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Putting Off Health Care

Harry Moroz | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, House of Representatives, National Review, Unemployment, Health Care, Politico, Affordable Health Care for America Act, Health Care Reform, Medicaid, Kaiser Family Foundation, Senate, Politics News
Harry Moroz

Delaying implementation only allows the relentlessly increasing unemployment rate to push up the relentlessly increasing rate of the uninsured.

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Public Option Plan Will Cover Few Americans, New Statistic Reveals

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 11.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Robert Zirkelbach, Commonwealth Fund, Public Option, Drew Altman, Private Insurers, Congressional Budget Office, Kaiser Family Foundation, Government Insurance Plan, Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Harry Reid, Medicaid, Health Care, America's Health Insurance Plans, Politics News

WASHINGTON — What's all the fuss about? After all the noise over Democrats' push for a government insurance plan to compete with private carrier...

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Obama Plans to Reform Economy, Not Just Health Insurance

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: LTV Steel, Teabaggers, President Barack Obama, Middle Class, Jones & Laughlin Steel, Usw, United Steelworkers, Afl-Cio, Kaiser Family Foundation, U.S. Supreme Court, National Labor Relations Act, Health Insurance, Insurance Reform, Republicans, Steve Skvara, Health Care, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

The teabaggers are apoplectic because this isn't just about health care. This is about the values of a government.

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Comedy Central Saves America with Intelligent Satire

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 09.15.2009 | Media

Read More: The Colbert Report, First Amendment, Rush Limbaugh, Comedy Central, Drew Altman, Morning Joe, The Daily Show, Kaiser Family Foundation, Astroturfing, Stephen Colbert, Msnbc, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Jon Stewart, Satire, Annenberg Public Policy Center, Fox News, Political Satire, Glenn Beck, Bill Moyers, Media News
Michael B. Laskoff

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert pass themselves off as comedians, but they are really the most influential satirists of the day: they inform and illuminate through ridicule.

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Why You Are Not Stupid If You Don't Understand Health Care Reform

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Debate, Insurance Market Reforms, Public Option, Kaiser Family Foundation, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News
Dr. Jon LaPook

Very smart people are zoning out of the health care reform debate because they think it's just too complicated.

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For the Health of the Nation: Ensure a Public Option

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: The New Yorker, Public Option, President Barack Obama, Canada, United Steelworkers, Canadian Broadcasting Company, Kaiser Family Foundation, Republican, Tommy Douglas, Dr. Atul Gawande, Kiefer Sutherland, Single Payer, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Universal Health Care, American Medical Association, Pre-Existing Conditions, New England Journal of Medicine, World Health Organization, Life Expectancy, Health Care, National Health Care, Infant Mortality, Politics News
Leo W. Gerard

The last time the World Health Organization stacked up countries' health systems, the United States came in 37th, behind Chile, Morocco, Cyprus and even drug war-torn Colombia.

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How "Harry and Louise" Could Still Take Down Health Care Reform

Elizabeth Rigby | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Bill Clinton, Harry and Louise, Politics, Congress, Clinton Health Care Plan, Health, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Public Opinion, Hillary Clinton, Obama Health Care, Kaiser Family Foundation, Barack Obama, Political Support, Media News
Elizabeth Rigby

Harry-and-Louise-style ads are powerful, not because they tell ignorant Americans what to worry about, but because they remind well-meaning Americans of what could be lost in the name of progress.

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The Cure on Black AIDS Day

Johnathon Briggs | Posted 03.09.2009 | Chicago

Read More: HIV/AIDS, HIV Vaccine, Public Awareness Campaign, Ory Month, Hiv Infections, Minority Health, Gay Men, Kaiser Family Foundation, Black AIDS Day, Social Marketing Campaign, Black Hist, With Me Comes a Cure, HIV Prevention, Teen Sex, Microbicides, Chicago News
Johnathon Briggs

The statistics hit like a blow to the gut. Nearly half of all new HIV cases in the U.S. are among African Americans, even though we represent just 12 percent of the population.

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Obama Interviews the Medical Blogosphere on Healthcare Reform

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Depression, Physicians, Nursing, Medicine 2.0, Grand Rounds Blog Carnival, Blog Carnival, Training, Psychological Help, Mental Health, Antipsychotics, Obama, Innovation, Drugs, Patients, Kaiser Family Foundation, Stress, Medical Help, Non Pharmacological, Uninsured, Insurance, Health, Stress Free, Exercise, Grand Rounds, Meditation, Technology, Chronic Illness, Medicine, Healthcare, Learn, Politics News
Alvaro Fernandez

Without further ado, below you have this week's Grand Rounds -- a Q&A session with over 30 bloggers led by the incoming President on how to reform (for the better, we hope) healthcare.

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Obama, Healthcare Reform, and the Baucus White Paper: Redefining the Center

RJ Eskow | Posted 12.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Baucus Health Plan, Health Insurance, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Max Baucus, Obama Transition, Obama Administration, Healthcare Reform, Health Reform, Kaiser Family Foundation, Barack Obama, Dean Baker, Acos, Health, Health Care, Politics News
RJ Eskow

My guess is that Obama will take a rapid but incrementalist approach -- call it "all deliberate speed" -- built around a consensus when it comes to a health care plan.

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