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Source: Seattle Times
Seattle : WA : USA | about 1 month ago  
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Paving the way for a critical vote in the next two weeks, House Democratic leaders today plan to unveil a health-care bill that would create a new government insurance plan in all 50 states but step back from the most robust version of the public option.
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  • News Source: Politico | about 1 month ago
    Speaker Nancy Pelosi will unveil a bill Thursday that falls short of the liberal vision of a public option — and the liberals, so far and somewhat surprisingly, are going along with that. After months of public hand-wringing and strident...
  • News Source: Seattle Times | about 1 month ago
    Paving the way for a critical vote in the next two weeks, House Democratic leaders today plan to unveil a health-care bill that would create a new government insurance plan in all 50 states but step back from the most robust version of the public...
  • News Source: The Examiner | about 1 month ago
    After months of contentious negotiating, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepared to unveil a retooled health care overhaul plan intended to bridge differences among Democrats and open a history-making floor debate on extending health insurance to nearly...
  • News Source: Arizona Daily star | about 1 month ago
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's gambit to include a government-run insurance option in health-care legislation may lack the 60 votes it needs to begin Senate debate, but it has given a fresh tailwind to the idea. Yet, lost amid the intense...
  • News Source: Alternet | about 1 month ago
    But, in the reform legislation that will be debuted Thursday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi , the compromise will be even more compromised. According to The New York Times:   Under pressure from moderate-to-conservative members of the House...
  • News Source: The New York Times | about 1 month ago
    Pelosi said the public plan, which she prefers to call a “consumer option,” would compete with private insurers. But the speaker was apparently unable to muster the votes needed for the “robust” liberal version of a public plan, which she has...
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  • Blog Source: www.openleft.com
    House Democratic leaders are preparing to unveil a health care overhaul including a version of the public insurance option favored by moderates that would allow the federal government to negotiate rates with doctors and hospitals, ...
  • Blog Source: the44diaries.wordpress.com
    Pelosi, D- Calif. , is expected to support a public option with no such escape hatch. The revised measure she'll unveil merges terms from three separate but similar bills that three committees in the House of Representatives passed ...
  • Blog Source: themoderatevoice.com
    Speaker Nancy Pelosi counted votes Thursday night and determined she could not pass a “robust public option” — the most aggressive of the three forms of a public option House Democrats have been considering as part of a national ...
  • Blog Source: www.digitaljournal.com
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi believe that they will have a public option in the emerging health care reform legislation. The only problem is many of their Democratic colleagues in both chambers do not ...
  • Blog Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
    The Congressional Progressive Caucus has been furiously rounding up support for a "robust" public insurance option to be included in the health care bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif. ... But such confusion misreads the Blue Dog Coalition,
  • Blog Source: trueslant.com
    The public option proposed by House conservative Democrats – and agreed to in the compromise bill presented by the Energy & Commerce Committee – requires the administrators of a government health insurer to negotiate rates individually ...
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