washingtonmonthly.com - 6/21/2009
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IT'S NOT JUST THE PUBLIC OPTION.... The latest NYT poll on health care shows 72% support for a public option, which, under the circumstances, is a statistic with considerable political salience. But looking through the poll, there was one other...
cbsnews.com - 6/21/2009
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Play CBS Video Video Poll: Americans On Healthcare
Only On The Web: CBSNews.com editor-in-chief Dan Farber speaks
with Sarah Dutton, director of surveys for CBS News, about a new CBS/New York Times poll regarding Americans and their perceptions of ...
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Poll: Most Back Public Health Care Option
fivethirtyeight.com - 6/21/2009
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fivethirtyeight.com —
A major, though by no means the only,
substantive point of debate regarding health care reform is
whether the plan considered by Congress will include a "public option" -- a government-run insurance program that would compete with private plans. ...
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Public Support for the Public Option
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 6/21/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
New NYT poll confirms earlier polling that indicated
overwhelming public support for a government-run insurance option: Happily
for politicians contemplating the inclusion of such a plan, a robust public option is also the best way available to ...
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Public Opinion Strongly Favors Public Plan
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This piece by Steve Benen reveals an important subtext to recent health care polling: The latest NYT poll on health care shows 72% support for a public option, which, under the circumstances, is a statistic with considerable political salience. But looking through the poll, there was one other relevant detail to keep in mind. Respondents were asked: "Regardless of you personally vote, do you think the Republican Party or the Democratic Party is more likely to improve the health care system?" A ...
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Open Left
openleft.com 6/12/2009 — To read a post about how to give Dems a little fear o' God, and then read posts about how we need "a public option."
"Public option" is the gateway drug to a weasel deal. The answer is called "single payer," and there's a house resolution (HR 676) ...
The Need for a Public Option
anonymousliberal.com 5/12/2009 — Opponents of health care reform have begun to focus their efforts on building opposition to a "public option." For those of you unfamiliar with health care policy debates, the phrase "public option" refers to a government health care plan that people ...
More on the public option
balloon-juice.com 8/17/2009 — I recommend Nate Silver’s post about the possible death of the public option.
A couple key points:
?Why doesn’t the public option have the votes for passage? You’d think that a provision that is both fairly popular and ...
Katrina and the public option
washingtonmonthly.com 5/20/2009 — KATRINA AND THE PUBLIC OPTION.... Congressional Republicans went after the public option in the Democratic health care plan with some of the rhetoric we heard during the presidential campaign: "The federal government would run a health care system -- ...
Obama wants a public option
washingtonmonthly.com 6/10/2009 — OBAMA WANTS A PUBLIC OPTION.... The White House, following up on yesterday's discussions with lawmakers on health care reform, sent a letter today to Sens. Edward Kennedy (chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee) and Max ...
Who Needs a Public Option?
thedailybeast.com 8/17/2009 — BS Top - Yglesias Public Option Even without it, health care would be the greatest piece of liberal legislation in years. The progressive political world was sent into a tizzy over the weekend as Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ...
The Public and the Public Option
motherjones.com 9/14/2009 — Here's today's healthcare reform question: How do Americans feel about the public option? Do they (a) support it, (b) oppose it, or (c) not care all that much? I think you can guess the answer. Here are two questions from the latest Washington ...
Public Health Care Option
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 6/8/2009 — This is the objection the health insurance industry is putting forward in opposition to Obama's plan to include a public plan option in the health care reform bill.
But critics argue that with low administrative costs and no need to produce ...
The "Public Option" (8/11)
healthcarepolls.blogspot.com 8/27/2009 — Perhaps the most contentious issue among congressional negotiators and interest groups in Washington, DC (and elsewhere) is the so-called public option . The idea is that the government would create a new health-insurance program (modeled to one ...
Health Care -- Beyond The Public Option
pr.thinkprogress.org 6/29/2009 — HEALTH CARE Beyond The Public Option Tonight, ABC News will host " Prescription for America ," a discussion with President Obama about his plans to reform the health care system. Critics have charged that Obama's proposal to enact a new public health ...
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First Read 6/22/2009
May reports were due in Saturday. On the Senate side, the NRSC outraised Democrats in May slightly (but got a $1 million transfer from the RNC), Roll Call reports. The NRSC raised about $4.5 million, $3.7 million on hand and no debt; the DSCC took in ...
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