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(Newser) - Current health care legislation would require every American to buy health insurance, but would do little or nothing to control the skyrocketing premiums they’d have to pay, the LA Times reports. Versions of the bill try to address the problem indirectly—with a public option in the House... More »

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health care costs • health insurance premiums • health care reform • Max Baucus • public option • mandate

 Will Ferrell and Pals: 
 'Save Our Health Execs' 

'What's so American about competition?' asks snarky video pushing for public option

Sep 22, 09 1:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Will Ferrell thinks we need to remember the people who really matter in the health care debate: insurance executives. The comedian has produced a star-studded parody ad for MoveOn.org in which he and his fellow actors decry the evils of the reform movement. “Why is Obama trying to... More »

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parody • health care reform • MoveOn.org • Will Ferrell • Jon Hamm • public option

 Poll: Even Split on Health Care 

Reform proponents closing 'intensity gap'

Sep 14, 09 8:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - The public is split right down the middle on health care reform, but opposition has eased somewhat, and reform supporters are closing the “enthusiasm gap,” according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Right now 46% say they support Democratic plans, while 48% oppose them. But the number... More »

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Barack Obama • health care reform • poll numbers • public option

OPINION

For Shame, Wilson: You Have Free Government Health Care

As a National Guard retiree, SC rep is set for life with TRICARE

Sep 11, 09 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Consistent with his “You lie!” outburst the other night, Joe Wilson’s campaign website loudly proclaims he's “PASSIONATE ABOUT STOPPING GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTH CARE!” That sentiment would ring truer if the congressman weren't the beneficiary of what he calls “world class” government-run health care, Adam... More »

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Congress • South Carolina • National Guard • House of Representatives • health care reform • public option • Joe Wilson • government run health care • TRICARE

OPINION



 Obama's Health 
 Speech a Victory 
 for the Center: 
 Brooks 

Highly effective talk knocks down House plan, public option

Sep 11, 09 8:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama’s health care speech was “the finest speech of his presidency,” writes David Brooks: While rhetorically appeasing liberals, it “subtly staked out ground in the center” to win over moderates, making passage “much more likely,” he opines in the New York Times. Obama... More »

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Congress • health care reform • speech • budget deficit • David Brooks • tort reform • President Obama • public option

UPDATED

 Obama on Health Reform: 
 Time for Bickering Is Over

President addresses Congress in final push

Sep 9, 09 8:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Declaring that the US is at a “breaking point” and that “the time for bickering is over” on health-care reform, President Obama pressed his case before a joint session of Congress tonight. Obama shot down a number of charges from opponents, to applause from supporters, Politico notes—though... More »

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Congress • Ted Kennedy • House of Representatives • health care reform • speech • President Obama • Congressional Republicans • public option • Joe Wilson

(Newser) - When top Blue Dog Dem Mike Ross came out against the public option, he said that “an overwhelming number” of his constituents opposed it. Maybe he's gotten emails to that effect, but if he’d actually bothered to poll his district, he’d probably get a different story, writes... More »

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health care reform • Mike Ross • Blue Dog Democrats • Nate Silver • public option

ANALYSIS

 Forget What 
 You've Heard: 
 Health Reform 
 Is Nearly Done 

Obama has party, public, industry support, despite a few town halls

Sep 9, 09 7:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama goes into tonight's Congressional address amid talk that his health reform plan—and indeed his entire presidency—are nearly doomed. But the New York Times, in a front-page analysis piece, is far more optimistic, noting that August's town hall chaos did not substantially change public opinion, nor did... More »

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Barack Obama • Congress • Democrats • Olympia Snowe • health care reform • George Voinovich • health insurers • Obama administration • public option • health insurance industry

Health Care Reform '90%' Done: Reid

But Senate, House leaders not united
on public option

Sep 8, 09 5:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - Harry Reid declared "90% agreement" in the Senate on health care reform today after a meeting with President Obama. Reid and Nancy Pelosi expressed optimism that the president's address to Congress tomorrow will bolster support for reform, the Hill reports. The Senate Majority Leader is confident that the speech... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Congress • Senate • Harry Reid • health care reform • public option

OPINION

Liberals Ought to Ditch the Public Option

An incentivized private market can cover everyone, at lower cost

Sep 8, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Liberals need to abandon the notion that no health care reform is acceptable without a public option, former Clinton aide and health industry consultant Matt Miller writes in the Washington Post. Progressives’ top priority should be to make sure every American can access group coverage outside an employment... More »

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Switzerland • Netherlands • health care industry • Clinton administration • health care reform • public option

 What Obama's Putting 
 in His Health Care Speech 

President will carefully commit to public option

Sep 5, 09 7:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is still hammering out the health care speech he plans to deliver to Congress on Wednesday, but top aides tell Politico that the president will:
  • Describe his own proposal, defining what he thinks is still debatable and what's essential for health care reform.
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Barack Obama • Congress • health care reform • public option

House Progressives Call Out Obama on Public Option

Democrats may be headed for intra-party battle

Sep 4, 09 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - House progressives have told President Obama that they “cannot vote for anything less” than health-care legislation with a “robust public option”—all but threatening a showdown if, as seems likely, the White House doesn’t push for a public plan, Talking Points Memo reports. The California lawmakers... More »

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Congress • politics • health care reform • congressional Democrats • Democratic Party • President Obama • letter • public option • progressives

US Retirees Find Flat-Rate Health Bargain in Mexico

IMSS system offers good care for flat rate

Sep 1, 09 9:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mexico might have a raging drug war and rampant corruption, USA Today reports—but it also has a health-care system that is the envy of many Americans. In fact, many retirees too young for Medicare are moving to Mexico to take advantage of the plan offered by the Mexican Social... More »

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health care • Mexico • Medicare • retirees • health care reform • public option • Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social

Pelosi Willing to Deal to Win Back House Dems

They plan more flexible approach, postponed public option

Sep 1, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - House Democrats got whipped on health care over the August recess, and party leaders now have to win back some of their own shaky members, reports Politico. The push starts at a caucus meeting in the Capitol basement next week as Nancy Pelosi and other top leaders will try to... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health insurance • politics • Democratic caucus • health care reform • House Democrats • public option

OPINION

 How the Dems Can 
 Save Obamacare 

Keep plans private, creating gov't care 'by proxy'

Aug 28, 09 9:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amid “widespread national revulsion,” Obamacare as it stands “is dead,” but the Democrats can revive it if they’re willing to make some key concessions, writes Charles Krauthammer—a nonpracticing physician in addition to pundit—in the Washington Post. What they must do:
  1. Dump the
... More »

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health insurance • Medicare • Medicaid • health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama • public option

(AP) - John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town hall meeting about health care reform yesterday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn't stop shouting that she had to leave. The senator hadn't yet opened the meeting to questions when one audience member continuously... More »

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John McCain • health insurance • Arizona • Phoenix • health care reform • town hall meeting • protesters • public option

On Health Care, Dean Gives Obama a Pain

Passed over for administration post, ex-doc plagues prez

Aug 24, 09 1:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - By now, President Obama may wish he’d brought Howard Dean into the administration, because the former doctor has become his top left-wing antagonist on health care reform, the Hill reports. Dean has spent the summer advancing his views on the topic, and though the White House is backing away... More »

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Barack Obama • Howard Dean • grassroots • health care reform • public option

OPINION

Obama Starting to Look Weak: Krugman

Progressives losing faith; public option
is the latest copout

Aug 21, 09 7:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Barack Obama threw the public option under the bus, the White House was reportedly "shocked and surprised" by the ensuing liberal fury, writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times. “Well, I’m shocked and surprised at their shock and surprise,” he writes. From Obama's reluctance... More »

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Barack Obama • health care reform • Paul Krugman • liberal • public option • progressives

(Newser) - The best way for President Obama to emerge from his health care reform sinkhole is to pull the plug on the whole thing, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal. "It all got hotter, quicker than the White House expected," she writes. Furthermore, "no one understands... More »

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Barack Obama • health care reform • public option

(Newser) - President Obama brought his case for health reform to talk radio today, telling a largely conservative audience that a public option is only a small part of his goal and expressing skepticism that any deal with Republicans is possible. On the public option, "what we've said is we think... More »

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health insurance • White House • health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama • public option • radio interview • Michael Smerconish

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