Crunch Time in the Senate
Lindsay Beyerstein
Will conservative and liberal objections to the Senate healthcare bill's provisions regarding women's health doom the legislation?
Lindsay Beyerstein
Will conservative and liberal objections to the Senate healthcare bill's provisions regarding women's health doom the legislation?
The Editors : Senate
Filibustering healthcare reform? This is not what democracy looks like.
Sharon Lerner : Health Insurance
The prochoice movement stops playing nice in the fight for healthcare reform.
The Editors : House
The House's healthcare reform bill is a first draft of history; as with most first drafts, it has its share of flaws.
Katha Pollitt : Reproductive Rights
Prochoicers have been taking one for the team for too long now. Enough already.
Alexander Cockburn : Barack Obama
Since the president took office, his administration has yielded one surrender after another.

The Nation spotlights the senators, amendments, activists and organizations most likely to derail healthcare reform efforts.
Countdown
Nation editor Christopher Hayes is "infuriated" by the last-minute add-on that prohibits coverage for abortion in the House health plan.
Sharon Lerner : Feminism & Women
Another complication in healthcare reform legislation has emerged: so far, it fails to require insurers to cover basic preventive services for women, including contraception.
Peter Dreier
In the past month, momentum on healthcare reform has unmistakably shifted as progressives have taken to the streets, the Internet and the halls of Congress to push for a bold plan.

J. Lester Feder : Health Insurance
Healthcare reform is looking less like a fantasy and more like a probability--but we need to keep a close watch on affordability, financing and the public option.

Lindsay Beyerstein
A Congressional Budget Office report suggesting that a robust public option would actually cut the deficit seems to have lit a fire under Speaker Pelosi.
GRIT TV
Author Sharon Lerner and Rep. Raul Grijalva discuss flaws in the Senate Finance Committee's health bill and increased popular support for a public option.
GRIT TV
Is the so-called opt-out provision a worthy compromise for progressives who've already compromised just to get to a discussion of a public option?

Robert Scheer : U.S. Economy
The healthcare debate has become a convenient distraction from the far more pressing issues surrounding the banking meltdown.
ABC News
The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel thinks that we need to stop fixating on debt and unemployment benefits, and instead focus on a job creation program.
VideoNation
Marcy Wheeler talks strategy, saying that Democrats need to "push the positive" to encourage people to not accept anything but the public option.
