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Wed Oct 28, 2009 at 08:00:00 AM PDT
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This week, the public option in healthcare reform is back on the table, and suddenly senator (with a small s) joe lieberman, in the dem caucus, decides he's going to filibuster any bill (block it from going to a vote) that has a public option in it. The health insurance company stocks shooting up after this announcement, and Rachel Maddow digs in about this with Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake.
As always, a pleasure to see both of these brilliant women talk this out. And yes...
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 10:00:00 AM PDT
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Brilliant. Robert Reich explains the public option, in just over a minute (the rest of the video is important, but his explanation really just took over a minute).
Share this with friends and family, if folks still have questions about the public option.
Two weeks ago we posted a piece here at Cure This -- How to Explain the Public Option for Healthcare reform. Really -- featuring Chris Hayes, DC editor at The Nation magazine, discussing the public option. That post was the top search result on Google for "public option explanation" for quite a few days. Clearly, Americans are looking for ways to better comprehend the proposed public option and other pieces of the larger healthcare reform discussion. The number of hits on that search declined in the two to three days after President Obama's speech on healthcare reform last week. Perhaps his description of the public option, among other pieces of his proposal, answered many Americans' questions.
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Fri Sep 04, 2009 at 10:18:21 AM PDT
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I've heard it over and over. We want Medicare for all!
I'm sure the insurance companies are tickled pink to hear that. That means that if you still want complete coverage you still need insurance!
Now don't get me wrong, I am for a Public Option! and I'm More For Single-Payer. But I'll take what I can get this round. I can't be choosy. But using the slogan Medicare for all is a real misleading statement.
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Thu Aug 27, 2009 at 19:50:32 PM PDT
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This week's Slowpoke cartoon (by Jen Sorenson) is titled "Name that Plan!" and features a few new names for the public plan. The "young, hip, citizen owned alternative" name caught my eye. Nice framing. And it's true. The public option WOULD be a citizen owned option. Why aren't we talking about it that way?
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Sat Aug 22, 2009 at 20:36:10 PM PDT
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There's a lot we can learn from Jane Hamsher's media presence this past week (in addition to her blog FireDogLake's concerted efforts along with local bloggers to support Democrats who are wholly behind a public option).
But check out this that Andrea Mitchell conducted with her. There are numerous lessons for us to learn from how Hamsher framed the debate, how she was gently on the offensive during the whole interview, and how she would NOT let Mitchell's presentation of what had been told to the media be the END all for the discussion (see her "why not?" about Evan Bayh). Too often, the media tells people its interviewing that so and so said this and the "this" goes unchallenged. I applaud jane hamsher for her work in this interview.
Here's the video, and I transcribed some of the interview below it. (click on "thre's more" for the transcript).
what are your thoughts?
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Fri Aug 21, 2009 at 09:00:00 AM PDT
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Really. President Obama's healthcare reform proposal ranks highly among least understood policy proposals in current politics. What follows is a concise and easy to understand explanation of the popular but often muddled "public option" that is contained in national legislation and that forms the centerpiece of President Obama's proposal. This one is great for cocktail parties and loud bars, because it's so easy to explain.
The speaker is Chris Hayes, DC editor of The Nation magazine, and the setting is the Netroots Nation blogger/media conference in Pittsburgh, August 2009.
After the conference, a blogger named Nicholas Beaudrot transformed Hayes' flowchart-gesturing and converted it into an easy to read and share flowchart about the public option. Click on the image to enlarge it.
FINALLY, easy to understand, right? Precisely why you should share it with your colleagues, friends, and foes alike.
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Thu May 21, 2009 at 21:29:31 PM PDT
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Senator Ted Kennedy has affirmed his support for the public option in health care reform in signing the resolution, which was just introduced onto the Senate floor that health care reform MUST include a public option. Now what kind of a public option it'll be is the question we'll be fighting to answer, and to our satisfaction as well.
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