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Wal-Mart Can Be Our Surprise Salvation: A Two-Part Discussion of the Retail Giant's Health Care Potential

Patricia Yarberry Allen | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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Patricia Yarberry Allen

Ultimately, the political infighting about our health care crisis isn't the point. The possibility of solving it is. I am as surprised as you might be to believe that the best hope lies with Wal-Mart.

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Shocked at Seeing a Democrat with Guts

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Pres, Hmos, Public Option, Rachel Maddow, Obama, Healthcare Reform, Sarah Palin's Death Panels, Rep. Grayson, Alan Grayson Display, Rayrepresentative Gayson, Alan Grayson Health Care, Politics News
Joan E. Dowlin

Many Republicans have expressed outrage at Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL) for his recent display on the floor of the House of Representatives while discussing health care reform.

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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

Read More: 2008 Campaign, Medicare Prescription Drug Bill, Corporate Media, Hmos, Health Care Debate, President Barack Obama, Health Care Town Hall Meetings, George W. Bush, Tea Baggers, Health Care Elites, Single Payer, Big Pharma, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurance Corporations, Paul Baran, Elites, Tom Delay, Billy Tauzin, The Wealth of Nations, Health Care, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Pharmaceutical Corporations, Pharmaceutical Industry, Thomas Scully, Adam Smith, Town Halls, John McCain, Democrats, Sarah Palin, Republican Party, Health, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

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

Frank A. Weil | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Pharmaceutical Industry, Healthcare System, Health, Private Health Insurance, Health Insurance Industry, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, Obama Healthcare Reform, Healthcare Reform, Hmos, Healthcare, Politics News
Frank A. Weil

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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"Freedom Isn't Free" -- Neither Is Health Care

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Hmos, President Obama, Afghanistan War, Tea Baggers, Glen Beck, War in Afghanistan, War in Iraq, Sarah Palin, Iraq War, Fox News, Pharmaceutical Companies, Sean Hannity, Health, Health Care Reform, Health Care, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were sold to the nation as moral imperatives, not as taxpayer burdens. The health care debate has been framed as a taxpayer burden instead of a moral imperative.

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It's Time to Spay and Neuter the Blue Dogs on Health Care

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

The Blue Dog coalition loved spending lavishly on the Iraq war only to rediscover the evil of budget deficits as soon as Obama was elected.

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Taking the Debate out of Healthcare Reform

Jamie Court | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

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Jamie Court

Unless HMOs are strictly regulated, either the premiums for policies will be too high or the benefits in the policy too little to really protect Americans.

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Things That Will Survive

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Mass Media, Karl Rove, Hmos, General Motors, Regulatory Policy, Ford and Chrysler, The Kindle, Bernard Madoff, Global Warming, New York, House Republicans, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

The game is now to figure out who will get through this thing, because when we're all safely on shore the survivors will find a world in which they are faced with significantly less competition.

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Universal Health Care Can Save Our Economy Part II: Quality Control

Dr. Behzad Mohit | Posted 05.19.2009 | Politics

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Dr. Behzad Mohit

Today, our health care system is less regulated and quality controlled than AIG or the stock market. It is no wonder that it may take our country into bankruptcy in a few years.

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Innovations in Phase IV Clinical Trials for Change in Health Care

Sunil Chacko | Posted 02.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Big Pharma, Hippa, Congress, Public Health, Fda, Clinical Research, Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical Companies, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health, Hospitals, Marketing, Doctors, Medicaid, Medicare, Food and Drug Administration, Hmos, Phase Iv, Pharmaceuticals, Hmo, Politics News
Sunil Chacko

For dying patients with no therapy that is working, compassionate use programs exist to provide drugs in phase II or III clinical trials when the patient was ineligible to participate in the trial.

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A Kick in the Career: Becoming a Doctor? That is so Dial-Up!

Thomas Stern | Posted 11.08.2008 | Business

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Thomas Stern

Increasingly, the concept of a "calling" seems to only exist in sports or the arts. Nike says "just do it," the implication being that you have to, you're driven to.

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Even As They Criticize, Dems Taking Dollars From Health Care Industry

New York Times | RAYMOND HERNANDEZ | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Industry, Health Care, 2008 Elections, Congress, Hmos, Insurance Companies, Democrats, 2008 Election, Politics News

In a reversal from past election cycles, Democratic candidates for president are outpacing Republicans in donations from the health care industry, eve...

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