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How they voted: Healthcare reform bill (www.salon.com) TMC

The 220-215 roll call Saturday by which the House passed a Democratic-written health care bill.

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Weekly Pulse: Joe Lieberman and the Opt-Out Revolution (open.salon.com) TMC

Progressives rejoiced when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced this week that the final Senate health care bill would include a public option. The announcement was a major victory for... More

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Is the tide turning for the public option? (www.salon.com)

Oct. 6, 2009 | WASHINGTON -- None of the various healthcare reform bills kicking around Congress would order doctors to make house calls. But the White House decided that was exactly the treatment the... More

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A healthcare reform foe's alleged history of discrimination (www.salon.com) TMC

Oct. 1, 2009 | This summer, St. Petersburg, Fla., neurosurgeon David McKalip caught heat for sending an e-mail depicting President Obama as a witch doctor with a bone through his nose. McKalip, a... More

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Rick Scott profits off the uninsured (www.salon.com) TMC

Sept. 30, 2009 | For months now multimillionaire healthcare entrepreneur Rick Scott has been at the center of the aggressive campaign to derail healthcare reform in Washington, D.C. Reprising the role... More

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I love my socialist kidney (www.salon.com) TMC

Sept. 28, 2009 | The day after this country elected Barack Obama its 44th president, a doctor told me I'd inherited from my father a rare form of cystic kidney disease and that I was already in renal... More

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The public option holds on for dear life (www.salon.com) TMC

Sept. 28, 2009 | Tomorrow (Tuesday) is a critical day in the saga of the public option. Democrats Charles Schumer (New York) and Jay Rockefeller (West Virginia) are introducing an amendment to include... More

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Deal with it, liberals (www.salon.com) TMC

Sept. 25, 2009 | WASHINGTON -- A few days into the Senate Finance Committee's work on healthcare reform, a process that threatened, over the summer, to go completely berserk has started to seem a... More

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Max Baucus wants to come home (www.salon.com) TMC

There should have been a sense of urgency Tuesday morning as the Senate Finance Committee started work on its version of healthcare reform legislation. "While we're meeting, every six seconds someone... More

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Republicans heart healthcare lobbyists (www.salon.com) TMC

WASHINGTON -- If healthcare reform seems to be bogging down in the Senate Finance Committee, don't worry -- it's by design. Working on reform legislation Wednesday, the panel spent most of the... More

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