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Please Click Here: The New Health Care Plan

Jennifer Evans Gardner | Posted 04.24.2012

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Jennifer Evans Gardner

All those who believe that health care should be a right and not a privilege: you are excused. All the rest of you, please get your credit cards ready.

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Friday Talking Points -- Excerpting Obama's Press Conference

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.31.2011

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Chris Weigant

An important debate flared this week -- one in which sides were chosen, positions staked out, and invective hurled. I will let that sentence stand in...

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Weekly Pulse: New Anti-Choice Bill Suggests More #DearJohn Letters Needed

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Health advocate Eesha Pandit and blogger Sady Doyle join GRITtv host Laura Flanders for a discussion...

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Dick Cheney's Heart Device Was Developed With Taxpayer Money

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

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Bob Cesca

The ingenious left ventricular assist device heart pump used by the former vice president was developed by the National Institutes of Health with taxpayer money.

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My Bout with Socialist Medicine, British Style

Michael Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Socialized Medicine, National Health Service, Socialism, Public Health Care Option, Comedy News
Michael Schwartz

In a recent trip to England, I was struck by a severe case of sciatica. With excruciating pain, I was forced to face the nightmare of the National Health System.

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Change We Can Believe In, Even From Paris

Veronica De La Cruz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Health Care Reform, u.s. Health Care System, France Health Care System, French Health Care System, United States Health Care System, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Veronica De La Cruz

There is still plenty of work to be done. So before we uncork the champagne, let's roll up our sleeves. No matter what side you were on, think of this as the beginning, not the end.

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What the Health Care Vote Says About the Parties

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Ostroy

Let's face it, what the health care reform bill vote really boils down to is this: Democrats want to help people, Republicans only care about their personal wealth and keeping their taxes low.

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A Guide for Those Traumatized by Right-Wing, Fear-Mongering Lies on Health Care Reform

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mitchell Bard

Since the right has had no trouble reducing nuanced issues to sound bytes, I have no choice but to provide more accurate characterizations than some of the common themes being pushed on the right.

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The New British PM and Socialized Medicine

Saul Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Saul Friedman

Among the 30 plus nations in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, only Turkey, Mexico and the United States do not provide government-run universal health care.

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Sarkozy Adviser Minc Triggers French Death Panel Debate

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Ehrmann

Ridley Scott's Robin Hood opened the Golden Lion awards at Cannes. But this year's golden coffin will go to Alain Minc, the spin doctor who advises French president Nicholas Sarkozy.

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Sarah Palin's Canadian Health Care

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Anthony Weiner, John McCain, Alaska, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, Canada, Socialism, Sarah Palin, Stalinism, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

Sarah Palin's recent statement that, presumably during her childhood, she and her family used to cross the border to take advantage of Canada's health care system is not so much a gaffe as an interesting insight into a politician.

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Democrats Retreat On AutoCare Reform

Steven Clifford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Steven Clifford

America has the most expensive and least effective AutoCare system in the world, but is incapable of changing it. Prior to World War II, most people ...

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Rush Limbaugh Inspired By Union Hospitals, Socialized Medicine

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Conservatives can rejoice -- Rush Limbaugh recently left Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu hospital with a clean bill of health. Despite complaints...

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Afraid of Socialist Healthcare in America? It's Already Here

Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael J. O'Neil

Any health care system that does not provide unlimited care to everyone employs rationing.

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Health Care Reform Struggle Will Not End This Year

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

No matter what healthcare bill passes, it is not going to remain static. It is going to be revisited again and again over the next few decades. That's how lawmaking works.

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Canadian Health Care: Five "Terrifying" Testimonials

Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.25.2011

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Valerie Tarico

I married a Canadian, which got me, among other things, some pretty awesome Canadian in-laws, two kids, friends who think hockey is worth watching, and a window into Canada's health care system.

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Waffling Democrats' Health Care Hypocrisy

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

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Peter Dreier

After years of feeding at the health insurance industry trough, it's no wonder these conservative Democratic senators oppose a public option plan to compete for consumers.

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The New Town Hall Reality: Why Did Congressman Baron Hill (D-IN) Blow Up?

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gail McGowan Mellor

At the New Albany meeting, people were polite and even relaxed enough to chuckle whenever someone spoke with dry Indiana wit. Yet Hill silenced would-be hecklers by saying "Let me answer that before you interrupt, please!"

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Senator Mark Begich's Town Hall on Health Care: Tales from a Survivor

Jeanne Devon (AKMuckraker) | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeanne Devon (AKMuckraker)

We know that people that go to health care town halls really aren't interested in what anyone has to say. But to see it so clearly and so close at a meeting in Anchorage this weekend was quite something.

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Better Health Care Through Rationing

Gov. Dick Lamm | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gov. Dick Lamm

Rationing is the price we must pay for our creative success. It is the ugly child of the marriage of our ingenuity and our egalitarianism.

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Poll: Majority Dismiss Right Wing Healthcare Attacks As "Scare Tactics"

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wow, this is cause for cautious optimism: Buried in a new Bloomberg poll is evidence that solid majorities dismiss all the leading right wing health c...

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4 Countries With Better Healthcare Than Ours

usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

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If the healthcare systems in Canada and Europe are so much worse than ours, somebody ought to tell the Canadians and Europeans....

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The Real NHS

Sarah E. Jones | Posted 11.17.2011

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Sarah E. Jones

Based on what I experienced at Gwynedd Hospital, I would walk into any hospital in the UK confident that I would receive the treatment I needed. I cannot say the same of American hospitals.

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Ten Inevitable Tragic Consequences of National Health Care

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Peter Breggin

With the looming probability of a "public option" as a prelude to full-blown national health care, it's important examine the most threatening and eve...

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Jason Linkins

Canadians Defend Their Health Care System In Video

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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One of the unfortunate side-effects of the often confused health care reform discourse is the way so many perfectly nice health care systems that oper...

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