If you give away the public option, what do you get?

Ezra Klein argues, correctly I think, that with the current watered down state of the public option in the Senate negotiations it might be better to just give up on it entirely IF in exchange we get...

Obama talks to Dem Senators for 30 minutes about health care reform - doesn't mention public option

From Huffington Post:As President Obama finished his speech to the Democratic caucus in the Capitol's Mansfield Room on Sunday afternoon, Joe Lieberman made his way over to Harry Reid.The independent...

TNR: Senate considering bad compromises on health care reform bill

The New Republic's Jonathan Cohn does an excellent, quick, overview of where Health Care Reform stands in the Senate, and the various "compromises" being considered. It's pretty bad news.In short,...

Reid blasts Aetna for planning to drop 600,000 health insurance customers to increase profits

Jed has the transcript as well.

H1N1 flu mutates in Holland

The H1N1 flu mutations are getting creepy quickly enough. And now they are expanding.Harald Wychgel, spokesman for the Dutch Institute for Health and the Environment, told AFP that there had been a...