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Health Care
- What it will cost you to deny health insurance to illegal immigrants. – By Timothy Noah – Slate Magazine
- Health Reform Fact Check | OurFuture.org
- Healthcare Reform – Salon.com
- Medical Malpractice Revisited on NPR – rahul k. parikh – Open Salon
- Health Reform Fact Check | OurFuture.org What it will cost you to deny health insurance to illegal immigrants. – By Timothy Noah – Slate Magazine
- Slate's online guide to the health care reform bill. – By Timothy Noah – Slate Magazine
- Not So Fast, Filibuster Robert Kuttner: Learning from Lieberman
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- Wonk Room » New Senate Bill Achieves Greater Deficit Reduction, On Track To Pass By Christmas
- Think Progress » Dean No Longer Urging Dems To ‘Kill’ The Bill: ‘Let’s See What They Add To This Bill And Make It Work’
- Why Incremental Reforms Will Not Solve the Health Care Crisis — McCanne 16 (3): 257 — The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine
- Why I Still Believe In This Bill | The New Republic Wonk Room » New Senate Bill Achieves Greater Deficit Reduction, On Track To Pass By Christmas
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- Robert Kuttner: Learning from Lieberman
- Not So Fast, Filibuster
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Waste
American health care, like America, is innovative and wasteful. – By Jacob Weisberg – Slate Magazine
CORRECTED – US healthcare system wastes up to $800 bln a year | Reuters
Politics
After Hillary, Voting With Conscience and Pride
Editorial – Majority Rule on Health Care Reform – NYTimes.com
Dylan Ratigan: Why Would We Let Them Rig the Game?
Frank Schaeffer: How the Right and the Left Destroyed the Public Option
Weiner: If Left Can't Pass Even A Modest Public Option, Nobody Will Take Them Seriously | TPMDC
Mike Lux: Getting Past the Senate
The High Drama Behind Reid's Public Option Decision | TPMDC
Majority Favors Dem-Only Health Bill With Public Option Over Bipartisan Bill Without: Poll
Open Left:: It Is Possible To Pass A Public Option Now
Mitchell Bard: Congress Is Behaving as if the Health Care System Isn't in Tatters
Public Option Within Eight Votes Of House Passage, Says Rep. Grijalva
The waiting is the hardest part | Salon News
Health Care Reform News – The New York Times
Matt Taibbi: Taibblog : Rolling Stone
Sick and Wrong : Rolling Stone
FDL News Desk » Weirdest Collection Of Democrats Ever Push Wyden’s Free Choice Proposal
Reply to critics of “Bait and switch: How the ‘public option’ was sold” – PNHP's Official Blog
Martha Burk: AARP's Bait and Switch on Health Care
Dems Challenge Theme That Health Care Vote Makes Members Vulnerable
Harkin says Senate will work weekends this December on health – TheHill.com
Rob Johnson: Squandered Honeymoon: How Botched Bailouts Hamper Healthcare Reform
Linda Bergthold: Betsy McCaughey Is Wrong About Health Reform — Again!
Science on trial: the clash of … – Google Books
Sen. Harry Reid's health reform striptease. – By Timothy Noah – Slate Magazine
Obama's top aides go to Congress. – By Fred Kaplan – Slate Magazine
Employer-based
Op-Ed Contributor – Health Reform’s Missing Ingredient – NYTimes.com
Dylan Ratigan: Health Care: Let's Liberate the Masses
Howard Schweber: Some Problems With the Partial Public Option
Obama
Campaign Silo » President’s Comments on Public Option
Truthdig – Reports – A Speech Even Insurance Companies Could Love
The White House – Blog Post – Facts Are Stubborn Things
White House relies on core healthcare team — latimes.com
Robert L. Borosage: Obama's September Choice: Charge or Trim?
The Mandate Flip Flop : Rolling Stone : National Affairs Daily
FDL News Desk » Obama Meeting With Progressives And Caucus Leaders Focused On Triggers And Opt-Out
Blue Dogs/DLC
Blue Dog Opposition To Public Option Fades In Whip Count
Daily Kos: Pelosi's Staffer Denies Nixing Deal With Blue Dogs!
Divining The Motives Of The Blue Dogs, Part One
PhARMA
Campaign Silo » Carper Publicly Defends Secret PhRMA Deal In Exchange For Support Ads
Pharma Deal With White House on Course to Net Industry Billions
Immorality/Insurers/GOP
Harvard Study: 45,000 Uninsured Die Every Year – NAM
Study: 45,000 Uninsured Die a Year – CBS Evening News – CBS News
Health insurer profits even when denying coverage — latimes.com
Health | Lottery may be used to cut 36,000 from state health plan | Seattle Times Newspaper
Why the GOP Is Gunning for Grandma | Newsweek Newsweek Voices – Jacob Weisberg | Newsweek.com
Wonk Room » Top 10 Reasons Why Republicans Should Support The House Health Bill
Lobbyists Fight Last Big Plans to Cut Health Care Costs – NYTimes.com
Why markets can’t cure healthcare – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com
Opt in/Opt out
Dems Discussing Public Option With Opt-Out Clause: The Silver Bullet?
Reid: “The Public Option With An Opt-Out Is The One That's Fair”
Across state lines
Aren't health insurance companies allowed to sell across state lines? – Yahoo! Answers
Medicare
Patient Money – Your Medicare Options? It’s Time to Weigh Them – NYTimes.com
Why do people like Medicare and fear health care reform?
Patient Money – How to Navigate the Medicare Maze – NYTimes.com
Senate blocks Medicare payment bill — latimes.com
Are “Medicare Advantage” cuts Medicare cuts? – By Timothy Noah – Slate Magazine
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Medicaid
Income & Resource Guidelines Medicaid Eligibility
Washington’s Way on Health Care (the Other Washington) – Prescriptions Blog – NYTimes.com
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HR 3962
Pelosi's Not-So-Robust Public Option
Affordable Health Care for America Act | EdLabor Journal | Committee on Education and Labor
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Reader questions on House healthcare bill — latimes.com
House health compromise has 'public option' with a catch — latimes.com
Pelosi’s Poison Pill: H.R. 3962 « The Western Experience
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A History of Health Care Reform – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com
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Editorial – Health Care Reform and You – NYTimes.com
Doctors Say Congress Must Include Public Option In Health Care Reform
House Health Bill: Obama Making Personal Appeal To Dems Saturday
Kucinich on New Health Care Bill: ‘Is This the Best We Can Do?’ | CommonDreams.org
FDL News Desk » CBO Projection Of Higher Public Option Premiums All About Patient Dumping
Insurers poised to reap benefits from healthcare overhaul — latimes.com
Why I Voted NO : Information Clearing House – ICH
Daily Kos: State of the Nation
Baucus bill
Morning Joe:Moore: Baucus bill worse than the status quo
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Dems Finding Plenty To Dislike About Baucus Plan
5 Reasons the Baucus Health Bill Fails the Basics | Politics | AlterNet
Marcia Angell, M.D.: Baucus Bill: Health Reform That Isn't
RJ Eskow: Top Five Reasons the Baucus Bill Is Really, Really Bad
Ezra Klein – What's Wrong With the Finance Bill? An Interview With Sen. Jay Rockefeller.
Robert Reich: Why Olympia Snowe Should Vote Against the Baucus Plan
Health Insurance Companies Want Severe Penalties For People Who Do Not Buy Coverage
trigger
Why a “trigger” for the public option is nonsense | Salon
co-ops
RJ Eskow: Dealbreaker: Five Reasons Co-Ops Will Fail
Raw Story » Howard Dean: Insurance co-ops won’t solve problem
BLENDED BILL
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Who might, or might not, be covered under the healthcare bills — latimes.com
Comparing the Health Plans – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com
Reid rolls out Senate healthcare bill — latimes.com
Amid contentious health care issues, there's a lot lawmakers agree on | McClatchy
Report: Overhaul would raise health care costs – Health care- msnbc.com
Howard Dean: “Kill The Senate Bill” | The Plum Line
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Why Progressives Are Batshit Crazy to Oppose the Senate Bill
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: In Polls, Much Opposition to Health Care Plan Is From Left
Liberals grit their teeth and gather behind healthcare reform bill – TheHill.com
Mitchell Bard: It's Too Early to Celebrate the Senate Health Care Vote
10 Awesome Things That Would Happen If Health Reform Passes | Health and Wellness | AlterNet
Democratic Senators, Congresswoman, Small Business Owners Discuss Impact
How the Senate bill would contain the cost of health care : The New Yorker
Goodbye, public option; hello, healthcare reform? — latimes.com
How the Senate bill would contain the cost of health care : The New Yorker
Public Option
Thomas de Zengotita: How To Argue For A Public Option On Health Insurance
The Public Option Dead End | Talking Points Memo
Editorial – A Modest Public Plan – NYTimes.com
Op-Ed Contributor – Fighting the Wrong Health Care Battle – NYTimes.com
Media and Health Care
Corporate Media Have Ruined the Health Care Debate | Health and Wellness | AlterNet
The Money Taboo in Health Reform Coverage
Stewart mocks media coverage of health care debate | Media Matters for America
Media Matters: Dragging down the health care debate | Media Matters for America
Anger and Rancor Fuel Cable’s Health Care Coverage | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)
The Media’s Role in the Health Care Debate « One Lonely Loudmouth
Media: Angry right-wingers are important; angry libs are annoying | Media Matters for America
Analysis Of Media Health Care Debate – Media – Portfolio.com
JMC 356 – Media Literacy Internet Project: Group Four Health Care Debate Discussion
Confrontational Health Care Coverage – Pew Research Center
Angela Bonavoglia: Media Blind to GOP Hypocrisy in Health Care Debate
The media's role in healthcare – The Boston Globe
Media Blind to GOP Hypocrisy in Health Care Debate By Angela Bonavoglia
