Mar 02 Politico Reporter: President Will Say ‘I Want My Vote’ on Health Care Reform By Hari Sreenivasan President Obama is expected to announce his preferred way forward on health care reform Wednesday. Politico assistant managing editor for enterprise Jeanne Cummings stopped by the Rundown to speak to us about the president’s likely message and the challenges… Continue reading
Mar 01 Obama’s Health Care Summit: Your Questions Answered During President Obama's health care summit last week, we got analysis and commentary throughout the day from a panel of experts: -- Thomas Mann, senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution. -- Ron Pollack, executive… Continue reading
Feb 26 Health Reform’s Next Step: 23rd Use of Reconciliation? By Dave Gustafson As Democrats weigh the next steps for health reform on the heels of a bipartisan summit on the stalled legislation, one option under discussion is a rarely used Senate procedure known as reconciliation. Continue reading
Feb 26 Health Care Reform: The Highlight Reel By Mike Fritz It's been a long year of contentious congressional negotiations, raucous town hall meetings and battle lines being drawn over President Obama's push for health care reform. You can be forgiven for occasionally getting lost along the bumpy political road that… Continue reading
Feb 26 Reporter: Deep Divisions Remain After Health Reform Summit By Hari Sreenivasan In the wake of President Obama’s marathon health care reform summit on Thursday, we spoke with Kaiser Health News reporter Mary Agnes Carey about what comes next in the overhaul push. Carey said the lawmakers in the room appeared… Continue reading
Feb 26 Lima Women Find Opportunity in Knitting Circle By Talea Miller LIMA, PERU -- Each afternoon, in the Santa Rosa slum built into the steep hillside surrounding Lima, a group of 15 women meet to knit. Surrounded by spools of alpaca yarn, they take up their needles and piece together scarves… Continue reading
Feb 26 Friday’s Headlines: 17 Killed in Kabul; Mixed Reaction to Health Summit One day after the Afghan government raised its flag in the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, militants killed at least 17 people in a series of attacks in Kabul. The suicide attacks targeted two hotels rented by Indian embassy workers and… Continue reading
Feb 25 Ask Experts Your Questions on the Health Care Summit We asked our panel of experts to weigh in with their reactions to Thursday's summit on health care. Here, their final thoughts on the day's events. You can submit your own questions for the panel in the comments… Continue reading
Feb 25 Live-blogging the Health Care Summit The Rundown is following President Obama's bipartisan health care reform summit Thursday and offering updates and insights from the NewsHour news desk and correspondent Judy Woodruff, as well as commentary and opinion from three analysts, throughout the event. Continue reading
Feb 25 Reactions to #HCRSummit Around the Web Did the health reform summit change minds? It's still hard to say. Going in, hopes for compromise were low, according to Politico: Heading into Thursday's summit, there's been a lot of talk on both sides about how they're… Continue reading