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Obama Hires Former WellPoint Exec to Implement Health Care Law

David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Sirota

This is a telling indictment of the health care law itself, strongly suggesting it was constructed by the Obama administration as a massive taxpayer-financed giveaway to private insurers like WellPoint.

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Public Option Plan Will Cover Few Americans, New Statistic Reveals

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Bill, Robert Zirkelbach, Commonwealth Fund, Public Option, Drew Altman, Private Insurers, Congressional Budget Office, Kaiser Family Foundation, Government Insurance Plan, Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Harry Reid, Medicaid, Health Care, America's Health Insurance Plans, Politics News

WASHINGTON — What's all the fuss about? After all the noise over Democrats' push for a government insurance plan to compete with private carrier...

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Daily Pulse: Has Baucus Pulled Snowe's Trigger?

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senate Finance Committee Health Care Bill, Public Option Trigger, Senate Finance Committee, Public Option, Health Insurers, Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Gang of Six, Private Insurers, Health Care, Politics News
Lindsay Beyerstein

To progressives, adopting the "wait and see" approach is like giving Bernie Madoff another five years to run his Ponzi scheme, just to make absolutely sure he's a crook.

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Krugman: Why The Public Option Matters

New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Private Insurers, Medicare, Reaganism, Public Option, Healthcare Reform, President Obama, Politics News

Most arguments against the public option are based either on deliberate misrepresentation of what that option would mean, or on remarkably thorough mi...

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Obama Swiftboats Van Jones

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Linda Milazzo

Van Jones' resignation isn't a testament to the frenetic dry-drunk tirades of a delusional Fox employee. It is due to the Obama administration's failure to rightfully and necessarily defend a valuable member of its team.

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Health Care Today: Separate Is Not Equal

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Segregation, Washington, Civil Rights, Dr. Scheiner, Single-Payer, Health Care Reform, Help, Private Insurers, Health Care, Healthcare, Home News
Jeanine Molloff

End the de facto segregation we have now under private insurers and replace it with mandated single-payer health care for all Americans. This is the civil rights issue of our day.

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Lobbying & Universal Health Care

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lobby, Moratorium, Public Option, Lobbyists, Health Insurance, Insurance Lobby, Universal Health Care, Private Insurers, Mr. Obama, Ama, Legislative Bodies, Health, Politics News
Dr. Susan Corso

A one-year moratorium on lobbying would help change the debate from universal health insurance to actual universal health care.

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