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Senate Democrats Consider Nightmare Scenario On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics

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There is, currently, a nightmare scenario afflicting Democrats on Capitol Hill with regards to health care reform. And it goes like this: Sometime ear...

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Lincoln, Landrieu Hint At Support For Revised Health Care Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.09.2009 | Politics

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Two key conservative Democrats hinted on Wednesday that they support the health care reform compromises adopted by the party's leadership, including t...

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The Insurance Industry's Lethal Bottom Line -- and a Solution From Sens. Franken and Rockefeller

Wendell Potter | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

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The health care reform bill now being debated in the Senate must include a provision that sets a minimum medical loss ratio to keep insurers from gouging consumers and leaving patients without the care they need.

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Obama Rallies Senate Democrats On Health Care

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 12.07.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Casting health care overhaul as a legacy for the American people and failure as politically unthinkable, President Barack Obama on ...

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Snowe Rejoins Dems At Public Option Negotiating Table

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics

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In a breakthough in Senate negotiations around a public health insurance option, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) sat down with centrist conservative Demo...

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Ed Schultz Spars With Sen. Barbara Boxer Over Senate Health Care Bill

Posted 12.03.2009 | Media

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The Ed Show's Ed Schultz let it all out Wednesday evening and expressed the frustration that many progressives feel about attempts by Democrats to wat...

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Waffling Democrats' Health Care Hypocrisy

Peter Dreier | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

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After years of feeding at the health insurance industry trough, it's no wonder these conservative Democratic senators oppose a public option plan to compete for consumers.

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Senate Sextet

Shawn Healy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson, Pivotal Politics, Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform, Filibuster, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Mary Landrieu, Politics News

By my calculation, Senator Reid can count on 56 votes for the health care legislation as it now stands. Any attrition from this group would require Reid to reach across the aisle to recruit one or more moderate Republicans.

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When Can A Public Option Not Be A Public Option?

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

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There are proposals for opt-out, opt-in, and "triggered" public options. What are Americans to think or to do? Let's get back to basics.

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Sealed With A Kiss: Dems Unite To Beat GOP Filibuster

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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Harry Reid sealed the biggest legislative victory of his career Saturday night with a kiss. And then a hug. Emotionally reserved doesn't begin to des...

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Senate Votes To Debate Health Care Reform Bill

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON (AP)-- Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate...

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Health Care Reform Closing Arguments: White House, Activists, Labor Unions Eye The Finish Line

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

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With the Senate poised to cast historic votes on health care legislation, a host of activist groups, labor unions, and even the White House itself lau...

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Blanche Lincoln Could Face Primary Opponent Due To Health Care Opposition

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home

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Scroll down for video As Blanche Lincoln keeps the nation -- and Senate Democratic leadership -- waiting to find out whether she'll vote to allow the...

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Senate Dems Close In On Reform: Details Of Health Care Bill Revealed

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

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Read the bill (PDF). Senate Democrats have posted the legislation on their web site. --------- Senate Democrats made a big step toward comprehensive...

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The Three Democrats Who Could Block Health Care Reform

New York Times | CARL HULSE | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat of Nebraska, says he is not sure he is ready to help a Democratic health care proposal clear even the most preliminary hu...

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Joe Lieberman Filibusters Health Care While Americans Suffer

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

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With every month that goes by without health care reform, another 3,600 Americans die due to a lack of insurance. And Joe Lieberman, like Elaine in that classic Seinfeld episode, is stopping off for Jujyfruits.

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Going Rogue by Sarah Palin: A Review (Sort-of)

Daniel Krotz | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

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Is Going Rogue a good book? Who knows? Who cares? Generally speaking, books by politicians of any ideological persuasion have the shelf life of a grape.

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Senate "Moderates" Delaying Health Care Bill With Demands

The Washington Post | Shailagh Murray and Lori Montgomery | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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Moderate lawmakers are exerting their outsize influence in the divided Senate to secure changes to health-care reform legislation, potentially adding ...

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Krugman: "Centrists" Should Admit It If They Want To Kill Reform

New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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I won't try to psychoanalyze the "naysayers," as Mr. Orszag describes them. I'd just urge them to take a good hard look in the mirror. If they really ...

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Yet Another Public Option Poll Puts A Wavering Dem On The Spot

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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Yet another public opinion poll in a state with a conservative Democratic senator shows that the public option not only is widely popular among voters...

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Senators Who Could And/Or Will Screw Up Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

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Harry Reid boldly announced the bill would contain something public option-esque. But will a reform bill that contains as limited a measure as the opt-out plan survive the Senate?

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Arianna Weighs In On The Senate Health Care Bill And The Challenges Ahead

Huff TV | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media

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Arianna appeared on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann on Monday to discuss news that the Senate's health care bill would include an opt-out publi...

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Who Should Pay for Health Insurance Reform?

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

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"Much has been given" to those Americans at the pinnacle of wealth. So it is only fair that "much will be required" when it comes to helping pay for health insurance for those who can't otherwise afford it.

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Health Insurance Industry Exposes Its Insatiable Greed

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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After pretending for months to cooperate with the Obama administration and Democrats to secure a reasonable health reform bill, the industry's CEOs and lobbyists on Sunday double-crossed their one-time political allies.

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Conservative Dems, GOP Senators Lobby To Delay Health Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

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Republican and conservative Democrat lawmakers revived a push Wednesday for the kind of delay to health care reform that a GOP senator admitted was pa...

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