• Raise Your Voice for Health Care Reform

    The NAACP is going to war for “real” health care reform. And that must include a public option.
    Ben Jealous and the NAACP Start a War Room in Washington for Health Care Reform
  • Check It Out: Obama Says Health Care Reform Will Help Small Biz

    In a press conference, President Obama responds to the health care reform rolled out earlier in the day by Dems...
    In a press conference, President Obama responds to the health care reform rolled out earlier in the day by Dems
  • Begging To Live

    If not for the vigilance of one ill uninsured student, he would be dead now. Why stories like these ought to be influencing health care policy and not bureaucracy.
    Uninsured Law School Student Forced To Beg For Health Care
  • Gutsy Grayson Fires Back on Health Care Reform

    Supporters of health care reform have been waiting for Democrats to re-energize the debate. Who knew slinging mud was the answer?
    Health Care Debate Inspires One Dem To Get Nasty
  • On Health Care, Rep. Alan Grayson Calls Republicans "Neanderthals." Really?

    I don’t agree with Rep. Grayson’s remarks any more than I agree with the actions of Rep. Joe Wilson, who could not restrain himself from yelling “You lie!” at the President of the United States of America. But they show that members of Congress are not the mature adults we all deserve working on our behalf in Washington, D.C.
    Sophia Nelson: Rep. Alan Grayson is Wrong. We're All "Knuckle-Dragging Neanderthals."
  • Don't Tax the Kool-Aid!

    Mentholated cigarettes may have avoided the FDA's axe last week, when all other flavored smokes were banned outright. But another African American favorite—sugary drinks—is increasingly a subject of legislative interest.
    Sugary Drink Taxes Are Bad News for Black Americans--and Probably Won't Work
  • Health Care Public Option: One Down, Three to Go

    Yesterday the Senate Finance Committee said no to a version of the public option portion of health care reform. News headlines declared the vote a surprise KO punch to the public option. Dig a little deeper and find this vote was only a surprise to those outside of the Beltway.
    Health Policy Advocates Say Public Option Fight Is Still Alive
  • The Public Option Is Dead, Long Live the Public Option

    The Public option for health reform died in the Senate today, to no surprise--the very definition was still subject to a fierce, often comic, semantic battle. Sen. Rockefeller tried calling it a “consumer choice plan,” while Michigan Democrat Debbie Stabenow named it a “grand compromise.” Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) flipped the phrase to explain it as “an option for the public.” They all failed.
    Democratic Senators Kill Schumer-Rockefeller Amendment To Restore the "Public Option" for Health Reform
  • Yes, Barack Is Busy. And?

    Sometimes multi-tasking makes the man.
    Barack on Letterman, at the U.N. General Assembly, at the G20. He's a busy man. And?
  • Michelle Obama on Health Care

    I wonder if there is too much confusion around the president's message on reform to disperse different messengers.
    Michelle Obama on Health Care
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