Steve Benen in The Washington Monthly takes note of a growing movement in the House and Senate to include reform of student loans in the same reconciliation package with health care. It has a certain logic in terms of bringing House liberals aboard, and Nebraska’s Sen. Ben Nelson won’t like it one bit.
Tag: health care
Three from The Treatment
The New Republic’s health care blog, The Treatment, has become indispensable to understanding what’s happening in the health insurance reform macro debate and the details of the politics involved.
Three recent items from Jonathan Cohn’s self-described “must-read guide to health care reform:”
Australia Can Wait. Health Care Cannot. (3/12)
The big lie about ‘reconciliation’
E. J. Dionne manages to keep the Post’s op-ed page honest.