Tagged public option

The Senate finance committee defeated an amendment for a public option by a vote of 13-10 with three Democrats, Baucus, Lincoln and Conrad voting against it. But the latest CBS poll now shows 65% want a publi...

Republicans opposing health care reform, especially the public option, have offered lots of reasons for their opposition. One of their biggest is the invoking of the word socialism when it comes to governmen...

In 1964, Lyndon Johnson used JFK's assassination to push through the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a JFK initiative that had stalled in congress because of the resistance of a group of southern Democrats. No o...

The real question is why these Democrats and President Obama for that matter, thinks bi-partisanship is so important. It's not. Obama needs to tell the Democrats on the Finance committee who are unravel...