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• Video | Keith Olbermann "Ruined Health Care Bill"

  —Out of the Mountains

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  Keith Olbermann held no punches tonight in describing what has happened to the great dream of National "Health Care" once it reached the Senate's Republicans and corporate Democrats, with the distant blessing of the Obama White House:
  
  

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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 9:42pm EST
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• Dr. Howard Dean "Kill The Senate Health Care Bill"

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  Former Governor and chairman of the Democratic National Committee Doctor Howard Dean says the Senate version of the health care bill isn't worth supporting and has urged liberals to kill it.

  In an interview with Vermont Public Radio Dean lamented that the bill does not go far enough to warrant [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 8:27am EST
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• Dean Agrees With Dean | Kill the Insurance Company's National Health Care Bill

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  I agree with the Doctor:
  
  Howard Dean: ‘Best Thing to Do Is Kill the Senate Bill’
  
  And wait for corporate Joe Lieberman to die. Apparently that's the only way to get him to stop doing Rahm Emmanuel dirty work.
  
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  Posted: December 15, 2009, 10:19pm EST
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• Joe Lieberman = Hypocritical, Sanctimonious Dick of the Year?

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  The most accurate description of the Health Care Bill, or the watered down gift to the insurance industry coming nearly comatose out of the senate is from Firedoglake:
  
  This Isn’t Health Reform; It’s Extortion for a Protection Racket
  
  I saw Ron Wyden on the Rachel Maddow [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 11:32am EST
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• Liberals apoplectic, Lieberman forces public option out of health care bill

  —Conservative Edge

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  Liberals across the spectrum are furious at Joe Lieberman for his refusal to agree to a health care bill that contained any semblance of a public option.  Politico described the anger as "white hot".  [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 4:53pm EST
  

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• Jack Conway Lauds Useless "Message" Amendment

  —Elephants in the Blue Grass

  Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Jack Conway issued a press release to demonstrate his heart-felt support for an amendment to the the health care bill. (H/t: Page One.) The amendment was pushed by Colorado Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet, who was appointed to his seat and faces a tough [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 11:22am EST
  

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• Stupak Lives! Help Us Kill It Dead

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  Remember how Congressional Democrats assured us that the horrific Stupak amendment would not survive in the final health care reform bill?
  
  Eh, not so much. But Firedoglake is on it, and already has a plan of action:
  
  Ever since Stupak hijacked the health care bill, [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 10:00am EST
  

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• Washington Post paints unflattering financial portrait of health care reform- majority of Americans oppose by wide margin

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  The Washington Post has an article on the expected financial impact of the senate health care bill that paints an unflattering portrait of the legislation.  According to experts, the bill will not reduce the projected national deficits and burgeoning debt to any significant degree.  In essence, it will not [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:04pm EST
  

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• Washington Post paints unflattering financial portrait of health care reform- majority of Americans oppose by wide margin

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  The Washington Post has an article on the expected financial impact of the senate health care bill that paints an unflattering portrait of the legislation.  According to experts, the bill will not reduce the projected national deficits and burgeoning debt to any significant degree.  In essence, it will not [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 6:04pm EST
  

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• McConnell/Chandler/Grayson vs. the CBO

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  The Congressional Budget Office report is out showing that the Senate health care bill will NOT lead to an increase in private premiums, but will lower them. Eleventy billion years from now when it goes into effect, sadly and pathetically. But those are the facts.
  
  Which pretty much [...]

  Posted: December 01, 2009, 5:17pm EST
  

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• Is Health Care Bill Anti-Gun?

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  This from the Washington Examiner:

  The Senate's 2,074-page health care bill doesn't mention guns, but some gun owners are worried certain provisions could eventually be used to discourage or even restrict gun ownership as part of a government effort to influence behavior as it broadens its control over the health care system.

  The day before [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 6:54am EST
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• A cornucopia of health care gigolos to hold in utter, abject contempt and scorn

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  Last week, when the "Fox All-Stars" discussed Senator Mary Landieu's $100 million dollar bribe (Now $300 million according to Landireu's own braggadocio) to vote for the health care bill, Mara Liason, the Washington correspondent for NPR said it was no big deal because it was business as usual in D.C.  [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 3:46pm EST
  

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• Support For Health Care Bill Plunges

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  A new Rasmusson poll shows that support for the Democrats' health care plan has reached an all-time low: 38 percent support it, the lowest number since the tracking polls began in June.
  In contrast, 56 percent of Americans said in the telephone poll that they oppose President Obama and' [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:28pm EST
  

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• The Congressional Research Services' Summary of S.1796, The America's Healthy Future Act of 2009(The proposed Senate health care bill)

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  S.1796
  Title: An original bill to provide affordable, quality health care for all Americans and reduce the growth in health care spending, and for other purposes.
  Sponsor: Sen Baucus, Max [MT] (introduced 10/19/2009)  Cosponsors (None)
  Related Bills: H.R.3200
  Latest Major Action: 10/19/2009 Placed on [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:08pm EST
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• Anti-Abortion Funding Language Absent From Harry Reid Version Of Health Care Bill

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  This from Life News:

  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has released the text of his new government-run health care bill to members of the Democratic Party. The new measure reportedly does not contain the Stupak amendment found in the House version that bans virtually all [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:34am EST
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• Here it is, The Energizer Bunny Health Care Bill Just Keeps Growing and Growing and Growing

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  Its like the Energizer Bunny - when will they stop adding pages?  My head hurts. 
  
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  Read the now 2074 page Reid Health Care Bill Here. [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:34pm EST
  

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• NY 23 Hoffman/Owens Race Not Over Yet

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  Democrat Bill Owens was sworn in by Nancy Pelosi and helped her pass the health care bill with his vote, but the votes that really count, haven't all been counted.

  Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman conceded the election after being told that he had lost by a narrow margin and Owens [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:13am EST
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• NY 23 Hoffman/Owens Race Not Over Yet

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  Democrat Bill Owens was sworn in by Nancy Pelosi and helped her pass the health care bill with his vote, but the votes that really count, haven't all been counted.

  Conservative party candidate Doug Hoffman conceded the election after being told that he had lost by a narrow margin and Owens [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:13am EST
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