Timothy Noah

Public Option A Must! Sez Who? Sez Obama!

Sandy Goodman | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Competition, Insurance Companies, Department of Health and Human Services, President Obama, Sen. Kent Conrad, Rep. Lynn Woolsey, Nancy Pelosi, Matthew Yglesias, Public Option, Health Insurance, Timothy Noah, Private Co-Op, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

Just one month ago, President Obama, that left-of-the-left leftie, assured us that a public option was an absolute necessity for any health care bill he would sign into law

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Co-op, Co-opt, Cop-Out: Conjugating Health Reform

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kent Conrad, Jon Kyl, Health Reform, Co-Ops, Barack Obama, Timothy Noah, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

If the centrist Democrats don't provide a meaningful alternative to costly, for-profit insurance, the backlash against them will be enormous. Co-ops will not be able to provide that alternative.

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