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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

 Another Obama Speech, 
 Another Armed Citizen 

Man brings assault rifle, pistol to health-care rally

Aug 17, 09 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's appearance at a VFW convention in Phoenix today was marked by yet another appearance of a man with a gun, the Arizona Republic reports. As separate crowds of protesters for and against health care reform rallied outside the Phoenix convention center, a man with an AR-15 rifle and... More »

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health care • Arizona • health care reform • Second Amendment • assault rifles • protesters • guns • President Obama • deathers

OPINION

Obamacare
Isn't 'Socialist Hellhole,' It's Switzerland

Krugman: White House plan not all that radical

Aug 17, 09 7:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Investor's Business Daily made a howler when it said the British physicist Stephen Hawking "wouldn't have a chance" under the UK's health care, but for Paul Krugman, the "vile and stupid" editorial missed the point. Obamacare doesn't look like the British system, in which government runs hospitals... More »

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health care • United Kingdom • Switzerland • universal health care • National Health Service • health care reform • Paul Krugman

$57M Health Care Battle Infects Airwaves

Groups spend $57M on tough TV ads

Aug 15, 09 4:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - A popular ad blasting President Obama’s health care effort symbolizes the overhaul with a bulging balloon: Eventually, the balloon bursts, as could Obama’s ambitious plan if the White House loses a fierce TV ad war against critics, Katharine Q. Seelye writes in the New York Times. So far... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • conservative • political activism • health care reform • tv ads

(Newser) - President Obama was plainly itching for the chance to confront health reform critics at his town hall event in Montana yesterday but he was let down by a friendly audience that failed to ask enough tough questions, Michael D. Shear writes in the Washington Post. The president was only... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • Montana • health care reform • town hall meeting • President Obama

 Senators Tweet It Out 
 Over 'Death Panels' 

Specter accuses Grassley of spreading false info

Aug 14, 09 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Arlen Specter and Chuck Grassley engaged in a very 21st-century sniping match today, ABC's Jake Tapper reports. The 79-year-old Pennsylvania Democrat took to Twitter to accuse the 75-year-old Iowa Republican of spreading "myths about health care reform and imaginary ‘death panels.' " He was referring to comments... More »

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health care • social networking • Iowa • Senate • Arlen Specter • Pennsylvania • Charles Grassley • health care reform • medical care • Twitter • death panel

(Newser) - Everybody's thinking small on health care reform, writes David Goldhill in the Atlantic. Our system is so abysmal—the headline on his lengthy piece is "How American Health Care Killed My Father"—that it needs a radical restructuring, and that should start with insurance. Let's just stop buying... More »

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health care • health insurance • hospitals • health care industry • health care reform • medical care

analysis

 GOP Backed 
 'Death Panels' 
 ...in 2003 

End-of-life counseling provided in Medicare bill

Aug 14, 09 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - They’re up in arms against it now, but Republicans voted for a measure providing end-of-life counseling in 2003, Amy Sullivan writes for Time. That year’s Medicare prescription drug bill, which boasted support from 204 GOP representatives and 42 senators, offered funding for “counseling the beneficiary with respect... More »

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health care • Congress • Senate Republicans • Charles Grassley • health care reform • medical care • House Republicans • Congressional Republicans • death panel • end-of-life care

OPINION

 These Kooks 
 Aren't Fooling Anyone 


Aug 14, 09 12:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - The “wild-eyed rants” reverberating through town hall meetings are pretty amusing. But do Republicans “really think the country is dopey enough to mistake microwave mobs staging Potemkin village protests” for actual American rage, asks Scot Lehigh of the Boston Globe. “If so, they’re delusional.”... More »

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health care • protests • Enron • health care reform • town hall meeting • medical care

OPINION

 Better Health Care Models 
 Already Exist—in the US 

Many areas are already putting patients before profits

Aug 13, 09 9:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you know where to look, “better, safer, lower-cost care is within reach”—in the US, a quartet of health-policy superstars writes in the New York Times. The four doctors reviewed 306 government-defined regions of the country and found 74 that boasted low or declining Medicare costs and... More »

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health care • Congress • health care reform • Obama administration • Atul Gawande • Donald Berwick • Elliott Fisher • Mark McClellan

OPINION

 Palin on Facebook: 
 Now She's Got a Ghostwriter 

She even used a semicolon—it can't possibly be her

Aug 13, 09 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin came out swinging on Facebook last night, responding to criticism of her infamous “death panels” comment in a 1,000-word, point-by-point rebuttal, complete with footnotes. There’s only one problem, notes Cajun Boy on Gawker: “There’s no way in hell Sarah Palin wrote it.”... More »

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health care • Facebook • ghostwrite • health care reform • Sarah Palin • death panel • deathers

(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

OPINION

Guess What, Sarah? Those 'Death Panels' Already Exist ...

... they're being run by insurance companies

Aug 11, 09 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin thinks health care reform will bring with it “death panels,” collections of bureaucrats who will ration care, deciding whose life is and isn’t worth saving. The flaw in that logic? “That’s not the future of health care—it’s the present,” writes... More »

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health care • health insurance • euthanasia • rationing • health care reform • insurance industry • Sarah Palin • women's issues • deathers

OPINION

 Pelosi, Hoyer: Health 
 Reform Haters Ignore Facts 

After a century, it's time to get this done

Aug 10, 09 1:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - The debate over universal health care has lasted almost a century, and once again, an overhaul faces tough odds. This time, not only are opponents trying to “misrepresent” legislation—many others have been crashing meetings and making “civil dialogue” on the issue impossible, write Nancy Pelosi and Steny... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • health care • Steny Hoyer • health care reform • House Democrats • speaker of the House • right wingers • protesters • Obama administration

(Newser) - Now that he’s in office, President Obama is having a lot of trouble mobilizing the grassroots network that helped put him there, the Los Angeles Times reports. With Republican health care opponents operating like a well-oiled, talk-show-fueled machine, Organizing for America (aka Obama for America) is stuttering—in... More »

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health care • grassroots • health care reform • Barack Obama supporters • Election 2008 • activists • Obama administration • President Obama • Organizing for America

(Newser) - Sarah Palin urged supporters to show restraint at town hall meetings, arguing that disruptive protests were giving Democrats ammunition. “There are many disturbing details in the current bill that Washington is trying to rush through Congress,” she said on Facebook yesterday, but we must “not get sidetracked... More »

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health care • protests • health care reform • town hall meeting • Sarah Palin • Trig Palin • deathers

OPINION

GOP Health Care 'Victory' Would Be Disastrous

Frum scolds fellow GOPers for seeking 'triumph of inertia'

Aug 9, 09 1:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - If Republicans topple Barack Obama’s attempts to reform health care, they will have reason to celebrate—if they like plummeting wages, skyrocketing Medicaid and Medicare costs, and angry entrepreneurs, David Frum writes for New Majority, scolding fellow conservatives for naysaying reform. “We’ll have entrenched and perpetuated some... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • GOP • health care reform • conservatives • David Frum • Republicans

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 McConnell: 
 White House 
 'Demonizing' 
 Health Critics 


Angry protests 'clearly being orchestrated,' Durbin counters

Aug 9, 09 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The White House is “demonizing” the fiercely outspoken critics of its health care reform, Sen. Mitch McConnell told Fox News Sunday today. “To demonize citizens who are energetic about this strikes me as demonstrating a kind of weakness in your position,” the Senate minority leader said, but... More »

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Iran • health care • North Korea • Newt Gingrich • Donald Rumsfeld • Mitch McConnell • Guantanamo Bay • health care reform • Jim Jones • Dick Durbin • Susan Rice • Lindsay Graham

(Newser) - President Barack Obama asked Americans to put no stock in "outlandish rumors" that health care reform will "promote euthanasia, or cut Medicaid, or bring about a government takeover of health care," in his weekly radio and Internet address today. "That's simply not true." Politico noted... More »

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health care • recession • unemployment • US economy • health care reform • employment report • President Obama • radio address

(Newser) - Sarah Palin has denounced the Obama administration's plans for health care reform as "downright evil" in a posting on her Facebook page, TPM reports. "The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand... More »

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health care • Alaska • health care reform • Sarah Palin • Trig Palin • President Obama

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