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• Pelosi Says Jail “Very Fair” Punishment For Not Buying Health Insurance

  
  PA Pundits - International — Authority: 548
  By Conn Carroll TonyfromOz prefaces ….. Have you noticed something that has become prevalent these days. You sit and watch the TV news and current affairs TV where someone is interviewing  any politician from the Government who is in front of the cameras and behind the microphones, and the same thing ...
  14 hours ago

• Harry Reid’s Poll: 67% Say Public Option “Most Important Aspect of Health Care Reform”

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 767
  nuf said (photo by swanksalot) Who knew Harry Reid used tweetdeck : RESULTS: 67% say creating a public option to lower costs, create competition is top priority- vote now! http://bit.ly/3Dy2Rp #hcr I know conventional wisdom in the beltway says that Harry is putting on a good show before he folds, ...
  21 hours ago

• Harry Reid’s Senate Campaign: List Building off the Public Option!

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 767
  Boy, was I happy to see this Google Ad pop up in my gmail: Want The Public Option? Reid’s Fighting For It. What Have You Done To Help? Step Up Now! HarryReid.com/PublicOption My, we’ve come a long way since August 28 : Reid said he doesn’t think the public option ought to be a government run ...
  21 hours ago

• New Daily Podcast Feature: Coffee and Markets

  
  Big Government — Authority: 809
  Welcome to Coffee and Markets , a daily podcast from The New Ledger on politics, policy and the marketplace with Francis Cianfrocca. Today we’d like to welcome first-time listeners at our new sponsor, BigGovernment.com . Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed You can subscribe to the podcast by ...
  22 hours ago

• "The Senates Big Cloture Vote" The senate Switchboard Is 202-224-3121.

  
  brianlee — Authority: 136
  An interesting post from www.hughhewitt.com about the Senates filibuster closure vote on Obamacare. Also notice what www.talkpac.com is doing about this!! The Senates Big Cloture Vote by Hugh Hewitt Next week the Democrats leader in the United States Senate, Harry Reid, is going to try and open debate on ...
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• More Bad News For Dems- Americans Dont Want Government Healthcare

  
  Wake up America — Authority: 591
  Gallup headlines with " More in U.S. Say Health Coverage Is Not Gov’t. Responsibility " More Americans now say it is not the federal governments responsibility to make sure all Americans have healthcare coverage (50%) than say it is (47%). This is a first since Gallup began tracking this question, and a ...
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• Hacker on the House Public Option: "Yes, Its Worth It"

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 806
  Jacob Hacker is a professor of political science at Yale, but hes also more well known at the moment as being the guy who thought up the public option. Before the House HCR debate, he wrote this article with Diane Archer, director of Health Care Project at the Institute for Americas Future at TNRs "Treatment" blog ...
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• Goldman Sachs on Health Care Reform

  
  ePluribus Media — Authority: 511
  In a comment to a post by Rabbi Michael Lerner in Tikkun Daily, Kucinich Denounces Health Care Sell Out by House Dems , Jill Schmidt asked: I dont get why insurance companies arent for a bill that will get them 21 million more clients. If anyone out there gets it, please reply. Jill poses an excellent question ...
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• ALG Urges Senate to Listen to Constituents, Defeat "Public Option"

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 446
  "It is up to Senators in the several States to decide who it is they serve: their party, or the people." — ALG President Bill Wilson. November 12 th , 2009, Fairfax, VA —Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today urged members of the Senate to listen to their constituents during a brief ...
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• Mr. Pass Health Care with the Public Option Now Wants Congress to Pay for Jobs

  
  RedState — Authority: 810
  When are the Democrats going to start cracking some heads over those who have been egging them off the cliff called health care reform? Answer: when they lose some elections. Oh, they did lose elections in VA and NJ — only twice in the history of Virgina has the GOP taken all three top state positions, and this is ...
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• Healthcare-NOW!s View on The Passage of the Health Care for America Act

  
  The Political Bridge — Authority: 145
  On Saturday, November 7, 2009, the House passed H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, to much celebration by the Democratic party. Healthcare-NOW!s view, however, is that the House bill is a gift to the insurance industry at the further expense of the people of this nation . The bills advocates ...
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• Abortion Coverage Is About Math As Well As Politics

  
  The Health Care Blog — Authority: 566
  By AL LEWIS Let us start by acknowledging that those who think abortion is a sin must be respected, and not forced into a risk pool that covers abortion. Let us also acknowledge that those who are pro-choice need to...
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• FDL Action Health Care Update: Thursday (11/12/09)

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 158
  Original Author:  noreply@blogger.com (Lowell) Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 12. 1. Jane Hamsher writes that "Harry Reid says he has a wonderful relationship with the albatross hanging around his neck ," aka Joe Lieberman. ...
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• Watchdog: Big Health Insurer Pushing Its Workers To Lobby Against Public Option

  
  On The Hill — Authority: 428
  The largest U.S. private health insurer is urging its employees to lobby the Senate against comprehensive healthcare reform that includes a public option, according to an advocacy organization that has unearthed the effort. United Healthcare, launched a new push this week to get employees to directly lobby senators ...
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• Q-Poll: Lieberman’s Opposition to Public Option Not Popular in Connecticut

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 767
  Lieberman with a public option supporter no doubt embarrassed to be seen with him (photo via Lieberman 2006) A new poll by Quinnipiac University is out, and it has less-than-stellar news for Joe Lieberman (not that he cares). Check out these bottom line numbers. 1. On the question, “Do you support or oppose ...
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• Reid May Pay for Reform with Medicare Tax on Capital Gains

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 767
  (photo courtesy of CAPAF) There is some good news and bad news today on how Harry Reid plans to pay for health care reform. It looks like instead of increasing the Medicare tax for people making over $250,000 (as was reported earlier ), Reid is thinking about applying the Medicare tax to those individual’s ...
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• Senate Public Option Scoreboard — Likely Supporters

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 777
  On the Fence Likely Supporters Likely Opponents 10 50 40 Likely Supporters Senator Stance Role in Debate Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii) Signed a public letter saying “the surefire way to guarantee affordable and meaningful coverage for all is by giving citizens a ...
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• Senate Public Option Scoreboard — Likely Opponents

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 777
  On the Fence Likely Supporters Likely Opponents 10 50 40 Likely Opponents Senator Stance Role in Debate Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) “Thumbing their nose at the American people by ramming through a partisan bill would be the same thing as going to war without ...
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• Senate Public Option Scoreboard — On the Fence

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 777
  On the Fence Likely Supporters Likely Opponents 10 50 40 On the Fence Senator Stance Role in Debate Max Baucus (D-Mont.) “The major overall goal here though is to get health care reform that passes the Senate, gets 60 votes, and I just don’t know if there is 60 ...
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• Political Culture: The Healthcare Bill Stinks. Could You Please Pass It Already?

  
  Popdose — Authority: 614
  Ever since Al Franken parked his rear end in the Democrats’ 60th U.S. Senate seat, the conventional wisdom has held that no matter how much of a fuss the Republicans kicked up this summer and fall, some form of healthcare legislation was bound to reach President Obama’s desk. Taking the midterm election of 1994 as ...
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