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• FDL Action Health Care Update: Tuesday (12/1/09)

  
  Blue Virginia — Authority: 130
  Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, December 1. 1. Jon Walker has some advice "for every potential manufacturer and transnational company looking to expand...don’t start a single business–or expand an existing one–in this country until we really try to rein in health care ...
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• FDRs New Deal Makes A Strong Case For The Public Option

  
  The Liberal Curmudgeon — Authority: 130
  Adam Cohen, in "Roosevelt Understood the Power of a Public Option," makes a strong case for the ways in which FDRs New Deal programs met the basic needs of millions. They also kept private industry honest while not destroying it–despite criticism that echoes the rants about "socialism" today. Roosevelts public ...
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• We Have a Winner in the Public Option Please (POP) Art Contest

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 650
      This artwork by Amy Martin won both first place and the Public Choice award.         Amy Martin is a double winner in the Public Option Please ( POP ) art contest launched earlier this fall to cut through the rhetoric inside the Washington Beltway and provide a vehicle for ...
  13 hours ago

• Reconciliation still in play

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  By GottaLaff Open curtain... Prologue: A short explanation: Under reconciliation, healthcare legislation could pass with a simple majority after a strictly limited floor debate. But lawmakers would have to carve up the bill to eliminate provisions that do not clearly raise revenue or cut spending and ...
  14 hours ago

• Time for Our Second Bill of Rights

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 709
  By Bill Boyarsky In his powerful new book, “The Healing of America,” T.R. Reid asks, “Which inequalities will society tolerate? Is it acceptable that some people are left to die because they can’t see a doctor when they get sick? That question encompasses a more basic question: Is health care a human ...
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• New Report Shows Health Care Reform Will Lower Cost

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 650
      Union members have been leading the fight for health care reform.         The next two weeks will be a pivotal time in the nation’s history as the U.S. Senate debates health care reform . Health care reform will help control costs to families , lowering out-of-pocket costs for most ...
  15 hours ago

• Reid Says Healthcare Bill By Christmas

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 152
  Reid and Obama in Las Vegas Sen. Harry Reid needs 58 democrats and 2 independents to pass the bill. That means a trigger for the public option, unless Joe Lieberman can be persuaded to get off his high horse. There are zero republicans who support a public option. Lieberman might be holding out for something ...
  17 hours ago

• FDL Action Health Care Update: Monday (11/30/09)

  
  Blue Virginia — Authority: 130
  Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 30. 1. To put it mildly, Jon Walker believes that the Urban Institutes new report "endorsing the idea of a super-hard trigger for a robust Medicare-style public option" is off base. Walker argues that the idea of a "magical robust ...
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• Sheldon Whitehouse: "The debate will degenerate into tomfoolery."

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 672
  By GottaLaff Sheldon Whitehouse just now on Countdown : The debate will degenerate into tomfoolery. We have a good bill right now. There is room for compromise right now in this bill. I remain optimistic. This is a moment of destiny. It was Sen. Kennedys legacy. We believe we can get a vote for the public ...
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• BlueCross BlueShields HCR Fight

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  BlueCross BlueShield has been extremely aggressive in fighting healthcare reform, and theyre taking the fight to their customers. In North Carolina, their tactics have resulted in an investigation by the state attorney general . In North Dakota and in in Illnois , BCBS and its licensees have been sending what ...
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• Sometimes It Doesn’t Hurt To Restate The Obvious

  
  kavips — Authority: 122
  As the health care debate goes forward in the Senate, it would be appropriate to reevaluate everything again. We don’t have time for that. Here is what we do know.. Insurance Companies take a big bite out of U.S. Commerce. Medical costs take a big bite out of our economy. Only inclusion of the public option ...
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• Legal Immigration—The Bigger Obamacare Problem

  
  brianlee — Authority: 137
  An interesting post from http://www.vdare.com/ about LEGAL immigrations problems in Obamacare! You can subscribe to this post here for more stories like this! National Data, By Edwin S. Rubenstein Legal Immigration—The Bigger Obamacare Problem Health care a divisive issue? No way. Not when you ...
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• Health care primer: A snapshot of the toughest fights ahead

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 639
  WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats will return to Washington Monday to begin a long-awaited floor debate on the health-reform bill they hope to pass before Christmas. But it’s hardly the last battle they’ll be forced to wage on the health-care front. As tough as the upper-chamber debate promises to be, many of the ...
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• Health Care Financing Reform: (74) Public Option "Trigger" in the News Again

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 134
       The public option "trigger" is receiving attention again.  David Rogers of The Politico reports on a new policy paper issued by the Urban Institute recommending that health care reform not adopt a public option immediately, but rather allow the government health insurance plan to become effective only if ...
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• Cato Institute says the cost of Obamacare is over six trillion dollars

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 421
  Story here from the Cato Institute . (H/T Health Care BS via ECM) Excerpt: Congressional Democrats are using several budget gimmicks to disguise the cost of their health care overhaul, claiming the House and Senate bills would cost only (!) about $1 trillion over 10 years.  Now that critics have begun to ...
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• ObamaCare: Let the Rationing Begin

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  Last week,  the Federal Government Ivory Tower trumpeted important news.  One of its illustrious Task Forces has decided that women in their 40’s would be the first to experience “Medical Darwinism.” The United States Preventive Services Task Force, comprised of 16 appointees, decreed that: ...
  2 days ago

• Resurrecting reconciliation

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  The completely predictable (and often predicted) post-cloture breath-holding from LIeberman, Lincoln, et al., in which they loudly insist they wont allow a health care bill with a public option to go forward, has begun. And with it has come renewed calls for the use of the budget reconciliation process to pass the ...
  2 days ago

• And again

  
  The Button Valley Bugle — Authority: 416
  A study of Congressional Budget Office data by a respected MIT economist finds that the Senate health care bill will save consumers money . The new study found savings of $200 on health insurance premiums for single folks and savings of $500 for a family of four in 2009 dollars once the new plans become available. ...
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• Sanders Stops Short Of Saying Hell Filibuster Bill Without Public Option

  
  TPM LiveWire — Authority: 804
  The public option may not be a deal breaker for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). In response to a question from George Stephanopoulos on ABCs This Week , Sanders, a strong supporter of a public health insurance option, wouldnt go so far as to say definitively that he would filibuster any Senate health care bill that ...
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• Article Title Unknown

  
  No More Mister Nice Blog — Authority: 645
  Our Stupid Discourse: Look, theres something wrong with this thoughtful analysis, can you spot it? To begin with, a public option would attract only a few million people, the Congressional Budget Office predicts. Those people would probably be sicker than the general population. For that reason, and because ...
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