Kate Pickert

Kate Pickert is a staff writer for TIME. She writes about health care and previously worked for New York magazine. She is a graduate of the University at Buffalo and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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Today’s Health Care Checkup

* The Obama Administration will post its own health care plan online by Monday morning. It will reportedly include at least an outline of what could be passed via reconciliation in the Senate.

* I remain very skeptical that a final Democratic bill, even one passed via reconciliation, will include a public option. For some Democrats in …

Could the Public Option Get a Third Lease on Life?

I’m not a fan of making health reform-related predictions – especially after the Scott Brown election – so I won’t say No. But I am comfortable saying that it’s EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY unlikely.

But hey, you can’t blame public option devotees for trying. Sixteen Democratic senators and 119 House Democrats have now signed freshman …

The Road to Reconciliation

If Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid want to use reconciliation to pass health care reform, a bipartisan summit notwithstanding, they will need 50 motivated Democratic Senators to do it. Those 50, plus a tie-breaking vote from Vice President Joe Biden, could allow the Senate to pass a set of budget-related modifications to its current bill. …

UPDATE: Billy Tauzin Out at PhRMA

News broke overnight that Billy Tauzin, the Democratic congressman turned Republican turned lobbyist, was stepping down as head of the the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. Tauzin led the group when it struck a mid-2009 backroom deal with President Obama and the chair of the Senate Finance Committee. The deal, …

Todd Palin: Way More Than a First Dude

CORRECTION: The original version of this post said that MSNBC acquired Alaska state e-mails related to Todd Palin. It was msnbc.com.

After a long public records fight, msnbc.com finally got the goods on Todd Palin’s role in the Alaska state government when his wife was governor. About 3,000 pages of e-mails just released show that …

Today’s Health Care Checkup

Here’s the latest on the health care front:

* Speaking at a fundraiser last night, President Obama made another strong pitch for health care reform, this time with some more details on his preferred pathway and timeline.

* But at least one observer thinks the big news is that Obama acknowledged the possibility that health reform …

Atul Gawande and His Pesky Checklists

The New Yorker’s Atul Gawande wrote one of the most influential stories about health care in 2009. The piece, published in June, was about geographic disparities in health spending, specifically why McAllen, Texas is one of the most expensive places in the country to get medical care. The article raised so many vital questions about …

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