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Slouching Toward Health Care Reform

Robert Reich | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Joe Lieberman, Medicare, Robert Reich, Public Option, Health Care, Barack Obama, Ben Nelson, Olympia Snowe, Politics News
Robert Reich

The private insurers are winning and the public is losing. Even those of us who have seen legislative sausage-making up close -- even those of us who never make the perfect the enemy of the better -- are concerned about the state of health care reform. Is the effort worth still worth it? Yes, but just.

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It's Not Over Yet: Five Ways You Can Improve the Senate Health Care Bill

Greg Saunders | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lieberman Health Care, Public Option, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care Public Option, Healthcare, Politics News
Greg Saunders

There are a number of vital amendments to the Senate health care reform bill that can go a long way towards making lemonade out of the lemons that Joe Lieberman has thrown our way.

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Jason Linkins

What Options Did Obama Leave On The Table In Health Care Fight?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Congress, Public Option, Progressive Caucus, Barack Obama, Politics News

When the final chapter on this recent attempt at health care reform is written, the inevitable question will be: Did President Barack Obama -- who fam...

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Jason Linkins

Why Progressives Might Want To Kill The Health Care Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Public Option, Barack Obama, Media Criticism, Health Care Reform, Howard Dean, Media News

The fight for health care reform has this week been overtaken by the fight over the quality of the fighting, as the emerging point of debate becomes w...

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Lieberman Betrayal Illustrates Why Senate Filibuster Rules Must Change

Robert Creamer | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cloture, President Obama, Public Option, Breaking News, Supreme Court, Health Care Reform, Filibuster, Medicare, Senate Rules, Lieberman, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Robert Creamer

Lieberman's success in eliminating the public option from the Senate health reform bill makes one thing perfectly clear: to pass progressive reform, the Senate must change its filibuster rules.

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"Joe the Bummer:" Lieberman's in the Insurance Industry's Hip Pocket on Health Care Reform

Andy Ostroy | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sen Harry Reid, Healkth Care Reform, President Obama, Public Option, Insurance Industry, Markos Moulitsas, Hartford, Sen. Joe Lieberman, Ct, Sen. John McCain, Reconciliation, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

It's time for Democrats to punish Lieberman for his consistent disloyalty, from supporting Sen. John McCain's bid for the presidency in '08 to this latest self-serving ploy.

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Obama Transfers Balls to Lieberman in White House Ceremony

Andy Borowitz | Posted 12.16.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, White House, Andy Borowitz, Public Option, Balls, Health Care Reform, Joe Lieberman, Barack Obama, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

Called the "Balls Summit" by White House aides, the ceremony was intended as an official acknowledgment of Mr. Lieberman's complete control of the nation's health care future.

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It Takes Guts to Support Health Reform

Linda Bergthold | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Senator Jay Rockefeller, Senate Health Care Bill, Senator Russ Feingold, Stupak Amendment, Howard Dean, Joe Lieberman, Senator Nelson, Senator Mark Warner, Rep. Anthony Weiner, Health Reform, Senator Tom Harkin, Senator Schumer, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

What is in the Senate bill that is worth passing? A lot. And what passes this year or early next year is only the beginning of the reform process.

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Obama Quits, Cedes Presidency to Lieberman

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 12.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Lieberman Health Care, Public Option, Joe Lieberman Obama, Satire, Medicare Buy In, Parody, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Political Satire, Joe Lieberman, Medicare, Comedy, Barack Obama, Comedy News
Matthew Filipowicz

You might think that Joe Lieberman is happy. And he is.

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Senators, Thanks For Reminding Us Why We Don't Like You

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Joe Lieberman, Senate, Public Option, Medicare Buy In, Health Care Public Option, Mandates, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The fact that Lieberman retains his chairmanship of the Homeland Security committee in the name of a political party he loathes illustrates the rot and decay of the Senate.

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Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey at the Halo Awards in DC

Liz Glover | Posted 12.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Health Care Reform, HALO Awards, Nick Cannon, Public Option, Liz Glover, Mariah Carey, Entertainment News
Liz Glover

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A Bridge Too Far

Mike Lux | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2009 Obama Administration, Joe Lieberman, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Public Option, Health Care, Olympia Snowe, Politics News
Mike Lux

When Joe Lieberman turned his back on a compromise that he has been strongly and publicly supporting for at least 9 years, this Senate health care bill got too heavy to carry.

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Keeping the Wheels on the Obama Presidency

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, White House, Europe, Public Option, Pragmatism, Joseph Lieberman, Economy, Bailouts, Progressives, Compromise, Jobs, Iraq, China, Democratic Party, Realism, Barack Obama, Marriage Equality, Wall Street, Rahm Emanuel, Oresident Obama, Single Payer, Health Care, Russia, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Joe Lieberman, Afghanistan, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

Because he cannot provide peace and prosperity, Obama needs to pass some meaningful legislation to demonstrate that he is doing something positive. Just getting a health care bill passed will mean nothing to many Americans.

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Health Care Reform Is Good Even If It's Bad

Francine Hardaway | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medicare Buy In, Health Care Reform, Filibuster, Public Option, Lieberman, Politics News
Francine Hardaway

It is shocking to me that one Senator, in this case Joe Lieberman, can bring something as important as health care reform to a halt. Clearly everyone ...

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While You Were Out -- A Little Pink Memo to Senator Lieberman

Suzanne Langlois | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Joe Lieberman, Medicare, Public Option, Quinnipiac Poll, Health Care, Reconciliation, Politics News
Suzanne Langlois

Senator Lieberman, since I am not able speak to you in person, I'd like to leave this little pink memo ... perhaps one of your staff would be kind eno...

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A Public Option Tree in the Health Care Reform Forest

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 12.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare, Public Option, Medicare Buy In, Health Insurance Exchange, Cbo, Employer Mandate, Mandates, Individual Mandate, Excise Tax, Subsidies, Politics News
Aaron E. Carroll

However it started, the public option is now a shell of its former self. At best it's opt-out or triggered. You can only get it if you're in the insurance exchange.

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Ryan Grim Discusses Joe Lieberman's Medicare Flip-Flop On MSNBC (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Senate, Lieberman, Joseph Lieberman, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Filibuster, Media, Medicare, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Medicare Buy-In, Politics News
Huff TV

Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim joined political consultant Liz Mair as a guest on MSNBC Monday afternoon to discuss Joe Lieberman's declaration th...

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Stop Yapping about Healthcare: Go Reconciliation and Attach the Rest to a Defense Appropriations Bill

Paul Abrams | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medicaid, Medicare, Public Option, Healthcare Reform, Opt-in/Opt-Out, Reconciliation, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Every part of the health care bill that involves how the government spends or receives money can be handled by reconciliation.

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In The Public Interest: Senate Moderates Get it Right

Larry McNeely | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate, In the Public Interest, Public Option, Lobbying, Larry McNeely, Health Care Reform, Public Interest, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Mayo Clinic, Politics News
Larry McNeely

Progressives continue to have real disputes with some of the Senate centrists. But some of those centrists' proffered amendments are serious attempts to hold down costs and they deserve support.

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Children's Books Inspired by the Health Care Debate

Chris Holt | Posted 12.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Hyde Amendment, Health Care Reform, Public Option, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care, Comedy News
Chris Holt

When that kindergartener tells your child that his/her opinions on single payer insurance and the trigger are "for doodoo heads," it can be a teaching moment. Here are some books to make the current political climate fun!

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Sam Stein

Senate Democrats Consider Nightmare Scenario On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Senate Democrats Health Care, Senate Democrats, Nightmare Scenario, Democrats Nightmare, Russ Feingold, Claire McCaskill, Cbo, Public Option, Blanche Lincoln, Congressional Budget Office, Health Care, Politics News

There is, currently, a nightmare scenario afflicting Democrats on Capitol Hill with regards to health care reform. And it goes like this: Sometime ear...

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DNC Calls Out John McCain For Blatant Misdirection on Health Care

Auburn McCanta | Posted 12.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, John McCain, Medicare, Dnc, Social Security, Public Option, Mccain, Mccain Health Care, McCain Social Security, Politics News
Auburn McCanta

From misleading statement to misleading statement, McCain has worked through skewed and downright deceptive talking points on the Senate floor.

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It's the 'Public' Not the 'Option' in 'Public Option' That Counts

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 12.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Health Care, Chuck Schumer, Framing, Medicare Buy In, Health Care Reform, Bernie Sanders, Socialism, Health Insurance, Republicans, Politics News
Benjamin R. Barber

The "public option" provision to be traded off was perhaps the only place in the bill where the rights and interests of the 'public' are publicly recognized.

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Senators Should Visit a Free Health Care Clinic to Really See the America They Represent... and Deny

Ed Schultz | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ed Schultz, Health Care Reform, Public Option, Health Care, Free Clinics, Politics News
Ed Schultz

I saw the best of America at a free volunteer health clinic this week. But there is a heartless side to our country as well, demonstrated by U.S. Senators putting money before those who elected them.

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Tiger Woods and the Human Condition

Jennifer Donahue | Posted 12.11.2009 | Sports

Read More: Peace Prize, Public Option, Climate Change, Sarah Palin, President Obama, Tiger Woods, Al Gore, Health Care, Recession, Sports News
Jennifer Donahue

A sitting president returns with a Nobel Peace Prize, health care advancing quickly, climate change, as escalation in U.S. treasure abroad. Yet on the radio, it was all Tiger, all the time.

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