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Florida's Enigma

Jerry Waxman | Posted 09.04.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Health Care Bill, Bill Nelson, Public Option, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, The Family, Single Payer, Health Care, Healthcare, Eyes & Ears News
Jerry Waxman

Senator Bill Nelson's (D-FL) staff surprised the delegates by stating that the Senator likes the public option -- however, they were wondering if they were being told what he thought they wanted to hear.

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Republicans, Healthcare and Money

Stu Kreisman | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senator Max Baucus, Mark Sanford, First Amendment, Dick Armey, President Obama, Jeff Bingaman, Charles Grassley, Bobby Jindal, Olympia Snowe, Tea Baggers, Single Payer, Big Pharma, Politics News, Obama Stimulus Plan, Economic Stimulus Package, John Enzi, Max Baucus Health Care, Health Care, Birthers, Rick Perry, Health Care Reform, Kent Conrad, Pharmaceutical Industry, Politics News
Stu Kreisman

All but three Republicans voted against the stimulus, yet they all are gladly taking the money. Seeing a trend here?

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Health Care Today: Separate Is Not Equal

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 08.30.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Segregation, Washington, Civil Rights, Dr. Scheiner, Single-Payer, Health Care Reform, Help, Private Insurers, Health Care, Healthcare, Eyes & Ears News
Jeanine Molloff

End the de facto segregation we have now under private insurers and replace it with mandated single-payer health care for all Americans. This is the civil rights issue of our day.

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Are Liberal Netroots Groups Helping Obama Fail?

Jeff Cohen | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Netroots, Single Payer, Democrats, Healthcare Reform, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jeff Cohen

As things stand now, a weak public option would institutionalize a two-tiered system. Newt Gingrich couldn't dream up a better scenario to discredit a government role in health care.

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Barney Frank Pledges: I Will Not Vote For A Bill Without A Public Option

Firedoglake | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Congressman-Barney-Frank, Single Payer, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Barney Frank, Politics News

Barney Frank has released a letter in response to inquiries from constituents as to whether he would take the pledge to oppose any bill that does not ...

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Finding Common Ground Between Public Option Advocates and Single Payer Advocates

Ian Welsh | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Public Option, House Health Care Bill, Single Payer, Politics News
Ian Welsh

The public option folks assume the single payer folks just want to be pure rather than save lives; the single payer folks assume that the public option folks are just sell-outs shilling for a bad bill.

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How to Debate Health Reform with Conservatives, and Not Get Arrested

Michael J. Elston | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Conservatives, Big Government, Health Care, Politics News
Michael J. Elston

A recent health care reform debate with a friend got so heated I was nearly arrested for disorderly conduct in my own home! How can you protect yourself from becoming part of an ugly, national incident?

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Healthcare and Food Policy: Part of the Same Conversation

Paula Crossfield | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Robert Reich, Lobbyists, Food Policy, Agribusiness, Health Insurance, Subsidies, Healthcare Reform, Single Payer, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Campaign Finance, Bill Moyers, Green News
Paula Crossfield

The critics of single-payer are either paid to tell you this, or are brainwashed by the multi-million dollar lobbying and advertising paid for by insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry.

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Left, Right & Center: Health Care

Huff Radio | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Health Care Reform, Cbo, Public Option, Single Payer, Health Care, Politics News
Huff Radio

Obama has acceded that there won't be a health care plan coming out of Congress before the August recess. Tony says strategically, this could be trick...

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Breaking Down the Health Care Bill with Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin

Charlotte Robinson | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Single Payer, Health Care Bill, Charlotte Robinson, Health Care Debate, Health Care, Tammy Baldwin, Ee, Politics News
Charlotte Robinson

In this exclusive interview, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), explains the landmark health care bill in comprehensive language we can all understand.

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Senatorial Silence on Single-Payer

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 08.24.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Health Care Bill, Physicians for a National Health Care Program, MoveOn.Org, Claire McCaskill, Single Payer, Health Care, Eyes & Ears News
Jeanine Molloff

When you consider the vast resources of the US Senate, we should demand serious accountability and transparency when it comes to the health care debate.

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Kucinich Keeps Single-Payer Alive

Michael Carmichael | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Amy Goodman, Health Care Reform, Single Payer, Democracy Now, Dennis Kucinich, Walter Cronkite, Health Care Reform Congress, Congress, Kucinich, Universal Health Care, Politics News
Michael Carmichael

While Americans pay more for their health care than any other nation, more Americans realize that they are not getting their money's worth.

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Spinning Health Care: A Bad Case of Vertigo

Norman Solomon | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Healthcare Apartheid, President Obama, Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, Single Payer, Max Baucus, New York Times, American Medical Association, Washington Post, Medicare, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Gail Collins, Politics News
Norman Solomon

A "public plan" coexisting with the private health insurance system is inherently reconciled to major inequality in access to health care.

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It's Time To Lead, Mr. President

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Lead, Leadership, President Obama, Democratic, Reform, Obama, Legislation, Republican, Pelosi, Congressional Committees, Nancy Pelosi, Single Payer, Obstructionism, Press Conference, Health Care, August, House, Public Option, Democrat, Congress, Bully Pulpit, Democrats, Barack Obama, Chris Weigant, Health, Health Care Reform, Blue Dogs, Obstructionist, Vacation, Republicans, Healthcare, Senate, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Obama's legislative style has been to vaguely define what he's for, introduce a plan that is quite obviously open to lots and lots of negotiation, and then sit back and let Congress work it out.

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Congress Is Behaving as if the Health Care System Isn't in Tatters

Mitchell Bard | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Meet the Press, Congressional Democrats, Small Business, Kathleen Sebelius, Congressional Republicans, Public Option, Bobby Jindal, Jim Demint, Health Care Costs, President Obama, David Gregory, Health Care Quality, Moderate Democrats, Health Insurance, Democrats, Single Payer, Congressional Budget Office, Obama Socialism, Uninsured, National Coalition on Health Care, Health Insurance Companies, Bill Kristol, Michael Steele, Health Care Reform, Washington Post, Universal Health Care, ABC News, Health Care, Obama Poll, Republicans, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

We are either going to get no health care reform or watered-down health care legislation that acts as a bandage, helping some people but ignoring the larger problem creating the pain.

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Amendment to Grant States Right to Implement Single Payer Passes Committee Today

Rep. John Conyers | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

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Rep. John Conyers

Today witnessed the landmark passage of the States Single Payer Amendment which would remove federal barriers to implementation of a single payer health care system at the state level.

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House Dem's Placebo Health Care Reform

Rob Kall | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, House of Representatives, Obama Healthcare Plan, Senate, Public Option, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Aarp, Single Payer, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Politics News
Rob Kall

So now, we're starting to see what the House of Representatives is going to offer we, the people. And it flat out sucks. For starters, the public option doesn't go into effect until 2013.

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House Health Care BIll (Pages 251-300)

Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Single Payer, Health Care, Legislation, Health Policy Reform, Eyes and Ears, Politics News

House Health Care BIll (Pages 251-300) P. 200 '(I) periodically identify services as being potentially misvalued using criteria specified in clau...

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House Health Care Bill (Pages 201-250)

Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Policy Reform, Health Care Reform, Single Payer, Health Care, Legislation, Eyes and Ears, Politics News

House Health Care Bill (Pages 201-250) P. 201 ending with fiscal year 2019 as is not taken into account under subparagraph (A). ''(4) STUDY OF FE...

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House Health Care Bill (Pages 151-200)

Posted 08.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Health Policy Reform, Health Care Reform, Single Payer, Health Care, Legislation, Eyes and Ears, Home News

House Health Care BIll (Pages 151-200) P. 151 aggregate wages paid by the employer during such calendar year. (4) AGGREGATIONRULES.--Related empl...

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House Health Care BIll (Pages 101-150)

Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

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House Health Care Bill (Pages 101-150) P. 101 coverage, for the period of time beginning on the date of birth and ending on the date the child othe...

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House Health Care BIll (Pages 51-100)

Posted 08.14.2009 | Home

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House Health Care Bill (Pages 51-100) P. 51 covered by this Act shall be provided without regard to personal characteristics extraneous to the provi...

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For the Health of the Nation: Ensure a Public Option

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: The New Yorker, Public Option, President Barack Obama, Canada, United Steelworkers, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Kaiser Family Foundation, Republican, Tommy Douglas, Dr. Atul Gawande, Kiefer Sutherland, Single Payer, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Universal Health Care, American Medical Association, Pre-Existing Conditions, New England Journal of Medicine, World Health Organization, Life Expectancy, Health Care, National Health Care, Infant Mortality, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

The last time the World Health Organization stacked up countries' health systems, the United States came in 37th, behind Chile, Morocco, Cyprus and even drug war-torn Colombia.

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Health Care: Canada, France, Israel and U.S.

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Health Care Debate, Health Care Reform, Canadian Health Care System, Universal Health Care, Single Payer, Health Care, Politics News

The health care debate is heating up as reform bills make their way through both the House and Senate. Supporters of a government option point out th...

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The Health Care We Deserve

John Graham | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government Option, Courage, Single Payer, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Public Option, Health Reform, Politics News
John Graham

We deserve better than what the health care industry is willing to give us. We deserve better than a weak compromise from Congress described as victory.

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