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Americans Abroad Debate Healthcare Reform

Denise Dennis | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senior Citizens, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Pawlenty-Nullification, Health Insurance, Democratic Party, Racism in Politics, Obama Health Care, Republican Party, Politics News
Denise Dennis

PARIS -- September 22 -- The heated debate over healthcare reform continued last week in an unlikely place, the cobblestone courtyard of an apartmen...

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If You Like Medical Bills, You'll Love These

Tom Sullivan | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Npr, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Care Reform, New England Journal of Medicine, Max Baucus, Universal Health Care, Campaign for America's Future, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Salomeh Keyhani, Barack Obama, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

Medical insurance paperwork is universally recognized and universally loathed. It could serve as a potent symbol of everything wrong with America's dysfunctional, for-profit health insurance system.

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Senator Ron Wyden: The Public Option Doesn't Go Far Enough

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senator Maria Cantwell, Senator Ron Wyden, President Obama, Senate Finance Committee, Baucus, Health Care, Wyden, Senator Baucus, Health Care Reform, Obama, Republicans, Democrats, Obama Health Care, Senator Debbie Stabenow, Senator Bob Bennett, Senate, Politics News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Senator Wyden discussed his "Free Choice Proposal" in detail with me, just two days after he met with President Obama to discuss the latest developments in the health care reform battle. Here's what he said.

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Baucus Bill: Health Reform That Isn't

Marcia Angell, M.D. | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Baucus Bill, Marcia Angell, Pharmaceutical Industry, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Medicaid, Medicare, Health Insurance, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Barack Obama, Dr. Marcia Angell, Politics News
Marcia Angell, M.D.

The Baucus bill makes it clear that the fix is in. We're now going to pour more money into a system that's already shown it can absorb whatever we put into it without providing anything like commensurate health care.

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Billy the Kid and the Town Hall Meeting

Susan L. Travis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Racism, Town Hall Debate, Town Hall Meetings, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News
Susan L. Travis

Despite the political backdrop, our town hall meeting was mercifully spared the guns and swastikas of the six o'clock news.

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Health Care Reform Is America's Anti-Theft Device

David A. Love | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Insurance Companies, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care Public Option, Obama Health Care Reform, Obama Public Option, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News
David A. Love

Only in America will people justify the continued existence of private health care insurers, and making a buck over what should be the guaranteed right of access to health care.

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Glenn Beck Doesn't Care About "Those People"

D. Brad Wright | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Politics, Racism, Glenn Beck, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Health, Politics News
D. Brad Wright

There's little doubt that this is fundamentally an "us" versus "them" issue. The question is simply what makes--or what we think makes--"us" different from "them."

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New DNC Obama Ad: Get "Fired Up" and "Ready To Go" About No Public Option

Jane Hamsher | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: GOP House Seats, 1994, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Max Baucus, Ad, Dnc, Barack Obama, Maryland, Obama Health Care, Obama Public Option, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

Passing the Baucus bill means stabbing the base in the back and destroying 2010 turnout for the midterms, which is pretty much what NAFTA did in 1994.

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Sorry Virginia, Insurance companies aren't Santa

Barbara Dehn | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance Industry, Health Care Reform, Healthcare Reform, Insurance Companies, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News
Barbara Dehn

I asked my husband's friend, "You mean that Insurance company X doesn't have enough money to provide care to the people who've paid their premiums, but there's more than enough for bonuses for executives?"

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Reframe the Conversation: Health Care Insurance Reform is a Basic Human Rights Issue

Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Michelle Kraus

We can't just let the kooks rule the day or threaten violence with their words. Don't leave Speaker Pelosi fearing for political violence in the streets because we have not done our job.

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Insurance Execs Testify: No Need for the Public Option

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Public Health Insurance Plan, Health Care Debate, Dennis Kucinich, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Politics News
Miles J. Zaremski

Isn't it high time for all Americans to realize that we are being fleeced by those who claim that we don't need a public option?

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Health Care Fight Distraction to Real Issues

Grant Cardone | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Elderly, Jobs, Unemployment, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Grant Cardone, Business News
Grant Cardone

What good is health care if I can't feed my family?

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Why Olympia Snowe Should Vote Against the Baucus Plan

Robert Reich | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Olympia Snowe Health Care, Robert Reich, Olympia Snowe, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Robert Reich

Here's what's likely to happen if Snowe signs on to the Baucus bill, and if she doesn't. The next few weeks are crucial.

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Why The Catholic Bishops Matter on Health Care Reform

Steven Waldman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Catholics, Abortion, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Obama Health Care, Politics News
Steven Waldman

While some have chided me for caring too much about what the Bishops think, Bishops matter a great deal politically when it comes to the abortion-and-health care debate.

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A Dose of Clarity

Dr. Andrew Weil | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Bill, Health Bill, Health Reform, Dr. Andrew Weil, Public Option, Max Baucus, Baucus Bill, Integrative Medicine, Health Action, Obama Health Care, Andrew Weil, Why-Our-Health-Matters, Health Care, Single Payer, Living News
Dr. Andrew Weil

If the health care debate seems like a hopeless morass, it's largely because moneyed interests want it to look that way. Matt Taibbi reminds us that the most fundamental issue is simple: Who pays, and how?

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Humana Mailer Targets Elderly, Claims Medicare Benefits To Be Cut

Dawn Teo | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

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Dawn Teo

The letter enclosed in the mailer tries to convince Medicare recipients that their benefits could be cut if the current health insurance reform plans are enacted.

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The Left Should Reclaim 'Freedom'

Thomas Frank | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Health Care Debate, Republicans, Conservatives, Politics News
Thomas Frank

There are few things in politics more annoying than the right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word "freedom." Equally annoying is the silence of Democrats on the subject.

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Max Baucus Releases Health Care Bill With Bi-Industry Support

Lee Stranahan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Comedy

Read More: 23/6: Comedy News, Individual Mandate Plan, Public Option, Mandates, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Health Insurance, Max Baucus Health Care, Insurance Companies, Obama Health Care, Comedy News
Lee Stranahan

Baucus was hiding in his office behind a large pile of money and not available for an interview but issued the following written statement...

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With a Health Care Plan This Insane, Who Needs Wingnuts?

Bob Cesca | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Centrist Democrats, Kent Conrad, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Moderate Democrats, Joe Lieberman, Health Insurance, Conservadems, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Larry David, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News
Bob Cesca

Baucus' entire goal was to construct a bipartisan plan. Mission accomplished. Insofar as both parties hate it. He tailored his plan to appeal to the Republicans who, as it turns out, don't support the plan anyway.

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Chairman Bernanke, We Don't Believe It Is Over

Michelle Kraus | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tarp, Economics, Mortgage Crisis, Media, Obama Health Care, Recession, Lending Crisis, Investment Banks, Wall Street, Rachel Maddow, Joe Wilson, Bernanke, Health Care Reform, Banks, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Refinancing, Economic Recovery, Ben Bernanke, Media News, Wall Street Bonuses, Tea Party, Politics News
Michelle Kraus

There is a reason that the American people are losing ObamaHope. It's not just unemployment. The reality cuts much deeper than the everyday lives of normal people.

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Admit It: A Robust Public Option Is Dead

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

With a robust public option dead, the only way to prevent a massive Democratic-sponsored bailout of the health care industry is to regulate insurance premiums and put a trigger on individual mandates.

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The Truth About Medicare

Francine Hardaway | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Single Payer, Provider, Health Care Reform, Patient, Payer, Medicare, Public Option, Obama Health Care, Politics News
Francine Hardaway

Medicare writes the checks. It doesn't operate on the wrong leg, over-radiate a cancer patient, miss a cancer, or give people too many prescriptions.

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The False Premise That Obama Wants A Public Option

John Knefel | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Moral-Imperative, Public Option, Liberals, Health Care Reform, New York Times, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Ted Kennedy, Transcendence, Obama Public Option, Politics News
John Knefel

To assume that Obama wants the public option based only on rhetoric is the height of idiocy. Do we assume a husband loves his wife simply because he says he does, despite years of infidelity?

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Immigration Battle Heats Up During Health Care Debate

washingtonpost.com | Spencer S. Hsu | Posted 11.15.2009 | World

Read More: Undocumented Immigrants, Illegal Immigration, Obama, Immigration, Health Insurance, Obama Health Care, Immigration Reform, Barack Obama, Illegal Immigrants, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Immigration Debate, Healthcare, World News

As Congress's debate over health-care legislation lumbers toward a defining test for the Obama presidency, partisans on both sides of another issue --...

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The Mugging of the Common Good

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Congress, Reform, Wall Street, Private Interests, Obama Wall Street, Economy, Obama Presidency, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Obama Economy, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Politics News
Robert L. Borosage

These next months are the reckoning. The president and the Congress will step up to the reforms the country needs -- or they will fail the nation in a time of peril. We cannot afford another lost decade.

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