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A PULSE FIRST LOOK — Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, looks back on the administration’s accomplishments since the health care overhaul was signed into law in a post that will hit the White House blog this morning. She writes, “The day of that signing the President made one thing clear – he expects his Administration to deliver the benefits of reform to the American people as effectively and expeditiously as possible. As the President said, ‘we need to get this right.’ Over the last month, we’ve begun doing that.” It will go live at 6 a.m. here:
HEALTH REFORM FEATURED IN REID'S NEVADA CAMPAIGN — The health overhaul, or more precisely, selected up-front election year highlights of the overhaul, are already playing a significant role in the Reid’s Nevada Senate race, where the Majority Leader is struggling to retain his seat. His campaign said Thursday it had purchased a “substantial” round of media touting the plan that he muscled through the Senate. But the ads steer clear of the most controversial features of the health care law, the mandates, and instead focus on the up-front election-year rewards such as tax credits for small business and the closing of the “doughnut hole.”
The ads come a day after Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons criticized him for passing reform at the expense of middle-class Nevadans struggling in a poor economy. Gibbons said, “Harry Reid’s idea of reform might be breaking the backs and bank accounts of hard working Nevadans, but it is not mine,” Gibbons said, while announcing that the state would not help HHS establish high-risk insurance pools to help cover people with pre-existing conditions.
The television ads feature Reid along with three ordinary Nevadans. Check out the ads, along with the campaign’s health care factcheck site here.
Health care advocacy group Families USA and PhRMA, the pharmaceutical lobby, are running another round of ads praising Reid’s work. These ads, though, are mostly about jobs and mention health care in passing. POLITICO’s Ben Smith has the ad.
The most full-throated praise for the health care act yesterday actually came from the Republican next door, California’s Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is not running for anything.
SCHWARZENEGGER BACKS REFORM – The Republican governor of California said his state will fully support the federal health overhaul. He bucked his party and many of his fellow GOP governors who have endorsed lawsuits challenging the plan’s constitutionality. The Schwarzenegger announcement is important for another reason – he’s the head of a very large state with big-time budget problems. If reform’s success is going to hinge in large part on the states, his endorsement and California’s cooperation are hugely significant. While many other state lawmakers have fretted about getting stuck with new health costs, Schwarzenegger said Thursday that the estimated costs to California – $2 billion-$3 billion – are worth it. The POLITICO story is here.
Source: http://feeds.politico.com/click.phdo?i=b3a421ccfd6f40e50059627a7ebe339b
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