In 2008,the giant Coca-Cola Company bought 40 percent of Honest Tea and has the option of buying it all in 2011.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

And even some Democrats have been debating whether a reform bill should include a government-run insurance plan, known as a "public option."

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

Most contentious was the proposal for a government-run insurance option, also known as a public option, to give Americans a choice over private insurance companies.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to form a compromise among Democrats about whether health reform legislation should include an option for government-run insurance.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

Democrats and Republicans present sharply divergent views on the so-called "public option".

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she believes it is essential that a government-sponsored public option be part of any bill, if it is to be passed by the House.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Of course,the biggest difference between the two bills, and one likely to cause the most friction in House-Senate negotiations, involves the so-called "public option" or competing insurance the government would offer.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

President Obama said a government-run insurance option as an alternative to private insurers is one part of Democrat's health care proposal, adding he is willing to address legitimate concerns Republicans have.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

These talks, which will formally get under way early in the new year, will take place amid anger among many liberal House Democrats the Senate bill failed to contain a government-run insurance option.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Two liberal House Democrats, Lynne Woolsey and Barbara Lee, said on Wednesday they intend to fightto keep this public option in, along with other steps to protect lower and middle-income Americans and hold insurance companies accountable.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Although not the only controversial aspect of reform proposals put forward by Democrats and supported by the president, a proposed government-run insurance option as an alternative to plans offered to Americans by private companies has drawn the most attention.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

Negotiations with the House of Representatives to craft a final bill for President Obama will be difficult because of some major differences, notably the House bill's provision for a government-run health insurance option, absent from the Senate measure.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Members of the House Progressive Caucus have vowed to fight to keep this public option in any final legislation that emerges, along with other provisions they say are needed to protect lower and middle-income Americans and hold insurance companies accountable.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Senate Democrats were forced to make concessions to some of their members and to Independents, the most significant being the elimination of a government-run insurance option to compete with private companies whose practices have been the focus of sharp criticism for decades.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"We have 10 percent that we have to work on, and we can do that." In his speech, Mr.Obama is expected to campaign for what is called the public option a government-run health insurance plan which would compete with private insurers.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08