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The news yesterday was the Harry Reid would include a public option with an opt-out provision in the Senate bill. There has been some reporting Reid might not have the votes for the opt-out and might need to water it down to a public option “opt-in,” state-based public plans, or trigger. A public option opt-in [...]

  I agree with Spencer Ackerman that this is a big deal–Matthew Hoh, a Foreign Service officer with previous experience in the Marines, has resigned his post in Afghanistan, specifically in protest over the war, which he claims “fuels the insurgency.”   “I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United [...]

The public option has received the lion’s share of attention in the health care debate, but there is an equally important one relating to generic drugs that could mean the lifesaving drugs of the future remain too expensive for all but the wealthy. Biologics are drugs made from living organisms, and they are considered the [...]

Vice President Joe Biden is set to make an appearance in his home state of Delaware today to make an announcement that Fisker Automotive will be purchasing, retooling and opening up operations in a shuttered former General Motors facility in Wilmington. From the Washington Post: Vice President Biden will make the announcement that Fisker Automotive [...]

If you examine what Olympia Snowe requested regarding a trigger for a public option, it’s she got every thing she requested in Harry Reid’s public option opt out proposal. Someone should tell her that.

From TPM: “I think the public is for the public option. During those bad days in mid-summer, the dog days of August, the hard right misinformed the public as to what a public option was.” Schumer says. “They said it was a mandate.” “I had lots of people coming up to me to say ‘I [...]

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Just as she was getting ready for her cotillion, Senator Snowe gets shut down.