There they go again. Now that the "death panel" lie has snookered nearly half the country, the Washington Times is going for the other half in an edit...
The truth is, death panels already exist. Every day in this country, life and death decisions are made by insurance companies, whose only motivation is profit.
As a doctor specializing in palliative care and hospice, I'm disheartened to see how end-of-life counseling was twisted into something sinister and untrue, then ultimately dropped because it was deemed too divisive.
"I would point out that the greatest anxiety about the president's policies tends to come from independents," he said. Long before the tea parties or...
If readers are intent on being deceived by one kind of magician or another I'd suggest they put their faith in the imaginary lottery folks or the cash-strapped Nigerians. They harm only the gullible.
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...
Homosexuality will be classified as a mental illness, unless of course you're a male, Christian politician. OxyContin will be free, untraceable and in donut form. All illegal aliens will be covered... with dirt.
Death is essentially a taboo topic in public debates, and serious discussion about terminal illness and death has been almost completely lacking in the recent health care debates.
Wall Street and Washington don't understand what is happening on Main Street. The people in Washington are pushing the line that they saved us from "something even worse." Like what?
People clamor for health care to be treated like any other good or service, but as soon as people start talking about how much bang you're getting for your buck the clamor morphs into outrage over rationing.
In an appearance on Newsmax TV last Friday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) expressed support for Rep. Joe Wilson in his "outburst" during President O...
For two decades now, we have become accustomed to justifying any manner of spending, from education to tax cuts, as an investment in our future.
Does it not seem that when the US can afford and not question nearly 1,000 military bases on other people's sovereign soil -- 287 of them in Germany alone -- that we can afford to create jobs?
Conservatives bathed in daily lies -- from WMDs to "death panels" -- have become so comfortable spreading them that they treat it like good, clean fun for the whole family.
Here's the thing: Muhammad Ali also had a way with words, but it helped enormously that he could also punch guys in the face.
Joe Wilson's outburst Wednesday night earned more than a personal rebuke from the president and a dagger-eyed gasp from the speaker of the House; it d...
As the Republican base dwindles to Southern white males and various credulous hangers on, the whole party is set to topple just as inevitably.
Potter was vice president of corporate communications for Cigna, the fourth biggest health insurance company in America, when he decided to resign and become a public advocate for reform.
As the debate heats up in the coming days, we must paraphrase the question from our foremothers -- Mr. President, how long must women wait for equality?
The President's speech was so powerful it probably sent many of the nation's health insurance industry robber barons into economic cardiac arrest.
Any doubt that a private monopoly of our nation's health care system is dangerous should be removed by the news that Wall Street plans to profit from people not living to collect their life insurance.
Some leaders prefer to confine us in childhood, so we need never acknowledge, grieve over or plan for our own deaths. A childish approach to end-of-life issues permeated the August recess.
If one insists on finding Death Panels, they're not hard to find: The Motion Picture and Television Fund has announced it's closing health care for the renowned Motion Picture Home.
When my father died we were left in insurmountable, unrecoverable debt and we did, literally, go broke because he got sick.
If outright lies end up killing health care reform, the Republicans will have won, but, more importantly, the American people will have lost.
