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Jonathan Cohn is a senior editor at The New Republic magazine and a senior fellow at Demos , a non-partisan public policy center that is headquartered in New York City. He writes about domestic politics and policy with a primary focus on health care, on which he has just published a book (see below).

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What Obama Is Reading (And, Maybe, Thinking)

To be sure, these efforts still don't go as far as they could. As I write today, in my latest column for the Kaiser Health News, the bill could still impose much stiffer penalties on hospitals that have high rates of inpatient infection--something all ...

From JONATHAN COHN, The New Republic,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Congressional Budget Office,  White House

Disinfected

Health professionals spend many thousands of hours training to cure disease. But they can learn how to stop the spread of deadly hospital infections in just a few minutes, by learning five steps for putting lines (that is, tubes) into patients’ bodies. ...

From JONATHAN COHN, The New Republic,  24 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Peter Pronovost,  U.S. House of Representatives

Nightmares About Grandma

This just in, from AARP and the American Medical Association: WASHINGTON--As health reform reaches a critical juncture in Congress, AARP and AMA are joining forces to cut through the noise and focus on the benefits of health reform for older Americans ...

From JONATHAN COHN, The New Republic,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AARP,  American Medical Association,  U.S. Congress,  White House

Should We Laugh? Cry? Both?

The ritual is becoming familiar. Health care reform passes a major political hurdle. And progressives don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Last time, the occasion was a vote in the House of Representatives. Health care reform passed by the slimmest of ...

From JONATHAN COHN, The New Republic,  22 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. House of Representatives,  Blanche Lincoln,  Harry Reid,  U.S. Republican Party

Another Historic Vote

The health care debate moves forward. On the motion to proceed, all the Democrats plus independents Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders voted aye. All of the Republicans present voted nay. The final count was 60 to 39. (Republican George Voinovich was ...

From JONATHAN COHN, The New Republic,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Joe Lieberman,  Bernie Sanders,  George Voinovich

Senate Vote Tonight, Looks Good for the Dems

Tonight, at around 8 p.m., the Senate will vote on a "motion to proceed" with the debate over health care reform. To be clear, this isn't actually a vote on whether to pass health care reform--or even a vote on whether to hold such a vote. It's a vote ...

From JONATHAN COHN, The New Republic,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Blanche Lincoln,  U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Ron Wyden

Health Reform Will Make You Rich!

Well, OK, maybe not rich. But it should mean higher wages, if it includes the tax on expensive health policies. That's according to Jonathan Gruber of MIT, who's been studying this and just released a new memo on the subject. As he did previously, he ...

From JONATHAN COHN, The New Republic,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A (Small) Win for Wyden and Choice

Ron Wyden will have his day and, in somewhat scaled-down fashion, he'll have his way. Majority Leader Harry Reid, Finance Chairman Max Baucus, and Wyden just announced that they will be amending health care legislation to include a compromise version ...

From JONATHAN COHN, The New Republic,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ron Wyden,  Harry Reid,  Max Baucus,  U.S. Senate,  Congressional Budget Office

Making an Exchange

Few elements of reform are more critical to its overall success than the success of the new insurance exchanges, through which small business and individuals without access to affordable company health plans will buy coverage. And although the issue ...

From JONATHAN COHN, The New Republic,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Good Housekeeping,  John Kerry,  Harry Reid

A Change for the Better

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and his allies have addressed, at least in part, a major weakness of the Senate Finance bill: The role of employers. To review, both the Senate HELP and House bills contained relatively traditional "employer mandates." ...

From JONATHAN COHN, The New Republic,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Harry Reid,  Olympia Snowe,  Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

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