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We Want Health Care Choice! (video)
youtube.com - 3/20/2009
We Want Health Care Choice! (video)
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Private insurance is what's getting between you and your doctor. Call your Member of Congress and tell them you want a choice of a public or private health i...
Dems Make Choice: Health Care Over Carbon Caps
blogs.abcnews.com - 3/20/2009
Dems Make Choice: Health Care Over Carbon Caps
— blogs.abcnews.com — When the White House released its budget, I said the president's effort to reform health care and... cap carbon emissions were "scorpions in a bottle" -- only one could make it through Congress this year. This week, the White House... (more) Dems Make Choice: Health Care Over Carbon Caps

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Massachusetts's Health-Care Program Offers a Preview of Barack Obama's Universal Health-Care Plan
online.wsj.com - 3/27/2009
Massachusetts's Health-Care Program Offers a Preview of Barack Obama's Universal ...
— online.wsj.com — Praise Mitt Romney. Three years ago, the former Massachusetts Governor had the inadvertent good sense to create... the "universal" health-care program that the White House and Congress now want to inflict on the entire country. It is proving to be ... (more) Massachusetts's Health-Care Program Offers a Preview ...

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Competitive Health Care: A Public Health Insurance Plan that Delivers Market Discipline
americanprogressaction.org - 3/25/2009
Competitive Health Care: A Public Health Insurance Plan that Delivers Market Discipline
— americanprogressaction.org — Increasing meaningful choice. In the face of tremendous consolidation in the health insurance market, employers and individuals... have a shrinking set of health insurance options. Private insurers have used this market power to boost their profits. By ... (more) Competitive Health Care: A Public Health Insurance Plan ...

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Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  Health Care Group Targets Sen. Grassley In New Ad

Ben Smith's Blog:  The public option

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Health Care Group Targets Sen. Grassley In New Ad
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — The health care ad wars reignited on Friday with the release of a new spot urging Sen. Chuck Grassley to drop his opposition to a public plan for health insurance. The group Health Care for America Now, which has been pushing for a reform effort to be completed within the next year, put out the spot in anticipation of Monday's White House Regional Health Care Forum in Des Moines, Iowa. Titled "Iowa Health Care Choice," the ad doesn't mention the Iowa Republican by name. But the narrator of the spot, a registered Iowan nurse by the name of Teresa Cooley, does make the case that opposition to a public health insurance plan (which the ...

The public option
Ben Smith's Blog — A sign that all sides view some form of sweeping health care change as likely this year: The labor-backed coalition Health Care for America Now is already battling on the details, with an Iowa spot aimed at a key Senate Republican, Charles Grassley, and urging the inclusion of a public alternative to private health care insurance in the plan. That's  one of the key structural choices Obama and Senate leaders will have to make. ALSO: Jacki Schechner of Health Care for America Now notes that Grassley has begun fighting the public option. "The public health insurance plan is a very big detail – it’s not ...

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