If the non-insurance industry constituents of Lieberman hold him accountable, he may recognize that there are more people worried about health care costs than there are CEOs worried about health care profits.
Mike Lux | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Given the stubborn logjam between progressives and conservatives on the public option and other issues, here are six different scenarios for what might happen next.
Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
There are proposals for opt-out, opt-in, and "triggered" public options. What are Americans to think or to do? Let's get back to basics.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
While conservative members of the Democratic caucus threaten to block passage of health care reform if it includes a public health insurance option, a...
AP | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer says health care reform that includes a public option can pass the Senate. Schumer says he is assuri...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that roughly 33 states -- or two out of every three -- would offer a national, government-run insurance opti...
Robert Reich | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Harry Reid's public option is a token public option -- a fleeting gesture toward the idea of a public option, so small and desiccated as to be barely worth mentioning except that it still contains the word "public."
Michele Swenson | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Democratic leaders have short-circuited the reform "debate" and permitted the process to be hijacked by health insurance and pharmaceutical industries.
Matt Osborne | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media
The Republican strategy of delay escalated their misfortune; their "tea party" movement is a great, big Teabagger Fail, and the media's credibility is shot right along with them.
Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
After all, if a public option pays for itself, and does not cost a nickel to create and operate, why not allow as many as 80 million citizens to become eligible when any bill becomes law?
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
The health care reform package unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Wednesday night bars the use of federal funds for abortion servi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
Read the bill (PDF). Senate Democrats have posted the legislation on their web site. --------- Senate Democrats made a big step toward comprehensive...
The Associated Press | Erica Werner | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
More Americans support creation of a new government-run health insurance plan to compete with the private insurance market, a new Associated Press pol...
Huff TV | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media
Huffpost political reporter Sam Stein appeared on The Ed Show Wednesday and weighed in on the nation's high unemployment rate and what it could mean f...
Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met on Monday night with a group of Senate Democrats who urged him not to back down from his decision to put a publi...
Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
All Americans must know that the (American) way to create competition in the private market is to have a public offering -- a choice among choices.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
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.
Mary Ann West | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
People continue to die because of senators like Lieberman, who have determined that their convictions are more important than their constituents' lives. Go figure.
Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is soliciting funds to pay an economist $50,000 to study health care reform legislation and issue (what the lobby presume...
New York Times | DUFF WILSON | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business
Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...
Katie Halper | Posted 11.16.2009 | Comedy
Poor branding, such as the term Public Option, didn't help the cause. But it's not too late to win the support of Republican enemies and the Teabaggers who control them.
Chris Savage | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Schauer, who narrowly defeated the very conservative Tim Walberg in 2008, represents a swing district.
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passe...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
If Democrats and progressives are really concerned about middle-class votes -- and they should be -- it's statements like a recent pronouncement by Rachel Maddow that should concern them.
Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
In my view, the real solution to the problem of how to reform health care in this country is a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.
Bill Scher | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics