If you look at last year's presidential campaign, "you can't find a mention of public option."
The GOP health care plan "would allow health insurance companies to continue engaging in unfair and discriminatory practices like denying coverage to people because of a pre-existing medical condition."
Sen. Joe Lieberman's "home state has a public option which covers about 10,000 of its citizens that was introduced by its Republican governor."
The proposed excise tax on "Cadillac" health plans will hit "those making less than $200,000" the hardest.
"Only 20 percent of Americans admit to being Republicans anymore."
The Baucus health care bill would require taxes on medical devices such as X-ray machines, female condoms, HIV tests and surgical needles.
During the Reagan era, while productivity increased, "wages for working people remained frozen."
Forty percent of gross domestic product "is state, local, or federal money."
During the Reagan era, "the richest Americans had their top income tax rate cut in half."
In the 1950s, "A lot of people got rich — and they had to pay a top tax rate of 90 percent."
"The richest 1 percent have more financial wealth than the bottom 95 percent combined."
"The Defense Department received only one-half of 1 percent of the nearly trillion-dollar stimulus package funding."
"Our own National Security Agency says that (Iran's) nuclear ambitions are advancing, and at the same time ... we are slashing our own nuclear arsenal."
"Medicare began as a public option and now holds 97 percent of the market share."
The U.S. ranks 37th in the world for health care.
"We waterboard, incidentally, hundreds of our own military personnel. They waterboard themselves in training to toughen themselves up."
"Nearly 46 million Americans don't have health insurance coverage today."
Obama's plan for health care reform "ends exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses, deductibles or co-pays."
In every committee when the health care bill was considered, Democrats voted against an amendment that would require members of Congress and their staff to take the government-run public option as their health care plan.
"The John McCain Twitter account has more than 1.1 million followers. The official White House Twitter account has only about 830,000."
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