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Headlines! Friday, August 21

Posted by: Erin Kelly on Aug 21, 2009

Obama Insists Health Plan Will Pass -The New York Times

President Obama said Thursday that he "would love to have more Republicans engaged" in the health care negotiations under way in Congress, but expressed doubt that a bipartisan compromise could be reached because he suspected the party's leadership was intent on defeating his signature domestic priority.

On Health Care, Obama Should Read his Teddy Roosevelt -Newsweek

In America, we invented a way to tap the energy of the free market without letting it run wild. It's called federal regulation. When an industry becomes too big and powerful for our own good─railroads and oil in the late 19th century, radio networks and electric power companies in the 1930s, for example─We the People step in via Congress, not to "socialize" commerce in a Marxist sense, but in the name of the American tradition of the Common Good.

Pelosi: House Health Bill Needs Public Plan -AP

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says there's no way the House can pass a health overhaul bill that doesn't include a new public insurance plan. 

According to news reports, the Obama administration - which seemed, over the weekend, to be backing away from the "public option" for health insurance - is shocked and surprised at the furious reaction from progressives.