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Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said he has “no other choice” but to filibuster a health care bill that contains a government-run health insurance option, adding that while reform is needed, the public option would be harmful to America’s future and that he would use his right as a senator to try “to stop it.” “I have no other choice,” Lieberman told several reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. “I’ve got to use the right I have as a senator to stop something that I think is going to be terrible for our future, which is the public option, not health...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has postponed his plan to visit the capitol Friday in order to lobby Congress on health care reform. Instead, he’ll visit the hill on Saturday when House lawmakers are planning to vote on a $1.2 trillion health care bill. The president’s decision comes one day after thousands of Americans showed up in Washington to speak out against the liberal plan. Protestor: ‘This is Not Europe’ A sea of Americans converged in Washington Thursday, traveling from as far as California, Texas and Oregon to rally against a health care plan they say tramples on their constitutional...

WASHINGTON -- Hopes of getting health care reform through the Senate look grim. Democratic leaders suffered a major blow Wednesday when some of their own voted against a Medicare rate bill seen as a test for broader reform. It’s called the “doc fix” -- legislation to increase Medicare payments to doctors with a price tag of $247 billion over the next decade. It was supposed to be part of the cost of health care. But in order to bring the health care reform bill in under budget, Democrats simply moved that expense out of health care into another part of...