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Jeffrey Young

Hospital Debt Collector Taps Washington Bigwigs In Bid To Restore Reputation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.15.2012

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Accretive Health, a debt-collection company under fire for allegedly hounding hospital patients over unpaid bills, has hired former President George W...

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Why Does This Former U.S. Senate Republican Majority Leader Support Obama's Health Care Reform?

Rosemary Gibson | Posted 04.25.2012

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Rosemary Gibson

Bill Frist is the former U.S. Senate Republican Majority Leader from Tennessee. During the heat of the health care reform debate, he sang the praises of President Obama's health care reform. His stance raises the question, "Why?"

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WATCH: Fareed Zakaria's Plea To Focus On Poverty

Posted 02.13.2012

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Back on Feb. 1, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made a controversial comment on poverty. "I'm in this race because I care about Americans," Ro...

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Inside Dadaab Refugee Complex: What Is Working, What is Not

Dr. Bill Frist | Posted 10.09.2011

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Dr. Bill Frist

We heard stories from motherswho had lost their husbands. Families who journeyed for weeks to arrive malnourished and in need of medical assistance. And parents who had heartbreaking stories of losing children in the flight from famine in Somalia.

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Visiting Refugee Camps in East Africa

Dr. Bill Frist | Posted 10.08.2011

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Dr. Bill Frist

Over 29,000 young children have died of malnutrition and disease in Somalia over the past 90 days. We are now on our way to the Horn of Africa to see what more we as a nation can do.

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The GOP's Pro-Abortion Stand

Andy Ostroy | Posted 06.11.2011

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Andy Ostroy

As evidenced by the budget showdown that took place last week in Washington, the Republican Party is doing everything in its power to ensure that there are more abortions than ever in the years to come.

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George W. Bush Returns To Washington For Portrait Unveiling

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Tap-tap-tap went George W. Bush's feet under his chair in the Old Senate Chamber Wednesday as he waited through a speech by his lon...

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Anti-Health Care Republicans Officially Receive Taxpayer-Funded Coverage

Rep. Joe Courtney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Joe Courtney

Today, Republican Members of Congress who ran on a platform of repealing health care and patients' rights for millions of Americans officially began receiving their own Congressional health insurance.

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Sam Stein

Bill Frist: Health Care Is 'Law Of The Land,' GOP Should Drop Repeal And Build On It

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As congressional Republicans ready themselves for a largely symbolic effort to repeal President Obama's health care reform law, at least...

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We Must Fix the Filibuster

Wade Henderson, Esq. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wade Henderson, Esq.

What spurred civil rights advocates to mobilize around this filibuster issue remains true today: the basic civil rights of all Americans should never be subject to the whims of one person.

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On Afghanistan, Michael Steele Speaks for Me

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Naiman

Brad Woodhouse and the DNC owe all of us an apology for attacking Michael Steele on his Afghanistan remarks, but I would settle for a commitment not to engage in this sort of behavior in the future.

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Bill Maher On BP Oil Spill: 'I Feel Oily ... I Feel Their Sh*t On Me' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Friday marked Bill Maher's last show of the season, and while the BP oil spill has been a subject on "Real Time" from week to week, this time Maher de...

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Nashville: Singin' in the Rain

Angela Perkey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Angela Perkey

I have never been so proud of my hometown. The outpouring of compassion and community since the sudden rainfall that drowned most neighborhoods in Nashville demonstrates what it means to be a great city.

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An Extraordinary Achievement

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joseph A. Palermo

Obama did today what Democrats should do all over the country: Cut through the right-wing misinformation and propaganda and remind people why this reform was needed

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Comprehensive Discourse Reform

Daniel Cluchey | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel Cluchey

My feeling is that listening to the Republicans' rhetoric between now and November will be like watching someone continue to blow up an already too-inflated balloon as we cringe and wait for it to pop.

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Mothers in Afghanistan Face Dangers Greater than War

Dr. Bill Frist | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Bill Frist

In some parts of the world, motherhood is more dangerous than war. But by coordinating new efforts to fund and promote maternal, newborn and child health we can help save the lives of millions of moms and kids.

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Friday Talking Points [113] -- Republican Reconciliation Hypocrisy

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

As the dust settles on the aftermath of the health reform summit, not much has changed. Not that anyone really expected anything to change, much, to be honest.

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Sen. Phil A. Buster Turns Obama Into Mush

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Ostroy

The day after Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown achieved the unthinkable by winning Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, President Obama has demonstrated...

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Sam Stein

Frist Addresses Tennessee's Birther Problem

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist attempted to skirt a question on Thursday as to why nearly half the Republicans in his home state of Tennesse...

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Top Ten Civil Justice Triumphs Of the Decade!

Joanne Doroshow | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joanne Doroshow

We look back with pride, and with some amazement really, at these great civil justice wins during the past decade. It hasn't been easy, and there are many to thank.

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Bill Frist: Obama Health Plan "Is Not Socialized Medicine" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) said Thursday that Obama's plan to overhaul the country's health care system is not socialized medicine. T...

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Parliamentarians for Pneumonia

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Orin Levine

More importantly than events in Washington and London, for the first time ever, parliaments in developing countries, where the bulk of pneumonia deaths occur, were active locally on World Pneumonia Day.

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Sam Stein

Frist: Snowe Not Enough, Five More GOPers Needed For Successful Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist caused a stir inside political circles two weeks ago when he said that he'd vote for Democratic-authored heal...

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Bill Frist: I'd Vote For Health Care Reform Bill

Time | Karen Tumulty | Posted 05.25.2011

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Or so the former Senate Republican Leader, a surgeon who has written a new book on health care, told me a few minutes ago in an interview. Were he st...

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New Rule: Not Everything in America Has to Make a Profit

Bill Maher | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Maher

When did the profit motive become the only reason to do anything? When did that become the new patriotism? Ask not what you could do for your country, ask what's in it for Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

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