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• What Ted Kennedy Would Say

  Created: Wednesday, 30 December 2009 23:48 Author: John Hartwell

  By Victoria Reggie Kennedy Sunday, December 20, 2009; Washington Post My late husband, Ted Kennedy, was passionate about health-care reform. It was the cause of his life. He believed that health care for all our citizens was a fundamental right, not a p...

• Howard Dean on Meet the Press

  Created: Wednesday, 30 December 2009 23:29 Author: John Hartwell

  MR. GREGORY:  Now we are joined by a Democrat who has been openly critical of the Senate healthcare bill, Dr. Howard Dean. Governor Dean, welcome to the program from Vermont.  You heard David Axelrod here, that this is significant reform but so...

• The Cadillac Myth

  Created: Wednesday, 30 December 2009 23:10 Author: John Hartwell

  Why the House-Senate conference should unload the tax on high-value health insurance. By Timothy Noah, Slate.com Updated Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009, at 9:42 AM ET   It's widely agreed that health reform's best remaining hope for "bending the cost curve"...

• Health-care bill wouldn't bring real reform

  Created: Wednesday, 30 December 2009 19:15 Author: John Hartwell

  By Howard Dean Washington Post Thursday, December 17, 2009; A33 If I were a senator, I would not vote for the current health-care bill. Any measure that expands private insurers' monopoly over health care and transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to pr...

• Top 10 Reasons to Kill the Senate Health Care Bill

  Created: Tuesday, 29 December 2009 20:42 Author: John Hartwell

  At Firedoglake.com we've been covering the health care debate extensively for months now and have put together an incredibly knowledgeable team. So I asked our expert-in-residence Jon Walker, our health care reporter Dave Dayen, analyst Marcy Wheeler and ...

• Krugman -- "Pass the Bill"

  Created: Monday, 28 December 2009 21:53 Author: John Hartwell

  from the New York Times December 18, 2009 OP-ED COLUMNIST Pass the Bill By PAUL KRUGMAN A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy. Declare that you’re disappointed in and/or disgusted with President Obama. Demand...

• The Next Step on Health Reform

  Created: Monday, 28 December 2009 01:09 Author: John Hartwell

  (NYTimes Dec 26) The Next Step on Health Reform The Senate’s passage of a heath care reform bill over lockstep Republican opposition required every single member of the Democratic caucus to vote to override Republican filibusters. It will take equal p...

• What's in Health Care Bills -- and What Isn't

  Created: Monday, 28 December 2009 00:57 Author: John Hartwell

  The health care debate has so many moving parts that it's hard for anybody to keep them straight. So we decided to put together an overview of where we're at—both good and bad—and what we're all going to need to keep fighting for. Neither of these bi...

• Senate Healthcare Bill -- Up or Down?

  Created: Sunday, 27 December 2009 23:48 Author: John Hartwell

  On Christmas Eve the Senate passed its version of health care reform, or more accurately, health insurance reform.  How do you feel about it?  Do you agree with Howard Dean that they should scrap the current bill and start over, or do you side w...