by basically daring him to deny coverage to 31 million Americans. “We have 535 people trying to come together on a health bill, right? And you’re not getting any Republican support, so that makes it harder,” said [...]

Mary Landrieu just signaled that she could support a health care bill moving through the budget reconciliation process. With Landrieu, among the four or five members of the Democratic caucus who were the last to sign on to the health care bill at all, now supporting the sidecar strategy, it seems assured that Senate Democrats [...]

The big story here is not that the White House wants to crush Byron Dorgan’s reimportation amendment and hold up their deal with Big PhRMa – that’s been clear for a while. The big news is that Dorgan’s fighting back: The White House, aided by Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), is working hard to crush an [...]

You can view these “deals” in the Senate on health care as similar to a wave. We hear about them at the crest of the wave, and sometimes they sound pretty good. Then the wave crashes. While some are celebrating the newest public option compromise as a solution to the political deadlock on Capitol Hill, [...]

Now Mary Landrieu has come forward with yet another public option compromise. I’d explain it if someone explains it to me first. It might as well be a hieroglyph. Landrieu calls her proposal the “competitive community option,” which sounds remarkably similar to a trigger proposal advocated by Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine). A state-based nonprofit insurance [...]

Jay Rockefeller is making a lot of noise about a provision in the House health care bill that would fold the SCHIP (State Children’s Health Insurance Program) into the insurance exchanges when they begin running in 2013. Rockefeller, who changed the Senate Finance Committee bill to rescue SCHIP from the same fate, released this statement [...]

Just a few more that I wanted to add as they come in. Chris Dodd: “I fought for a strong public option – in the HELP Committee and in this merger process – because it is the best way to keep costs low and insurance companies honest,” said Dodd. “Majority Leader Reid has made a [...]

The Wall Street Journal reports tonight that Harry Reid is going along with the opt-out: WASHINGTON — Top Senate Democrats are close to finalizing their health bill and could unveil a measure as soon as early this week that would include stiffer penalties on employers who fail to provide health coverage. Senate leaders plan to [...]

And the yo-yo moves back up. TPM gets multiple sources confirming earlier reporting, which was denied at one point, that the President prefers the trigger option that would keep Olympia Snowe (R-ME) in the fold on an overall health care bill to a public option with an opt-out mechanism for the states, a version Harry [...]

You can barely keep all the various reports straight, so here’s a try: • Nancy Pelosi’s whip operation to find the final eight votes needed to pass a House health care bill with a robust public option continues. Raul Grijalva set the marker by saying publicly that 210 votes within the caucus were secured. Open [...]