Obama’s Top Adviser Refuses To Say If Public Option Still Alive

Report: White House Drafting Healthcare Bill, Obama Phones Lawmakers About Public Option

‘My Fellow Americans…’ The Address Obama Should Give to Congress Next Week

My Fellow Americans. I stand before you a chastened president. I made a mistake. Two mistakes really. I thought that Congress could do its job and through the deliberative process, produce a health care reform plan that would win broad support across the aisle and among all of you. But I’m afraid that I was wrong.

White House Negotiating A ‘Trigger’ Public Option With GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe

Marc Ambinder over at The Atlantic also reported: Senior White House officials, in conversations with reporters today, are floating the idea that President Obama is secretly negotiating with Sen. Olympia Snowe over a health care compromise that would phase in a government-funded health care alternative if private insurance companies fail to meet quality and cost [...]

Waxman Wants Healthcare Companies to Disclose Info About ‘Purging’

Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Rep. Bart Stupak, Chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, sent letters to six health insurance companies requesting information about the practice of “purging” small businesses when their employees become ill and their health insurance claims increase.

Rep. Jim Moran Kicks Out Townhall Protesters Shouting Over Howard Dean

Congressman Jim Moran, D-Va., kicked protesters out of a townhall meeting Monday when they began to drown out comments on the issue made by former Gov. Howard Dean. One of the protesters was identified by Fox News as anti-abortion activist Terry Randall.

The Shill and Doctor Astroturf

In early August, Sarah Palin made a claim that ObamaCare would create ‘death panels’ – that the elderly would essentially have to make pleas for their life in front of a panel of bureaucrats. Ms. Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ McCaughey has been identified as the creator of the ‘death panel’ myth. McCaughey has done this before. She killed HillaryCare more than a decade ago.

Obama Addresses Myths and Morality in Health Insurance Reform

President Obama debunks the myths around health reform, and discusses the public option proposal in which many of them are rooted. But he focuses his address on the stark moral and historical turning point at which we find ourselves. August 22, 2009.

Obama: We Know Where These Lies Are Coming From

Barney Frank to Woman Who Compared Obama to Hitler: ‘On what planet do you spend most of your time?’

At a Barney Frank town hall meeting in Dartmouth, MA, a constituent asks, “Why are you supporting this Nazi policy?” Frank responds: “On what planet do you spend most of your time?” He then calls her approach “vile, contemptible nonsense.” He closes by saying: “Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing [...]