Summary: Health Care Reform: Week of March 7
6 New Items including:
- Durenberger takes aim at health reform fearmongering
- Obama backs plan to give health overhaul fast track in Congress
David Culver, ed., Evergreene Digest
Nick Anderson
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- Health Care for America Now (HCAN) is a national grassroots campaign of more than 1,000 organizations in 46 states representing 30 million people dedicated to winning quality, affordable health care we all can count on in 2010.
- Health care reform will pass this year. The question is, will reform work for you, or the healthcare industry?
Obama backs plan to give health overhaul fast track in Congress, Margaret Talev and David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers
- Obama urges Dems to use reconciliation to pass health care
- Reid Ready to Support Passing a Public Option for Health Insurance Through Reconciliation
- Good Policy not Bipartisan Junk
Durenberger takes aim at health reform fearmongering, Jill Burcum, Star Tribune | MN
- On the eve of President Obama's health care summit, Durenberger told Kaiser Health News that the plan bears a strong resemblance to the reforms pitched by him and other Republicans in 1993. At the time, Durenberger's proposal was the GOP alternative to Clintoncare.
- Asked why the GOP embraced his ideas in 1993 but shoot them down now, Durenberger told the national online health news service: "The main thing that's changed is the definition of a Republican."
Maddow Slams Orrin Hatch For Lying, Washington Post For Printing It, Huffington Post
[Hatch's op-ed] has so many blantant, out-right falsehoods in it that it made me wonder if maybe there's a deal or something. Where if maybe you're a United States Senator who's been in office for 33 years like Orrin Hatch has, you just don't get fact-checked anymore in the Washington Post.
Thank Sen. Klobuchar for fighting for the public option, Matt Lockshin, CREDO Action
- When senators take a stand like this, it's important that they know their constituents support them.
- Voters continue to strongly favor a public option
Keith Olbermann: 'Last Night My Father Asked Me to Kill Him' Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, in Democratic Underground
- What Is This Country For If Not to Take Care of It's People?
- There's something deep in the psyche of Americans that drives them to defend to the death their right to deny health care to millions of their fellow citizens.
- Why So Scared of a Public Plan?
