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President Obama’s new Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, testified before Congress at a May 6, 2009 hearing on health reform held by the House Ways and Means Committee. Her testimony made clear that the Obama administration does not believe needed health reform can be achieved strictly through the private health insurance market and wants to give people the choice of a public health insurance plan. So don’t let Congress rip the heart out of President Obama’s health care plan. Support a public health insurance option.

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According to Congressional Quarterly, Sen. more »

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Conservative pollster Frank Luntz recently provided right wingers on Capitol Hill a secret 28-page memo entitled The Language of Healthcare 2009—which has leaked! The memo was intended to offer a message framing strategy to defeat President Obama’s plan to provide health care for all. But the document is more useful to progressives than conservatives.

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Politico's Mike Allen shares excerpts from the Frank Luntz's latest exercise in conservative spinmeistering. Allen received a bootleg of a confidential 26-page report from Luntz that is circulating among Capitol Hill Republicans. It his game plan for defeating health care reform by seeming to embrace health care reform. more »

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Supporters of the privatized Medicare Part D benefit and opponents of a public health insurance option being made available to everyone as part of national health care reform, have made much of reports that revised estimates of the Part D benefit's cost are lower than initial projections. This twisting of the facts ignores actual initial predictions and the Medicare private drug plans' performance compared with other government programs and other countries. A look at the evidence shows that the privatized structure of the Medicare drug benefit has led to higher costs for people with Medicare and taxpayers.

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