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Rachel Maddow To Obama – Ignore Medicare For All and the Public option ‘at your very grave peril’

Rachel Maddow To Obama – Ignore Medicare For All and the Public option 'at your very grave peril' The entire segment can be seen here: www.msnbc.msn.com Visit: firedoglake.com
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GOP Plans To Attend Health Summit As Obama Calls For Compromise

President Barack Obama warned during the weekend that both Republicans and Democrats should be careful not to turn this week’s health care summit into “political theater” but to work to find “common ground” on the issues, The Washington Post reports…

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Obama Builds On Senate Health Bill In Hopes Of Broader Support

President Barack Obama’s health care proposal, an effort to resuscitate the debate, merges the separate legislation passed in the Senate and House “into a final version that could pass muster in both chambers,” The Washington Post reports. “Obama’s proposal takes the more modest Senate bill as his basic framework…

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Obama To GOP On Health Reform: ‘Show Me What You’ve Got’

News outlets report on the president’s campaign for a health reform bill. The Washington Post: “President Obama made an impassioned plea Friday for his health-care overhaul, challenging Republicans to come to the televised summit he is hosting next week with a plan to fix the system — or get out of the way…

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American College Of Physicians Tells President Obama And Congress Of The Urgent Need To Move Forward On Essential Reforms

“The unfortunate truth is that by many measures, the State of America’s health care is in decline,” Joseph W. Stubbs, MD, FACP, president of the American College of Physicians (ACP), reported at ACP’s annual State of the Nation’s Health Care briefing. “We have too many uninsured, too few primary care physicians, and the cost of health care is rising faster than we can afford…

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Obama Budget Request Increases International Global Health Funding

President Obama’s fiscal year 2011 budget proposal, which was released on Monday, would increase by 9% funding for global health issues, including reducing maternal and child mortality, the Wall Street Journal reports. The budget includes a total request for global health of $9.6 billion for HHS, the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Department of Defense…

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Obama Appeals For Health Reform Despite Recent Setbacks

The New York Times reports that “after spending 2009 emphasizing that a health care overhaul was his top domestic priority, Mr. Obama gave it much less prominence in his [State of the Union] address. He did not mention it until more than half an hour in – a sign of how imperiled the bill has become…

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Obama Pushing Dems For Health Compromise In Marathon Session

The New York Times: “With a growing sense of urgency, President Obama and top Congressional Democrats held a marathon negotiating session on Wednesday in an effort to thrash out agreements on sweeping health care legislation that could provide insurance coverage to more than 30 million Americans…

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The Obama Plan in 4 Minutes

Learn the basic principles of President Obama's health insurance reform plan as presented to Congress on September 9, 2009. … "white house" obama health healthcare "health care" reform doctor medicine medical
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Raw Video: Obama Heckled at Health Care Rally

At a health care rally at a Maryland university, a protester began shouting, prompting boos and President Obama to pause. The man apparently yelled "Obama you're a liar. Obama, your health care kills children. Abortion is murder." (Sept. 17)
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