A search on “public option” on Digg reveals the most popular link to be this cartoon from Mike Stanfill’s The Far Left Side: This single panel has generated over 1,000 comments. Here’s an interesting little side discussion on Medicare: Comment: -Medicare works. Lower the eligibility so more people can use it. Taking something that works, [...]

So what’s wrong with health care, anyway? A recent CNN/Opinion Research poll measured 74% of Americans as satisfied with their insurance and 83% satisfied with the quality of care they receive. Pretty decent numbers that are nothing to sneeze at (pardon the thematic pun). But let’s assume most respondents in this poll have never been [...]

Just a quick post on where to get a sampling of some of the heated health care rhetoric being bandied about by the partisan troops in the online trenches. From the left: Daily Kos is hosting hundreds of posts and thousands of comments. From the right, Townhall.com is doing the same. We’ll take a closer [...]

Looks like Web users are quite interested in the health care reform battle that’s heated up during the congressional recess. As of this writing, the 11th-most popular item on all of Digg in the last 24 hours is this Talking Points Memo item recounting CNN anchor Rick Sanchez’s brutal questioning of Rick Scott, a former [...]

No one thought reforming health care was going to be easy. But with a Democratic congress working with a Democratic president, and with the failed Clinton initiative serving as a template of how not to get it done, perhaps no one thought it was going to be quite this hard. From CQ Politics today: The [...]