Health Care Plan

How to Live a Long and Healthy Life: The 10 Things Every Woman Needs to Know

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 06.14.2011

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Over the past two decades, important actions have been taken to make women's health a national priority. Now let's build on this success by working together to ensure a healthier future for women in the years ahead.

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Headstrong, Part I: My World Turned Upside Down

Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011

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A little over three years ago, I was flying high. I was chief marketing officer at the ad agency JWT Worldwide. I'd been credited with popularizing th...

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Michelle Obama And Jill Biden Announce New Health Care Services (VIDEO)

WhiteHouse.gov | Posted 11.17.2011

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First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden teamed up to announce two new health care initiatives from the White House. This fall, under the Afforda...

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Stanford To Cover Transgender Surgery In Health Care Plan

The Stanford Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the addition next year of transgender surgery coverage to Cardinal Care, Stanford's student health plan, some students say there are quality-of-l...

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Health Care: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.

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Small Businesses Take A Back Seat In Obama's Health-Care Plan

Newsweek | Kevin Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

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A healthy percentage of the uninsured, about 46 percent, work for small businesses too poor to afford insurance. And poll after poll says that fear of...

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WaPo: GOP Submits Bizarre Amendments

Washington Post | Dana Milbank | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's getting late in the Senate Finance Committee's writing of a health-care bill, but not too late for Republicans on Wednesday to make one more vali...

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Health Care, Immigrants, and the Character of Our Country

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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With an issue like health, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debate.

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Health Care FLASHBACKS (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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How Barack Obama has changed! We recently learned that President Obama has secretly made a sweetheart deal with Billy Tauzin, the former congressman ...

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House Republicans Unveil $700B Health Care Plan

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a $700 billion health care plan that would offer tax credits to help people buy insurance, ...

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CBO Deals New Blow To Health Plan

Politico | CHRIS FRATES | Posted 05.25.2011

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For the second time this month, congressional budget analysts have dealt a blow to the Democrat's health reform efforts, this time by saying a plan to...

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Paying For Healthcare Overhaul Likely To Fall Unevenly On States

Los Angeles Times | Janet Hook | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Congress decides how to pay for President Obama's signature healthcare initiative, some of his strongest political bastions may be footing a heav...

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Schumer: Dems May Have To Go It Alone On Health Care

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Democrats are becoming bolder about their idea that middle-class familes get the option of joining a government insurance plan in a...

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Kennedy Bill Would Make Employers Provide Health care

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Employers would be required to offer health care to employees or pay a penalty, and all Americans would be guaranteed health insura...

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Obama's Health Care Strategy Revealed

New York Times | MATT BAI | Posted 05.25.2011

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Sometime in the next few weeks, Congress and the White House will descend into the labyrinthine politics of comprehensive health care reform. For Bara...

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Obama Open To Plan Requiring Everyone To Get Insurance

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's hopes for a bipartisan health deal seemed in jeopardy Thursday as GOP senators protested his renewed suppo...

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Republican Health Care Plan Unveiled

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Republicans in Congress are slated to unveil their health care reform plan on Wednesday, a proposal that relies heavily on private mechanisms, contain...

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A Presidential Rx to Improve Health in the New Year

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Our country faces significant health challenges including skyrocketing costs, declining funding for scientific research, and lack of innovation in the government's response to emerging threats.

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McCain Campaign: Our Health Plan Doesn't Work

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

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According to McCain's senior economic policy adviser, McCain's health care plan won't destroy the employer-based insurance system because the plan doesn't work.

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Giuliani Derides "Socialized Medicine," But Expanded Government Health Care While Mayor

New York Times | SARAH KERSHAW | Posted 05.25.2011

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In campaigning for president, Rudolph W. Giuliani has criticized Democrats for promoting "socialized" medicine, boasted about his record as mayor of N...

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