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Arianna stopped by Countdown with Keith Olbermann Monday night to talk about the politics behind the Senate's approach to health care reform, includin...
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Democrats Now "All In" On Healthcare Reform
President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party are now, to use a poker term, "all in" on healthcare reform. Some may immediately respond to hearing ...
Reform...at What Cost?
Like it or not, abortion is a legal medical procedure and a decision that has to be left to doctors and families. Why are women being singled out and denied coverage, even through private plans?
What Spirituality Has To Do With The Health Care Debate
Spirituality should be approached rationally, not solely through inspiration, emotion and blind faith. It's time to bring it into the 21st Century, and for irrationality that seeps into other crucial debates to be stymied.
RIP Compassionate Conservatism
In taking a purely obstructionist stance, the GOP has evinced scant empathy for tens of millions of fellow Americans who lack basic protection against illness or injury. So much for compassionate conservatism.
District Pizza
The Senate collectively orders from Papa John's. To see more of August J. Pollak's cartoon "Some Guy With a Website," check out the archive....
Chicago's Public Health Budget Gets The Flu
Some essential city services are too important to do without. Alarmingly, Mayor Daley's 2010 budget plan calls for a $2.1 million funding reduction (6.7% cut) for public health.
Health Care Debate Looms Large At Thanksgiving
Turkey, cranberry sauce, and a side of health care debate is dominating Thanksgiving tables this year. The debate gets more heated when some worry that their situation will be adversely affected.
J'Accuse: 300,000 Newborn Children Are Damaged Each Year in America by Inadequate Health Care and Environmental Impacts
Approximately 4 million live children are born each year in America, and by age six more than 15 percent of those children have clinically recognized ...
Point 6: Connectivity Is Key To Care Improvement
It is sad and ironic that an information-dependent profession is denied convenient access to needed information in an age when we connect other aspects of our infrastructure easily and often.
The Insincerity Of The Public Option Haters: Lieberman's Weasel
When Sen. Joe Lieberman first announced he would filibuster any health care bill with a public option, I noted that he lied, falsely calling the publi...
Going Broke in Albany, Part 1: Explaining The Budget and How We're Botching It
If the Senate gets their way, in just a few years we'll end up having to gut education, Medicaid, and public assistance. In just a few months, we'll have to lay off state employees.
How the Media and the GOP Turn Lies Into Zombie Lies: A Health Care Case Study
The health care reform coverage is an example of how a standard Washington lie becomes a zombie lie -- a lie that simply will not die. It is repeated over and over and over again until it becomes conventional wisdom.
When Can A Public Option Not Be A Public Option?
There are proposals for opt-out, opt-in, and "triggered" public options. What are Americans to think or to do? Let's get back to basics.
Fast Food Jesus
Just as the health care debate has served as a springboard for those who prey upon fear, Obama must do the same, but for a vastly different purpose: to speak about the nature of the discourse and plant a seed of peace.
The Price of Hospital Stays Around the World
Technology costs more in the United States. Physicians cost more in the United States. What about the charges of health care facilities? Today, we examine the cost of hospitalization to find more of the same.
When Less Is More... Mammography and Paps
By ignoring recommendations on mammography, Sebelius demonstrated why the government has been unable to rein in health care costs: Even when testing is found to be harmful, our leaders still demand more tests.
What Is the Health Care Debate Really About?
What is the current health care really about? Is it about cost? Is it government's inability to adequately deliver services that are best left to the private sector? Or is it a middle-class disdain for the poor?
What's So Wrong with "Death Panels"?
We have witnessed public controversy over claims that end-of-life counseling provisions amount to "death panels." That doesn't mean that there is no role for ethics panels to determine that some patients are beyond medical hope.
While Senators Denounce Medicaid, The Uninsured Turn To Charity
This weekend, thousands of Arkansans convened at the Statehouse Convention Center for a mass free health clinic, the first of its kind in Little Rock.
Better: The Malcolm Gladwell of the Medical World Offers His Thoughts on Health Care
Atul Gawande is a doctor who writes for the New Yorker. Or perhaps, at this point in his career, he's a journalist who also happens to be a doctor.
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