Krugman: Why the public option matters

Most arguments against the public option are based either on deliberate misrepresentation of what that option would mean, or on remarkably thorough misunderstanding of the concept, which persists to a frustrating degree: I was really surprised to see Joe Klein worrying about the creation of a system in which doctors work directly for the government, [...]

New Poll: 77 Percent Support “Choice” Of Public Option

More than three out of every four Americans feel it is important to have a “choice” between a government-run health care insurance option and private coverage, according to a public opinion poll released on Thursday.
A new study by SurveyUSA puts support for a public option at a robust 77 percent, one percentage [...]

Insurance companies “glory days” are about to end!

Attorney Wants Criminal Charges Against Insurer

Geragos Calls Cigna Official Who Denied Teen’s Transplant ‘Garbage’
The lawyer for California teen Nataline Sarkisyan charged today that the only reason Cigna Health Care officials changed their minds and approved a liver transplant for the desperate girl was they knew it was too late and they wouldn’t have to pay for it.
Sarkisyan, 17, died Thursday [...]

Rudy Giuliani Misrepresents Important Health Care Facts

ABC News’ Rick Klein Reports: To hear Rudy Giuliani describe it in his new radio ad, the British medical system is a scary place. “My chance of surviving prostate cancer — and thank God I was cured of it — in the United States: 82 percent,” Giuliani says in a new radio spot airing in [...]

House Defies Bush and Passes Insurance Bill

Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the vote “a step forward” even though it fell short of the majority needed to override a veto.
Once again defying a veto threat from President Bush, the House on Thursday passed a bill to provide health insurance for 10 million children. But supporters did not have enough votes to override the [...]

The Swift-Boating of Graeme Frost

If you listen closely to the two-minute radio address that 12-year-old Graeme Frost delivered last week for the Democrats, you can hear the lingering effects of the 2004 car crash that put him into a coma for a week and left one of his vocal cords paralyzed. “Most kids my age probably haven’t heard of [...]

Massachusetts Repeals Romney-Era Rules Limiting Stem-Cell Research

A public-health panel in Massachusetts voted unanimously on Wednesday to overturn controversial restrictions on embryonic-stem-cell research that were imposed during the administration of former Gov. Mitt Romney.
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