Bill contains public health-ins plan. Passed by 220-215 wi steep concessions to BlueDogs irking prog lawmakers & activists. More on what's in it & likely battles to arise in committee, here & in "5 Key Fights We Face Against the Insur Ind" in comments.

Potter: By no means final answer on this! Optimistic final bill will reach Pres's desk WITH public option. Connection to new poll results: public feels profoundly shut out of current overhaul debate - 71% say Congress not paying attention to us!

Watch co-author S Woolhandler, Harvard medicine prof, primary care MD, PNHP co-founder, assess Baucus plan- 'complete sellout' to private insurers: 'protecting their profits & sacrificing American lives'- & discuss single-payer, lobbying, donations, etc

The public option: We're going to fight for it down to the very last day. It's got to be part of [the bill]. If it's not, we're just showering $$ upon $$ on same system, the same industry that got us into this mess. Lobbyists' power tangible Capitol Hill

Data the insurance co's have always wanted to hide just now released by the nation's largest nurses group. 45M claims denied, in CA alone, since 2002. PacifiCare-39.6%; CIGNA-33%; etc... 1 out of 5 requests, even when recommended by patient's MD, rejected

This month a full vote is scheduled in the House on Medicare for all. Expanding Medicare'd bring us in line with the rest of the industrial world. There's also an amndmt that'd enable the states to enact single-payer as part of national reform. More !

Rep. C Maloney, co-sponsor of the 9/11 Health&Compensation Act, & Dr. J Moline, director of WorldTradeCenter Medical Monitoring&Treatment Program at NY's Mt Sinai medical school join Amy & Joe Picurro, 42, who volunteered for 28 days, now racked with pain

Learn about innocent 15-yr-old Latino former high school honor student Efren Paredes, Jr. wrongly convicted of 1989 murder&armed robbery. World renowned wrongful convictions expert Paul Ciolino & NationalLawyersGuild endorse efforts to free Efren.

What is your response to Mark Regev, Israeli spokesperson, who said aid is free to pass into Gaza? No, that is wrong, we know it is not free. Our little boat was boarded by navy combat soldiers, they came in full riot gear when we were just 25 miles off

141-pg Amnesty report gives evidence of oil spill cover-ups, gas flaring near villages & waste dumping leading to dire pollution of wetlands & destruction of farming & fishing; in last 50 yrs 9m barrels worth of oilve leaked into land & rivers. Impunity