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The Public Necessity

Tom Sullivan | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

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Tom Sullivan

If America believes it needs not just a public option, but a public necessity, more Americans will have to get up off the couch and go get it.

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Support for the Public Option Keeps Getting Stronger

Roger Hickey | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Jacob Hacker, Medicare, Campaign for America's Future, Roger Hickey, Public Option, Politics News
Roger Hickey

It is not surprising that public and Congressional support for the public option has surged again, just as the insurance industry has tried to manipulate key decision-makers in the Senate.

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If You Like Medical Bills, You'll Love These

Tom Sullivan | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

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Tom Sullivan

Medical insurance paperwork is universally recognized and universally loathed. It could serve as a potent symbol of everything wrong with America's dysfunctional, for-profit health insurance system.

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Health Insurer Enlisting Its Employees To Kill Reform

Free Speech Radio News | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Health Insurance Plans, Ahip, Health Insurance Industry, Hypocrisy, Medicaid, Healthnet, Medicare, Campaign for America's Future, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

This year's debate is different from the efforts in the 1990s to reform health care. This time, the health insurance industry says they support health...

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Let's Pass Ted Kennedy's Health Plan

Roger Hickey | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

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Roger Hickey

Some are urging that the best tribute we could construct to the great man's memory is to pass a watered-down health bill that could win the support of a large number of conservative Republicans.

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The Democrats' Problem: There's No Health Care Plan to Sell

Tom D'Antoni | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Health Insurance Plan, Health Insurance Bill, Health Insurance, Public Option, Congress, Barack Obama, Media, Campaign for America's Future, Politics News
Tom D'Antoni

"Public option" represents an amorphous concept that has yet to be spelled out. Perhaps Obama has been playing rope-a-dope.

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New Report: Pittsburgh --The Rest of the Story

Dave Johnson | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Manufacturing, Pittsburgh, Steel, Post-Industrial Age, Rust Belt, University of Pittsburgh, Campaign for America's Future, Pittsburgh in Transition, Business News
Dave Johnson

Pittsburgh, known as "Steel City," was a center of the Rust Belt -- so-called because so much of our manufacturing, once America's economic powerhouse, has been outsourced.

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Fighting the GOP Mobs: Progressives, Labor Ramp Up Grassroots Response

Art Levine | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: GOP Mobs, Afl-Cio, Obama, Health Care Protests, Campaign for America's Future, Tea Party, Health Care, Town Halls, Politics News
Art Levine

Will the majority that favors genuine health care reform turn out in large enough numbers to take back the debate hijacked by extremists and corporate interests?

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ACES Is Not a Victory for the Environmental Movement

Josh Nelson | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green

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Josh Nelson

The bill doesn't go far enough to spark the transition to a clean energy economy we need to avert catastrophic climate change. It does not meet the science. It does not meet Obama's promises.

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Making Change: Progressives in the Obama Moment

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

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Robert L. Borosage

The mainstream media wants to know: are progressives still supporting Obama or are they pushing him?

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Progressives: Use Populist Rage To Push Obama (VIDEO)

American News Project | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Populist Movement, Bob Borosage, Campaign for America's Future, Barack Obama, Politics News

Everyone agrees: The populist fires are burning. But what's next? Bob Borosage, co-director of the Campaign for America's Future, thinks our historic ...

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Where's Obama's Grass-Roots Army? Conservatives Outphoning Liberals 100-to-1

Art Levine | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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Art Levine

The oft-touted grassroots army that was supposed to help push the Obama agenda seems to be Missing in Action.

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Helping Put Rove in Contempt

ZP Heller | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Progress Now, Karl Rove, CREDO Mobile, Isaiah Poole, Linda Sanchez, Campaign for America's Future, Brave New Films, People for the American Way, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, The Nation, Politics News
ZP Heller

Linda Sanchez (D-CA) has been a true leader in the fight to hold Rove in contempt. "I think it's ridiculous that Karl Rove thinks that he doesn't have to follow the law," Sanchez told me.

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Will Netroots "Hold their Noses" in Backing Obama?

Art Levine | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics

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Art Levine

The talk of "betrayal" is spreading on the Web, and some in the Netroots are starting to resemble those nearly half of die-hard Hillary supporters who say they won't vote for Obama.

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Health Care for America Now!

Roger Hickey | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Care for America Now, Universal Health Care, Campaign for America's Future, Roger Hickey, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News
Roger Hickey

Most politicians say they favor some kind of health care "reform," but HCAN is mobilizing a citizens' force that can make sure we do it right -- based on choice, affordability, shared responsibility, and fairness.

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