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• VIDEO: Obama promised

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 648
  By GottaLaff Thom Hartmann sent his listeners here . Obama promised a public option (July 17, 2009) "Any plan I sign must include an insurance exchange -- a one-stop shopping marketplace where you can compare the benefits, costs, and track records of a variety of plans -- including a public option ...
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• Ad Slams Obama for Failing to Deliver on Health Care Goals

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 731
  Hey, guess what? Politicians don’t always make good on their campaign pledges—and President Barack Obama is no exception, unfortunately. Although Obama challenged his critics Tuesday on the subject of his campaign pledges about health care compared to the current version of reform legislation taking shape in ...
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• Public option revisited?

  
  swimming freestyle — Authority: 438
  This is good news: While the Senate is scheduled to vote, and approve, their health care bill tomorrow morning, Senator Tom Harkin said the public option will be re-introduced to debate as early as next year. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told reporters that the public option is not dead. "It will be revisited," he ...
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• Obama Did NOT Campaign on Public Option

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 448
  As someone who has watched every media interview and campaign speech and every Obama speech once he was elected President (all of his speeches are posted on this blog), I know that Obama didnt campaign on the public option, contrary to Ezra Kleins opinion: Oy. Ill defend the argument that the health-care bill that ...
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• Public Option – Another Day, Another Time

  
  Mario Piperni Dot Com — Authority: 118
  . It is clear now that whatever health care bill passes through Congress and gets signed by the president sometime in the new year, it won’t containg a public option.  But, but… don’t despair , at least according to one Democratic senator. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told reporters that the public option is ...
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• Obama Campaigned on a Public Option (Video)

  
  Tennessee Guerilla Women — Authority: 477
  Another day, another campaign promise that Obama cant recall ever making. Now President Obama says : "I didnt campaign on the public option." Yeah, well, then who is that imposter in the video clip below? Help the Progressive Change Campaign Committee put this ad on tv. "Essentially . . were going to set ...
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• How Liberals Killed the Public Option

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
  I find it a little ironic that liberals continue to ruthlessly attack Joe Lieberman for killing the public option (and it’s evil twin, the Medicare buy-in) given the central role that liberals themselves played in precipitating it’s demise. Including some of the very same individuals now vilifying him. While ...
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• Ad Attacks Obama On Public Option

  
  Joe. My. God. — Authority: 700
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• Harkin: Public option "is going to be revisited"

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 801
  Sam Stein reports Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) is predicting that the public option will be revisited in separate legislation, perhaps as early as next year. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told reporters that the public option is not dead. "It will be revisited," he said. "Im just saying, I believe it is so vital and so ...
  7 hours ago

• 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 ...
  9 hours ago

• 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 ...
  9 hours ago

• 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 ...
  19 hours ago

• 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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