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The Polis public-option letter and its supporters � Colorado Independent (coloradoindependent.com) TMC

Colorado U.S. Rep. Jared Polis drafted a letter with fellow Democratic freshman Chellie Pingree, urging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to revisit the Senate version of the legislation in order to... More

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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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Health Security for Tennesseans Must be a Top Priority (amforum.blogspot.com) TMC

We are facing tough times. We’ve faced them before and pulled our neighbors and ourselves through by making people a priority. This is what the state needs to do now.

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Weekly Pulse: Dodd and Dorgan to Retire (www.themediaconsortium.org) TMC

Two Democratic senators unexpectedly announced their retirements on Tuesday, Sens. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Chris Dodd (D-CT). Hopefully, health care reform will already have passed by then, but the... More

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Weekly Pulse: No Public Option: Worse Than Nothing? (open.salon.com)

In search of the elusive, filibuster-proof 60th vote, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid eviscerated the Senate’s health care reform bill on Tuesday. Potential GOP swing voter Sen. Olympia Snowe... More

Tags: public option,prescription drugs,olympia snowe,medicare,health care reform,health care,harry reid,big pharma

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Weekly Pulse: Profits, Premiums and Potassium (open.salon.com) TMC

Ashley Ellis weighed just 87 pounds when she reported to the Northwest State Correctional Facility in Vermont to serve a 30-day sentence for “careless and negligent operation of a motor vehicle.”... More

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Weekly Pulse: Bachmann Fan Threatens to Shoot Up Newspaper (open.salon.com) TMC

A Michigan woman threatened a Minnesota newspaper with mass murder for criticizing Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN)’s anti-health reform rally, reports Paul Schmelzer in the Minnesota Independent.

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Organ Donors Shouldn’t Be Penalized (amforumbacklog.blogspot.com)

It can be challenging to find an organ donor for someone who needs a transplant. But when a donor and desperately sick person are matched up, living donors should not be “punished” for their... More

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Will the Stupak Amendment Force Women Who've Miscarried to Lose Insurance Coverage? I Think So (www.rhrealitycheck.org) TMC

This weekend, a group of male pro-life Democrats gambled with women's health, and women lost. By broadly writing in that insurers can chose whether or not to cover "abortion services," pro-life... More

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Why The Stupak Amendment Is A Monumental Setback (www.rhrealitycheck.org) TMC

If you thought that just because abortion is a constitutional right and part of basic reproductive health care it would be available in the reformed health insurance market known as the Exchange,... More

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