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Meet UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley: Rich, Powerful, Not Yet Famous

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unitedhealth, Stephen Hemsley, Hcan, Cory Alexander, St. Matthrew's Lutheran Church, Andrew Cuomo, Tom Strickland, Judah Sommer, Consumer Watchdog, Public Campaign, Jerry Brown, Rev. Grant Stevenson, Tom Daschle, Brave New Films, Wellpoint, American Medical Association, Health Cre for American Now, Minneapolis, Ingenix, Wayzata, Politics News
Peter Dreier

Business as usual for Hemsley and UnitedHealth is a chronic pattern of abuse and neglect of its policy-holders, along with a powerful political influence-peddling operation that involves costly campaign contributions.

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Obama and the K Street Set

Thomas Frank | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, K Street, Hope, Lobbyists, Tom Daschle, Steve Elmendorf, Shepard Fairey, Barack Obama, Tosca, Politics News
Thomas Frank

Barack Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

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The Law of Unintended Consequences

Philip Lee Miller | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Howard Dean, Max Baucus, Upton Sinclair, Andrew Gelman, Eleanor Clift, Law-of-Unintended-Consequences, Bob Dole, Tom Daschle, Politics News
Philip Lee Miller

The president is spending too much political capital on this one issue, health care. It forces the issue. Either a landmark generational bill is passed or failure lurks.

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Top Adviser Calls On President Obama To Be More Bold

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michelle Obama, Gay Rights, Steve Hildebrand, Tom Daschle, President Obama, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Leadership, Health Care Legislation, Obama Campaign, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

One of President Barack Obama's former top campaign advisers is "losing patience" with the White House, he told POLITICO Tuesday morning, as frustrati...

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Sixteen Candles Por Vida: Still Remembering John Hughes

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 09.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tom Daschle Lobbyist, Damyan Kolody, Andrea Chalupa, Weed Killer in Drinking Water, Tom Daschle, John Hughes, Some Kind of Wonderful, Sixteen Candles, Entertainment News
Andrea Chalupa

Damian Kolody, an independent filmmaker in New York, on why some people were really affected by the death of director John Hughes.

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Tom Daschle: The Man Behind Insurance Cooperatives

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Unitedhealth, Insurance-Coops, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Insurance Cooperatives, Tom Daschle, Kent Conrad, Lewin Group, Health Care, Barack Obama, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

Tom Daschle, has been busy performing his dual roles as health care adviser to the White House and "highly paid policy adviser to hospital, drug, pharmaceutical and other health care industry clients."

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Conflict Of Interest? Daschle Promotes Co-ops Which Dovetails With Interests Of His Industry Clients

nytimes.com | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Alston, Daschle Co-Ops, Daschle Health Insurance Coops, Daschle Health Care Reform, Tom Daschle, Transparency, Politics News

WASHINGTON Six months have passed since the morning when Tom Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader, under fire for not paying certain taxes, ca...

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Daschle: Obama May Abandon Effort to Reach Health Deal With Republicans

Bloomberg | Edwin Chen | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Health Care Bipartisanship, Tom Daschle, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Tom Daschle Health and Human Services, Health Care Legislation, Politics News

President Barack Obama is likely in September to end Democratic efforts to work with Republicans on health-care legislation and press for a party-line...

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Tom Daschle's Secret Life Moonlighting For The Insurance Industry

Time.com | MICHAEL SCHERER | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Healthcare, Tom Daschle, Health Care Reform, Lobbying, Transparency, Politics News

This is how Washington really works: Even a top liberal advocate for taking a strong stand against the insurance industry in the health reform fight t...

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Is Now the Right Time for Immigration Reform? Chuck Schumer, the Sensenbrenner in Liberal's Clothes

Anis Shivani | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Citizenship, Detention, Biometric Identification, 2006 Immigration Bill, Illegal Immigration, Numbersusa, Jeff Sessions, Immigrants, Immigration, James Sensenbrenner, Jim Webb, Deportation, 2007 Immigration Bill, Obama Administration, Peter Schey, DREAM Act, Illegal Immigrants, Tom Daschle, McCain-Kennedy Immigration Bill, Racism, Visas, Earned Legalization, Undocumented-Immigrants, Legalization, Immigration Debate, 1986 Immigration Reform, John McCain, Alberto Gonzalez, Rush Limbaugh, Homeland Security, La Raza, Xenophobia, Amnesty, Lou Dobbs, E-Verify, Chuck Hagel, Jon Kyl, Ted Kennedy, John Cornyn, Immigration Reform, John Ashcroft, Rahm Emanuel, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, 2005 Sensenbrenner Bill, Lulac, Organized Labor, Broken Borders, Chuck Schumer, Mexican Immigration, Torture, National Identification Card, Politics News
Anis Shivani

The Schumer mandate for the undocumented to register within a short period of time, or else be permanently barred from becoming U.S. residents, is a prime example of the law run amok.

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What Does Health Mean to You?

Sean Donahue | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aspen Institute, Innovation, Health Care, Health IT, Tom Daschle, Health Care Reform, Deepak Chopra, Politics News
Sean Donahue

This was the official question that nearly 200 of the world's foremost health-care experts, physicians and scholars attempted to answer at the 2009 Aspen Health Forum.

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Health-Care Reform: What I Saw Today on Capitol Hill

Nancy Keenan | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Tom Daschle, Help, Reform, Senator Dodd, Anti-Choice Attacks, Senator Barbara Mikulski, Health Care, Senator Tom Harkin, Politics News
Nancy Keenan

We were united in our praise of Sen. Dodd and other members of the Senate for making history by passing the first health-reform bill out of a congressional committee.

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Daschle At Odds With Obama On Health Care

The Daily Beast | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, President Barack Obama, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Daschle, Universal Health Care, Obama, Bob Dole, Daschle, Health Care, Healthcare, Howard Baker, Politics News

Tom Daschle, Obama's original pick to overhaul the health care system, is now floating a rival plan, to the administration's chagrin. The Daily Beast'...

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Daschle Now Claims He Never Opposed Federal Public Option

The Washington Post | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Ezra Klein, Tom Daschle, Health Insurance, Daschle, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News

Tom Daschle was almost the Obama administration's health czar before tax problems foiled his nomination. But in the months since he withdrew from the ...

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Go Away, Tom Daschle

Jesse Berney | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Public Option, President Obama, Bob Dole, Tom Daschle, Health Care Reform, Bipartisan, Tom Daschle Health Care, Health Care, Politics News
Jesse Berney

Your "bipartisan proposal" for health care was typical: all the compromise came from the Democratic side. It included no public option, leaving the health care out of health care reform.

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Daschle Is Dead Wrong About the Public Option

Mike Lux | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Public Option, Health Care, Tom Daschle Health Care, Tom Daschle, Politics News
Mike Lux

Dropping the public option from the health care plan is not a minor issue, and doing it will not help get health care reform passed. In fact, it will almost certainly make the bill die a quick death.

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Sam Stein

Daschle's Firm And Group Have Ties To Private Health Care Industry

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bipartisan Policy Center Pharma, Tom Daschle, Daschle Lobbyists, Bipartisan Policy Center, Health Insurance Industry, Bipartisan Policy Center Health Care, Daschle Health Care, Reform Policy, Health Care Industry, Politics News

The firm that houses two of the three former Senate majority leaders who proposed a comprehensive health care compromise plan on Wednesday has been pa...

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Sam Stein

Daschle Urges Obama To Drop Federal Public Health Care Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama Public Plan, Tom Daschle, Daschle Public Plan, Politics News

*** UPDATED BELOW *** The man once slated to head Barack Obama's health care system overhaul is now coming out against one of the chief components of...

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Ex-Senate Leaders Unveiling Health Care Compromise

AP | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tom Daschle, George MItchell, Health Care Compromise, Ex-Senate Leaders Health Care, Health Care, Senate Health Care Compromise, Bob Dole, Howard Baker, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Trying to prevent a repeat of the 1990s standoff over health care, four former Senate leaders are preparing a plan that combines id...

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ObamaHealth: The Prognosis at 100 Days

RJ Eskow | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ezekiel Emanuel, Peter Orszag, Tom Daschle, Max Baucus, President Obama, Bill Scher, First Hundred Days, 100 Days, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
RJ Eskow

Is Obama behind schedule on defining his health policy? That's the wrong question. He's on a different schedule, one that favors process over policy.

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Wal-Mart and the Future of Healthcare

Ron Galloway | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Walmart, Healthcare, Seiu, Tom Daschle, Electronic Health Records, Information Technology, Corporate Responsibility, Health Clinics, Electronic Healthcare Records, Medicare, Medicaid, Netflix, Sam's Club, Health Care, Wal-Mart, Business News
Ron Galloway

In healthcare I think through sheer scale Wal-Mart wi'll prevail, and change the landscape of the industry as a healthcare "black swan."

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Why Can't Poor Tim Geithner Staff Up At Treasury? A Scandal That Calls For Diogenes?

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Treasury Department, Shakespeare, Richard Shelby, Rush Limbaugh, Diogenes-of-Synope, Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, Politics News
Thomas de Zengotita

Why, after all this time, in this moment of desperate urgency, can't poor Tim fill senior positions at the Treasury Department?

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March Madness in the White House: NCAA Picks from Obama, Clinton, Biden, and More

Carlos Watson | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2009 Ncaa Tournament, March Madness, Hillary Clinton, Reggie Love, Tim Geithner, Barack Obama, Hilda Solis, Tom Daschle, Obama Ncaa Bracket, Joe Biden, Bill Richardson, Politics News
Carlos Watson

The president has already announced his Final Four, but who do you think his cabinet members and advisers picked to win the championship? Like most of us, they'll decide with their hearts.

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Alexander Hamilton's Scorn: Reflecting on AIG, Goldman, Hank Paulson and Bob Rubin

Steve Clemons | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Alexander Hamilton, Bank of New York, Department of the Treasury, Hamilton Project, Executive Bonuses, Barack Obama, Lawrence Summers, Robert Rubin, Goldman Sachs, Aig, Citibank, Tom Daschle, Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner, American Financial Crisis, Nancy Killifer, Ron Chernow, Politics News
Steve Clemons

While many are criticizing the gross AIG taxpayer-funded bonuses of senior executives, the truth is that this kind of corruption is relatively small time -- even at $165 million -- and was predictable.

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Geithner Alone: Top Two Treasury Nominees Pull Out

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Tierney, Geithner, Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, Annette Nazareth, Treasury Department, Tim Geithner, Treasury Nominees, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is two steps further away from filling the ranks of his senior staff. As markets quake and Tre...

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