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Politics on HuffingtonPost.com: Jeffrey Feldman: The Health Care Ghetto
Las Vegas Gleaner: Oh, and who did CBS's writers think they were kidding when they named the town "Hooterville," anyway?
Firedoglake: Lieberman Adopts AHIP’s Claim: Insurers are Helpless Against Provider Market Power
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Jeffrey Feldman: The Health Care Ghetto
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
Even worse than Joe Lieberman's threat to veto the health care bill, the Connecticut senator's ego may well have distracted Americans from the real issue in the debate over the public option: Will Americans actually be able to choose it or will it just be a health care ghetto for those of us who have been tossed out like unprofitable trash by the insurance industry?
Speaking on The Rachel Maddow Show less than twenty-four hours before Lieberman announced that he would join a Republican filibuster against a public option, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) said the following about Harry Reid's proposal ...
Oh, and who did CBS's writers think they were kidding when they named the town "Hooterville," anyway?
Las Vegas Gleaner —
Are you a liberal? Then you'll be pleased to know that when Harry Reid decided to put a public option in the Senate health care bill, he was pandering to you!
For Reid, it was an admission of the formidable power of liberal
interest groups. He had been the target of a petition drive and other
forms of ...
Lieberman Adopts AHIP’s Claim: Insurers are Helpless Against Provider Market Power
Firedoglake —
Josh at TPM notes that Joe Lieberman has shifted his argument for opposing a public option.
Yesterday, he claimed the public option was a health entitlement that would add to the deficit, just like Medicare. Various people promptly shot that down.
Today Joe changed his tune to match the ...
