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Rep. Grayson: Obama Needs to Push Health Care In Earnest -- With a Public Option | News & Politics | AlterNet (www.alternet.org) TMC

Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., has a message for Senate Democrats: Pass health care with a public option -- and pass it quickly. On Wednesday, Grayson joined Adam Green of the Progressive Change Campaign... More

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Survey: Passing health reform improves Dems’ electoral chances (minnesotaindependent.com) TMC

“If my vote sends me back to Mankato West to teach geography, so be it,” said Rep. Tim Walz Saturday of the House health care reform bill. “Not getting health care care reform passed is what... More

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Weekly Pulse: The Stupak Setback (open.salon.com) TMC

A clique of anti-choice Democrats in Congress joined forces with Republicans to write abortion access out of the House’s health care reform bill last Saturday. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) wants to force... More

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Republican Attacks the Proposed Repeal of CHIP (washingtonindependent.com) TMC

By calling for the end of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program, House Democratic leaders have put themselves in the uncomfortable position of claiming that the program they fought so hard... More

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Weekly Pulse: Finance Committee Passes Health Bill (open.salon.com) TMC

Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee finally passed its health care bill. Here is an overview of people's opinions about the bill, the insurance industry's push for an all-private insurance... More

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Weekly Pulse: Oh, That Filibuster-Proof Majority (www.themediaconsortium.org) TMC

Health care reform is the Democrats’ biggest political battle in two generations and the crown jewel of the president’s domestic agenda. It’s hardly unreasonable to demand that Senate Democrats... More

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Democrats Don't Deliver Healthcare Reform... Again (www.thenation.com) TMC

For weeks now it's seemed more and more evident that instead of significant, meaningful healthcare reform, we are--if we're lucky--going to wind up with something akin to health insurance reform.... More

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Can the Public Option Be Saved? (www.thenation.com) TMC

Outside Washington, there is still a sense that a serious debate about healthcare reform is going on.

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Congressman: Republicans Are ‘Knuckle-Dragging Neanderthals’ (www.truthdig.com) TMC

Rep. Alan Grayson, the congressman who said the Republican health care plan is for Americans to die quicker, tells Wolf Blitzer and friends what’s up: “Democrats have to have guts. And now we have... More

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