As David Sirota reminds us, this can only happen if member of the House consent, according to simple math.

And if they don’t take a stand?

Well, it’s Joe Lieberman’s world now, you’re just living in it.

Today’s vote in the Senate to pass their health care reform bill was a big win for many people. It was a big win for the drug companies, the biologics industry, the hospital companies, and the for-profit health insurance corporations. They will all get billions of government dollars piled on to their ledgers, and and [...]

We thought Bernie Sanders would be a Senator with more bite than bark on health care reform. Green Mountain Daily and FDL Action team up to challenge Bernie Sanders.

Now that the first (although least controversial of my ideas) to fix the terrible Senate bill appears likely to be adopted in the conference committee, now is no time to let up. I see their one improvement, and raise them another 15 changes that need to be made. Here are 16 more ideas to add [...]

Jane Hamsher does not support the Senate health care reform bill. No one should support the Senate health care reform bill because it is, frankly, a very bad bill. It has no real checks on the health insurance industry, and is an extremely expensive and wasteful way to expand coverage. Fortunately, our government is a [...]

I’m pleased to announce the release of Firedoglake’s Health Care War Room. This war room will serve as a hub for policy information and organizing opportunities run by FDL.

The Senate bill removed the public option. The public option would have been a benchmark by which to judge the private insurance companies. It would have served as a check on the private insurance companies. With the public option gone, the only other check left on the for-profit private insurance industry is regulation. Can under-enforced [...]

Obama is triangulating against you today. They want all those diaries of outrage by “liberals,” so that right wingers will look on and think “good for him — like Joe Lieberman, he really knows how to stick it to liberals.” Meanwhile, they’ll overlook the fact that this bill is nothing but a corporate giveaway written by sleazy greedy whores willing to hold the nation’s sick hostage in order to pull off the biggest Shock Doctrine scam in world history.

Senate may take a constitutional point of order vote on the individual mandate. Obama re-writes history and claims to have never campaigned on the public option. I guess lying to the American people sounds like a good strategy to him. Republicans relent, so the final Senate vote will be Christmas Eve morning, and not in [...]

Instead of honestly admitting that the bill working its way through Congress does not fully meet his campaign promises, Obama has decided the proper strategy is to just lie to the American people: [Obama] said the Senate legislation accomplishes “95 percent” of what he called for during his 2008 presidential campaign and in his September speech [...]