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Sam Stein

Goldman To Private Insurers: No Health Care Reform At All Is Best

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

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A Goldman Sachs analysis of health care legislation has concluded that, as far as the bottom line for insurance companies is concerned, the best thing...

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Sam Stein

Private Insurer Also Provides "Death Panel" Coverage

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

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For all the hysteria regarding "death panels" being established in health care legislation, it's worth noting that under one major private insurance p...

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Yes We Need Heath Care Reform, But Not to Look Like London

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Carol Felsenthal

I do not mean to argue that health care reform is not needed here, but rather that the British model is not one to emulate. In 2002, our son was hit by a motorcycle while crossing a London street.

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Our Existing Public Option

Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

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Terry Curtis Fox

Private insurance companies don't want to be good capitalists and innovate. They fear competition because they are in a position where they don't need to provide a better service.

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The Last Story on Reforming Health Care: We Have Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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Miles J. Zaremski

The debate over health care reform has turned to politics of fear and fear-mongering, instead of focusing on facts and reality.

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How to Win a Culture War

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

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Jim Wallis

Want to know how to win a culture war? Don't fight one.

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Three Moral Issues of Health Care

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

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Jim Wallis

With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.

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Private Insurers' Goals: Good Targets or Cynical PR?

John Geyman | Posted 06.26.2008 | Living

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John Geyman

The gap between the rhetorical goal of low cost and price gouging is easy to understand: most insurers are investor owned and put their shareholders first.

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