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...While conservative groups and Republican politicians will surely continue advertising and organizing against the health-reform law, Families USA also plans to launch its own public education campaign, funded through foundation donations, over the coming months. It will include a "health-reform road show" across the country, which will seek to drum up local press coverage of the new law's benefits, says Pollack. The organization is also planning to release state-by-state studies of the number of beneficiaries from key parts of the law, like the new protections for patients with pre-existing conditions. (See "Multimedia: Health Care...
...single Republican voted for it. Indeed, the Republicans put on a scalding, cynical performance all year, mischaracterizing the bill as "socialism" and a "government takeover" of health care, inventing nonexistent provisions like "death panels" to scare the public. Now that it has passed, Republicans will have to deal with the reality that the bill did not represent "Armageddon," as their overwrought House leader, John Boehner, claimed - that, in fact, it won't have much short-term impact at all and that in the long term, the impact is more likely to be benign than tragic...
...political threat to the Republican Party." In other words, it would make Clinton and the Democrats more popular. Kristol's strategy succeeded in 1994, when Republicans won control of the House and Senate - but it failed in 2010, although Republicans, misled by momentary anti-reform polls that mostly reflect public confusion, seem intent on pushing "repeal." It remains likely that Democrats will lose seats this year, but those losses may not be as extensive now. A good measuring stick would be the 26 House seats lost in 1982, when Ronald Reagan faced a 10.8% unemployment rate...
...demands of a globalized, warp-speed economy and an aging population. It will have to be modified, and modified again - and one hopes the Republicans, with their natural instinct for efficiency, will participate in that process. But, however flawed, the health care bill is a sign that major, concerted public reforms are once again possible, and that the difficult work of transforming America to compete successfully in a new world of challenges can now begin...
...Papandreou is certainly raising the stakes. Greece's public finances are in a parlous state, and Papandreou says the government must refinance a large chunk of its fast-growing debt - conservatively estimated at 125% of GDP - or risk defaulting on its loans. He wants E.U. leaders to agree once and for all on a financial safety net for his country when they meet for a summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. If the E.U. can't come to terms on a rescue plan, he says, Greece will be forced to turn to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - a move...