Public Plan

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that roughly 33 states -- or two out of every three -- would offer a national, government-run insurance opti...

The public option will create competition and will help to provide affordable choices for American families. It will also allow us to greatly expand the number of Americans with health insurance, and that is an imperative.

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) formally announced on Sunday that he would support the Senate's final version of health care reform. But in doing so he c...

The plan isn't going into effect until 2013. Think you're tired of TV ads and screaming folks at town hall meetings now? Picture a more local version of that for the next four years -- not a pretty sight.

Two of Connecticut's five members of the House of Representatives accused the state's junior senator, Joseph Lieberman, of turning his back on the int...

Each time politicians seeking to make a deal try to move the ball forward, there's a vocal reaction from those who can't tell the difference between making a deal and selling out.

The intellectual father of the public option expressed enthusiasm on Wednesday for the decision by Democrats to push for an expansion of Medicare cove...

Progressive observers may be forgetting that the 60 votes in the Senate necessary to invoke cloture, in most people's calculations, includes Joe Lieberman (I-Hartford Insurance).

Health insurers have just made the best argument yet about why a public insurance option is necessary.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who will have wide control over reconciling two versions of health care legislation in the Senate, told local const...

One of the most prominent champions of a public option for health insurance coverage insisted on Wednesday that he still has the 60 votes needed to ge...

The public option lives on. It's still in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension bill. It still headlines the House bills, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she's still committed to it.

One of the toughest Democrats to corral in the Senate confirmed on Thursday that he is not committed to helping his party block a Republican filibuste...

The bias in favor of property over people should be ended with all deliberate speed by raising the standard for people to that of property. A public option would be one small step in that direction.

Should Progressives in Congress kill any health care legislation that doesn't have public insurance option? It all depends. Remember that nearly 50 million people in this country lack health insurance.

This is Obama's last chance to recapture the momentum that Democrats lost to corporate-backed town hall hooligans and misinformation during the August recess.

Promote the states as the final arbiters of whether to adopt the public plan, and instantly, it is not Barack Obama but 50 state governors and legislatures who wield the power.

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

As the healthcare debate rages on, it is important to keep in mind the limits of what our healthcare system can accomplish.

More than three out of every four Americans feel it is important to have a "choice" between a government-run health care insurance option and private ...

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said on Wednesday that President Obama is unalterably opposed to a health care bill that raises taxes on thos...

The White House is sorely mistaken if it thinks that the public option belongs in the "nice but not necessary" category. Without it, there's little hope of containing costs or reigning in the power of insurance companies.

A key member of Republican leadership in the Senate declared on Tuesday that a cooperative approach to health insurance was merely a "Trojan horse" fo...