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• Deal would remove public-option plan

  December 9, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Democratic Senate negotiators struck a tentative agreement Tuesday night to drop the controversial government-run insurance plan from their overhaul of the health care system, hoping to remove a … 6

• Senate may cut public option

  December 8, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Racing to complete work on health care legislation before Christmas, Senate Democrats worked Monday on a compromise that could leave their health care bill without a new government …

• Public option critics threaten health bill’s odds

  November 23, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – Democrats had little time to savor their weekend Senate health care victory, as two of the lawmakers who voted to move the debate forward Saturday night indicated Sunday … 3

• Moderate Democrats chilly to public option

  October 28, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Moderate Democratic senators remained reluctant Tuesday – and in one case, defiant – about backing the government-run “public option” health care plan that party leaders are offering as …

• Reid says public option included in Senate’s bill

  October 27, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – In a dramatic sign of Democrats’ growing confidence that they have the votes to pass a far-reaching health care overhaul, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Monday that …

• Public option has solid support, survey finds

  October 20, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A4 As Democratic congressional leaders and White House officials work to shape health care bills that will go to the House and Senate floors, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows … 1

• Reform talk draws protest

    August 20, 2009 in City on Page A5 While U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers travels across Eastern Washington discussing health care reform, one of her only stops in Spokane was a closed affair Wednesday in a Browne’s Addition … 4

• Public excluded from McMorris Rodgers meeting

    August 19, 2009 in City While U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers travels across Eastern Washington discussing health care reform, one of her only stops in Spokane was a closed affair Wednesday in a Browne’s Addition … 19

• Obama offers doctors enticements, sacrifices

  June 16, 2009 in Nation/World on Page A1 CHICAGO – President Barack Obama wooed the American Medical Association on Monday with talk of curbing malpractice lawsuits and canceling a proposed 21 percent cut in Medicare payments as he …