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NYT: 22 Republicans, 20 Democrats Used Lobbying Firm's Statements In House Health Care Speeches

New York Times | ROBERT PEAR | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Statements, Roche, Health Care Reform Speeches, Ryan Mackinnon Vasapoli Berzok, Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Joe Wilson, Biotech, Democrats, House Speeches, Speeches, Michael Conaway, Outsourcing, Donald M. Payne, Yvette D. Clarke, Bill Pascrell, Genetech, Phil Are, Lee Terry, Lobbying Firms, Lynn Jenkins, Memos, Health Care Reform, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Robert A. Brady, Emails, Health Care, Republicans, House Health Care Bill, Politics News

Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world's la...

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Q&A Bill Frist: Healthcare, The GOP and Birthers

David Goodman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Gop, Birthers, Obama Birth Certificate, Republican Party, Health Care, Healthcare, Republicans, Politics News
David Goodman

Bill Frist is the former Republican Senate Majority Leader. He is the author of the new book: A Heart to Serve: The Passion to Bring Health, Hope, and Healing.

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Send a Coat Hanger to an Anti-Choice Democrat

Howie Klein | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stupak Amendment, Anti-Choice, Blue America, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Politics News
Howie Klein

We're urging you to sign a petition to Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid regarding the 20 formerly pro-choice men who voted for the virulently anti-choice Stupak Amendment last Saturday.

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If You Have Donated To The RNC Since 1991, You Have Funded Abortion

Melinda Warner | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Abortion Rights, Rnc, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Michael Steele, Health Insurance, Pro-Choice, House Health Care Bill, Republicans, Politics News
Melinda Warner

Using the RNC's logic, every person who has donated money since 1991 has also funded abortions, because a portion went towards the employer's portion of each employee's health care premium.

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Health Care Reform Through an M&A Lens

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Care System, Business News
Ron Ashkenas

If the U.S. government were a corporation, the new health care "division" would represent a major acquisition. Companies don't add units without combining, consolidating, streamlining, and reducing.

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An Open Letter to Harry Reid on Controlling Health Care Costs

Robert Reich | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Reich, Health Care Costs, Health, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Health Care, Politics News
Robert Reich

Nobody promised you this would be easy, Harry. But, hell, why are you there, anyway? Your responsibility is to do the right thing by the American people and bring down future health-care costs.

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GOP Women Shamelessly Accuse Dems of Being Anti-Woman

Matt Finkelstein | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: House of Representatives, Women, Lynn Jenkins, Cathy Mcmorris Rodgers, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Women's Rights, House Health Care Bill, Politics News
Matt Finkelstein

Despite all evidence to the contrary, the congresswomen want us to believe that Republicans are sticking up for women. But the fact is their party has consistently opposed providing families with better health care.

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Jason Linkins

Va. Rep. Tom Perriello, On Health Care Vote: 'He Didn't Come To Congress To Get Re-Elected' [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Tom Perriello, Politics News

OH NOES! What is Representative Tom Perriello (D-Va.) doing, allowing his spokesperson to say stuff like this, in the wake of his vote for the House ...

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United Healthcare Urges Employees To Lobby Senators

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Care Reform, Insurance Industry, Lobbyblog, United Healthcare, Business News

The nation's largest health insurance company is recruiting its employees in a grassroots lobbying campaign against health care reform, according to t...

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Will Stupak Abort Health Reform?

D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Politics, Health Care, Health, Politics News
D. Brad Wright

Let me begin by making it very clear that I value all life--potential or fully realized--but that I am also pro-choice. How can this be? Well, unlike ...

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10 Reasons Why Democrats Who Opposed the Health Care Bill Made a Political Mistake

Robert Creamer | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Health Care Vote, Democratic Health Care Bill, Politics of Health Care Reform, Public Health Insurance Plan, Public Option, Frontline Democrats, Health Care Reform, Blue Dogs, Republicans, Pre-Existing Conditions, Health Insurance Reform, Health Care, Politics News
Robert Creamer

Even ignoring how critical it is to overhaul our broken health care system, most of the 39 Democrats who voted against reform in the House last week still made a political mistake. Here's why.

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How To Save Billions in Health Costs Starting Now

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Angioplasty, Elliott S. Fisher, Gerry O'Connor, Health Care Costs, Katie Couric, Health Care, CBS News, Vertebroplasty, Health Care Reform, Cbs, Dartmouth, Barack Obama, Living News
Dr. Jon LaPook

President Obama has stressed the importance of "bending the cost curve." The fastest way to do this is shockingly simple: carefully explain to patients the known risks and benefits of procedures.

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Real Health Care Reform: What's Next?

Mehmet Oz, M.D. | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Integrative Medicine, Oprah Dr. Oz, Dr. Oz Show, Health Care, Living News
Mehmet Oz, M.D.

Health care reform is not just about who pays. It must also address what we are paying for. And we have to start paying for health rather than treating sickness.

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RNC Insurance Plan Covers Abortion

AP | CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nrcc, Republican National Convention, Rnc, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Gail Gitcho, Bart Stupak, Cigna, Elective Abortion, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee's health insurance plan covers elective abortions for its employees, an option Republicans strong...

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Sam Stein

Goldman To Private Insurers: No Health Care Reform At All Is Best

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Private Insurance, Goldman Sachs, Private Stocks, Health Care Reform, Reform Legislation, Goldman Sachs Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform Stocks, Health Care Do Nothing, Goldman Sachs Health Care, Goldman Analysis, Health Care, Goldman Health Care, Politics News

A Goldman Sachs analysis of health care legislation has concluded that, as far as the bottom line for insurance companies is concerned, the best thing...

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Will Republicans Ever Have a Viable Alternative to the Public Option?

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Public Option, Life-Cycle Health Insurance, House Health Reform Bill, Republican, Obama, Socialism, Politics News
Henryk A. Kowalczyk

The House health care overhaul bill passed not because Democrats prepared a good proposal but because Republicans showed an amazing inability to present a viable alternative.

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Joe Lieberman Filibusters Health Care While Americans Suffer

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Evan Bayh, Blanche Lincoln, Ben Nelson, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Lieberman Filibuster, Filibuster, Joe Lieberman, Health Care, Conservadems, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Bob Cesca

With every month that goes by without health care reform, another 3,600 Americans die due to a lack of insurance. And Joe Lieberman, like Elaine in that classic Seinfeld episode, is stopping off for Jujyfruits.

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The House's Historic Health Care Reform Vote and the Lens of History

Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Congress, Wall Street, American History, Slavery, Health Care Reform, Obama, Business, African Americans, Politics News
Marcella Mroczkowski

Today's generation of managers goes to our best business schools not to learn to be builders, creators and healers but to be more clever and effective swindlers, gamblers and parasites.

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Planned Parenthood To Fight Stupak-Pitts Provision

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Pro Choice, Abortion, Lobbyblog, Planned Parenthood, Politics News

Planned Parenthood and its pro-choice allies are launching a grassroots lobbying front against the Stupak amendment -- the provision in the House's re...

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Blue Dog Democrats Dominate House Health Care Debate

The New York Review Of Books | Michael Tomasky | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Health Care Vote, House Health Bill, Public Option, Blue Dogs Health Insurance Reform, Health Care Abortion, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Health Care Vote, Blue Dogs Abortion, Blue Dogs Health Care, Health Insurance Reform, Health Care Public Option, Democrats Health Care, House Democrats Health Care, Nancy Pelosi Health Care, Politics News

So what did the House Blue Dogs do on the health care vote last Saturday? They were more supportive than one might think: Of the fifty-two-member coal...

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Point 4: Americans Are Obese And Inert -- Resulting In Huge Health Care Costs

George Halvorson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Dementia, Personal Health, Universal Healthcare, Weight, Kaiser Permanente, Obesity, Obama Health Care, Childhood Obesity, Overweight, Weight Control, Health, Obesity Epidemic, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Alzheimer's, Causes of Dementia, Diabetes, Health Care, George Halvorson, Living News
George Halvorson

We will spend about 17.6 percent of our GDP on health care expenses this year in America, primarily because we are not healthy in some very key areas.

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The Big Fights and the Big Benefits in the Bill

Mike Lux | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Individual Mandate, 2009 Obama Administration, Public Option, Stupak Amendment, Politics News
Mike Lux

The good news is that under all the hullabaloo of the public option fight and the horrendous Stupak amendment, there is actually a lot of good things that are pretty well-settled assuming a bill gets passed.

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"Therapy" for Obama and His Demoralization by the Insurance Industry

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Marcia Angell, Abraham Lincoln, Health Care Reform, Medicare for All, Obama, Single Payer, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Bruce E. Levine

Obama is trapped in the same kind of thinking that initially demoralized his hero Abraham Lincoln, who ultimately rejected that kind of thinking, regained his morale, and fought against what was morally wrong.

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Stupak's Flaccid Amendment Needs No Viagra

Shannyn Moore | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Todd Lamb, Stupak, Health Care Reform, Stupak Amendment, Viagra, Obama, Oklahoma, Cstreet Family Fraternity, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

The suggestion coming out of Washington is for women to buy supplemental insurance to cover an unwanted pregnancy. Really? Should the other gender do the same?

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Standing on One's Principles: An Interview With Ron Reagan

Mike Ragogna | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Jim Inhoff, George Bush, Anthony Weiner, Anthony Scalia, Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh, Nbc, Bernie Sanders, Elvis Perkins, Alan Grayson, John Roberts, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Political News, Risky Business, The Beatles, U2, Entertainment News, Health Care Reform, Samuel Alito, Glenn Beck, Media News, Tom Cruise, Saturday Night Live, Global Warming, Ron Reagan, Media News
Mike Ragogna

Ron Reagan is the son of a president and, weekdays on Air America, he's a voice of reason for many listeners who are trying to navigate the complexities of national and global concerns.

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