Health Care

Do You Want To Live To Be 100?

Carolyn Anderson | Posted 07.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Stress, Aging, Longevity, The Balanced Life, Exercise, How to Live to 100, The Good Life, How to Live Longer, Health Care, Living News
Carolyn Anderson

Research shows that we have more control over how our bodies' age then previously thought. Not only can you live longer than your parents, you can live more fully as you age. The determining factor is lifestyle.

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Top 10 Brain Training Predictions

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 07.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Mental Health, Cognitive Science, Health, Exercise, Brain Training, Meditation, Innovation, Gym, Nintendo, Brainpower, Health Care, Brain Exercise, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

As brain fitness and training becomes mainstream and new "brain trainers" appear, we can observe a number of trends given significant market growth and recent research findings.

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How to Save America $16 Billion and Spare Millions from Disease

Jeffrey Levi | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Health, Trust for America's Health, Sen. Tom Harkin, Health Care, Chronic Disease, Obseity Epidemic, Diabetes, Healthcare, Politics News
Jeffrey Levi

How do Americans expect to compete in the global economy if our workforce isn't healthy enough to be competitive? The good news is, many of the US's most prevalent medical problems are very preventable.

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As GM Goes, So Goes America

Rep. Jim McDermott | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Universal Health Care, Single Payer Health Care, Health Care, General Motors, Gm, Politics News
Rep. Jim McDermott

While GM may be on the road to financial health, America continues down the same old road of health care going, going, gone for millions of Americans.

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The Rich Get Richer: Time for a Change

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Debt, Wealthy, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Wealth, Economy, Middle Class, Politics News
Jonathan Tasini

There no sense of decency among the rich and their enablers in the government and in politics, and in the chattering classes who worship before the altar of market fundamentalism.

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Your Health Care May Decide The 2008 Election

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Mccain, Election 2008, Health Care, Health, John McCain, John McCain Health Care Plan, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

This fall, Americans will discover an inconvenient truth about McCain -- he wants you to lose your employer-based health care. He thinks you aren't sufficiently conscious about the cost, and you're using too much of it.

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Blogmersion Part 1: YouTube & Me

Doug Bremner | Posted 07.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Woo, Internet, Terrorists, Relationships, Health Care, Mothers, Death, Living News
Doug Bremner

"What do I have a lawyer for if you can't help me?" Salim Hamdan asked his lawyers, rhetorically.

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The Overturned Medicare Veto: A Good First Step Toward Resolving The Problems Of Privatization

John Geyman | Posted 07.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bush Veto, Medicare Bill, Bush Veto Health Care, Medicare for All, Medicare, Health Insurance, Health Care, Overpayments, Politics News
John Geyman

Last week's action by Congress to override Bush's veto of the Medicare bill was a landmark step toward reversing the tide of privatization of the program over the last three decades.

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McCain Ally Counsels Alarmist Attack On Health Care

Lester Feder | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Health Care, John McCain, Immigration, Election 2008, Mccain, Dick Morris, Obama Healthcare, Mccain Dick Morris, Undocumented Immigrants, Senator McCain, Mccain Healthcare, Immigrants Health Insurance, Immigrants Health Care, Undocumented Immigrants Healthcare, Obama Illeagal Immigrants, Undocumented Immigrants Insurance, Mccain Health Care, Obama Health Care, Home News
Lester Feder

In the New York Post, political consultant Dick Morris cries that Obama wants to provide health insurance to undocumented immigrants as part of his plan to cover the 47 million uninsured Americans.

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Biggest Health Insurer Admits: We Put Profits Before People

Richard Kirsch | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Care for America Now, Health Care, Health, Protest, Ohio, Politics News

Last February, found 78% of voters believe that health insurance companies "put profits before people." It turns out that a few months later the CEO of WellPoint, said yes, that's true!

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Jason Linkins

Insurance Company Rules: The Cure For Everything But Healthcare

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Care for America Now, Public Service Administration, Health Insurance, Health Care, Politics News

Health Care For America Now, which is a "national grassroots campaign organizing millions of Americans to win a guarantee of quality, affordable healt...

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Whining Americans Choose Caviar Health Care

Lester Feder | Posted 07.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Allan Hubbard, Phil Gramm, John McCain, 2008 Election, Health Reform, Health Care, Home News
Lester Feder

Al Hubbard, architect of the Bush-cum-McCain health plan, compares Americans' use of the health care system to shoppers who indiscriminately buy caviar while someone else foots the bill, just as Senator Phil Gramm exits as co-chair of John McCain's presidential campaign after calling America a "nation of whiners" in a "mental recession."

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Friday Talking Points [39] -- Republican Elitism Edition

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

For only the fourth (or fifth, depending on how you count) time in his presidency, George W. Bush had a veto overridden by both houses of Congress thi...

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When It Comes To Medical Pot, Rats Are Smarter Than Our Politicians

Paul Armentano | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cannabinoids, Politics, Cannabis, Mark Souder, Marijuana, Drug Enforcement Administration, Breaking Politics News, Medical Marijuana, Thc, Health Care, Health, Politics News
Paul Armentano

If rats can deduce that whole cannabis works better as a medicine than a single synthesized molecule, what's stopping our politicians from reaching this same conclusion?

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McCain Calls Obama Health Care Plan 'HillaryCare'

CNN | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

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John McCain devoted a substantial chunk of his town hall meeting Thursday to drawing contrasts with Barack Obama on health care policy, stressing his ...

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Health Care for All

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 07.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bernie Sanders, Senate, Universal Health Care, Uninsured, Health Care, Health, Healthcare, Politics News
Sen. Bernie Sanders

For a relatively small amount of money, we can provide primary health care to every American in need of it through an expansion of the successful Federally Qualified Health Center program.

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Hanging with Insurance Companies and Their Lobbyists

Mike Stark | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ahip, Bill Frist, Nurses, Universal Health Care, Doctors, Medical Costs, San Francisco, Health Care, California Nurses Association, Politics News
Mike Stark

I wish I had something exciting to share with you about the America's Health Insurance Plans conference, but Bill Frist, the reptile that he is, never seemed to break a sweat.

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Why Not Single-Payer?

Richard Kirsch | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Single Payer, Health Care for America Now, Health Care, Health, Politics News

Health care reform holds the promise to create a generation of Americans who support a government that works for everyone, just as the New Deal led to 4 decades of activist government for the public good.

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Proposed Bush Rule Undermines Women's Access to Health Care

Cecile Richards | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Birth Control, Health Care, Choice, Bush, Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, Health, Politics News
Cecile Richards

Access to contraception is essential and smart public policy. In its waning days, the Bush administration has shown it will stop at nothing to attack women's health care.

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Why is Health Care for America Now Giving Up on Real Reform?

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Care for America Now, National Health Reform, Health Insurance, Medicare, Single Payer, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Rose Ann DeMoro

In search of a supposedly politically viable plan, the coalition has surrendered in advance on the only overhaul that will actually cure the disease: a single-payer, mproved Medicare for all reform.

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Why Not Single Payer? Part 6: New "Health Care For America Now" Coalition May Reflect Divisions in the Movement for Universal Healthcare

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Conyers, Health Care for America Now, Universal Healthcare, Medicare for All, Barack Obama Health Care, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

HCAN is right that we must mobilize a massive citizens' movement for universal healthcare. Where they're mistaken is in trying for a compromise that will never work.

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Why I'm Not Convinced Big Pharma Is Behind Pot Prohibition (But That's Not to Say They Aren't Looking to Cash in on Medical Marijuana)

Paul Armentano | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Medical Marijuana, Cannabis Pain Relief, American Medical Association, Health Care, Politics News
Paul Armentano

At the same time that federal lawmakers are proclaiming that pot has no medical value, Big Pharma is in a frenzy to bring dozens of new, cannabis-based medicines to market.

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Health Care for America Now!

Gerald McEntee | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

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Gerald McEntee

For decades, we have been working to expand the American Dream to include health care for all. Year in and year out, we hear promises and pledges from politicians -- but still, nothing gets done.

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Where McCain's Change Is Bigger Than Obama's

Bill Scher | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Health Care, Mccain, Obama Healthcare, John McCain, John McCain Health Care Plan, Mccain Healthcare, Obama Health Care, 2008 Election, Politics News
Bill Scher

McCain will change health care for more people than Obama. All those people potentially affected will have determine if they want the kind of change McCain is offering.

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"Pro-Business" Isn't Always What You Think -- Take Health Reform, For Example

RJ Eskow | Posted 07.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Massachusetts Health Reform California Health Reform, Entrepreneurs, Small Business, Healthcare Reform, Health Reform, Small Business Majority, Health Insurance, Health Care, Politics News
RJ Eskow

Roll over, Newt Gingrich, and tell Ayn Rand the news: Sometimes capitalism can be improved when government and free enterprise work as partners. Entrepreneurs are understanding that.

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