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Better or Worse

Mike Lux | Posted 12.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Public Option, 2009 Obama Administration, Medicare Buy In, Health Care Compromise, American Medical Association, Medicare, Ama, Schip, Politics News

All the good things announced in Tuesday night's compromise are under vicious assault by the health industry lobbies, and the bad things still might get negotiated for the better in conference.

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Waffling Democrats' Health Care Hypocrisy

Peter Dreier | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Veterans Health Administraiton, Ben Nelson, Public Option, Va, Mary Landrieu, Health Insurance Lobby, Socialized Medicine, Blanche Lincoln, Health Care Reform, Veterans Administration, Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman, American Medical Association, Medicare, Kent Conrad, Health Care, Campaign Contributions, Politics News

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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Health Care Debate Looms Large At Thanksgiving

Jerry Chautin | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

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.

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I Am a Scorpion. It Is My Nature.

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, American Medical Association, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Politicians, Frogs, Scorpions, Politics News

The fable, as it is told, involves a scorpion and a frog. The scorpion needs to cross a river, so he asks the frog to carry him on his back.&nbs...

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AMA Votes To Seek Repeal Of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: AMA Dadt Repeal, AMA Don't Ask Don't Tell, AMA Gay Rights, Gay Rights, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gays in the Military, Dadt Repeal, AMA Dadt, Dadt, American Medical Association, AMA Dadt Vote, Ama, Politics News

CHICAGO — The American Medical Association on Tuesday voted to oppose the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and declared that gay marri...

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AMA, AARP Support House Health Care Bill

AP | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Ama Health Care Reform, Ama, House Health Bill, Health Care Reform, American Medical Association, Ama Health Bill, Ama House Health Care Bill, James Rohack, Ama Health Insurance Reform, Health Insurance Reform, House Health Care Bill, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is trumpeting endorsements from the AARP and the American Medical Association of House Democrats' health car...

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AMA Faces Revolt After Humiliating Senate Defeat

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ama Health Care Reform, Ama Public Option, Doctors Health Insurance Reform, Ama, Health Care Debate, Public Option, Ama Lobby, Health Care Reform, American Medical Association, Ama Health Insurance Reform, Doctors Health Care Reform, Health Care Public Option, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Does the AMA matter in the health care debate? Congress is beginning to have its doubts, despite the medical association's deep poc...

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An Idea Whose Time Has Come

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Equality, National Review, Reproductive Choice, Dignity, Civil Rights, American Medical Association, Human Liberty, Twenty-First Century, Personal Choice, Death Panel, Politics News

End of life choice is the human liberty movement of the twenty-first century. This is the arena where dignity and liberty stride forward today. The struggle for end-of-life choices is a movement whose time has come.

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Lessons From Letterman in Health Reform

Robert Reich | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Senate Finance Committee Health Care Bill, Robert Reich, Public Option, Middle Class, Health Insurance, Obama Big Pharma, Barack Obama, Ama, Nancy Pelosi, American Medical Association, Health Care, Health Insurance Reform, David Letterman, Politics News

If Obama doesn't weigh in forcefully and say "no" to the hush money arranged in January for Big Pharma, big insurance, and the AMA, America's middle class will get walloped. And so will he in 2012.

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HealthCare Focus: Quality versus Cost

Philip Lee Miller | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Frontline, World Health Organization, John Podesta, American Medical Association, Frank Luntz, Kaiser Permanente, Barack Obama, Charlie Rose, Health-Maintenance-Organizations, US News & World Report, Politics News

Service, expertise, and time. Those are the real challenges of the Healthcare debate.

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Is Eli Lilly Milking Cancer by Promoting and Treating It?

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Richard Burroughs, Colon Cancer, Milk, Diethylstilbestrol, Risk Factors, Rbgh, Diabetes. Settlement, Cell Division, Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1, Consumer Protection Claim, Antibiotic Resistance, Non-GMO., Lung Cancer, Dairy Products, Eli Lilly, Fraternal Twins, Breast Cancer, Fda, American Nurses Association, Hormone, American Medical Association, Cancer, Your Milk on Drugs, Blood Sugar, Wal-Mart, Dairies, Breast Cancer Action, Zyprexa, Obesity, Milking Cancer, Milk Supply, Igf-1, Rbst, Monsanto, Prostate Cancer, Bovine Growth Hormone, Food and Drug Administration, Journal of Reproductive Medicine, Illegally Marketing the Drug, Mastitis, Elanco, Evista, Rbst-Free, Rbgh-Free, Des, Business News

Would Eli Lilly consciously risk our health just to increase their profit? What kind of company are they, and can we trust them with our food?

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

Peter Dreier | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

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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Why Medical Malpractice Reform Is Off Limits

wsj.com | PHILIP K. HOWARD | Posted 11.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medical Malpractice Reform, Doctors, American Medical Association, Health Care, Medical Malpractice, Philip Howard, Politics News

Eliminating defensive medicine could save upwards of $200 billion in health-care costs annually, according to estimates by the American Medical Associ...

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Ignored by All Media: Major Health Care Provider Organizations Testify in Support of House Bill

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Nursing Association, Hr 3200, Aarp, American Medical Association, Healthcare Reform, American Hospital Association, Politics News

It might do the media well to devote more than one segment to the reality that the major health care providers and established patient organizations support the President's health care reform.

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Obama: Confident Congress Will Pass "Good Health Care Bill"

AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Federal Budget Deficit, Olympia Snowe, President Obama, American Medical Association, Healthcare Reform, Robert Gibbs, Healthcare Costs, Politics News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama began a week that will dwell heavily on overhauling the health care system, declaring himself confident Cong...

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Baucus Co-Op Plan "Authored" By Ex-Insurance Industry VP

Campaign Silo | Jane Hamsher | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Mike Ross, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Lobbyists, Healthcare Cooperatives, Kent Conrad, PhRMA Lobby, Max Baucus, American Medical Association, Healthcare Reform, Blue Dog Democrats, Wellpoint, Politics News

When Max Baucus circulated his draft plan earlier this week, the PDF documentation page (image) indicates that the "author" was ex-Wellpoint VP Liz Fo...

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New Jersey Doctors Getting Paid Extra To Save Hospitals Money

AP | GEOFF MULVIHILL | Posted 09.19.2009 | New York

Read More: Alan Pope, Dr. Alan Pope, New Jersey, Gainsharing, New Jersey Hospitals, American Medical Association, New Jersey Hospitals Association, Medicaid, Medicare, Nj Hospital Gainsharing, New York News

MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — A dozen New Jersey hospitals are paying doctors as an incentive to save the hospitals money. The principle is known as gai...

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The Truth About Socialized Medicine

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare, Socialized Medicine, Ronald Reagan, Madeleine M. Kunin, Socialized Healthcare, American Medical Association, Health Care, Politics News

Ronald Reagan turned out to be wrong. Most of us are so happy, in our sunset years, to have access to Medicare, and yes, we are still free.

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AP Fact Check: No 'Death Panel' In Health Care Bill

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Palin, Sarah Palin, Death Panels, Palin Obama Death Panel, Palin Death Panels, Euthanasia, Palin Health Care, Medicare, Earl Blumenauer, Aarp, End of Life Care, End of Life, American Medical Association, Ama, Health Action, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says the health care overhaul bill would set up a "death panel." Federal ...

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What Doctors Actually Endorse For Healthcare Reform (Hint: It's Not In This Bill)

Dr. Daniel Palestrant | Posted 08.23.2009 | Home

Read More: Health Care Bill, Health, President Obama, Health Care Reform, American Medical Association, Obama, Health Care, Barack Obama, Home News

On July 16th, the American Medical Association endorsed the House Healthcare Reform Bill. Since then over 10,000 US physicians have used Sermo to voi...

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Spinning Health Care: A Bad Case of Vertigo

Norman Solomon | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Healthcare Apartheid, President Obama, Columbia Journalism Review, Trudy Lieberman, Single Payer, Max Baucus, New York Times, American Medical Association, Washington Post, Medicare, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Gail Collins, Politics News

A "public plan" coexisting with the private health insurance system is inherently reconciled to major inequality in access to health care.

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Too Fat to Be a Surgeon General?

Linda Bergthold | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Regina Benjamin, C Street House, Dr. Koop, Obama Surgeon General, American Medical Association, Obesity, Jocelyn Elders, Surgeon General, Obama Smoking, Politics News

The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance has taken up the cause of defending Surgeon General Nominee Benjamin. The discrimination against people of "weight" is real, and it is not something to joke about.

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Why Physicians Always Get Screwed, Thanks AMA

Dr. Daniel Palestrant | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: American Medical Association, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health, Living News

On July 16th, the AMA publicly endorsed the House Healthcare Reform Bill. Like many physicians in this country, I was shocked and surprised, given th...

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