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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Obama Pushes Privately On MedPac

By Marc Ambinder

Jun 3 2009, 8:53 AM ET Comment

Be sure to read this update from Jonathan Cohn at TNR. He explains how the White House has thrown down a fairly concrete marker on cost-cutting by privately supporting a proposal by Sen. Jay Rockefeller to put more teeth into the government's Medicare cost containment mechanism.  As Cohn notes, hospitals and doctors and care providers are going to fight this provision tooth and emanel. 

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