Federal Health Benefits

High-Risk Illinois Patients May Be Stuck Paying High Rates Despite Federal Program

AP | CARLA K. JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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CHICAGO — For thousands of Illinois residents who pay high health insurance premiums because of medical problems, the new federal health care le...

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Obama Won't Push Equal Rights Law in the Right Direction

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011

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Emma Ruby-Sachs

While the Obama administration pretends that the law is a concrete inflexible animal incapable of multiple interpretations, LGBT rights in this country continue to languish. Strong leadership is needed.

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A New American Boxing Day Tradition

Justin Callaway | Posted 05.25.2011

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Justin Callaway

A proposal: members of Congress must find a family in the "final throes" of foreclosure within their electoral base and switch places with them for the remainder of their luxuriously long winter vacations.

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