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Obama Health Care Reform

Policies of Fear or Ignorance?

Ryan Mack | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Ryan Mack

Living wills and health care proxies are very critical documents and every independent citizen, young and old, should have these documents within his or her estate plan.

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A Pollster's Advice: Don't Trust the Polls on Health Reform's Demise

Jeremy Rosner | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Jeremy Rosner

If polls about policy proposals don't accurately predict legislative outcomes, why do so many people focus on them?

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August Madness: Politics, Money and Discontent

Michelle Kraus | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Michelle Kraus

Somehow we are locked into the drama of health insurance reform while so many moving parts are ignored. How did we get here? And more importantly, how do we change the conversation?

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Shut Up and Listen! And That Means All of Us!

Carol Smaldino | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Carol Smaldino

If we don't create a climate of communication, of listening and translation, there will be no health care reform.

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I Want You to Sell Your Body!

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Joe The Nerd Ferraro

We grouse about Congress people prostituting themselves all the time. If we believe in health care, we may have to do the same, as it were.

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Aug. 24, 2009, News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media

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Richard Valeriani

President Obama goes on vacation on Martha's Vineyard. Did health care reform go with him? Why doesn't anybody know why it's called Martha's Vineyard?

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President Obama: Trust Young Americans to Relay the Healthcare Message!

Stephen Ratner | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Stephen Ratner

If the president is to pass his health care legislation, he must tap into the core base of support the helped him win the 2008 elections -- a core that consists significantly of young Americans.

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Losing Progressives Is a Far More Lethal Blow to Obama than GOP

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Progressives' noisy opposition to a health care reform sell-out points to a far bigger threat to Obama than the GOP could ever pose.

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President Obama, Health Care and the Rope Burning Contest

Peter M. Shane | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

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Peter M. Shane

The idea that the president would have been better off politically during our summer doldrums if he had originally staked out a more detailed bill is pure fantasy.

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What Can We Do to Help?

Steven Weber | Posted 09.23.2009 | Politics

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Steven Weber

It's not enough to elect someone and trust that he, she or they will fix things while we continue on our merry, consuming way. A movement is a myth without the people asking: What can we do?

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Anti-Reform Group Plans Local TV Ads Where Obama Is Vacationing

AP | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A group opposed to President Barack Obama's health-care proposals is planning an ad campaign to run locally while the first family ...

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GOP Congressman Wally Herger Calls Obama Health Plan 'Threat To Democracy'

Mount Shasta Herald | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

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Republican Congressman Wally Herger held a health care town hall meeting Aug. 18 at Simpson University in Redding, where a partisan crowd of over 2,00...

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Arthur Delaney

Joe The Nerd: The Man Who Challenged Obama On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

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Joe Ferraro was a little anxious when it came his turn to question President Obama about health care reform during Michael Smerconish's call-in interv...

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The Healthcare Conundrum: Getting Out of the Box

James D. Zirin | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

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James D. Zirin

It's a crying shame is that medical insurance premiums, unlike all other forms of insurance, are not sufficiently geared to risk.

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How Obama Can Pass Health Care, or F--k Disneyland

Sherman Yellen | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

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Sherman Yellen

I have learned that the use of anger by an otherwise reasonable man can bring down kingdoms -- in my case a magic kingdom -- and in Obama's case it might even bring in health care.

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At Last Liberals Get Angry

Bob Burnett | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

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Bob Burnett

Through eight nightmarish years, Liberals were remarkably well behaved: none of us carried assault weapons to Bush appearances, accused him of being a traitor, or shouted "kill him" at rallies.

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Obama Invokes FDR's Battle For Social Security

Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

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In his remarks at Organizing for America's National Health Care Forum on Thursday, President Obama invoked FDR's battle to pass Social Security, clear...

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Faith In Obama Drops As Reform Fears Rise

AP | Dan Balz and Jon Cohen | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A new poll says that Americans, concerned over the future of health care reform and anxious about the growing federal budget defici...

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Ignorance Isn't Anti-American

Richard Zombeck | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

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Richard Zombeck

Michele Malkin is right. The teabaggers, the town hall protesters -- these people aren't un-American. They're uneducated, ignorant, and uninformed... and that's completely American.

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Obama Calls Health Plan a ‘Moral Obligation'

New York Times | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Obama sought Wednesday to reframe the health care debate as “a core ethical and moral obligation,” imploring a coalition ...

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Why Bad Healthcare Policy Makes For Bad Politics, Too

Daniel Denvir | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

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Daniel Denvir

We should be willing to compromise, but the absence of a public option would be pure capitulation.

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Don't Tell Ted

Craig Crawford | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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Craig Crawford

Is it tragic or just plain ironic that health reform suffers along with Ted Kennedy? It was Kennedy, after all, who put Barack Obama on a winning path to the White House.

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It's Not Over Until You've Tried These Six Things, Mr. President

Rob Warmowski | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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Rob Warmowski

Notice that the insurance industry-funded opposition to reform is well-managed enough to not send shouters and swastika sign-wavers to the town halls you are scheduled to appear at.

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Obama's Town Hall Language Reveals White House Strategy

D. Brad Wright | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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D. Brad Wright

The whistle has blown signaling the end of the first half of health reform, and all the players are huddled in the locker room that is August recess. Obama's town hall remarks are the coach's pep talk.

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Health Care Decision: Who Does Government Help?

Dave Johnson | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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Dave Johnson

The health care debate is bringing America's division out into the open: Is America going to work for the benefit of its people or for the few who benefit from concentrated ownership of large corporations?

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