Health Care

Universal Medi-sense

Sasha Abramsky | Posted 10.25.2007 | Politics

Read More: Bush SCHIP Veto, Bush SCHIP, Healthcare in Prison, Medical Services in Prisons, Health Care, Children's Health Insurance, Schip, Politics News
Sasha Abramsky

There's something insane about the fact that a president who vetoed almost no spending bills in the first seven years of his presidency is going to such lengths to prevent health care for uninsured children.

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Ladies Who Launch: Lifestyle Crisis?

Amy Swift | Posted 10.25.2007 | Living

Read More: Michael Moore, Health Care, Wellness, Living News
Amy Swift

While "who is going to pay for our illness care" may be an important issue, what is more important is what are we going to do to stop the many diseases that are by-products of our toxic environment and generally unhealthy lifestyles?

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Do You Have One Of The Worst Jobs For The 21st Century?

Forbes | Brian Wingfield | Posted 10.24.2007 | Business

Read More: Health Care, Worst Jobs, Financial Services, Education, Business News

Health care, education and financial services -- if you're looking for work in the coming decades, these are the fields to get into. What to avoid? T...

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D'oh! House GOP Website Pirates Simpsons Images?

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics

Read More: Copyright, Schip, Childrens Health, Joe Barton, C. Montgomery Burns, Health Care, Simpson, Simpsons, Burns, Quimby, Politics News
Chris Weigant

You would think that a press release from a ranking House committee minority member with "Commerce" in its name would be aware of copyright issues.

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Providing Universal Health Care In North Carolina Do-able

Grace Liem | Posted 10.23.2007 | Home

Read More: John Edwards, Health Care, Policy Analysis, North Carolina, Offthebus, Home News
Grace Liem

The Edwards plan for universal health care is simple and very easy to implement. I know. I am part of a small health care revolution that replicates his plan very successfully.

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Memo to the GOP: Stopping Hillary is Not a Healthcare Policy

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Republican Primary, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Rose Ann DeMoro

In the true spirit of their mentor Karl Rove, it appears the GOP presidential candidates think our biggest healthcare crisis is the potential election of Hillary Clinton.

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I'm Covered. Now What?

Vito Grasso and Elizabeth Swain | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics

Read More: Universal Coverage, Democrats Healthcare Plan, Democratic Presidential Candidate, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Health Insurance, Medicare, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News
Vito Grasso and Elizabeth Swain

There's more to healthcare than just being able to pay for it. If someone can't find a doctor, what's the use of having coverage?

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Friday Talking Points [Vol. 6]

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.19.2007 | Politics

Read More: Mitch McConnell, Judiciary Committee, Pat Leahy, Attorney General, Susan Orr, Emergency Room, Chris Dodd, Lame Duck, World War III, Womens Health, Culture of Death, Charles Schumer, Bush, Mukasey, Playing Politics, Wiretapping, Schip, Harry Reid, Veto, Hold, Contraceptive, Health Care, Override, Senate, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Welcome to the sixth installment of the weekly suggestions for Democrats who are likely to appear on this weekend's chat shows. Previous installments...

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My Dad, My Inspiration

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 10.18.2007 | Living

Read More: Make a Difference, X Prize, Better Health, Modern Medicine, Infectious Diseases, Health Care, Innovations in Healthcare, Living News
Tom Vander Ark

Service is simply more rewarding than just making a buck. The old adage is true, we get more than we give.

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Don't Think of a Sick Child

Glenn W. Smith | Posted 10.17.2007 | Politics

Read More: Glenn Smith, Bush SCHIP Veto, Bush SCHIP, George Lakoff, Health Insurance, Health Care, Children's Health, State Children's Health Insurance Program, The Rockridge Institute, Schip, Politics News
Glenn W. Smith

George Bush doesn't want you to think about sick children. He wants you thinking about the fine print of health insurance policies.

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The Global Fight Against Breast Cancer

Time.com | KATHLEEN KINGSBURY | Posted 10.17.2007 | Living

Read More: Breast Cancer, Health Care, Living News

Six months ago, Liu Lichun didn't know her breast could contain cancer. No one had taught the 40-year-old Chinese woman from Inner Mongolia what the d...

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Discounted Health Care For Healthier People?

Karen Kisslinger | Posted 10.16.2007 | Living

Read More: Healthy Living, Health Insurance, Organic Eating, Health Care, Gardens, Living News
Karen Kisslinger

I think people should be rewarded for making the effort to live healthy lives and being lucky enough, but also committed enough, to maximize health throughout life.

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We Can Do Better Than This

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Energy Efficiency, Minimum Wage, Poverty, US Poverty, Middle Class, Tax Cuts, Free Trade, Defense Spending, Health Care, Labor Unions, Global Warming, Fair Trade, Bush Tax Cuts, Politics News
Sen. Bernie Sanders

The decline of the middle class combined with growing income inequality is a national scandal -- which Congress must address.

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If We Don't Stand Up for Our Children's Health -- Who Will?

Gov. Kathleen Sebelius | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Patty Murray, House, Bob Casey, Maria Cantwell, George W. Bush, Schip, Health Care, Chris Gregoire, Senate, Politics News
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius

If it's good enough for congressional kids and the president's kids, it should be good for the low-income children who are desperate for health care coverage.

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What If?

Cheryl Saban | Posted 10.15.2007 | Living

Read More: Childrens Health, Bush SCHIP Veto, Bush SCHIP, Health Care, Schip, Living News
Cheryl Saban

Giving kids healthcare coverage is the first step to preventing out-of-control health care costs in the future.

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Circumventing the Tyranny of the Tiny Minority

David Sirota | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Progressive States Network, States, Health Care, Senate, State Senate Representation, Politics News
David Sirota

As the federal government remains paralyzed by the Senate's tyranny of the tiny minority and unable to move significant universal health care legislation, states are trying to move into the breach.

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Why 2008 will be a Perfect Storm for Republicans

Mark Green | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Gop, Health Care, Republicans, 2008, Economy, Republican Presidential Candidate, 2008 Elections, Republican Party, Politics News
Mark Green

Pro-war and anti-growth, anti-minorities, anti-children. Not a good way to run for election. And variety of other realities combine to dig Republicans into an even deeper hole.

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Friday Democratic Talking Points [Vol. 5]

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.12.2007 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Democrat, World Court, Nuremburg, United Nations, Catholics United, Iraq, John Rockefeller, Bush, Charles Rangel, AT&T, Armenia, Talking Points, National Security, Blackwater, Nancy Pelosi, Childrens Health, Health Care, Rule of Law, War Crime, Abortion, Turkey, Marines, Amnesty, Catholic, Congress, Nobel Peace Prize, Pro-Life, Ted Kennedy, Talk Radio, Genocide, Schip, Wiretapping, Verizon, Death Penalty, Nazi, Christian, Senate, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Welcome back to the weekly talking points for Democrats appearing on television this weekend. Before I begin, I'd like to wish Ted Kennedy a fast and...

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The Frosts Demonstrate Why We Need Single Payer Health Care

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, Economy, Michelle Malkin SCHIP, Frost SCHIP, Bush SCHIP Veto, Graeme Frost, Michelle Malkin, Halsey Frost, Schip, Bonnie Frost, Frosts, Politics News
Hale

Under the Malkin theory, either poor people shouldn't have children or the they should go into debt to pay for insurance, which under the new bankruptcy laws is tantamount to indentured servitude.

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The Health Care Crisis in California

Jenny Price | Posted 10.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: California Health Care Reform Bill, Health Insurance, Health Care, Politics News
Jenny Price

Like many in CA, then, I've been watching with high hopes as the Democratic legislature and the Republican governor both try mightily to pass a health-care reform bill.

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"Why Not Single Payer?" A Response to Paul Krugman and the Leading Democratic Presidential Contenders. Part 1.

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 10.10.2007 | Politics

Read More: Health Care, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Paul Krugman, Barack Obama, Individual Mandate Plan, Universal Health Care, Medicare, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

I find Krugman's notion that an Individual Mandate is somehow more politically pragmatic than Medicare For All unconvincing and I don't buy his argument that it's a backdoor way to eventually get there.

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Who Needs That Wimp Machiavelli?

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 10.09.2007 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Fundamentalism, Iraq Children, President Bush, Health Care, NBC Nightly News, Politics News
Kathleen Reardon

It isn't the ends or the means that matter to people like George W. Bush. Rather, what they see as the purity of their purpose.

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Diary Of A Face Transplant

Daily Mail | BARBARA DAVIS and PETER ALLEN | Posted 10.09.2007 | Living

Read More: Health Care, France, Isabelle Dinoire, Face Transplant, Living News

In these riveting diary extracts, the world's first face transplant patient reveals how, two years on, she's still tortured by living with another wom...

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Conservative Bloggers Attack 12-Year-Old Who Gave Dem Address On Kids' Health Care

ABC News Political Radar | Rick Klein | Posted 10.08.2007 | Media

Read More: Health Care, Right Wing Media, Conservatives, Schip, Media News

ABC News' Rick Klein Reports: With debate raging in Washington over children's health insurance, congressional Democrats found a new way to make their...

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Big Tobacco & An NIH-Funded Cancer Screening Study

Merrill Goozner | Posted 10.08.2007 | Politics

Read More: Lung Cancer, CT Scan, National Institutes of Health, Gooznews, Nih, Health Care Costs, Tobacco, Screening, Health Care, Politics News
Merrill Goozner

The NIH insists the trial is well-designed. But when it comes to conflicts of interest, appearances matter. The expenditure of $200 million in taxpayer money should have resulted in a definitive answer.

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