Health Care Advocates Denouce Obama's Negative Mailer
Barack Obama knows Hillary's healthcare plan is better. It doesn't leave 15 million people out, and it aligns her with John Edwards.
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Obama Ad Compared To Nazi March On Clinton Call
Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics
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[Note: Headline updated. See end.] Ben Smith reports: The Clinton campaign convened a conference call with health policy experts to denounce Obama's...
A Stitch in Time...
Paula Gordon | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics
The U.S. spends a higher proportion of its GDP on health care than any other country. How much of that is effectively applied to our health? Comparative statistics say "not enough."
Watch Obama's and Clinton's Top Latino Supporters Talk Strategy
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 02.01.2008 | Home
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Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are engaged in a fierce battle to capture the crucial emerging Latino vote during next week's s...
Obama And Clinton Play It Safe In Hollywood Debate
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics
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Hollywood, Calif. -- The much-anticipated Tinseltown one-on-one Democratic debate tonight lacked much of the drama that had been widely predicted and ...
The Emergency Room
Jennie Nash | Posted 01.31.2008 | Living
I'd rather suffer the pain of the headache than the pain of the emergency room. And it occurred to me that this is what it looks like when our health care system has broken down.
Obama Woos Latino Vote Ahead Of Hollywood Debate
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.31.2008 | Politics
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Los Angeles, California -- Just hours before a dramatic one-on-one televised debate with rival Hillary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama led his campaign in...
American Companies Face Increased Government Control
Harry Fuller | Posted 01.30.2008 | Business
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China needs Americans to continue to buy their manufactured goods so they keep loaning us money we can't pay back. Consumption continues as the debt mounts right alongside.
State of the Union: The Legacy of George W. Bush in Cold, Hard Numbers
Dan Brown | Posted 01.28.2008 | Politics
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Mind-bogglingly, the G.O.P. presidential front-runners are embracing this man; John McCain is running on Bush's military policy and Mitt Romney is running on Bush's economic policy.
The Wal-Mart Divide-And-Conquer Strategy
Jonathan Tasini | Posted 01.25.2008 | Business
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Wal-Mart will show its "social responsibility" by going "green" -- and making a pile of money in the process.
Is Karl Rove Working For The Clinton Campaign?
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
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Either Karl Rove has joined the Clinton campaign as their advisor, or somebody over there has learned a lot from his standard campaign playbook. Beca...
Democrats 2008: Rome is Burning
Michelle Kraus | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
Democrats, the presidential race of 2008 is ours to lose. We are doing a great job of losing the ball game with arrogance, bickering, and sanctimoniou...
The Economy, Health Care and Presidential Politics
Irwin Redlener, M.D. | Posted 01.22.2008 | Business
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It may not be clear how much the nation's health care crisis will be worsened by growing economic troubles.
Clinton Hits Obama For Wavering On Single-Payer Health Care
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics
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Pivoting off of one of the few policy spats in Monday night's presidential debate in South Carolina, Hillary Clinton hit Barack Obama on Tuesday for w...
We Better Start Investing in Ourselves the Way We Used To
Jeff Madrick | Posted 01.21.2008 | Business
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Government in principle doesn't undermine prosperity and entrepreneurial vigor. Good government creates the conditions that stimulate both. But now America hasn't invested in itself seriously for a long time.
Code Blue! Republicans Leaning Left on Healthcare!
Craig Stoltz | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics
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The most interesting thing that showed up on the Healthcare08 PoliGraph jumped out in plain red and blue. Several Republicans held positions in the blue zone on some healthcare issues. Not so for Democrats.
Column: Digging in the Right Place for Change
David Sirota | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics
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In the legislatures of Washington and Wisconsin, a new kind of universal health care proposal is moving forward, signaling the potential for a true national health care movement.
One More Stinkin' Example of Why We Need Universal Healthcare
Susan Madrak | Posted 01.17.2008 | Politics
I know that national health programs have their drawbacks but removing the profit motive should take care of many of the problems we have now.
Obama Storms Vegas and Chides Clinton
HuffingtonPost.com | Marc Cooper | Posted 01.16.2008 | Home
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Henderson, NV -- Just three days before the "tie-breaker" Nevada caucuses this coming Saturday, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama storme...
Obama v. Clinton: Hope and Anti-Hope
Marshall Grossman | Posted 01.12.2008 | Politics
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Obama offers a calculatedly vague promise of optimism and change. Hillary continues to speak a language we have had a lot of experience with -- triangulation and protracted engagement.
California's Real Chance at Health Care Reform
Fabian Núñez | Posted 01.10.2008 | Politics
Disappointment over the improbability of single-payer ever being enacted anytime in the foreseeable future should not be allowed to diminish the benefits millions could receive from our plan.
Fresh Air
Barry Levinson | Posted 01.09.2008 | Entertainment
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As I watched Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I couldn't help but make comparisons to our healthcare system.
It's Not "Health Care," It's Sickness Chaos
Harry Fuller | Posted 01.09.2008 | Business
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Let's stop pretending some insurance plan will cure the medical ills that assault us.
Newsweek's Jonathan Alter and Liz Edwards Square Off On Health Care Debate
Matthew and Peter Slutsky | Posted 01.07.2008 | Home
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At a John Edwards event earlier this afternoon in Bedford, NH, we happened upon a very interesting conversation taking place between Elizabeth Edwards...
Romney and Huckabee: Hands Off My Family
Jim David | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics
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Mitt Romney, he of the perfect Mormon mishbucha, doesn't think my family is a real family. Of course, who knows what he really thinks, since his every calculated move is as sincere as a lap dance.
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