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Why France's Health Care Is So Good, The Public Option So Bad and the Co-Ops So Incomplete: An Interview With Kent Conrad. »
Posted by: Tumultuous 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
I think that book is very instructive in terms of analyzing alternative systems around the world for possible lessons for us, not that we're ...
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Kennedy Health Plan Would Include Public Insurance - Yahoo! News »
Posted by: Pecossam 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News
May 29 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Edward Kennedy , chairman of a
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Senate panel drafting a health-care overhaul, is circulating a
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The Cost of Not Having a Public Option »
Posted by: Tumultuous 2 months, 3 weeks ago in News
The California Nurses Association just sent out a press release highlighting new report from the Commonwealth Fund that projects a 94% increase in health insurance ...
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'I would not support a bill that does not have a public option,' says Burris »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 3 weeks, 6 days ago in Political News
For Democrats determined to get a health care bill, Sen. Roland Burris is like the house guest who couldn't be refused, won't soon ...
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What's the Public Option, Again? »
Posted by: Progressive 3 weeks, 5 days ago in Political Opinion
Yes, a new poll shows strong support for a health-care public option. But even the pollsters aren't sure what it is. Why Congress should ...
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Jon Stewart Takes On Media, Lieberman Over Public Option (VIDEO) »
Posted by: Progressive 2 weeks, 4 days ago in Health & Fitness
After much debate and speculation, after every cable news network declared it dead one point or another, Senator Harry Reid announced that a public option ...
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Anthony Weiner: GOP Public Option Opponents Should Give Up Their Medicare »
Posted by: fsev41 3 weeks, 3 days ago in Political Opinion
On Thursday, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) called on 55 Republican adversaries of the public option to give up their government-funded health insurance. The congressman ...
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Can Donna Edwards Save Health Care Reform? »
Posted by: Tumultuous 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Donna Edwards (D-MD) has been one of the most outstanding organizers within congressional progressive circles in favor of holding leadership's feet to the fire ...
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Senate Leader Takes Risk Pushing Public Insurance Plan »
Posted by: engineer 3 weeks, 3 days ago in News
In pushing to include a government-run health insurance plan in the health care bill, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid , is taking a calculated gamble ...
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Dick Cheney: Why So Chatty All of a Sudden? »
Posted by: aceofspades1 6 months, 1 week ago in News
In the last few days, former Vice President Dick Cheney has appeared on CBS' Face the Nation and Fox News to defend the Bush team ...
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Web Tool As Imprtant As Google »
Posted by: Mikunited 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The free program aims to answer questions directly, rather than display web pages in response to a query like a search engine.
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Pew Poll: People Have Confidence In Obama, Not Republicans »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 1 week ago in Political News
There is no evidence that increased perceptions of a politically divided country have affected President Obama’s standing with the public. His overall job approval ...
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Why the Public Option's Still Alive »
Posted by: Progressive 3 weeks, 5 days ago in Health & Fitness
Reports of the public option’s demise look to have been exaggerated. Nate Silver breaks down what revived it at FiveThirtyEight.com:
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I Am a Former Staffer of the President’s and I Want Him To Fight Like He Promised Us »
Posted by: Tumultuous 2 months, 1 week ago in Political News
I just joined thousands of others including several hundred former staffers from the campaign in signing a petition to President Obama, telling him that health ...
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Federal Reserve rejects request for public review »
Posted by: Tumultuous 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Political News
The institution which creates and oversees America's currency wants to keep a "low profile," according to a published report on Monday, and may willing ...
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