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Pray for Glenn Beck

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Jim Wallis

Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.

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Obama Presses Hard to Unite Dems on Healthcare and Slaps Down Republican "Demagoguery"

Ray Hanania | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Demagoguery, Public Option, Insurance, Death Panels, Social Security, US Senate, President Obama, Government Takeover, Denial of Pre-Existing Conditions, Medicaid, Medicare, Reform, Socialism, Health Care, US House, Ted Kennedy, Joint Session of Congress, Politics News
Ray Hanania

The President's speech was so powerful it probably sent many of the nation's health insurance industry robber barons into economic cardiac arrest.

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Wendell Potter and Health Insurance Industry Misinformation

Jake Whitney | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Cigna, Whistleblower, Death Panels, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Government Takeover, Wendell Potter, Democrats, Bureaucrat, Republicans, Politics News
Jake Whitney

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.

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Town Halls: Don't Confuse Me with the Facts, My Mind Is Made Up

Linda Bergthold | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Military, Deficits, Government Bureaucracy, Government Takeover, As Good as It Gets, Socialism, Health Reform, Health Care Reform Town Halls, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

There is little opportunity for a dialogue in which facts are presented if the people you are talking to have already made up their minds. BUT, if you want an effective Town Hall, here's some advice.

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This Boyfriend May Be Hazardous To Your Health

Nancy Giles | Posted 09.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Government Takeover, Health Care Reform, Dating Advice, Single Women, Comedy News
Nancy Giles

Memo to my fellow Americans, with a special shout-out to my sister single women: settling for health insurance coverage as it exists now would be like settling for a bad boyfriend. And we deserve better.

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Cantor: "Waterloo" Not Right Way To Look At Health Care

Politico | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim DeMint Waterloo, Pelosi, Health Care Reform, Government Takeover, Eric Cantor, Health Care, Jim Demint, Waterloo, Pjtv, Politics News

Asked about Jim DeMint's remark that health care could be Obama's "Waterloo," Cantor said: "I don't think that's a good way to look at it. We are cer...

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Bizarro World of Health Care Reform: Standing Language On Its Head

Michele Swenson | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dr. David Himmelstein, Turning Language on Its Head, Karen Ignani, Public Option, Government Bureaucracy, Bizarro World, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care Reform, For-Profit Insurances, Government Takeover, Single Payer Health Care, Ahip, Frank Luntz, Spinning the Issue, Physicians for a National Health Program, Savings With National Health Care, Medical Malpractice, Best Medical Practices, Keeping the Insurance You Have, Transparency, Creeping Socialism, Cbo Report, Politics News
Michele Swenson

Corporate socialism remains at the center of our "uniquely American" failed, fragmented, U.S. health insurance model that emulates the Wall Street norm of privatized profit and socialized risk.

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An Ad Script for Teddy Kennedy on Healthcare Reform

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

In the debate about healthcare reform, why are the loudest voices in the room the ones who seemingly are against all reform? Where are the champions ...

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GOP Senators Equate Public Health Plan With "Government Takeover"

Wall Street Journal | Patrick Yoest | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Health Insurance Plan, Charles Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Health Care Reform, Government-Takeover, Barack Obama, GOP Senators, Politics News

Republican members of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee criticized proposals to create a public health insurance option to compete with private insure...

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