Tag Archives: Harry Reid

Reid decides to gamble on the public option

By Mark | October 26, 2009

Late this afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that the healthcare reform bill that he plans to bring before the Senate for a vote would include a public option. It’s a risky proposition, as he doesn’t appear to have the votes necessary at the moment, but I’m encouraged to see someone in the Democratic […]

Posted in Health, Politics | Also tagged call to action, Carl Levin, Debbie Stabenow, health insurance, healthcare reform, Olympia Snowe, Robert Reich, the public option | 13 Comments

Turning the corner on the public option

By Mark | October 24, 2009

According to the Washington Post, the momentum is shifting toward a public option. Here’s a clip: Democratic leaders in the Senate and House have concluded that a government-run insurance plan is the cheapest way to expand health coverage, and they sought Friday to rally support for the idea, prospects for which have gone in a […]

Posted in Health, Politics | Also tagged healthcare reform, Pelosi, the public option | 4 Comments

30 Democratic Senators demand a public option

By Mark | October 8, 2009

A few days ago, I mentioned that Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown was rumored to be assembling a coalition to demand that Majority Leader Harry Reid include a “robust, Medicare-like public option” in the bill he ultimately brings to the floor of the Senate. Well, Brown’s letter to Reid has been delivered, and, incredibly, 30 Senators […]

Posted in Health, Politics | Also tagged Al Franken (D-Minn.), Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), healthcare, Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), Jack Reed (D-R.I.), Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), John Kerry (D-Mass.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), lobbyists, Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Paul Kirk (D-Mass.), Roland Burris (D-Ill.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Sherrod Brown, Ted Kaufman (D-Del.), the public option, Tom Udall (D-N.M.), when Democracy works | 5 Comments

Not giving up on the Public Option

By Mark | October 6, 2009

I just received the following from MoveOn, and thought that it was worth sharing. Senate progressives are organizing their colleagues to fight for the public health insurance option. Can you call Senator Carl Levin and urge him to join in? Right now Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Senate leaders are deciding what to include […]