Health Care

Hillary Announces New Bill One Day After Edwards Challenge

CNN | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

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Just one day after a challenge from presidential rival John Edwards to commit to raising the minimum wage to $9.50 an hour, New York Sen. Hillary Clin...

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College Women: Give Yourself the Gift of a Healthier Future

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 12.20.2007 | Living

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Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

The unique demands of college pose challenges to women trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle, strengthen self-esteem, and address personal safety issues.

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Democrats Cave On SCHIP

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

The news just broke that Dems have completely and utterly caved on the State Children's Health Insurance Program bill.

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Hillary's Legislative Czar Leaving Senate Office But Nobody Really Leaves Hillaryland

Steve Clemons | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics

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Steve Clemons

Laurie Rubiner -- who is known to be one of the few insiders who "talks real" with Clinton -- is going to remain part of Hillary's circle of trusted counselors.

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Gone Daddy, Gone

Peter Mehlman | Posted 12.18.2007 | Living

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Peter Mehlman

As I see it now, in selling people on the privilege of entering the health care system, presidential candidates are basically raffling off vacations to Fallujah.

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California's New Road to Health Care Reform

Andy Stern | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics

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Andy Stern

The one single and repeatedly proven lesson Americans have learned in the decades of failed efforts of reform is simply this: the longer we wait, the worse it gets.

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Predictions For 2008

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

A reader recently took me to task for an article I wrote a month ago -- "What Will Be The Big Issue A Year And A Day From Now?" His complaint was tha...

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How to Afford Health Care Reform

Donald M. Berwick and Howard Hiatt | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics

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Donald M. Berwick and Howard Hiatt

The best way to make universal coverage affordable is not to reduce care but to enhance it. It is to promise all the care that helps, BUT only the care that helps.

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If Dick Cheney Were Anyone Else, He'd Probably Be Dead By Now

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics

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Rose Ann DeMoro

Everyone should be entitled to the same guaranteed, first-class health care that Cheney and other government officials receive today.

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Obama vs. Obama

Taylor Marsh | Posted 12.11.2007 | Politics

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Taylor Marsh

Obama hasn't met a principle he wouldn't switch for a wider audience with the electorate.

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Barack Obama's Progressive Cannibalism

Taylor Marsh | Posted 12.08.2007 | Politics

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Taylor Marsh

Obama's attack on Paul Krugman proves what I've been saying for over 10 months: Barack Obama has no ideological compass.

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Krugman Attacks Obama's Lack Of Healthcare Mandate

NY Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 12.07.2007 | Politics

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Imagine this: It's the summer of 2009, and President Barack Obama is about to unveil his plan for universal health care. But his health policy experts...

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Reforming America's Long-Term Care System

Bob Kerrey and Newt Gingrich | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics

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Bob Kerrey and Newt Gingrich

Long-term care is an important piece of the larger health care debate--arguably, the most urgent piece. A perfect storm of events -- some good, and some bad -- will lead to a national crisis, if ignored.

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Why Not Single Payer? Part 3: The Clinton/Obama/Edwards Individual Mandates Represent a Losing Political Strategy

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

The whole health care dust-up among Clinton, Obama and Edwards makes clear why Individual Mandate plans are likely to end up being as big a political disaster as Hillary's 1994 health reform fiasco.

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Double-Whammy: U.S. Healthcare Hits Us Up One Side and Down the Other

Kim Mance | Posted 12.02.2007 | Politics

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Kim Mance

One of the biggest stressors is that my caregiving for my two boys is invisible to the U.S. economic system.

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The Hard Work Recovery Program

Bob Franken | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

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Bob Franken

This country has spent a long time on a long downward slide. The only way to recover is through hard work, sacrifice, a reordering of priorities and a rejection of the politicians who suggest there's any other way.

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The "Fundamental Weakness" of Sen. Obama's Health Care Plan

Peter Daou | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

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Peter Daou

As Hillary said on Wednesday: "Senator Obama's plan does not, and cannot, cover all Americans. He called his plan universal, then he called it 'virtually universal,' but it is not either."

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Clinton, Obama Battle Over Healthcare

Associated Press | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.28.2007 | Politics

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused her leading Democratic presidential rival Wednesday of flinching from the struggle to provide health care for all ...

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Holiday Stress: What to Get Your Mother is the Least of It

Jill Greenberg | Posted 11.27.2007 | Politics

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Jill Greenberg

When we've gone out and talked to AARP members, we see that health and financial security are their top domestic concerns.

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Giuliani Derides "Socialized Medicine," But Expanded Government Health Care While Mayor

New York Times | SARAH KERSHAW | Posted 11.17.2007 | Politics

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In campaigning for president, Rudolph W. Giuliani has criticized Democrats for promoting "socialized" medicine, boasted about his record as mayor of N...

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Chivalry is Alive and Well and Living in Las Vegas

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics

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Jayne Lyn Stahl

The days of the iron hand in the velvet glove are over. The gloves are off, and all candidates must be prepared to get down and dirty, as well as come clean about where their allegiances are.

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Redefining National Security: Homes and Health are New Concerns

John Zogby | Posted 11.16.2007 | Politics

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John Zogby

Most Americans think they are more likely to face a serious health threat or financial threat in their lives than they are to face a serious terrorist threat.

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Does Anyone Else Think That...?

Sherman Yellen | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics

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Sherman Yellen

Hillary seems to provoke a condemnation disproportionate to her sins. She is not Dick Cheney. She is not even Lynne. She is not my candidate, but I do hate the word triangulate applied to her.

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The Market Made Me Do It: Health Insurance That Disappears When You Need It

Donald Cohen | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

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Donald Cohen

American economic ideology today is dominated by those that profess almost fanatical belief in the unregulated "market" as the ultimate provider of all things good.

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Writers Strike, Silence Falls

Barbara Ehrenreich | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

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Barbara Ehrenreich

Anyone who's willing to stand up to greedy bosses deserves our support. A victory for one group, from Ford workers to stage-hands, raises the prospects for everyone else.

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