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Elmo Band-Aids and Other Ideas: Health Care Reform from the Bottom Up

Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Peter Schwartz

To enter the contest, you can submit a three-word phrase via your Twitter account.

Why Society Works Better When We're Afraid and Fat

Christina Pirello | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Christina Pirello

We need to consider what has happened to the quality of our lives since we gave away control of our bodies; we must learn to use pharmaceuticals more appropriately and not medicate ourselves into oblivion.

Healthcare Despair

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dr. Susan Corso

Until everyone has health care none of us really do.

Fake It Till You Make It: Placebos Are Getting More Effective

wired.com | STEVE SILBERMAN | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Merck was in trouble. In 2002, the pharmaceutical giant was falling behind its rivals in sales. Even worse, patents on five blockbuster drugs were abo...

Fixed?

Wendy Block | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Wendy Block

Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Milk. All special interest patrons of America's Big Money bordello. What are good progressives to do? Either we get lobotomies or we fix the way the country finances politics.

Firing Squads and Death Panels

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
B. Jeffrey Madoff

My grandmother was one of the first people a pacemaker was used on. A lot of very sincere people believe that if Obama's health care reform bill passes, old people will essentially be facing death panels and denied care.

PhRMA Spent $6.2M lobbying in 2Q

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

WASHINGTON - The pharmaceutical industry's primary trade group spent nearly $6.2 million lobbying in the second quarter on health care reform provisio...

Bogged Down By Special Interest, Health Care Reform Becomes a Political Tool Instead of a People's Right

Dr. Erika Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Dr. Erika Schwartz

Do not allow America to continue being manipulated by special interest groups and help the people of America understand that they must control their own fate.

I Am a Business Owner, and I Fully Support a Public Health Option

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau

I am not an expert on health care reform. But I am an individual who is sick and tired of having one industry have so much control over my personal and business life.

Health Care Reform: Management or Leadership, America? You Pick.

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Dr. Susan Corso

I wasn't going to weigh in on the healthcare reform debate. Truthfully, the debate seems particularly pointless to me because I don't think there is a...

Is Obama a Back-Room Blue Dog on Health Care?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Miles Mogulescu

The town halls make for good television, but they're a side-show to the main event. The real story should be about the back room deals reportedly being negotiated with the Obama administration.

Ryan Grim On The White House Deal With Big Pharma (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim was on MSNBC's "Morning Meeting" with Dylan Ratigan to discuss the internal memo detailing what the White House gave t...

Ryan Grim

Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

A memo obtained by the Huffington Post confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort of wide-rangin...

The Health Care Reform Debacle: Obama's Coming-Out

Michael Brenner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Michael Brenner

Serious health care reform is gone with the wind. It cannot be retrieved. And the question: 'who really is Barack Obama?' is now more compelling than ever.

Change We Can Believe In: Feelings Toward the Administration by Those Who Elected It

Drew Westen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Drew Westen

The American people did not vote for "bipartisan" solutions that split the difference between the failed ideology of the last eight years and the change the president and the super-majorities they elected in both houses of Congress promised.

d'Artoon -- Exorcizing Health Care Reform

John Krifka | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
John Krifka

An unlikely figure joins the health care debate.

Obama on Drugs: 98% Cheney?

Greg Palast | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Greg Palast

When Cheney was caught having secret meetings with oil companies, we denounced it as a case of foxes in the henhouse. But Obama's secret meetings, he assures us, are in the public interest.

When It Comes to Healthcare, Be Selfish

Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Gerald Sindell

When I see talking heads, "experts," and politicians talking about healthcare, I want them to answer the people's, and only the people's questions.

Health-Care Reform was the Key Issue in the 2008 Campaign...What Happened?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Joseph A. Palermo

For some, the system works best when elites make the most fundamental decisions for our society, unencumbered by the trappings of "democracy", and when the population is depoliticized, misinformed, or both.

Big Pharma has Lured Dems Into a Faustian Bargain

Merrill Goozner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Merrill Goozner

Reformers were naïve if they thought the world had changed simply because there were new tenants in the majority offices on the Hill or in the White House.

Sam Stein

White House Insists It Didn't Give Away The Store To Big Pharma

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

In the latest in a series of conflicting statements, White House officials on Monday insisted that they never entered into a deal with pharmaceutical ...

Is Health Care Reform About to Go the Way of No Child Left Behind?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Arianna Huffington

The White House may be willing to cave on drug price negotiations and having a public option. Giving us health care reform without those key ingredients is like serving a PBJ sandwich without the peanut butter or the jelly.

White House Deal With Big Pharma Undermines Democracy: Robert Reich

wallstreetpit.com | Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Last week, after being reported in the Los Angeles Times, the White House confirmed it has promised Big Pharma that any healthcare legislation will ba...

PhRMA Walks Back Claim Of White House Deal

Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

In yet another in a series of evolving statements and backtracks, an official with the country's major pharmaceutical lobby said on Monday that it nev...

WATCH: Obama's New Mistress -- Big Pharma

Lee Camp | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Lee Camp

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