Health Care Reform Articles - January 12, 2011

Dr. Atul Gawande on Obama’s "Frustrating" Record on Healthcare Reform and "The Checklist Manifesto"

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/1/5/dr_atul_gawande_on_obamas_frustrating_record_on_healthcare_reform_and__the_checklist_manifesto

Tragedy may soften health debate By: Jennifer Haberkorn and Carrie Budoff Brown January 12, 2011 04:33 AM EST

When the House returns to the debate over repealing health care reform, the rhetoric most likely will be softer — but the lines of division are expected to be as hard as ever. The House is expected to return to Washington next week to a more subdued debate on repealing the health care reform law than it probably would have had a few weeks ago. http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=77CD06AD-CDF7-0500-9516C1DDB3938D74

Published on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 by The Capital Times (Wisconsin)

Deadly Spin on Health Care Repeal

by Wendell Potter

Advocates of health care reform who are fearful -- or hopeful, as the case may be -- that Republicans will be able to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) need to understand that the GOP has no real intention of repealing it.

The rhetoric of repeal is just a smoke screen to obscure the real objective of the “repeal and replace” caucus: to preserve the sections of the law that big insurance and its business allies like and strip out the regulations and consumer protections they don’t like.

http://www.commondreams.org/print/64334