The Hill reports that “Democratic leaders sent out a notice Monday morning alerting senators that when the chamber returns to session after the Thanksgiving holiday, ‘roll call votes could occur at any time during the day and evening, with weekend sessions likely.
The New York Times Prescriptions Blog reports on a ripple in “the Senate’s predominant history as an old-boys’ club.” It notes that “to move the bill forward for full debate, the Democrats’ last two crucial votes came from women: Senators Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas.
Several news outlets find that hospital executives are worried about their facilities’ finances, and for a Chicago hospital the prospect of health care reform brings even more concerns.
Answers From Iowa Kaiser Health News If this were a presidential election year, a recent report by the Iowa Committee for Value in Healthcare would be reaping a lot of attention.
As the health reform debate played out in the House this summer and fall, the way “women’s advocates played the game” was “extremely nice,” which probably contributed to the passage of the restrictive Stupak amendment to the chamber’s health reform bill (HR 3962), author Sharon Lerner writes in an opinion piece in The Nation.