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(Tipped by JMG reader Peter)

Today’s New York Times features a fascinating breakdown of the added costs that gay couples bear as incomplete and unrecognized members of society. The authors created a hypothetical gay couple and enlisted tax, insurance, and financial planning experts to run many scenarios on how much more it costs to be a gay couple in the United States. Our goal was …

At yesterday’s Senate committee vote against the public option in health care reform, GOP senators cited studies from a right-wing think tank and an insurance company astroturf group as evidence that the public option would lead to “denial of care” and “rationing.” Surprise!

Moments ago: Members of the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday rejected an amendment to a sweeping health-care overhaul bill that would have created a government-run insurance plan option. Authored by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., the amendment failed by a vote of 15 to 8. Rockefeller said a so-called “public option” would have offered a competitor to private insurance companies. Congratulations …

Just posted by the White House…

Openly lesbian Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) urges LGBT Americans to support President Obama’s health care reform bill, speaking about the fact that gays tend to be less insured than the general public, often because they cannot get spousal or family insurance through their employers.

A 17 year-old South Carolina boy has been awarded $10M after his insurance company dropped him because he tested HIV positive. South Carolina’s supreme court has ordered Fortis Insurance to cough up $10 million for wrongly revoking coverage of a 17-year-old college student after he tested positive for HIV. It is the most an insurance company has ever been ordered …

RELATED: It’s Rachel Maddow’s one year anniversary on MSNBC. Hooray!

Uninsured father, filmmaker, and writer Lee Stranahan pleads with the president to ignore the crazies and support the public option in his upcoming national speech on health care reform. Watch this.

On Friday, Arizona’s governor signed a bill revoking health benefits from the unmarried partners of state employees under the guise of “cost cutting.” Lambda Legal fumes: State legislators for months had taken aim at the equal benefits plan approved last year by former Governor Janet Napolitano, now Department of Homeland Security Secretary. On Friday, current Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed …

Speaking before a meeting of the AFL-CIO, President Obama asked the Republicans where their health care reform plan was.

Keith Olbermann reports that the White House is asking progressives to “be good soldiers” and play along as the public option back-off continues.

JMG reader Tony in the UK tips us to the thoughtful, intelligent way that Sen. Al Franken handled a group of constituents opposed to “ObamaCare.”

Politico reports today that White House aides have revealed that President Obama does indeed plan to back away from the public option portion of his health care reform plan when Congress returns from its summer recess today Obama’s willingness to forgo the public option is sure to anger his party’s liberal base. But some administration officials welcome a showdown with …

Karl Rove says that most of the people without insurance don’t have it because they don’t want it.

Embiggen the chart to follow the money. (Via – Slog)

Today when Sen. John McCain cautioned the crowd at his town hall meeting to be respectful of the president, saying that he believes Obama respects the Constitution, McCain’s audience booed him. In the second clip, the crowd gives a standing ovation to a woman who demands that illegal immigrants not receive any health care.