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Okeedoked in Tennessee: How to Avoid Serious Discussion About Health Care Reform: Southern Style

Molly Secours | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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Molly Secours

Dr. Stewart, an OB-GYN, recently lost a 40-year old uninsured cervical cancer patient who refused treatment so that her family wouldn't be financially ruined. She died last week.

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Jim Cooper On House Health Care Bill: 'One Of The Best Votes I Ever Cast'

The Washington Post | Ezra Klein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) knows as much about health-care policy as anyone in Congress. He teaches the subject back home in Tennessee, promoted his ow...

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New York Times: Lobbyists Fighting Last Big Plans to Cut Health Care Costs

New York Times | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- As the health care debate moves to the floor of Congress, most of the serious proposals to fulfill President Obama's original vow to cur...

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Public Option Likely Popular In Most Blue Dog Districts: Nate Silver

FiveThirtyEight | Nate Silver | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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Yesterday, Arkansas' Mike Ross, an influential Blue Dog Democrat, stated that he was opposed to a public option in the Democrats' health care reform p...

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Rachel Weiner

Jim Cooper's Constituents Not With Him On Health Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

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Blue Dog Democrats have defended their reluctance on health care legislation by saying their moderate constituents can't stomach a bill that's too far...

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Sam Stein

Key Blue Dog Democrat Pushes Health Insurance Co-ops (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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One of the chief Blue Dog Democrats in the House made the case on Monday that fellow members of his party should get behind health care legislation th...

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Jeff Muskus

Blue Dog Effort Threatens Dem Unity On Public Option

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

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The key conservative House Democrat who backed a public health care option last week appeared to be backing off that pledge Thursday afternoon when he...

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Ryan Grim

Jim Cooper, Key Conservative Democrat, Backs Public Health Care Option (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

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A key conservative House Democrat threw his support on Monday to a public health care option without a so-called "trigger" that could prevent it from ...

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Please Raise My Taxes President Obama

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

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Michael B. Laskoff

When I was at Harvard Business School, we inherited a joke that has passed from class to class. It goes something like this: the whole HBS education ...

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How The Centrist Blue Dog Caucus Got So Much Power

The Nation | Posted 03.16.2009 | Politics

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The House of Representatives is a body that produces few stars, but Jim Cooper of Tennessee is a household name inside the Beltway. David Brooks has c...

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Sam Stein

Gibbs: Without Stimulus Five Million Jobs Will Disappear

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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The White House warned on Wednesday that the country would stand to lose five million jobs over the next three years should a stimulus package not mak...

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