Pelosi: Health care 'public option' needs new name

A government-sponsored "public option" for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday.

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Obama: Public option helps health care competition

President Barack Obama says he wants to see a government-run option in the health care overhaul and remains open on "how to set this up."

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Liberals give Obama running room on public plan

In making his appeal for health care overhaul, President Barack Obama was also sending a clear message to his liberal supporters who've been demanding that any overhaul include a new government-run insurance plan.

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McCain: Obama must drop health care public option

Sen. John McCain says President Barack Obama will have to drop proposals for a government-run health insurance option if he hopes to reach congressional agreement on health-care reform.

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President Obama's sweeping vision for a health care system overhaul, which barely gained approval in the House last month, has come to a screeching halt in the Senate, where Democrats remain sharply divided and Republican opposition has hardened.

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The bill, sponsored by two of GOP caucus' more "let-them-eat-cakey" members, Oklahoma's Tom Coburn and Louisiana David Vitter, is rooted in schoolyard strategy and the fantasy that a public option would suck so horribly that no senator or congressman would want to be a part of it.

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"There's no negotiations as far as I'm concerned," insisted Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH). "We've compromised the public option three times, maybe four, depending on how you define it. This bill is not going to continue to become more pro-insurance company."

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans would like to see a "public option" in health insurance reform but doubt anything Congress does will lower costs or improve care in the short term, according to a poll released on Thursday.

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A new measure on the public option will be unveiled next week, which Senate Democratic leaders hope will break the logjam on healthcare reform.

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"Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government." - Milton Friedman

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First there was Medicare for all 300 million of us.

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BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina is being investigated by the state's attorney general for a recent mailer and spate of robo-calls in opposition to the public option, according to a company spokesman.

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In June, Lieberman said, "I don't favor a public option because I think there's plenty of competition in the private insurance market." That didn't make sense, and it was quickly dropped from his talking points.

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Sen. Joseph Lieberman, speaking in that trademark sonorous baritone, utters a simple statement that translates into real trouble for Democratic leaders: "I'm going to be stubborn on this."

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Liar Lieberman slows his roll - Senator Joe Lieberman's ever changing rational for betrayal.

During his Sunday appearance on "Meet the Press" Senator Joe Lieberman(ID? -Pa) spoke again about the "public option". Instead of repeating his earlier threat to join Republicans to filibuster Health Care Reform legislation, Lieberman said he was, "looking at the numbers".

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If TheGrio busted him, you know it's bad!

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Chances of business supporting the Obama administration's health overhaul are fading fast, after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's bill took a liberal turn.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry M.

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Three-quarters of American voters – 74 percent – like President Barack Obama as a person, but only 47 percent like most of his policies, and voters disapprove 51 – 35 percent of the health care overhaul passed by the House of Representatives which he has endorsed, according …

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Sen. Joe Lieberman's threat to filibuster any health care bill with a public option could kill health reform this year — and embolden Democratic challengers who'd like to send him packing in 2012. But Lieberman doesn't seem worried.

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Senate Democrats moved one step closer Wednesday night to comprehensive health care reform as Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) unveiled a health care reform package that is a product of a merger of twin plans that passed the health and finance committees.

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Six in 10 Americans favor a ban on the use of federal funds for abortion, according to a new poll which also indicates that the public may also favor legislation that would prevent many women from getting their health insurance plan to cover the cost of an abortion, even if no fe …

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As healthcare reform legislation advances in Congress, more state lawmakers are looking for ways to limit its effects on their constituents.

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A clutch of Senate liberals pressed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to stand firm behind a public insurance option Monday afternoon in the face of filibuster threats from Republicans and Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.).

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When I was a little girl we would often purchase Bazooka® bubblegum. The gum wrapper consisted of a small comic strip (featuring a character called Bazooka Joe) and a fortune.

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Once the bill is enacted, all health insurance plans would be required to spend at least 85 cents of every dollar paid in premiums each year to providing actual health care.

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Ben Nelson and Joe Lieberman are running around saying that they'll kill any bill that has a public option. Quite predictably. And everyone in the media (and on the Hill) are kowtowing to them, saying that this means that it will have to go.

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Last night on Fox News, host Bill O'Reilly and analyst Brit Hume discussed the prospects for the Senate passing a health care reform bill.

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With the issue he has positioned to be his crowning achievement as president at a crossroads, Barack Obama once again called on his former rival to help him follow through.

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