Let’s be realistic about our expectations for the State of the Union. We’re unlikely to see a newly-energized President trailing clouds of progressive glory, ascending the podium while the PA blares anthemic 70’s stadium-rock. That’s not his style. (If I’m wrong about that 70's rock, however, I recommend Alice Cooper’s “No More Mr. Nice Guy.”) Still, he can recapture the health debate and stay true to himself by saying something like this: more »
This is the moment when Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and Majority Leader Harry Reid (and President Obama) should make history by producing a Senate health reform bill that
In my interview with Laura Flanders of GritTV, I analyze the prospects for the public option in the Senate in the wake of the Senate Finance Committee's two votes against public option proposals this week. more »
Several recent polls have focused on national support for a public option, usually showing that support to be at levels that would translate to hefty electoral margins even greater than those the Democrats secured in 2008. However, we don't have a direct, but a representative democracy. more »
Diane Archer, health care policy expert at the Institute for America's Future, says that President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress Sept. 9 made a compelling case that the federal government can play a uniquely constrictive role in addressing the nation's health care problems. more »
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I just joined thousands of others, including several hundred former staffers from the campaign, in signing a petition to President Obama, telling him that health care reform without a public option is not "change we can believe in." more »
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