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If there ever was a time to speak up on health care reform, it is now.

Senate and White House negotiators are working to combine the Kennedy-Dodd health committee bill (with a strong public health insurance option) with the Baucus Finance committee bill (with no public option).

Meanwhile, the insurance industry has just released a report making clear how they will respond to a bill without a public option: double our insurance premiums to over $25,000 a year.

With decisions expected within days about whether to include a public option, leaders in Washington need to hear from us, not from the insurance lobby.

Sign the petition: Tell Washington to pass real health care reform for the people, not insurance company executives. more »

Recently, Fox News' Glenn Beck interviewed one of his favorite right-wing pundits, David Horowitz, who revealed the "horror" that Campaign for America's Future (CAF) worked with Van Jones to bring together businesses and unions to create clean, green American jobs.

Well, here's the truth. CAF was the co-founder of the Apollo Alliance, and we are proud of it. And this is what makes Glenn Beck so mad. more »

This widget from FireDogLake is a crowd-sourced compilation of health care events and congressional town halls scheduled during the summer 2009 congressional recess. Click here to add a link to the calendar.

Don't Let Special Interests Use Town Halls To Block Change

The battle for health care reform has moved to town halls during the August congression more »

Momentum is building. Strong health care legislation with a public plan option passed two House committees and the Senate's health committee. And polling continues to show wide support for the main provisions in those bills.

Leaders in the House of Representatives have unveiled a bill that includes a robust public health insurance plan option, paid for in part with a fair progressive surtax on households earning more than $350,000.

And the Senate health committee cleared a bill that also includes the choice of public health insurance to compete with private plans. (The tax question will be addressed separately by the Senate Finance Committee.)

It's up to us to give these bills the grassroots push necessary to overcome the relentless opposition from the special interests. more »

No month will be as critical as this month of July in the fight to win health care for all.

The House and Senate are back in session furiously working to finish legislation before they adjourn again in early August.

Prospects for a public plan option are improving, thanks to increasing grassroots pressure. But the massive lobbying effort from the insurance and drug companies is far from finished, and several key Senators have yet to take a stand.

All day today, millions will be calling Congress to demand real health care reform, part of nationwide grassroots effort led by Health Care for America Now!

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More than 300 economists, business leaders and health care experts have signed a petition asking President Obama and Congress to act now to reform the nation's health care system—"to move boldly to cover all Americans with health insurance, to bring down health care costs and create improved quality and value within the health care system for families, businesses, and taxpayers." more »