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However we look at health care, one thing is certain: health care is universal to each and every human being in this country, regardless of power, position, gender, race or ethnicity.
For Ted's decades-long fight, and the daily struggle of people like Lennie, a woman who sees her struggle over health care as more horrific than a machete attack, we must pass a "Kennedy Option."
Considering so called "death panels" give the living a chance to think about what they really want for themselves or the people they love, I've got a much better name: Life Panels.
We are a fear-driven culture. There is a large segment of the population that, no matter how well you document it, will not let a good fact get in the way of their fears about health care reform.
Accusations of communism or socialism in health care reform are simply a shorter way to say: "We don't have an intellectual leg to stand on in this debate."
Kirk wants to replace the entire body of state regulatory law with some minimum plan standards that will not be enforced, as there will be no enforcement body to do it.
Sarah Palin doesn't care about dividing America, because in the world from where she hails Palin already sees America divided. It's also in her interest to keep it that way.
I'm not a diplomat or a politician. I haven't got the patience. But it's clear to me that our country's lack of a public option in health care is bankrupting businesses and families.
If we can't rely on news institutions to rationally explain the complicated (and extremely important) issues of the day in a way that will reach people, than why do we need them at all?
Last weekend I was in Vermont on vacation when I heard that Senator Bernie Sanders was hosting a town meeting on health care. I grabbed my video camera and went to the meeting.
It took Palin just three weeks into 'retirement' to prove that when it comes to major domestic policy, she is going to be right smack in the middle of it all.
Pelosi, along with Steny Hoyer, questioned the patriotism of those who disrupted the town-hall meetings on health care. I certainly understand Pelosi's frustration, but is it un-American?
Our job -- liberals, progressives, union leaders, public health advocates, community groups, and even rock-and-roll performers -- is to challenge the lies and distortions put out there by the Fox News crowd.
Henry Waxman's move to ask insurance companies for their full records on compensation and perks is as consequential as any member of Congress has made in the fight over health care reform.
The U.S. Senate has never ratified the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966, one provision of which would mandate universal health care.
My own health plan: go back to France for any life-preserving treatments I think might be worth going through, because even as an American paying full price, it's so much cheaper there.
My grandmother was one of the first people a pacemaker was used on. A lot of very sincere people believe that if Obama's health care reform bill passes, old people will essentially be facing death panels and denied care.
Two Democratic former state legislators, Tom Fiegen and Bob Krause, are working on 2010 Senate bids to face Republican deather Chuck "pull the plug on grandma" Grassley.
Obama praised Ted for modeling how to struggle intensely against your opponents, but never stooping to demonize or denounce them. Be loud. Be Raucous. Be militant. But be civil.
There are more grandparents than ever, and more of them are directly caring for their grandchildren than at any time in our recent history. And yet -- no parades, no telethons, not even a zero-down, interest-free auto sale.
Let's have the balls, brains and humility to learn how other countries went from the concept of universal health care to functioning systems that cost half of what the status quo does in America.
"Death panels" are made up out of whole cloth by people who specialize in generating fear to protect wealthy special interests -- in this case the health insurance industry.
While Sarah Palin may not like the idea that any citizen should be denied health care, how would she suggest we distribute the precious few kidneys available to a long list of people on dialysis?
Health care fills the news every day, obscuring a simple fact: Your health depends far more on the internal healing system than the health care system.
It's impossible to fashion a health care system that does not have doctors, medications, and hospitals -- but it is quite easy to imagine a system without private insurers. In fact, private insurers play little if any role in the health care systems of most countries in the world.
When I call Sarah Palin a patriotic traitor, I'm not equating her with Benedict Arnold, Vidkun Quisling, or Kim Philby. I have no reason to doubt that she loves the United States.
I don't know which is more dispiriting: the New York Times' failure to call Betsy McCaughey a liar, or Barack Obama's failure to call Chuck Grassley a liar.
Living wills and health care proxies are very critical documents and every independent citizen, young and old, should have these documents within his or her estate plan.
In making the rich and employers pay for his pathetic "public option" in an essentially private system, Obama completely fails to understand that health care risks, costs, and benefits should be socialized.
hey, how do i post a cartoon of my own? i'm registered as a bloger but i'm not sure if i can start the blog on my own or in response to someone's else. thanks
blogtoons: hey, how do i post a cartoon of my own?
I'm reminded of a scene in SYRIANA between Matt Damon and Alexander Sidding: Matt's kid died in a pool accident earlier in the film, which he invokes during a business discussion with Alex...who says "And I'll give you X amount of money for your other kid."
BlackJAC: I'm reminded of a scene in SYRIANA between Matt Damon
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