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Obama Presses Hard to Unite Dems on Healthcare and Slaps Down Republican "Demagoguery"

Ray Hanania | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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The President's speech was so powerful it probably sent many of the nation's health insurance industry robber barons into economic cardiac arrest.

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Obama: Addressing the Healing Crisis

James S. Gordon | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

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If every older person were guaranteed a physician with time to talk about life and ways to live it more fully, as well as to discuss the best ways to deal with the inevitability of death, debates about "death panels" would wither.

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Daily Pulse: Obama to Outline Vision for Health Care Reform

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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This is Obama's last chance to recapture the momentum that Democrats lost to corporate-backed town hall hooligans and misinformation during the August recess.

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Daily Pulse: Baucus Coughs Up a Bill

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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The president lit a fire under Max Baucus (D-Mont) and the Senate Finance Committee by unexpectedly announcing last week that he'd be laying out his own vision for health care reform this Wednesday.

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Wall Street Now Wants to Profit by Selling "Death Bonds"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Politics, terrorismInsurance Companies, Wall Street, Insurance, Government Agencies, The Observer, Derivatives, 9/11, New York Times, Ernst Welteke, Bundesbank, Terrorism, Business News

After leading the economy to the edge of the abyss, a new derivative has been concocted in a perverse quest for big and bigger bucks.

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Taking Things Off the Table

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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Obama absolutely loves the phrase "everything's on the table." But the time for piling "everything" on "the table" is over. Everything being on the table means that no decisions have been made.

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Friday Talking Points [92] -- The End Of Silly Season

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Sadly, Obama's speech to school children has become mired in manufactured controversy from the right, with typical sky-is-falling rhetoric about the evil, evil man who occupies the Oval Office.

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An Open Letter On The Public Option To David Axelrod

Sandy Goodman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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As a lifelong FDR Democrat, I won't support any health care bill that doesn't have a robust public option. I'd much rather see a bill without one go down to defeat, than have a bill pass without one.

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Daily Pulse: Goldfish and the Public Option

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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Perhaps the biggest drawback of Obama's hands off approach is that administration can't make a positive case for reform. So, the president has decided to step in and dictate terms to Congress.

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The Daily Pulse: Deep Six the Gang of Six

Lindsay Beyerstein | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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The White House has given up on Republican gangster Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY). They finally got the hint when Enzi told a radio listeners that Democrats wanted to kill the elderly.

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Bailed-Out Banks Making Profits -- For Taxpayers

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

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Money wasn't just "given" to Wall Street firms. It bought something of value. And now that the firms (and the market in general) are recovering, they're starting to pay it back. With interest.

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Don't Worry, Get Angry: Hillary's Health Care Travesty

Linda Keenan | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Seventy-eight percent of the people who had to file for medical-related bankruptcy actually had health insurance. Hillary St. Pierre, a spunky 27-year-old mother, is a case in point.

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Attackers Use Health Care Ploy To Rob Home, Shoot 2

AP | Posted 09.30.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — Police say attackers used health care reform as a ruse to approach their victims and then shot two and pistol-whipped another in a Lo...

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Taking Care of Our Health and Our Healthcare

Lissa Coffey | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, Healthy Living, Preventative Medicine, Insurance, Companies, Health, Health Care Reform, Obama, Health Care, Healthcare, Living News

The kinds of changes that the insurance companies are proposing just might make things worse instead of better.

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Silence Strengthens Opposition

The Media Consortium | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

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Immigration reform and health care reform are inextricably connected. The ugly fact is that a third of all Hispanics in the U.S., almost half of the undocumented, lack health care.

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Healthcare Reformers: Dance With The Ones Who Brung Ya

Christine Pelosi | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

While the dance of legislation can be painful to watch, I still like the Democrats' chances for healthcare reform better than Tom DeLay's on Dancing with the Stars.

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English Healthcare in the US Reform Debate: Setting the Record Straight

Zack Cooper | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

There have been a host of rumors about the English National Health Service, ranging from the benign to the outright asinine. All these rumors are false.

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Mental Health -- Even With Insurance Patients Are On Their Own

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living

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If you have a child with ADHD or Asperger's Syndrome, for example, don't expect to be able to be of much help after he or she turns 18.

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How Not to Do Healthcare Reform

Jesse Larner | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

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In making the rich and employers pay for his pathetic "public option" in an essentially private system, Obama completely fails to understand that health care risks, costs, and benefits should be socialized.

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The Uninsured Are Not Just a Number

Rev. Bekeh Utietiang | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

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What is at stake is not whether people have the right to affordable health care, but whether people have the right to life.

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Videos Explode Teabaggers' Health Care Myths

The Uptake | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

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You may have heard that "Obamacare" will euthanize Grandma and force you to lose your medicare coverage. You may have heard that veterans will lose co...

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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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Take a Hike, Kids

Deanna Neil | Posted 08.29.2009 | Green

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A system of severe fines will do nothing but intimidate people from what we need to do so desperately: get outside.

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We Regulate Money, Drugs, Commerce, but not Health. Why?

Brian Ross | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

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Why can't we use the power of the government to really regulate the insurance companies?

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Friday Talking Points [87] -- A Tale Of Two Houses

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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Simply for acting like a leader this week, Speaker Pelosi wins the Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award hands-down.

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