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Health-Care Reform: An Original And Simple Proposal

Dr. Paul Toffel | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

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Recently, when an old friend asked me if I had a simple solution for the medical insurance and access problems on the front pages of America's newspapers, I told him: "Yes, I do."

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Health-Care Reform was the Key Issue in the 2008 Campaign...What Happened?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

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For some, the system works best when elites make the most fundamental decisions for our society, unencumbered by the trappings of "democracy", and when the population is depoliticized, misinformed, or both.

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The New Voice in Health Care Reform: Voters

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

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Voters are not like policy wonks. Only when they get really riled up do they send their message -- loud and clear -- to public officials. Hence the growing public debate over reform.

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Is Obama Selling Us Down the River to Big Pharma?

Bryan Young | Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

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Bringing lobbyists from Big Pharma into the health care negotiations is anathema to the process and makes them feel like they deserve a place at that table.

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The Health Insurers Have Already Won: How They Did It

BusinessWeek | Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

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As the health reform fight shifts this month from a vacationing Washington to congressional districts and local airwaves around the country, much more...

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Killing Me Softly with Healthcare: How I Was Nearly "Terminated" By My Health Insurance Company

Ester Amy Fischer | Posted 09.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Cancer-Survival, Single Payer Healthcare, Health Insurance, Cancer, Public Health Care Option, Health Care, Healthcare, Living News

One thing I've learned through my ordeal is this: the health insurance industry functions like a gambling casino. Your health -- indeed your life -- has an odd attached to it.

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At the Heart of the Healthcare Challenge, a Question of Money in Politics

Frank A. Weil | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

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To get to the heart of America's healthcare challenge, we must end the longstanding system of pay-to-play politics by fundamentally reforming the role of private money in federal elections.

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Health Care Lobbyists vs. The People: The Final Showdown (VIDEO)

Art Levine | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

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If the public wants a public option and the non-competitive private insurance industry can't deliver affordable, accessible health care, what's keeping Congress from backing it strongly right now?

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Daschle's Firm And Group Have Ties To Private Health Care Industry

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

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The firm that houses two of the three former Senate majority leaders who proposed a comprehensive health care compromise plan on Wednesday has been pa...

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Dear AMA: I Quit!

Dr. Chris McCoy | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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I simply cannot support an organization that opposes the public health insurance plan for my patients.

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Destruction Of Health Care Reform: Another Sequel

Sahil Kapur | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

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Witnessing the recent blaze of right-wing propaganda on a public health care option has felt like watching a scene in a scary movie where the killer is creeping up on his victim with a knife.

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Health Reform is Boring

Linda Bergthold | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

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It is important to be educated about the facts. No one wants to take away your choice of doctor or tell your doctor what to do with your treatment. No one suggests a government takeover of health care.

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The Private Health Insurance Industry is Killing the U.S. Economy

Richard Kirsch | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

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The result of leaving health care reform to the insurance industry is that health insurance premiums have gone up six times faster than wages in the past nine years

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Dems & Repubs on Health Care: 'Love a Lobbyist'

Michele Swenson | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

The same insurance and pharmaceutical lobbies have granted themselves billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies and inflated profits continue to shape the healthcare reform debate today.

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Lyme: Emerging Disease or Hidden Epidemic?

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 04.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, Cure Unknown, Blue Shield, Thomas Gray, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, Infectious Diease Society of America, Lyme Disease, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Health-Insurance-Industry, Western Medicine, Supression of Diseases, Living News

Many people who have Lyme disease have sounded the alarm, yet the medical establishment is not listening. Why are there so many disbelievers in Western medicine?

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I'm Sorry, Mr. Obama, We Don't Accept the Senate Health Care Plan Here.

Brian Ross | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

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Does Blue Cross gives their customer service employees special training to achieve that monotone, or do they put them in a dungeon to get them to sound like they hate their jobs?

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Health Insurers Make Pitch For Mandated Coverage

AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The health insurance industry said Wednesday it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all custo...

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

Alice Singleton | Posted 11.07.2008 | Chicago

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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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Gitmo On California And Foster Avenues

Alice Singleton | Posted 09.17.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Health, Health Insurance Industry, Swedish Covenant Hospital, Health Insurance, Health Care, Healthcare, Chicago News

Believe that the American Health Care Crisis is only about the uninsured? That hospital malfeasance/negligence is subject to restitution? Welcome to my nightmare...that could become yours.

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