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Love Thy Birther

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mitch McConnell, Abortion, Tiny Tim, The Bible, Astro-Turf-Groups, Arguing With Idiots, Single-Payer Health Insurance, The Free Choice Act, Shakespeare, Glenn Beck, A Christmas Carol, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jonathan Leigh Solomon

Progressives have an admirable concern for those in dire circumstances. But what's our feeling when it comes to the stranger on the train - one in the crowd which is devoted to policies counter to their own welfare?

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Hope vs Failure -- Is There Anything We Can Do as Citizens, Short of Going Out on the Streets Like the Iranian Patriots?

Howie Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Howie Klein

The DCCC sent out a really exceptionally well done clip today pointing to the difference between Obama's vision of hope and the Republican vision of f...

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Corporate Profit Continues to Define Health Care Reform & the U.S. Race to the Bottom

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ron Pollack, Uwe Reinhardt, Economic Crisis, Single-Payer Health Insurance, Public-Private Health Care Reform, Minimum Benefit Policies, Health Care Reform, Insurance Companies, Multi-Payer Insurances, National Health Care, Corporatocracy, Health, Denial Management, Gaming the System for Profit, Primary Care Crisis, Framing the Issue of Health Care Reform, Physicians for a National Health Care Program, "Free Market" Health Care, Politics News
Michele Swenson

Doctors and hospitals must maintain costly administrative staffs to deal with the bureaucracy. Inflated administration consumes one-third (31 percent) of Americans' health dollars.

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Like Wall Street, Current Health Care Policy Privatizes Profit And Socializes Risk

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economic Crisis, Government Health Care, Medical Bankdruptcy, Taxpayer-Subsidized Medical Costs, Unpaid Medical Bills, Privatized Medicare, National Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Socialized Risk, Rising Out-of-Pocket Health Costs, Socialized Medicine, For-Profit Insurance, Health, Single Payer Health Insurance, Privatized Profit, Medicare Prescription Drug Reform, Health Care, American Hospital Association, Unitedhealth, William McGuire, John McCain, Minimum Benefit Plans, America's Health Insurance Providers, American Medical Association, Home News
Michele Swenson

The excesses of the health insurance industry resemble those of Wall Street and the subprime housing market, typified by privatized profits for insurers and socialized risk for taxpayers and consumers.

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