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Healthcare leaders to bridge gaps in preparation for Obama’s reform (chemtracker.net)

A recent poll shows more than 96% of Healthcare professionals are following Obama’s Reform debate closely. The President’s new ideals for healthcare are clearly a major issue for the industry and... More

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Progressives and the Fight for Healthcare (www.thenation.com) TMC

Marci Wheeler, a blogger and investigative journalist who writes for FireDogLake, talks to The Nation about the progressive's fight for real healthcare reform. Wheeler talks strategy, saying that... 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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Are Insurers Exploiting Health Care Debate To Mislead Seniors And Drum Up Business? (tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

A mailer being sent by health insurers to seniors, and obtained by TPMmuckraker, seeks to exploit fears about Congressional changes to the health care system to sell supplemental insurance. And it... More

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Baucus & Co. Shoot Down Public Option Amendment (www.truthdig.com) TMC

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and his merry band of legislators on Tuesday nixed an amendment proposing that a government-backed “public option” be included in Baucus’ contested... More

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A Brave New Baucus Bill Primer (www.truthdig.com) TMC

As this commentary from the vigilant videographers over at Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films outfit points out, Sen. Max Baucus’ health care reform bill definitely would serve the interests of at... More

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The $380 Million Gorilla (www.truthdig.com) TMC

With six lobbyists for every congressperson and $380 million spent on lobbying in recent months, the health care industry has pulled out all the stops in battling against any reform to the nation’s... More

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The Public Option Only Looks Dead (www.truthdig.com) TMC

The strangest aspect of the debate over a public option for health coverage is that the centrists who oppose it should actually love it.

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Sen. Kyl on Health Care (www.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

With Sen. Kyl pointing out that men have no interest in having insurance cover child birth, no doubt women will note that they have little interest in covering prostate and testicular cancer. And... More

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