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Ron Wyden Wins Big Concession On Health Insurance Exchanges

The Hill | Jeffrey Young | Posted 11.20.2009 | Politics

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) have taken a long stride toward locking down the...

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Harry Reid: 'I'm Not Using Reconciliation'

Politico | Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the first key test vote on his $848 billion health care bill will be taken Saturday, but he declined to say whe...

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Arthur Delaney

Senate Health Care Bill Offers Less Immediate Help Than House Version

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

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If the Senate has its way with health insurance reform, Sandra Ingram, a 63-year-old cancer patient undergoing intensive chemotherapy treatments in Io...

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Crashing the Gates of the Status Quo

Robert Creamer | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

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Robert Creamer

If we succeed in winning health insurance reform we will have breached the gates of the status quo. We will demonstrate that fundamental change is possible.

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Cartoon: Iceberg Dead Ahead!

Shan Wells | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver

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Shan Wells

I wonder if electing a pack of blue dogs in order to gain a "majority" was worth the now very real risk that the party will chew itself to pieces via stubborn ideological bickering.

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Health Care Attacks Orchestrated By 'Shadowy' Corporate Front Group

ThinkProgress | Lee Fang | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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The resistance to reforming our nation's healthcare system has been fueled by entrenched corporate interests. Their deep pockets are funneling money i...

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Public Option Opt-Out Not Favored By Americans: AP Poll

The Associated Press | Erica Werner | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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More Americans support creation of a new government-run health insurance plan to compete with the private insurance market, a new Associated Press pol...

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Orrin Hatch Will Introduce Abortion Restrictions In Senate Health Bill

Politics Daily | Patricia Murphey | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) told Politics Daily Tuesday that he plans to introduce an amendment to the Senate health care reform bill similar to the ame...

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Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Jim Wallis

We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.

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Candlelight Vigil for Health Care Reform at Senator Lieberman's Front Door

Mary Ann West | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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Mary Ann West

People continue to die because of senators like Lieberman, who have determined that their convictions are more important than their constituents' lives. Go figure.

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Bart Stupak, Leave My Daughter Alone

Michael Kieschnick | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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Michael Kieschnick

Why would twenty men with positive ratings on past votes from Planned Parenthood vote for the horrendous Stupak amendment? I have no idea.

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10 Reasons Why Democrats Who Opposed the Health Care Bill Made a Political Mistake

Robert Creamer | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

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Robert Creamer

Even ignoring how critical it is to overhaul our broken health care system, most of the 39 Democrats who voted against reform in the House last week still made a political mistake. Here's why.

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Blue Dog Democrats Dominate House Health Care Debate

The New York Review Of Books | Michael Tomasky | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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So what did the House Blue Dogs do on the health care vote last Saturday? They were more supportive than one might think: Of the fifty-two-member coal...

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Abortion Rights Supporters In Congress Request Talks With Obama

AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Abortion rights supporters in Congress are asking President Barack Obama for a meeting next week on abortion restrictions included ...

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Pearlstein: Restore Majority Rule To The Senate

The Washington Post | Steven Pearlstein | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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By now most people have heard the story of the frog that's put in a pot of cold water on a hot stove and doesn't notice as it is gradually boiled to d...

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Ben Nelson Wants Anti-Abortion Measures In Senate Health Bill

AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Abortion opponents in the Senate want tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, similar to the limits passed by the Hous...

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Medical Industry Grumbles Over Bill, But It Stands To Gain

The New York Times | Duff Wilson and Reed Abelson | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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For any industry, there has to be at least some good news any time Congress votes to expand the market by tens of millions of customers. But the busi...

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Pete Sessions Blasted By Dems For Comparing Women To Smokers

POLITICO | Glenn Thrush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.), the head of the Republicans campaign committee, caused a stir at last night's Rules Committee meeting when he suggested t...

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Bachmann Challengers Maureen Reed, Tarryl Clark Share Plans To Take On Michele

The Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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Michele Bachmann took her paranoid campaign against the White House to new heights on Thursday, leading a mass protest inside the Capitol itself that ...

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Second House Call: Steve King Wants Another Protest Against Health Bill

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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Because the first one apparently didn't do it, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) issued a statement today calling for a second "House Call" protest against hea...

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West Wing Stars: Call Your Congressman Today (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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A (fake) former president and first lady promoted health care reform in a new ad from Health Care for America Now. Martin Sheen and Stockard Channing...

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Memo to Congress: On Health Care Vote You Must Choose Between Insurance Companies and Average Americans

Robert Creamer | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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Robert Creamer

This is one of the most historic votes you will ever take. Would you have wanted to tell your grandchildren that you were one of the few Democrats that voted against Social Security or Medicare?

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Ex-Blue Cross Spokesman Says Health Insurance "Worst Product In American History"

Raw Story | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

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The following article was produced by The Raw Story. Teaming with the liberal Brave New Films, a former Blue Cross pitchman is now pitching against...

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AMA, AARP Support House Health Care Bill

AP | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is trumpeting endorsements from the AARP and the American Medical Association of House Democrats' health car...

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Jim DeMint On Health Care Reform: "Everyone Can Show Up At The Hospital" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) was caught off guard when pressed about health care in Washington D.C. earlier this week. In footage of the incident poste...

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