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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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Mon Sep 14, 2009 at 08:00:00 AM PDT
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Last week I joined about twenty five other physicians and healthcare advocates at New Mexico State Senator Dede Feldman's house to watch President Obama's address on healthcare reform to the joint sessions of Congress.
A television station crew was present at Senator Feldman's house, to capture our thoughts after the speech. There was a resounding sense of support for Obama's speech and for his healthcare proposals (including unanimous support for the public option piece).
Now, the speech was nothing less than historic on several levels...
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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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Sun Apr 12, 2009 at 15:28:54 PM PDT
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Sunday video interlude time! Quite a compelling reason for more public transportation, and more Sound of Music in our lives:
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Thu Jul 31, 2008 at 21:21:11 PM PDT
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Hungry? Presenting...Western Spaghetti! I can't even imagine how much work went into this project:
More short films by these innovators at eatPES or their YouTube channel.
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Fri Aug 10, 2007 at 19:02:30 PM PDT
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You're going to be moved by this one.
At the AFL-CIO democratic presidential candidate debate this past week, retired union member Steve Skvara asked a simple health care question of the candidates. In response, he received a STANDING OVATION from thousands of audience members in the stadium. This is phenomenal, it is amazing how front-and-center health care is in the peoples' minds, during this election. Check out the video:
And Mitt Romney was challeneged on health care while giving a stump speech in a restaurant, where he mentioned his desire to export "healthcare diplomacy" to other nations, and a waitress really prodded him on the american health care system. Video below:
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