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    • 29 Ratings
    • 3569 Views
    • 70 Comments
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    Now Let Us Praise Dennis Kucinich

    MARCH 12, 2010 9:58AM

    By Heather Michon


    Topics: public option, nancy pelosi, markos moulitsas, health reform, dennis kucinich

    • Editor's Pick
    • 40 Ratings
    • 2037 Views
    • 66 Comments
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    A Line in the Shifting Sands of Health Insurance

    DECEMBER 16, 2009 5:11AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: filibuster, universal health care, private, public, public option, price pressure, price control, competition, howard dean, dean, joseph lieberman, joe lieberman, lieberman, insurance companies, health insurance, health care, republicans, democrats, we need this to pass, rcredibility, failure is not an option, failure, lame duck, presidency, president, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 7536 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    The big healthcare sell-out

    DECEMBER 14, 2009 11:04PM

    By Joy-Ann Reid


    Topics: medicare, public option, rahm emanuel, joe lieberman, harry reid, congress, democrats, president obama, healthcare reform

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 1616 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    No-Go Joe: Lieberman Shows His True Colors

    OCTOBER 27, 2009 7:30PM

    By Nikki Stern


    Topics: joe lieberman, health care, public option, democrats, republicans, market forces, bogus arguments, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 1463 Views
    • 42 Comments
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    Lame Duck Season’s Coming Early

    OCTOBER 6, 2009 7:10AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, obama, barack, barack obama, self-inflicted, failure, no accomplishments, nothing accomplished, shot himself in the foot, shooting himself in the foot, health care, climate change, iraq, afghanistan, war, gays in the military, don't ask don't tell, dont ask dont tell, campaign promises, broken promises, leadership, lack of leadership, failure of leadership, compromise, bargaining, snl, saturday night live, tipping point, moment of truth, time to prepare, public option

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 927 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Public Option: San Francisco's Got One And It Works (VIDEO)

    SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 4:32PM

    By Dorsey Shaw


    Topics: health care, news, politics, public option, san francisco, sucess

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 3051 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    AMA: Reform Bill--Yes; Public Option--Not So Much

    SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 3:10PM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: business, politics, american medical association, mike lynch, public option, health care reform, hr3200

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 1663 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Baucus Healthy Future Act Sends Public Option Out to Sea

    SEPTEMBER 16, 2009 3:04PM

    By Kathy Riordan


    Topics: health care, health care reform, america's healthy future act 2009, senator max baucus, senate finance committee, senate health care plan, obama health care reform, president barack obama, public option, medicine

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 3776 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Survey: 73% of Doctors Favor Public Option

    SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 10:19AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: politics, business, health, health care reform, public option, new england journal of medicine, ama, victor rodwin, doctors on coverage, salomeh keyhani m.d. m.p.h., alex federman m.d., m.p.h., nejm

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 815 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Now Let’s Get the Health Care Job Done!

    SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 9:16AM

    By Kevin Gosztola


    Topics: medicare, ted kennedy, television, sicko, sick, democratic party, single payer, public option, politics, news, media, speech, baucus, healthcare, corporations, greed, human rights, obama, democrat, republican, liberal, progressive, health care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 27 Ratings
    • 3045 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    "Guarding The Hen House": a child's health care parable

    SEPTEMBER 8, 2009 5:58PM

    By Mortimer Hayden Smyth


    Topics: health care, kids, childrens story, hen house, foxes, fox news, insurance, public option, satire, connor ratliff, mortimer hayden smyth

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 1409 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Sen. Ted Kennedy Was Pro-People & An Exception to the Rule

    AUGUST 26, 2009 8:48AM

    By Kevin Gosztola


    Topics: humanity, people, medicare, war, iraq, conservatives, fox news, public option, health care, chappaquiddick, republicans, liberals, democrats, barack obama, obama, edward m kennedy, ted kennedy, kennedy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 2178 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Pipsqueak Blogger Uncovers Health Care Coup D’Etat

    AUGUST 5, 2009 8:59AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: government takeover, business, politics, health care reform, hr3200, lewin group, john boehner, health exchange, public option

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 1738 Views
    • 28 Comments
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    Senate Drops Public Option: Is Real Health Care Reform Dead?

    JULY 28, 2009 9:32AM

    By Kevin Gosztola


    Topics: television, howard dean, bill maher, single payer, public option, reid, pelosi, republicans, democrats, bipartisan, bill clinton, special interests, insurance, health insurance, reform, barack obama, obama, politics, news, health care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 5258 Views
    • 31 Comments
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    Health Care? HELL, NO!!

    JULY 20, 2009 10:05PM

    By Mortimer Hayden Smyth


    Topics: connor ratliff, satire, pursuit of happiness, constitution, thomas jefferson, founding fathers, public option, republicans, obama, president, reform, health care, mortimer hayden smyth

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1632 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    A Second Economic Stimulus Worth Supporting

    JULY 9, 2009 10:26AM

    By Kevin Gosztola


    Topics: economy, economic recovery, stimulus, second stimulus, money, democrats, republicans, health care, healthcare, single payer, single-payer health care, public option, nurses, doctors, patients, medicine, drugs, jobs, unemployment, unemployed, reform, change, news, politics

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