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Jumpstart the Economy -- Invest in State and Local Governments

Gerald McEntee | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: President-Elect Barack Obama, Economic Stimulus, Medicaid, Governors, Economy, Unemployment Insurance, Barack Obama Governor's Meeting, Barack Obama Governor's Conference, Politics News

President-elect Barack Obama holds an unprecedented meeting tomorrow with the nation's governors to outline key steps that need to be taken to revive the nation's economy.

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Friday Talking Points [51] -- Some Positivity

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Debate, Abuse, Demagogue, Green, Fisa, Mccain, Campaign, CAFE Standards, Sarah Palin, Gambling, Pissed Off, 2008, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Student Loan, Rockefeller, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Energy, Jay Rockefeller, Democrat, Congress, Joe Biden, 08, Stimulus, Barack Obama, Biden, Election, 08 Election, Elections, Education, Demagoguery, Anger, Mddotw, College, Wiretapping, Warrantless, Troopergate, GI Bill, Mudslinging, Mother's Day, Mud, Obama, Democratic, Shocked, Waxman, Republican, Pelosi, Casablanca, Minimum Wage, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, 2008 Campaign, Report, Keating Five, John McCain, Keating, Mental Health, Angry, Medicaid, 2008 Elections, Henry Waxman, Alternative, 2008 Election, Crowd, 08 Campaign, Wall Street, Mother, Fat Cat, Palin, 2008 Presidential Race, Charles Keating, Wiretap, Telecommunications, Medicare, Head Start, Rocky IV, Fitzmas, Politics News

While we're all waiting for someone to leak the Palin Troopergate Report (which is reminiscent of waiting for "Fitzmas" during the whole Scooter Libby...

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Cutting Medicare and Medicaid to Fund Regressive Tax Cuts: Haven't We Heard This Before?

Harold Pollack | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Medicaid, Medicare, Health Reform, Economic Crisis, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Politics News

Cutting Medicaid without addressing these underlying issues will only exacerbate the glaring health access and public health problems we face.

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Who Would Want To Be President in These Times?

Bob Starks | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

After all of the cheering and congratulations on Inauguration Day, the new president will have to face the reality of the end of an era of prosperity and American world domination.

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McCain Plans To Cut Medicare And Medicaid

The Wall Street Journal | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Election 2008, Medicaid, Medicare, John McCain, Healthcare, Politics News

John McCain would pay for his health plan with major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid, a top aide said, in a move that independent analysts estimat...

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Rabbi Calls Out From the Shtetl: "Raise Medicaid Reimbursement Rates"

Harold Pollack | Posted 09.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Long-Term Care, Medicaid, I.L. Peretz, Castaway, Health Reform, Health, Religion, Living News

Even for secularist me, Rosh Hashana packs surprising power. I use the season to resolve old debts and squabbles and note my recent accomplishments and failings.

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Children's Defense Fund Founder: McCain Will Leave Millions Of Children Uninsured

Diane Tucker | Posted 09.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Billionaires, Congress, Wall Street Bailout, Children's Health Fund, Working Parents, Barack Obama Polls, Universal Healthcare, Katrina Victims, Regulation, Immigration, Health Insurance, Barack Obama Race, Mccain Immigration, Katrina Relief, Offthebus, Uninsured, Devante Johnson, Marian Wright Edelman, Illegal Immigrants, Teen Pregnancy, Deamonte Diver, Hurricane Katrina, Vision Insurance, Health Care, Barack Obama Hillary Clinton, Mccain Katrina, Democratic Congress, John McCain, Dental Insurance, Iraq War Funding, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Iraq War, John McCain 2008, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Health, 2008 Presidential Race, Schip, Deregulation, Hospitals, Prescription Drugs, Hillary Clinton, Working Families, Medicaid, Healthcare, Huffingtonpost OffTheBus, Working Moms, Children's Defense Fund, Home News

"Sen. McCain has no specific plan for children. We keep a Congressional scorecard... Senator McCain received the lowest score of anyone in the Senate in 2007."

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The Obesity Epidemic and Health Care Reform

Jeffrey Levi | Posted 08.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Childhood Cbesity, Trust for America's Health, Alabama, Medicaid, Health Care, Health, Obesity Epidemic, Living News

Kids today aren't getting enough physical activity in schools. They are bombarded with ads for junk food, and at the same time fruits and vegetables are increasingly unaffordable.

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America's Middle Class Needs Right to Bargain, Secure Contracts -- Like CEOs Have

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Collective Bargaining, Smithfield Foods, United Food and Commercial Workers, Wal-Mart, Employee Freedom Action Committee, Economy, Human Rights Watch, Employee Free Choice Act, Rick Berman, Middle Class, Free Trade, Usw, Medicaid, United Steelworkers, Walton Family, National Labor Relations Board, Global Corporations, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Supreme Court, Tobacco Lobbyist, Agriprocessors Inc. Immigration, Kosher, Minimum Wage, Union Busters, Lance Compa, Health Insurance, Meatpacking, Coalition for a Democratic Workplace, Union, Undocumented, Business News

When uninsured Wal-Mart workers get sick, American taxpayers foot the bill. They pay for coverage through Medicaid, the health insurance plan for the poor. That's what the Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, banks on.

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Long-Term Thinking About Future Health: Seven Trends That Should Concern Us

RJ Eskow | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Massachusetts Health Reform, Physician Reimbursement, Transhumanism, Primary Care, Climate Change, Futurism, Health, Superbugs, Health Economics, Medicaid, Underutilization, Medicare, Health Reform, Global Warming, Politics News

Seven current healthcare trends include doctors leaving the public system, a shortfall in primary care, underutilization of medical treatment, "superbugs," virtual health care, climate change, and radical self-redesign and enhancement.

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Wal-Mart's Wages Increase in China, Rollback in US

David Nassar | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Walmart, Walton, Wages, Economy, Schip, Medicaid, China, Wal-Mart, Labor, Minimum Wage, Walmart Equality, Etic, Business News

Instead of perpetuating a cycle of poverty among its workers, it's time Wal-Mart consider a meaningful wage increase for its U.S. employees who are struggling to make ends.

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HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

Cristina Page | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Birth Control, Conscience Objector, Anti-Contraception, Contraception, Hhs, Medicaid, Pro-Life, Refusal Clause, Pro-Choice, Title X, Leavitt, Politics News

Health and Human Services now proposes that anyone can enforce his or her own definition of abortion "within the bounds of reason." And, it would seem the bounds are pretty far flung.

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Think You Need a Raise? Caregivers for the Disabled Need One More Than You Do

Harold Pollack | Posted 05.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Reform Developmental Disability, Medicaid, Health, Illinois, Healthcare Workers, Afsme, Living News

We trust direct care workers to care for our loved ones. We should earn their trust by paying a living wage.

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62 Extremist Republicans Vote To Cut Billions From Medicaid

Howie Klein | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Medicaid, Scott Garrett, Health Care, Dennis Shulman, Politics News

Bush and McCain are screeching like 2 old fishwives at a market about how they can't change the unfair tax code during a recession but neither has any problem whatsoever eviscerating medical care for the poorest Americans.

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House Republicans Overwhelmingly Desert Bush On Medicaid Rules

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: House, Democrat, Democratic, Wedge Issue, Veto-Proof, Medicaid, 2008 Elections, Campaign, 08, Election Issue, 2008 Election, Election, Barack Obama, Bush, 08 Election, Elections, Campaign Issue, 08 Campaign, 2008, 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Veto, Override, Politics News

For an election-year issue, this is hard to beat. Which is obviously why two-thirds of House Republicans jumped ship from Bush's position.

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Do You Know Where You IRS Check Goes?

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business

Read More: April 15, White House, Social Security, Tax Deadline, Irs, Fiscal Responsibility, Tax Day, Medicare, Medicaid, Defense, Tax, Deficit, Business News

Not where most Americans think, based on everything we've seen in polls and focus groups. Americans' distorted ideas about where the government spends...

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Let Vincent Buy New Pants! Support the Financial Security Accounts for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2008

Harold Pollack | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Financial Security Accounts for Individuals With Disabilities Act of 2008), Disabled, Medicaid, Health Reform, Fragile X, Senator Casey, Autism, Orren Hatch, Politics News

Let's take a short leave from the campaign bloodlust to give Senators Casey and Hatch, along with their House counterparts, some real credit for this bill.

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CVS to Pay $37.5 Million to Settle Pill Switching Case

Wall Street Journal | Jacob Goldstein | Posted 03.18.2008 | Business

Read More: CVS, Medicaid, CVS Pharmacies, Whistleblowers, CVS Lawsuit, Zantac, Ranitidine, Business News

CVS is paying $36.7 million to settle allegations that the company defrauded the government by improperly switching patients taking generic Zantac to ...

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Warfare and Healthcare

Norman Solomon | Posted 03.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Industry, Pentagon, Military Spending, Lobbyists, Martin Luther King Jr., War, New York Times, Medicaid, Medicare, Single-Payer Healthcare, H.R. 676, Healthcare, Politics News

It's kind of logical. In a pathological way. A country that devotes a vast array of resources to killing capabilities will steadily undermi...

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Where Are the Children in President Bush's Budget?

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Medicaid, Children's Health, Child Watch, Marian Wright Edelman, Budget, Schip, George W. Bush, Child Poverty, Poverty, Bush Budget, Federal Budget, Politics News

Even a cursory analysis of Bush's spending proposal reveals a failure in many areas to construct a budget that protects the well-being of children in low- to middle-income families.

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Three Ugly Little Truths About The Federal Budget

Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson | Posted 02.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Social Security, Federal Budget Deficit, Cutting Federal Budget, Medicare, Medicaid, Congress, Federal Budget, Bush Budget, Business News

This country really needs to start thinking seriously about cutting spending, raising taxes, or doing some of both. The United States is a wealthy nation. We're not Haiti. There's no fundamental reason our government can't live within its means. But so far, it doesn't even deserve an "E" for effort.

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Clinton's Health Plan May Require Tapping Into Wages

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 02.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: California Primary, Mitt Romney Super Tuesday, New York Primary, Super Tuesday Primary, New Jersey Primary, Healthcare Plan, Illinois Primary, February 5th, Barack Obama Super Tuesday, Obama Campaign, Clinton Campaign, Mike Huckabee, Republican Primaries, Super Tuesday, 2008 Campaign, Super Tuesday Primaries, Medicare, John McCain, Hillary Clinton Super Tuesday, Super Tuesday Campaigning, Mitt Romney, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Huckabee Super Tuesday, Democratic Primaries, 2008 Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, GOP Primaries, Medicaid, Clinton Obama California, Tuesday Primaries, Super Tuesday Polls, Super Tuesday Results, John McCain Super Tuesday, Politics News

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to have workers' wages garnisheed if they refuse to buy health insurance to achieve c...

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Bush Cuts Will Cost Lives

Gerald McEntee | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Afscme, Home Care, Bush Plan, Bush Cuts, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, Medical Care, Health Care Proposal, Medicae, Politics News

The president's plan will not only require hospitals to cut back services, but it will reduce the quality of medical care for millions of families.

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Code Blue! Republicans Leaning Left on Healthcare!

Craig Stoltz | Posted 01.18.2008 | Politics

The most interesting thing that showed up on the Healthcare08 PoliGraph jumped out in plain red and blue. Several Republicans held positions in the blue zone on some healthcare issues. Not so for Democrats.

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This is Ridiculous

Jill Greenberg | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics

Read More: Medicaid, Medicare, Aarp, Going to the Doctor, Healthcare Crisis, Healthcare Costs, Politics News

It's just a little nuts that health care costs so much. And we can only hope that politicians come together to find solutions to this. But until then, we are all stuck.

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