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Health Care Debate LIVE on Twitter

Huffington Post | Posted 11.07.2009 | Politics

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Watch the health care debate live through our curated Twitter lists. Do you know a tweeter who's perfect for one of these lists? Email us at twitterli...

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Constituent Presses Cantor On Lack Of GOP Health Plan

The Hill | Molly K. Hooper | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

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House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) was asked several times on Monday about the GOP's lack of a specific healthcare reform plan. [...] Richmond r...

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What Congress Could Learn from the USTA and MTV

Cindy Handler | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

What do Kanye West, Serena Williams and a formerly obscure congressman from South Carolina have in common?

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Republicans Fear "Crackpots" Becoming Face Of Party

POLITICO | Andie Coller | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Joe Wilson's outburst Wednesday night earned more than a personal rebuke from the president and a dagger-eyed gasp from the speaker of the House; it d...

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Joe Wilson: Don't Censure - Take His Time

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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Mumbled apologies or standing up in front of everybody for questionable dress downs doesn't really do much for moving forward. It just gets people madder and more resentful.

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Harry Reid To Seize Wheel On Healthcare Debate

The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Senate Finance Committee, Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee, Nancy Pelosi, President Obama, Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Healthcare Debate, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will take control of the healthcare debate in his chamber when Congress returns, attempting to move along l...

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Lieberman: Without Public Option, Health Reform Would Pass

Connecticut Post | Devon Lash | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman made it clear Wednesday that he would not vote for a health care bill that included a government-run option, but said that wit...

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Dionne: TV Over-Covering The Right-Wing Fringe

Washington Post | E.J. Dionne Jr. | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Social Security, Public Option, Chet Edwards, Frank Kratovil, Tom Perriello, Democratic-House-Members, Medicare, Medicaid, Healthcare Debate, Healthcare Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Mary Jo Kilroy, David Price, Politics News

Health-care reform is said to be in trouble partly because of those raucous August town-hall meetings in which Democratic members of Congress were bes...

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Five Vital Points the President Must Make in His Upcoming Speech On Health Care Reform

Zack Cooper | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

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Americans lost sight of why healthcare reform was vital in the first place. President Obama needs to paint a vivid, emotive picture of the need for healthcare reform.

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Add This Health Care Solution to the Debate: Mexican and Latin American Folk Remedies for the Ultimate Do-It-Yourselfer

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.17.2009 | Chicago

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Seeing how the health care debate has devolved into shouting matches at town halls, I present you with cheap, alternative health care solutions for these troubled times.

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Ted Kennedy Booed At Schakowsky Town Hall

Progress Illinois | Josh Kalven | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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We attended Rep. Jan Schakowsky's health care town hall meeting in Niles last night where over 2,000 people showed up, packing a high school auditoriu...

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Biden Rebuts King Claim That Health Care "Not A Major Issue" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

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In response to a statement made by Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) that health care "is not a major issue among American people," Vice President Biden issued...

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GOP Fundraising 'Survey' Outrages Some Recipients

The Columbian | Kathie Durbin | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Raymond and Louise Denny of La Center were surprised last week to receive a mailing from Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee...

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Bachmann: "Prayer And Fasting" Will Defeat Health Care Reform

Minnesota Independent | Paul Demko | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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On Wednesday Rep. Michele Bachmann was part of a star-studded "teletownhall" meeting to discuss health-care reform. The event, billed "Keeping Faith w...

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Our Existing Public Option

Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

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Private insurance companies don't want to be good capitalists and innovate. They fear competition because they are in a position where they don't need to provide a better service.

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GOP Risks Alienating Latinos By Scapegoating Immigrants in Health Care Debate

The Washington Independent | DAPHNE EVIATAR | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

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As a leading immigration restrictionist group today opens a conference highlighting the costs of immigrants to the nation's health care system, critic...

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Newsweek: The Obama Party Vs. The Fox Party

Newsweek | Jonathan Alter | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

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The United States has two parties now--the Obama Party and the Fox Party. The Obama Party is larger, but it is unfocused and its troops are whiny. The...

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We are Mortal - Grow Up and Plan Accordingly

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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National leaders deliberately sparked fear and anger over a consultation about death and sensational media threw fuel on the fire.

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The Last Story on Reforming Health Care: We Have Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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The debate over health care reform has turned to politics of fear and fear-mongering, instead of focusing on facts and reality.

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Lunatic Fringe

Lance Simmens | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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The fringe elements, carefully nurtured by fear, hatred, mistrust, and fitful bouts of fantasy are positioning the conservative opposition into a death spiral

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Why It May No Longer Help to Be a Liberal

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

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Can we step out of our identities that are constantly looking for ways to justify themselves and to put down the other, and open to a deeper presence and wisdom?

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From Death Panel to Death Spiral

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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The GOP is not the party of small government and lower taxes. They are the Party of borrow and spend, big government and sex scandals.

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Your Town Hall Screamfest Handbook

Bennet Kelley | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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The sad reality is that the current town-hall screamers are being embraced by Republicans not as champions of free speech, but rather as cannon fodder in their fight to block any bill.

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How Heavy is Your Fitness Footprint?

Carole Carson | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

We need to figure out how to reduce lifestyle-related diseases that trigger the need for expensive medical care in the first place. We need to lighten our fitness footprint.

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