Health Care

McCain's Radical Health Plan, Once Ignored, Now Hotly Debated

Roger Hickey | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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Roger Hickey

Instead of working to guarantee health care for those without insurance, conservatives want to tax the health benefits of the 160 million people who get insurance on the job.

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The Financial Crisis and Health Care

Ezekiel Emanuel | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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Ezekiel Emanuel

While the financial crisis has appeared to knock health care off the national agenda, in the strange chemistry that is American politics, it may make comprehensive health care reform more politically feasible.

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Best Organizational Projects in the Final Weeks of Campaign

Mike Lux | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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Mike Lux

I am starting a series of blog posts today on what I think are the most effective ads, mailings, and other forms of communications with voters are in this late month of the campaign.

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It's All In Her Head

Mary Lou Song | Posted 10.13.2008 | Living

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Mary Lou Song

Any one of us could be Renateco2. She is a mother. A small business owner. An American. And because of health problems, she found herself facing medical bills in the millions of dollars. Millions.

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Friday Talking Points [51] -- Some Positivity

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...

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Presidential Candidates Lack Long-Term View on Long-Term Care

Stuart Shapiro | Posted 10.09.2008 | Living

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Stuart Shapiro

The case is clear: America is heading toward a fiscal tsunami. Surviving this wave will involve monumentally more than just shoring up the three key retirement pillars of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

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Lincoln Park Hospital For Sale

Chicago Tribune | Becky Yerak and Bruce Japsen | Posted 10.08.2008 | Chicago

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The impact of the worsening credit crisis is spreading to the Chicago-area hospital scene. Lincoln Park Hospital is on the sales block, partly becaus...

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Nonsense on Health Care from The Wall Street Journal

Gerald McEntee | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics

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Gerald McEntee

Perhaps the writer of the editorial was away from the television when Senator Obama said health care "should be a right for every American."

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Joe Six-Pack Demands Answers From Anti-Union McCain & Co.

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics

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Leo W. Gerard

Like many Republicans, McCain has made it clear that he feels about unions the way an Alaskan aerial hunter does about wolves -- best when dead.

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A Kick in the Career: Becoming a Doctor? That is so Dial-Up!

Thomas Stern | Posted 10.08.2008 | Business

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Thomas Stern

Increasingly, the concept of a "calling" seems to only exist in sports or the arts. Nike says "just do it," the implication being that you have to, you're driven to.

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Seth Colter Walls

McCain's Health Care Plan Attacked In Million Dollar Independent Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics

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The independent progressive group Heath Care For America Now! released a batch of eight ads targeting John McCain and seven incumbent House members We...

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Sam Stein

Obama And McCain Debate In Words: Issues V. "My Friends"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

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Tuesday night's presidential campaign lasted 90 minutes and touched on a wide-range of topics. So what did each candidate spend his time discussing? A...

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Gitmo on California and Foster- Part Three: Left to Rot for Twenty Grand a Day

Alice Singleton | Posted 10.07.2008 | Chicago

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Alice Singleton

A word of advice: Never go to the hospital alone. Have a trusted associate accompany you; literally have them move in with you for your hospital stay.

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McCain's Health Care Plan Radically Irresponsible

Michael L. Millenson | Posted 10.07.2008 | Home

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Michael L. Millenson

What a disappointment. Here Barack Obama accuses John McCain of pushing a "radical" health care plan, and instead of grabbing the chance to don a scar...

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Learning From Others: A Virtue

Pius Kamau | Posted 10.06.2008 | Living

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Pius Kamau

For Americans, the tendency is to shrug things off, to postpone dealing with whatever may appear difficult -- to another year, another administration, another generation. Or until we are in a crisis and must deal with it.

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Senator Obama: "I'm proud to join Health Care for America Now."

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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Jason Rosenbaum

Via Politico: Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has signed on to the progressive Health Care for America Now campaign's principles - a move that bolsters the...

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Sam Stein

Sen. Casey: Let's See McCain Survive Without Gov't Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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As the two presidential campaigns assault each other over past associations, the Obama campaign took the opportunity on Monday afternoon to cast John ...

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Wal-Mart Moms Could Vote to Change Wal-Mart

David Nassar | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

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David Nassar

"Wal-Mart Moms" or "Wal-Mart Women" are the new "it" demographic this election cycle. That may be good news for Wal-Mart shoppers, but it is not good news for Wal-Mart.

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Friday Talking Points [50] -- Can I Call You Joe?

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

I refuse to get too wrapped up in the question of who "won" the debate. In general, unless one candidate obviously self-destructs, this question is answered subjectively and personally. That's not to say I didn't think Biden did better. I did.

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Obama Attacks McCain On Health Care

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Democrat Barack Obama sharply criticized Republican John McCain's health care proposals Saturday, saying they could force mi...

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Fact Checking the Fact Checkers: The Washington Post Gets its Pinocchios Dead Wrong on Biden, Palin and Health Care

Gene Sperling | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics

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Gene Sperling

Michael Dobbs and the Washington Post's awarding of two "Pinocchios" -- for "significant omissions or exaggerations" -- to Joe Biden for his health care exchange with Gov. Palin was just plain off the mark.

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Nursing Homes Are a Good Case of Economics Gone Bad

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 10.03.2008 | Business

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Philip N. Cohen

The latest bad news shows that "more than 90% of nursing homes were cited violations of federal health and safety standards last year."

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Jed Lewison

Second Obama Ad Of Day Blasts McCain Health Tax Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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The Obama campaign is up with their second ad of the day targeting John McCain's plan to tax individual health benefits. While the first ad focused o...

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The McCain-Palin Health Care Plan: Half-Baked Alaska

Merrill Goozner | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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Merrill Goozner

It must be disconcerting to health care economists to see one of their pet peeves about the inequities of the employer-based insurance system so poorly used by the Republicans, who would repeal it.

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Jed Lewison

Post-Debate Obama Ad Attacks McCain's Health Tax Plan

HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.03.2008 | Politics

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The Obama campaign comes quickly out of the gate with the first post-debate ad, focusing on Sarah Palin's inability to explain John McCain's plan to t...

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