Is the tide turning for the public option?

None of the various healthcare reform bills kicking around Congress would order doctors to make house calls. But the White House decided that was exactly the treatment the administration's top domestic priority needed to maintain some legislative momentum. And so about 150 physicians showed up on the Rose Garden lawn Monday morning for a pep rally -- with at least one coming from every state, naturally, the better to gin up local media coverage of the ... Full Story »

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Kristin Gorski
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by Kristin Gorski - Oct. 6, 2009

Anonymous sources are used as primary support for this short article, weakening its news value. Good description of White House strategy to appeal to doctors, Senators from key states, and the public in pushing a public option.

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