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Senate Votes To Debate Health Care Reform Bill

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senat...

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Pearlstein: Restore Majority Rule To The Senate

The Washington Post | Steven Pearlstein | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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By now most people have heard the story of the frog that's put in a pot of cold water on a hot stove and doesn't notice as it is gradually boiled to d...

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No Men: The Most Ornery, Obstructionist Senators

The Daily Beast | Benjamin Sarlin | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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When Sen. Joe Lieberman issued fresh threats to filibuster any health-care reform proposal including a public option, he did more than just blunt the ...

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Catholic Church Shows Its Influence In Health Care Fight

Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...

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Virginia Foxx: Health Care Reform Is A Bigger Threat Than "Any Terrorist Right Now In Any Country" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) claimed on Monday that health care reform is a bigger threat than terrorism -- the latest incendiary comment from a Republ...

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Dennis Kucinich Wants His Single-Payer Provision Reinstated In Health Bill

The Washington Independent | Mike Lillis | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) was none too happy when House leaders stripped his single-payer provision from their $894 billion health reform proposal...

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Health Care Study: Lack Of Insurance Has Led To 17,000 Child Deaths

AFP | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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Lack of adequate health care may have contributed to the deaths of some 17,000 US children over the past two decades, according to a study released by...

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House Health Care Bill Outlaws Treating Domestic Violence As A Pre-Existing Condition

Think Progress | Amanda Terkel | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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This morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) unveiled the re-tooled Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962). The bill will cost $900 billi...

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House Health Care Bill Released: "Historic Moment"

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Cheered by President Barack Obama, House Democrats rolled out landmark legislation Thursday to extend health care to tens of millio...

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Jay Rockefeller: White House Approach To Public Option "Difficult To Fathom"

Talking Points Memo | Brian Beutler | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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I just spoke with Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), who had a bit of a fractured take on the current state of the public option. He took issue with the Pre...

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House Cuts Health Bill Price To $871 Billion: AP Source

AP | ERICA WERNER and DAVID ESPO | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — House Democrats are aiming to scale back the cost of their health care bill to well below President Barack Obama's preferred price ...

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Krugman: Insurance Industry's Hatchet Job, So Bad That It Might Be Good

New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

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In the past, the insurance industry's power has been a major barrier to health-care reform. Most notably, the industry paid for the infamous "Harry an...

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Health Insurance Stocks Down As Prospects For Reform Rise

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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Health insurance stocks took a dive Tuesday, with the S&P Health Care Sector index becoming the worst-performing segment of the S&P 500, largely becau...

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Senate Health Bill Opposed By Unions, Full-Page Paper Ad Planned

AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — About 30 unions will run a full-page ad in newspapers Wednesday announcing their opposition to the Senate Finance Committee's healt...

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Senate Health Care Bill: Five Things You Don't Know

Politics Daily | Patricia Murphy | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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If you've been following the health care debate closely, you probably know the basics of the Senate Finance Committee's version of health care reform ...

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Civil Rights Groups Target Dems On Health Care Reform

AP | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — African-American, Latino and civil rights groups have launched an ad campaign aimed at pressuring moderate Democratic senators to s...

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Majority Favors Dem-Only Health Bill With Public Option Over Bipartisan Bill Without: Poll

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.02.2009 | Politics

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A majority of Americans prefer that Congress pass a Democrat-only health care bill that includes a public option over a bipartisan bill that does not,...

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Big Pharma Getting Billions More Than Reported Out Of Senate Finance Bill

The RPM Report | Lauren Smith | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

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The introduction of the Senate Finance Committee's health care proposal turns the focus from what the pharmaceutical industry will contribute to refor...

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LaHood: 10 House Republicans Could Back Health Care

The Atlantic | Matthew Cooper | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

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I mentioned on Friday that I'd gone to see Ray LaHood, the Secretary of Transportation. LaHood, as you probably know, was a Republican congressman fro...

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President Obama: Get Angry About Health Care Reform

Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

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Dr. Andrew Weil

Is the Baucus plan, the one that manages the improbable feat of making the developed world's most expensive, least effective health care system even worse, indeed the only one with a prayer of passage?

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Senators spar on health bill's effect on seniors

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Republicans argued health legislation would hurt seniors and Democrats said it would do nothing of the sort as the Senate Finance C...

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Dems Finding Plenty To Dislike About Baucus Plan

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Unhappy Senate Democrats on Thursday found plenty to complain about in the fine print of the latest health overhaul bill, particula...

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A Dose of Clarity

Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

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Dr. Andrew Weil

If the health care debate seems like a hopeless morass, it's largely because moneyed interests want it to look that way. Matt Taibbi reminds us that the most fundamental issue is simple: Who pays, and how?

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Health Care Bill: Baucus Senate Legislation Finally Unveiled

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — His calls for compromise rebuffed by Republicans, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee unveiled sweeping legisla...

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Much to Like. More to Come?

Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

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Dr. Andrew Weil

There was much to like in President Obama's health care reform speech to a joint session of Congress. But we need to remember that medical insurance reform of any kind is doomed without medical content reform.

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