Health Care Debate

10 States With Prohibitive Health Care Costs

Posted 05.29.2012

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Health care continue to rise for post 50s. Retired couples will need an estimated $240,000 to cover their medical bills -- 4 percent more than people ...

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The Long Game for Health Reform

Harvard Kennedy School Democrats | Posted 04.23.2012

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Harvard Kennedy School Democrats

Even if the Affordable Care Act falls in whole or in part, it will have still been a success for three key reasons.

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Sotomayor Gives No Hints On Health Care Decision

AP | Posted 04.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Justice Sonia Sotomayor is giving no hints on what the Supreme Court is going to do on the question of whether President Barack Obama's ...

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Judges Not Debating Own Healthccare, Don't All Americans Deserved Guaranteed Coverage Too?

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 05.29.2012

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Rose Ann DeMoro

Single payer, Medicare for all. If Medicare is good enough for grandma, and for Scalia and Breyer and Kennedy and Ginsburg, it ought to be good enough for all of us.

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The Real Health Care Train Wreck

Ann O'Leary | Posted 05.30.2012

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Ann O'Leary

Rising health care costs are affecting all of us, and if we don't control them, health care will consume our family budgets, as well as our government budgets with little left for investing in the next generation.

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Why My Generation Supports the Health Care Law

Rory O'Sullivan | Posted 05.29.2012

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Rory O'Sullivan

It's hard to underestimate the benefits of these reforms. Right now, nearly one in three young Americans lacks health coverage, leading to a variety of problems. Faced with high costs, uninsured young adults often avoid needed care, making them less healthy as a result.

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A Human-Rights Lens on the Affordable Care Act

Risa E. Kaufman | Posted 05.28.2012

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Risa E. Kaufman

By extending health care coverage to new, under-served groups, the ACA squarely responds to concerns repeatedly raised by international human rights bodies and experts about racial disparities in U.S. health care policy.

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Early Detection: Can You Afford It?

Randi Miller | Posted 01.01.2012

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Randi Miller

Mammograms with ultrasound in this region can cost anywhere from $500 to $6,000. That's a bit much, don't you think?

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Affordable, High Quality Health Care: The Cure for Our Economy

Dr. Dennis Gottfried | Posted 12.26.2011

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Dr. Dennis Gottfried

For the sake of our entire economy, America must act now to contain health care costs while, at the same time, improving the quality of care.

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The Real Solution to the Health Care Debate? Connectedness

Peter Block | Posted 11.17.2011

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Peter Block

What we eat, the stress in our lives, our exercise habits and our connectedness with other human beings are more decisive than anything the health care system can do.

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4 Percent of Us Consume 50 Percent of All Health Care

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Lewis

Our humanity, if not our common sense, tells us that something is wrong when 4 percent of the world's population consumes half of the world's health care.

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Tucson -- And the Next Rampage

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rick Horowitz

Already there have been bricks thrown through windows, and pictures of nooses. Already the authorities have had to increase security for certain gove...

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Sam Stein

Dean: Reforms Will Be Added To Health Care Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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MIAMI -- The debate in the House over whether to repeal health care reform has set up a fairly binary discussion with respect to the law. On one side ...

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Health Care Law: Correct, Constitutional, and Not Going Anywhere

Rep. Hank Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Hank Johnson

Opponents of health-care reform have rallied around a constitutional objection to the "individual mandate." They argue that Congress has no constitutional authority to mandate coverage. They are wrong.

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What Is The Most Significant Spiritual Lesson Of The Decade? (PHOTOS)

Steve McSwain | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steve McSwain

What was the most important spiritual lesson of the decade? Vote on that lesson you regard as the most significant, knowing there are perhaps many lessons we might have learned from any of the significant news events of the last decade.

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Jason Linkins

Health Care Reform Media Coverage Was Terrible, Finds New Study

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Did the rampant coverage of the health care reform debate leave you utterly beside yourself with confusion? Well, you're not alone -- that's exactly how the media covered the matter, because they are terrible.

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Tea Party Proponent John O'Hara Spars With Jon Stewart On His New Book 'A New American Tea Party' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Jon Stewart had author and tea party proponent John O'Hara on "The Daily Show" last night to talk about his new book, "A New American Tea Party." In a...

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Obama Pitches Seniors On Health Bill

AP | ERICA WERNER and JULIE PACE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WHEATON, Md. — President Barack Obama on Tuesday sought to sell the health overhaul law to skeptical seniors, launching a defense of his preside...

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Why the Fight for Financial Reform Needs to Get Much More Personal

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Arianna Huffington

When it comes to the fight over financial reform, Democrats are making the same mistake they did with health care: failing to put the effect reform would have on the lives of real Americans front and center.

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'Free Speech': Who's Listening?

Jim Selman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Jim Selman

One of the paradoxes of a free and democratic society is that it only takes a few committed and fanatical people to screw up the system for every one.

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Does America Also Need Cultural Health Care?

Rob Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rob Patterson

The majors were an almost ghostly presence at SXSW 2010. The indies have now seized the day within the leading-edge music market.

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Ryan Grim

'Baby Killer' Yelled At Bart Stupak During Health Care Debate (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

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A Republican member of Congress apparently called Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) a "baby killer" near the end of the day-long House debate on health care ...

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Health Care Debate: LIVE Updates, Video

Posted 05.25.2011

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Today is THE DAY for health care reform, and this page will bring you all the breaking news, tweets, photos, and video, all in one place. Flip thr...

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Health Care Vote: LIVE UPDATES

Posted 05.25.2011

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Today is THE DAY for health care reform, and this page will bring you all the breaking news, tweets, photos, and video, all in one place. Flip thr...

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A Flawed Step Forward on Health Care Reform

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

We all know how much the media love conflict, and they have fallen in love with the health care debate. To say the process hasn't been pretty would be one of the biggest Washington understatements in years.

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