Obama Health Care

New DNC Obama Ad: Get "Fired Up" and "Ready To Go" About No Public Option

Jane Hamsher | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Passing the Baucus bill means stabbing the base in the back and destroying 2010 turnout for the midterms, which is pretty much what NAFTA did in 1994.

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Sorry Virginia, Insurance companies aren't Santa

Barbara Dehn | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance Industry, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Insurance Companies, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News

I asked my husband's friend, "You mean that Insurance company X doesn't have enough money to provide care to the people who've paid their premiums, but there's more than enough for bonuses for executives?"

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Reframe the Conversation: Health Care Insurance Reform is a Basic Human Rights Issue

Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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We can't just let the kooks rule the day or threaten violence with their words. Don't leave Speaker Pelosi fearing for political violence in the streets because we have not done our job.

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Insurance Execs Testify: No Need for the Public Option

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Public Health Insurance Plan, Health Care Debate, Dennis Kucinich, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Politics News

Isn't it high time for all Americans to realize that we are being fleeced by those who claim that we don't need a public option?

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Health Care Fight Distraction to Real Issues

Grant Cardone | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

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What good is health care if I can't feed my family?

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Why Olympia Snowe Should Vote Against the Baucus Plan

Robert Reich | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Here's what's likely to happen if Snowe signs on to the Baucus bill, and if she doesn't. The next few weeks are crucial.

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Why The Catholic Bishops Matter on Health Care Reform

Steven Waldman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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While some have chided me for caring too much about what the Bishops think, Bishops matter a great deal politically when it comes to the abortion-and-health care debate.

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A Dose of Clarity

Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

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If the health care debate seems like a hopeless morass, it's largely because moneyed interests want it to look that way. Matt Taibbi reminds us that the most fundamental issue is simple: Who pays, and how?

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Humana Mailer Targets Elderly, Claims Medicare Benefits To Be Cut

Dawn Teo | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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The letter enclosed in the mailer tries to convince Medicare recipients that their benefits could be cut if the current health insurance reform plans are enacted.

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The Left Should Reclaim 'Freedom'

Thomas Frank | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Health Care Debate, Republicans, Conservatives, Politics News

There are few things in politics more annoying than the right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word "freedom." Equally annoying is the silence of Democrats on the subject.

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Max Baucus Releases Health Care Bill With Bi-Industry Support

Lee Stranahan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Comedy

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Baucus was hiding in his office behind a large pile of money and not available for an interview but issued the following written statement...

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With a Health Care Plan This Insane, Who Needs Wingnuts?

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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Baucus' entire goal was to construct a bipartisan plan. Mission accomplished. Insofar as both parties hate it. He tailored his plan to appeal to the Republicans who, as it turns out, don't support the plan anyway.

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Chairman Bernanke, We Don't Believe It Is Over

Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

There is a reason that the American people are losing ObamaHope. It's not just unemployment. The reality cuts much deeper than the everyday lives of normal people.

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Admit It: A Robust Public Option Is Dead

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

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With a robust public option dead, the only way to prevent a massive Democratic-sponsored bailout of the health care industry is to regulate insurance premiums and put a trigger on individual mandates.

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The Truth About Medicare

Francine Hardaway | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

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Medicare writes the checks. It doesn't operate on the wrong leg, over-radiate a cancer patient, miss a cancer, or give people too many prescriptions.

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The False Premise That Obama Wants A Public Option

John Knefel | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moral-Imperative, Public Option, Liberals, Health Care Reform, New York Times, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Transcendence, Obama Public Option, Politics News

To assume that Obama wants the public option based only on rhetoric is the height of idiocy. Do we assume a husband loves his wife simply because he says he does, despite years of infidelity?

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Immigration Battle Heats Up During Health Care Debate

washingtonpost.com | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 11.15.2009 | World

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As Congress's debate over health-care legislation lumbers toward a defining test for the Obama presidency, partisans on both sides of another issue --...

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The Mugging of the Common Good

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

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These next months are the reckoning. The president and the Congress will step up to the reforms the country needs -- or they will fail the nation in a time of peril. We cannot afford another lost decade.

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Fallon And The Roots Make The Health Care Debate Sexy With A Slow-Jam (VIDEO)

Posted 11.15.2009 | Comedy

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Jimmy Fallon and the Roots sexualized the health care debate last with a sensual slow jam about reform. "Bipartisanship means everyone can partay," th...

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Health Care By Sound Byte

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 11.14.2009 | Living

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If media outlets, pundits, and commentators were seriously concerned about the health of Americans, why after the President's speech, would media coverage land upon a single word shouted by an idiot--rather than the substantive realities of American health care reform?

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Congressman Elijah Cummings: It's Our Moral Responsibility

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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I talked extensively with Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and what is apparent is the Congressman's passion to reform our nation's health care system.

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Dare Devils: Governor Rick Perry and the Texas Death Panel

Rachel Farris | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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Since when do conservatives care about anyone dying? The most disturbing example is Cameron Todd Willingham, was sentenced to death after refusing a plea-bargain for life in prison in Texas.

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What It Will Take to Win the Healthcare Debate

Roy Ulrich | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Universal Health Care, Public Option, Healthcare Reform, Obama Health Care, Politics News

Most Americans are schizophrenic about their views of government. They hate red tape, bureaucracy, and waste, but they want the airlines they fly, the products they use, and the food they eat to be safe.

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Has the Tea Party, Under a New Name, Found Its Leader?

Patt Morrison | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hosue of Commons, Joe Wilson, Obama Health Care, Tea Party, President Obama, Politics News

Shouting and catcalls are part of the culture in the Commons. But rules that go back more than a century-and-a-half enjoin members from making accusations about lying or being drunk.

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"Yes We Can" Returns: Obama Leads Campaign-Style Health Care Rally

The Huffington Post/ AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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MINNEAPOLIS - President Barack Obama assailed critics of his health care initiative Saturday, seeking to grab the megaphone from his opponents and boo...

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