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This holiday season there are a number of ways you can donate to powerful causes in honor of family and friends that they would wholeheartedly endorse in lieu of a gift.
This holiday season there are a number of ways you can donate to powerful causes in honor of family and friends that they would wholeheartedly endorse in lieu of a gift.
Jerry Chautin | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Turkey, cranberry sauce, and a side of health care debate is dominating Thanksgiving tables this year. The debate gets more heated when some worry that their situation will be adversely affected.
George Halvorson | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
It is sad and ironic that an information-dependent profession is denied convenient access to needed information in an age when we connect other aspects of our infrastructure easily and often.
ABC News | Posted 11.22.2009 | Business
When the pink slip comes, trouble follows -- financial, but emotional as well. Three in 10 Americans in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll sa...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
The Senate has voted to move forward with the health care bill. The vote was 60-39 in favor of debating the bill put forward by Senate Majority Leader...
Tara Stiles | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
It's all where your priorities are. You have to want it for yourself. A regular practice puts you back in touch with you. You don't need all the stuff to be happy.
Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.19.2009 | Impact
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. Patricia Gill has insuran...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
If the Senate has its way with health insurance reform, Sandra Ingram, a 63-year-old cancer patient undergoing intensive chemotherapy treatments in Io...
Shan Wells | Posted 11.19.2009 | Denver
I wonder if electing a pack of blue dogs in order to gain a "majority" was worth the now very real risk that the party will chew itself to pieces via stubborn ideological bickering.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
The health care reform package unveiled by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) Wednesday night bars the use of federal funds for abortion servi...
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
A common complaint about the health insurance reform legislation moving through Congress is that the uninsured won't see any help until 2013. While i...
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
The fable, as it is told, involves a scorpion and a frog. The scorpion needs to cross a river, so he asks the frog to carry him on his back.&nbs...
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
Benjamin French was born with his right arm missing below the elbow. In his 12 years, he has been fitted with seven prostheses. His most recent replac...
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.
Mary Ann West | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
People continue to die because of senators like Lieberman, who have determined that their convictions are more important than their constituents' lives. Go figure.
George Halvorson | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
How do countries who use private health plans achieve universal coverage? They use a "double mandate: Everyone must buy. Everyone must sell.
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
Living longer means more years to learn, work, play and enjoy time with those we love. However, there's also the increased possibility of health problems along the way.
New York Times | DUFF WILSON | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business
Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...
The Washington Post | Lori Montgomery | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending -- one of the biggest sources of funding for President Obama's proposed overhaul ...
Kari Henley | Posted 11.13.2009 | Living
A brand new company, PriceDoc, is hitting the national market, and is sure to transform everyday health care with the same momentum that brought us Google, Facebook or Priceline.
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Abortion rights groups, outflanked and outnumbered in the health debate, are scrambling to regain lost ground after the House passe...
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a ...
Washington Post | David S. Hilzenrath | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Legislators are designing this new insurance marketplace to protect consumers from many of the pitfalls and inequities in the current system. But even...
Melinda Warner | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Using the RNC's logic, every person who has donated money since 1991 has also funded abortions, because a portion went towards the employer's portion of each employee's health care premium.
Gary Stein | Posted 11.16.2009 | Impact
My family and I often had to make health care decisions based on finances. The results were disastrous: either our finances suffer or our health does. This scenario plays itself out everyday across our great nation and a change has to come.
Richard Walden | Posted 11.24.2009 | Impact