Jason Rosenbaum

I'll be doing a little bit of liveblogging the Senate health care debate today leading up to the cloture vote at around 8 pm EST.

Coming up on this week's edition of Food Sunday, all things Thanksgiving.

Last week, the case was made that Americans deserve a debate and a vote on health care. And indeed, America agrees. Health Care for America Now has released a poll showing that voters in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Nebraska overwhelmingly agree that the Senate should debate and have a fair, majority vote on health care.

Your daily health care news for 11/20/09

On the whole, the Senate bill looks very much like the House health care bill. It ends insurance company abuses like denying care for those with pre-existing conditions and it sets benefit standards to make sure the coverage people receive - both on their own and through their employer - actually covers the care they need. It gives people the choice of a public health insurance option like the one in the HELP bill, though states would be able to opt-out of the public option if they passed a law saying so. And it sets up a health insurance "Exchange" that would provide tax credits (subsidies) to make health care affordable, as well as helping business afford health care for their employees.

Your daily health care news for 11/19/09

I just got off a conference call with Obama for America campaign manager David Plouffe, who talked with bloggers about his upcoming book, The Audacity to Win. I had a chance to ask Plouffe about a comment Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's chief strategist, made last week. Mark said, in response to a question about whether "social media" won Obama the election.

Majority Leader Harry Reid seems to be moving away from taxing so-called "Cadillac" health care benefits as a means to pay for health reform, a tax that would eventually hit 40% of health care plans in the country. This is good news.

Your daily health care news for 11/18/09

Today in Chicago, a message was delivered: Insurance company greed kills jobs, and we're not going to take it anymore.