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OPINION

 Obama's Health 
 Reform Waffling 
 May Be Savvy 

Prez perhaps following his predecessors in 'strategic uncertainty'

Aug 19, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - It may not be timidity that’s keeping Barack Obama from pushing harder for a public health care option. He may instead be employing a time-tested presidential technique: “strategic uncertainty,” writes Jill Lawrence in Politics Daily. Key for Obama is getting strong Senate support for a bill, and... More »

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politics • FDR • Abraham Lincoln • health care reform • President Obama • public option

OPINION

 Face It: the Public 
 Option's a No-Go 

'Political litmus test' wouldn't be effective anyway

Aug 19, 09 8:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - The public health care option is simply a “political litmus test” pushed by left-wingers to represent their side of an “ideological war”—and it’s time to give it up, writes Steven Pearlstein in the Washington Post. “There is nothing about having one government-owned health insurance... More »

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health insurance • health care reform • Steven Pearlstein • public option

What Is a Health Care Co-Op, Anyway?

Member-owned plans would lack government leverage

Aug 18, 09 9:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - The likelihood of there being a public health care option is fading—which has some in Congress pushing for an alternative: nonprofit health cooperatives, the Washington Post reports. Few details have emerged about how such plans would work; as it stands, their defining feature seems to be that they wouldn’... More »

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health insurance • health care reform • public option • health care cooperative

Public Option a 'Must' for Health Care Reform: Key Dems

White House waffling worries progressives

Aug 18, 09 1:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Leading advocates for health care reform are concerned about the Obama administration’s apparent willingness to drop a government-run insurance program from the package in order to ensure the support of the Senate, the Washington Post reports. Prominent Democratic senators have voiced support for the public option, with John Rockefeller... More »

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health care • health insurance • Senate • Senate Democrats • AFL CIO • health care reform • House Democrats • Obama administration • public option

Public Option On Its Death Bed

Liberals panic as president, Sebelius, Conrad downplay expectations

Aug 17, 09 9:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The public option is looking sickly, after a weekend in which Obama and Co. seemed to be backing away from it, and liberals aren’t happy about it, Politico reports. “Public Option, Meet Underside of Bus,” read one Daily Kos headline. Over the weekend, President Obama said the... More »

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Barack Obama • health care reform • Kathleen Sebelius • Kent Conrad • Rachel Maddow • public option

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP



 Sebelius: 
 Public Option 
 Not Essential 

Also, Dem sen. calls Obama's health care pitch a 'wasted effort'

Aug 16, 09 9:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Liberal lawmakers are demanding that a public option be included in a final health care reform package, but top Obama administration officials seemed to hedge on the subject today, Politico reports. On Face the Nation, Robert Gibbs said “thus far” President Obama sees a government-funded system as the best... More »

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Barack Obama • Arlen Specter • health care reform • Kathleen Sebelius • Kent Conrad • Robert Gibbs • public option

(Newser) - Presidents from FDR to Nixon to Clinton tried and failed to reform the health care system, but with Barack Obama closer than ever before, the left is already blasting him for compromising too much. That's a shame, writes Clinton strategist Paul Begala, who regrets "setting the bar at 100%"... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Clinton administration • health care reform • Social Security • Paul Begala • public option

Gov't Health Plan Would Cover Abortion

Both sides get ready
to rumble over incendiary funding

Aug 5, 09 11:33 AM CDT
(AP) - Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions, a decision that would affect millions of women and recast federal policy on the divisive issue. Advocates on both sides are preparing for a renewed battle, which could jeopardize support for President Obama's health care... More »

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health care • Congress • abortion • legislation • health care reform • public option

forget the beach

 5 Things to Watch During 
 Critical August Break

Health care takes center stage in 'consequential' recess

Aug 3, 09 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - With health care reform hanging in the balance, the August congressional recess is likely to be a lot less relaxing than usual, writes Glenn Thrush in Politico. What to watch:
  1. Health insurers’ response to Nancy Pelosi’s singling them out as the "bad guys" on soaring health care
... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • protests • Senate Finance Committee • recess • health care reform • Max Baucus • health insurers • approval ratings • President Obama • tea parties • public option

ANALYSIS

Health Care Works Great—
for Congress

Taxpayers spend $15B to offer 8.5M federal workers primo benefits

Aug 2, 09 2:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - As members of Congress tear into each other over health care reform, they do so assured that a top shelf taxpayer-funded smorgasboard of health plans are there to respond to their slightest sniffle, Mark Barabak and Faye Fiore note in the Los Angeles Times. Last year, taxpayers spent about $15... More »

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health care • Congress • health care reform • uninsured • federal employees • public option

Blue Dog Deal Means No Vote on Health
Before Recess

Dems also agree on $100B trim: Waxman

Jul 29, 09 1:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - The House will not vote on a health care bill before the August recess, the Hill reports. Rep. Henry Waxman agreed to the delay as part of a deal with “Blue Dog” Democrats on his Energy and Commerce Committee, who had been threatening to block the bill. Waxman now... More »

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health care • health care costs • Henry Waxman • House of Representatives • health care reform • House Energy and Commerce Committee • Blue Dog Democrats • public option

Blue Dogs Stand Firm as Dems Get Panicky

Marathon sessions fail to reach a deal as tempers fray

Jul 29, 09 4:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Democratic leadership is scrambling to make progress on health care reform before Congress breaks for its August recess, but last night's marathon negotiations failed to break the stalemate—and may even have increased the number of issues up for debate.  "We're making progress," Nancy Pelosi said... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Congress • Henry Waxman • Harry Reid • Senate Democrats • Rahm Emanuel • health care reform • House Democrats • Blue Dog Democrats • public option

OPINION

Health Reform Must Pass
the Test of
Prostate Cancer

Efficacy should trump novelty in care choices

Jul 8, 09 9:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forget public options and universal mandates. The real litmus test for health care reform is prostate cancer testing, writes David Leonhardt of the New York Times. Treatments for the disease range in cost from a few thousand dollars to more than $100,000. "You can probably guess... More »

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health care • health care costs • prostate cancer • medical research • cancer treatment • health care reform • public option

Public Option 'Negotiable' in Health Reform: Emanuel

Obama OK with trigger backup to private plans

Jul 7, 09 9:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama wants a public health care option, but he’s not married to the idea, Rahm Emanuel tells the Wall Street Journal—as long as real competition is somehow injected into the insurance market. “The goal is to have a means and a mechanism to keep the private... More »

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health care • health insurance • Rahm Emanuel • health care reform • Obama administration • President Obama • public option • Medicare prescription drug plan

OPINION

On Health Reform, Obama Should Heed His Doc, Not AMA

Medical association is wrong yet again: Kristof

Jun 25, 09 8:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Its membership may abide by the Hippocratic Oath, but the American Medical Association is definitely doing the public harm in its opposition to meaningful health care reform, writes Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times. The AMA has become infamous for its lousy political stands: it supported segregation, backed... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • doctor • American Medical Association • health care reform • Nicholas Kristof • public option

OPINION

 Public Option 
 Pivotal to Health 
 Reform: Reich 

Obama can't give in to critics

Jun 24, 09 10:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - As wrangling over health care reform drags on, President Obama is putting the idea of a public option on the back burner. But public competition would drive private plans to offer better, less expensive care, cutting the massive costs that are hindering progress, writes Robert Reich in the Wall Street ... More »

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health care • health care costs • health care reform • Robert Reich • Obama administration • President Obama • public option

OPINION

If Health Care Push Fails, Blame Dems

Public wants a public option; why do 'centrists' oppose it?

Jun 22, 09 10:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Now ought to be a good time to reform health care. With costs up and coverage down, polls show the public overwhelmingly favors change. Unfortunately, “a handful of Democratic senators are still determined to party like it’s 1993,” writes Paul Krugman of the New York Times.... More »

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health care • health insurance • universal health care • Democrat • health care reform • congressional Democrats • Paul Krugman • Ben Nelson • health insurers • insurance industry • public option

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