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Calling Out the House Progressive Caucus: Are You Men and Women, or Are You Mice?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Raul Grijalva, Lynn Woolsey, Public Option, Kucinich Amendment, Alan Grayson Health Care, Anthony Weiner Health Care, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Obama Health Care, Pelosi Health Care, Progressive Caucus, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Jan Schakowsky, Health, Health Care Reform, Democrats Public Option, Single Payer Healthcare, Pelosi Public Option, Health Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Obama Public Option, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

If you break your pledge and vote for a health reform bill without this minimally robust version of the public option, you've ensured that even with a Democratic majority, all "reform" will be limited by your Blue Dog colleagues.

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Health Insurance Cheaper In The Suburbs

Chicago Sun-Times | SANDRA GUY | Posted 11.02.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Oak Park Health Care, Health Care Reform, Evanston Health Care, Chicago Health Care, Health Care, Health Insurance, Oak-Park-Illinois, Evanston-Illinois, Chicago News

Why would people who live in inner-ring suburbs such as Berwyn, Evanston, Oak Lawn and Oak Park be able to obtain health-care insurance quotes that ar...

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Reid Doesn't Need Lieberman

Matt Osborne | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: MSM Flaws, Public Option, Face the Nation, Health Care Reform, Msm, Joe Lieberman, Beltway Village Media, Bob Schieffer, Health Insurance, Politics News
Matt Osborne

In the end, Reid doesn't need 60 votes, and the stronger the public option the less reform costs. These two realities need to be repeated until they penetrate the debate.

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GOP Health Bill In The Works; Boehner Says Republican Bill Would Extend Insurance Coverage To "Millions"

Wall Street Journal | GREG HITT | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Congress, Health Care Reform Bill, Medical Malpractice, Boehner, Obama, Democrats, Pharma, House, Gingrich, Insurance Industry, Senate, White House, Cantor, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Gop Health Care Bill, Gop, Republican Health Care Bill, Health Care, Republicans, Politics News

Republicans are preparing an alternative health-care bill to Democratic legislation, House Republican Leader John Boehner said, marking a shift in str...

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Health "Insurance": A Criminal Enterprise

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medical Ethics, Law, Politics, Human Rights, Crime, Harry Truman, Health Care Reform, Henry Waxman, Health Insurance, Bioethics, Health Care, Medicine, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

I have little doubt that the day will soon arrive when the CEOs of health "insurers" are dragged before Congress to face the same sort of interrogation to which the Waxman Hearings subjected Big Tobacco in the 1990s.

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The Public Option in Congress Is Now a Sham. Who Cares If Lieberman Kills It?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Reid Public Option, Public Option, Health Care Costs, Health, Senate Health Care Bill, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care Public Option, House Health Care Bill, Obama Public Option, Obama Health Care Reform, Jacob Hacker, Medicare, Democrats, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

With or without a fraudulent public option, millions of Americans who will be required to buy insurance or pay a fine will see their premiums skyrocket.

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An Accidental Victory: The Launch of HuffPost Impact

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 10.30.2009 | Impact

Read More: Monique-Zimmerman-Stein, Huffpost Impact, Health Insurance, Gary Stein, Health Insurance Reform, Impact, Impact News
Jonathan Daniel Harris

On October 12, 2009, the Impact page was about 16 hours away from launch. We had everything ready to go -- except a lead story.

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So What if a Public Option Leads to Single-Payer?

Sahil Kapur | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Companies, Gop, Public Option, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Democrats, Health Care, Public Option Single Payer, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

The conservative indictment against a public option is deeply ironic, and when closely examined, consists of two entirely contradictory cases about the nature of government.

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H1N1 Vaccine Delays Remind Us Why We Need a Sound Public Option

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Public Option, H1N1 Influenza, H1N1 Vaccine, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Banks, Insurance Companies, Living News
Kathleen Reardon

As a professor of both business and preventive medicine for years, I'm appalled at how long it is taking for the H1N1 vaccine to reach at least those at high risk.

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Jon Kyl Locks Constituents Out, but Will Arizona Opt Out?

Auburn McCanta | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Public Option, Health Care, Jon Kyl, Arizona, Phoenix, Politics News
Auburn McCanta

Senator Jon Kyl recently quipped to NBC's David Gregory on Meet the Press, "I'm not sure that it's a fact that more and more people die because they don't have health insurance."

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Don't Let COBRA Benefits Run Out on American Families

Rep. Joe Sestak | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cobra, Unemployment, Economic Stimulus Package, Stimulus Package, Economy, Unemployment Benefits, Economic Recovery, Health Insurance, Stimulus, Joe Sestak, Job Losses, Jobs, Politics News
Rep. Joe Sestak

Losing health care along with one's job is something Americans should not have to cope with at this difficult time. So I have introduced the Extended COBRA Continuation Protection Act of 2009.

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The Health Care Ghetto

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Health Insurance, Public Option, Rachel Maddow, Health Care, Politics News
Jeffrey Feldman

Will Americans actually be able to choose the public option or will it just be a health care ghetto for those of us who have been tossed out like unprofitable trash by the insurance industry?

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Our Health Future: The Business Case for Wyden-Bennett

Charles Kolb | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ron Wyden, Wyden-Bennett Healthy Americans Act, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Ced, Politics News
Charles Kolb

The Wyden-Bennett bill in the Senate Finance Committee was the only proposal that gets health care costs under control and avoids a government single-payer system in the long run.

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Uninsured: A Personal Price

Carmen Wong Ulrich | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Care, Carmen Wong Ulrich, Powerwomentv, Cnbc, Politics News
Carmen Wong Ulrich

My mother died because she didn't have health insurance. What sane person would not go to the doctor with her symptoms and suffering? A person who knew that going to the doctor costs money. Money that we found out she didn't have.

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Relief Comes To Family's Medical Debt Only After Mother's Death

Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 10.27.2009 | Impact

Read More: Health Insurance, Debt, Medical Bills, Poverty, Breast Cancer, Chemotherapy, Healthcare, Impact News

"We didn't have enough money to cremate her," Bob Wessenberg of Coppell, Texas, recalls, after being faced with his wife's catastrophic illness and th...

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An Entire Generation at Stake

Janet Murguía | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Population Reference Bureau, Poverty, Latinos, Children, Credit Programs, Economic Health, Early Childhood Education Programs, Opportunities, Obese-Children, Social Well-Being, Hispanic Children, Congress, Immigration System, Juvenile Justice System, U.S. Citizens, American Dream, Reformed Juvenile Justice System, Success, Education, Graduate From High School, U.S. Population, Health Insurance, Adult Jails, Political Power, Health Care, Fair Housing, Diversity, Politics News
Janet Murguía

Today, more than one-fourth of Latino children live in poverty. Three-fifths live in low-income families. One in five does not have health insurance. Only 55% graduate from high school.

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Lieberman Lies About the Public Option

Bill Scher | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Opt-Out, Health Care, Harry Reid, Senate, Joe Lieberman, Health Insurance, Aetna, Politics News
Bill Scher

Lieberman announced today he would filibuster the health care bill because it contains a public option compromise. Why does he want to do this? I don't know (*cough* -- Aetna -- *cough* *cough*) exactly.

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Medical Malpractice Insurers: Time to End Their License to Gouge

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Medical Malpractice, McCarran-Ferguson Act, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Joanne Doroshow

Laws to repeal the anti-trust exemption for health insurance have been introduced in every Congress for many years. The industry has fought back every time and nothing was ever really accomplished -- until now.

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Woman Denied Health Care Insurance After Rape Tells Her Story (Video)

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Christina Turner, Huffpost Investigative Fund, Hiv, Preexisting Condition, Rape, rapeisnotapreexistingcondition.com, Sexual Assault, Gender Equality, Insurance Industry, Rapisnotaprexistingcondition, Anderson Cooper, Women's Health, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Health Reform, Com, Politics News

Christina Turner was drugged and raped by two men in 2002. After taking anti-HIV drugs prescribed by her doctor as a preventative measure, Turner was ...

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Are Womb Transplants The Next Frontier In Fertility?

Politics Daily | Posted 10.26.2009 | Home

Read More: Birth, Infertility, Infertility Treatments, Health Insurance, Motherhood, Fatherhood, New Treatments for Infertility, Future, Babies, Fertility Treatments, New Fertility Treatments, Womb Transplants, Results, Parenthood, Health, Home News

Doctors in Britain have announced that they have figured out a process to transplant wombs that could result in healthy pregnancies -- and they estima...

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

Huff TV | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media

Read More: Big Pharma, Ben Nelson, Blue Dog, Public Option, Countdown With Keith Olberman, Health Insurance, Democrats, Opt Out, Mandate, Pharma, Pharmaceutical Industry, Blanche Lincoln, Senate, Blue Dogs, Health Care Reform, Gop, Health Care, Media News
Huff TV

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's Killing the Public Option? President Obama With a Rahm-Bow

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Obama Health Care, Harry Reid Health Care, Health, Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Democrats Public Option, Harry Reid, Harry Reid Obama, Single Payer Healthcare, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Pelosi Public Option, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Health Care Public Option, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Obama Public Option, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

Those fighting for a "robust" public option need to finally accept the hard truth that Barack Obama is not an ally. He's an obstacle.

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Why the Silence on Extending Jobless Health Care Benefits?

Mark Miller | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jobless, Cobra, Joblessness, Health Insurance, Arlen Specter, Health Care Subsidy, Social Security, Obama Administration, Obama, Cost of Living Adjustment, Seniors, Cost of Living Increase, Economic Stimulus Package, Cobra Health Insurance, Aarp, Joe Sestak, Health Care, Politics News
Mark Miller

What's more important: a cost-of-living increase in Social Security benefits for retired people, or health insurance subsidies for the unemployed? The answer depends on your clout in Washington.

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AP: Health Care Bill May Cut Employer Mandate

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Harry Reid, Health Care Reform Bill, Health Care Mandate Penalties, Employer Mandate, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Subsidies, Pre-Existing Conditions, Health Care, Mandate Penalties, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Businesses would not be required to provide health insurance under legislation being readied for Senate debate, but large firms wou...

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Sam Stein and Ryan Grim

Leaderless: Senate Pushes For Public Option Without Obama's Support

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein and Ryan Grim | Posted 10.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ads, Health Care Bill, Trigger, White House, MoveOn.Org, Public Option, Olympia Snowe, Filibuster, Obama, Trigger Option, Health Insurance, Barack Obama, Maine, House, Insurance Industry, Obama White House, Senate, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Rahm Emanuel, Nancy Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Health Care, Politics News

President Barack Obama is actively discouraging Senate Democrats in their effort to include a public insurance option with a state opt-out clause as p...

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