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• Why is Obama Ditching the Public Option – and You?

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 712
  Obama apparently doesn’t think he campaigned on a pubic option, just because he mentioned it during his campaign and included it in his health care plan. Why would that be? Well, a couple of days ago my eyebrows raised when I saw this CNN poll on health care . It indicates that Obama’s popularity has risen ...
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• Big PhRMA Payoff: Hidden Tax on Pedialyte, Prenatal Vitamins, and Pain Relievers

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  If you want to see how Obamacare will hit you and your family in the wallet, look no further than the inside of your medicine cabinet.  Open the cabinet door and you may see an antihistamine such as Claritin for allergies, pain relief medicine such as Tylenol or Excedrin, Pedialyte to prevent your kids from becoming ...
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• Kucinich - Values of Health Care Stocks Increase Fearlessly as Public Option Is Dead

  
  Press Releases — Authority: 149
  Dear Friends, Wall Street is celebrating "Health Care Reform." According to an industry insider report yesterday by MarketWatch (Gibson and Britt) health care stocks rallied as the bill moved through the Senate, particularly since there is no public option in the bill to compete or compare with insurance ...
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• Scrooge and the Good in the Holidays

  
  The Tempered Optimist — Authority: 103
  The holidays are here. Yeah. But they are tempered by some scrooge visits already happening. So here are my nominations, my opinions, for Scrooge of the Year: The entire Republican Party: they know nothing about compromise and constituents and pay more attention to PAC funds from Managed Care Insurers then the ...
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• “Progressive” Gaslighting

  
  mirabile dictu — Authority: 127
  President Obama rejected in an interview Tuesday the criticism that he has compromised too much in order to secure health-care reform legislation, challenging his critics to identify any “gap” between what he campaigned on last year and what Congress is on the verge of passing. “Nowhere has there been a bigger ...
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• CIGNA Whistleblower Wendell Potter Discusses Senate Health Care Bill

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 132
  
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• "Democrats: Stop screaming and pass health reform"

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 486
  E.J. Dionne (WaPo): For progressives, the question on the health-care battle going forward is not whether they have a right to be angry but whether they can direct their fury toward constructive ends. The alternative is to pursue a temporarily satisfying and ultimately self-defeating politics of protest. Of course ...
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• Well, OK Then

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 801
  President Barack Obama said Monday that Congress should approve a final healthcare bill even if it doesn’t include a public option. Obama said the House and Senate bills are 95 percent "identical" and downplayed the fact that final legislation is unlikely to include a public health insurance option during an Oval ...
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• The presidents Really Big Healthcare Pitch, part two (Public option? What public option?)

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 527
  President Obama never promised you a rose garden ... or a public option ... President Obama is putting on the hard sell to convince Americans to love health reform, and rather than seeking to soothe the base, he’s employing a rather different strategy: denying he ever promised health reform with a public option.  ...
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• Point/Counter Point

  
  Welcome to The Now — Authority: 141
  Barack Obama : "Every single criteria for reform I put forward is in this bill." Think Progress : "...he [Obama] touted the public option on his campaign website and spoke frequently in support of it during the first year of his presidency, citing its essential value in holding the private insurance industry ...
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• Values of Health Care Stocks Increase Fearlessly as Public Option Is Dead by Dennis Kucinich

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  Dandelion Saladby Dennis Kucinichkucinich.usDec. 22, 2009Wall Street Celebrates Senate’s “Significantly Watered Down” Health Care BillDear Friends,Wall Street is celebrating “Health Care Reform.” According to an industry insider report yesterday by MarketWatch (Gibson and Britt) health care stocks rallied as ...
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• Barack Obama Is A Liar

  
  USA | Barack Obama News — Authority: 138
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• Health Reform: Good Deal or Bad Deal for Insurance Companies?

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Good deal, says Wall Street. Here’s The Associated Press, reporting yesterday on insurance company stock prices after the Senate bill cleared its first procedural hurdle: Shares of Aetna rose $1.81, or 5.6 percent, to $34.32; Cigna gained $2.15, or 6 percent, to $37.95; Humana added $1.71, or 3.9 percent, to ...
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• President Barack Obama dont insult our intelligence

  
  This Week With Barack Obama — Authority: 138
  I dont know who coined the phrase, "public option", but Barack Obama campaigned across this country having "health care like congress", which is a government run public option. He may be pissed that many in his base are angry at him for doing virtually NOTHING for the public option, during this health care debacle, ...
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• "FLASHBACK: Obama Repeatedly Touted Public Option Before Refusing To Push For It In The Final Hours"

  
  HOWIEINSEATTLE — Authority: 486
  Think Progress: In recent days, there has been an uproar in the progressive community over the Senate’s decision to drop the public option from its health care bill in order to reach the crucial 60 votes needed to break a filibuster. Given that many liberals backed a single-payer, Medicare-for-all ...
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• Obama: "I didnt campaign on the public option."

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 648
  By GottaLaff No public option? Its all Obamas fault! Nuh- uh ! Yuh- huh ! He did it! No, Congress did it! Obama, you have too compromised too much! Have not! Have too ! Have not ! " Nowhere has there been a bigger gap between the perceptions of compromise and the realities of compromise than ...
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• Somebody is Having a Happy Christmas

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 801
  Via HuffPo healthcare reform is turning out very well for some . The S&P Healthcare Index rose 1.4 percent, while the Morgan Stanley Healthcare Payor stock index rose 3.6 percent. The S&P Managed Health Care index rose 4.6 percent. "All in all, relative to the last version of health reform issued by ...
  22 hours ago

• Beating Up Lieberman Is Cover-Up for Lefts Problems

  
  The Foundry — Authority: 737
  The Left is lost without a villain. You can’t have victims without one. To maintain its cult of victimology, the Left must identify (or create) bad guys. Hence, according to the narrative from the Left: Our economy struggles because fat cat bankers are selfish and George W. Bush left Barack Obama a mess. Health ...
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• To Obstruct Health Bill’s Xmas Deadline, GOP Plans to Kidnap Santa Claus

  
  The Satirical Political Report — Authority: 432
  “SINCE SENATOR McCAIN HAS BEEN GRACIOUS ENOUGH TO GIVE UP ALL HIS PRINCIPLES IN OUR FIGHT AGAINST HEALTH CARE REFORM, HE’LL BE IN CHARGE OF NOT ONLY THE ACTUAL KIDNAP OPERATION, BUT ALSO TORTURING THE FAT BASTARD.”
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• To Howard Dean: It is 2009, not 1965

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 521
  Elvin Lim is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency , which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents’ ability to communicate ...
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