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For the Health of the Nation: Ensure a Public Option

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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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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Health Care: Canada, France, Israel and U.S.

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Health Care Debate, Health Care Reform, Canadian Health Care System, Universal Health Care, Single Payer, Health Care, Politics News

The health care debate is heating up as reform bills make their way through both the House and Senate. Supporters of a government option point out th...

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The Health Care We Deserve

John Graham | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government Option, Courage, Single Payer, Health Care, Health Care Reform, Public Option, Health Reform, Politics News
John Graham

We deserve better than what the health care industry is willing to give us. We deserve better than a weak compromise from Congress described as victory.

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If You Don't Want the Public Option, Get the Hell Out of the Way

Bob Cesca | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Canadian Healthcare, Mitch McConnell, Public Option, Tax Day Tea Parties, Sarah Palin, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Single Payer, Health Care, Tea Party, Politics News
Bob Cesca

If certain wingnuts and Republicans don't want affordable, guaranteed health insurance, then they don't have to sign up. They're welcome to continue to defiantly roll the dice with their private plans.

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Obama and Bright Lines in the Sand

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Obama again refused to give a strong defense of the public option himself. By doing so, he just dug the hole deeper. What exactly does Obama stand for in the health care debate?

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The Health Care Crisis: Letters from Vermont and America

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Bernie Sanders

The fight for universal and comprehensive health care is the civil rights battle of our time. Victory will require a strong grassroots movement that is prepared to take on the special interests.

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Tell Media: Include Single-Payer in Healthcare Debate

Isabel Macdonald | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Health, Media Censorship, Max Baucus, Single-Payer National Health Insurance, Single Payer Healthcare, Single Payer System, Single Payer, Healthcare Reform, Barack Obama, Healthcare, TV Networks, Media News
Isabel Macdonald

The insurance lobbies and many politicians may not want to talk about single-payer. But that makes it all the more important that the media do.

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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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Go Ahead, Tax those Benefits, It's Central to the Health Plan

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, Single Payer, Health Care, Politics News
Rose Ann DeMoro

Enough already on the hand wringing over the plan to start taxing employee health care benefits.

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Single-Payers Crashing the Gates

Marcy Winograd | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics

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Marcy Winograd

One of the many frustrations for advocates of single-payer health care is the relentless drive to marginalize us, not only by conservatives but also by members of our own party.

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Local Politics: The Rich Get Richer

Warren Goldstein | Posted 08.01.2009 | New York

Read More: Charles Rangel, Campaign Contributions, Drug Companies, Health Care Reform, Hiram Monserrate, Pedro Espada, Single Payer Healthcare, Domestic Workers, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Insurance Companies, Same-Sex Marriage, New York News
Warren Goldstein

"All politics is local," the late Speaker of the House Tip O'Neil opined famously. And New Yorkers have been getting a large dose of the maxim in rec...

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Arthur Delaney

Obama's Insurance Stories: "For-Profit Health Care Killed My Wife"

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

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People across the United States are sharing their personal stories with Barack Obama's repurposed campaign arm, Organizing For America, to tell the wo...

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We Must Stop the Rampant Fraud in the Health Care Industry

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Corruption, Senate, Medicare, Single Payer, Health Care, Health Care Industry, Politics News
Sen. Bernie Sanders

What we have seen over the last several decades is the systemic fraud perpetrated by private insurance companies, private drug companies, and private for-profit hospitals ripping off the American people.

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Want the Public Option as Much as I Do? Then Get Mad

Bryan Young | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics

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Bryan Young

I don't trust private industry with my health.

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MY Healthcare Problem

Abby L. Ferber | Posted 07.24.2009 | Living

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Abby L. Ferber

Health insurance companies are not in the business of making healthcare easier for us; they are in business.

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Health Care A Human Right?

The Real News | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

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The Real News

As the "official" debate shifts away from single payer type plans, an increasing amount of people across the United States are showing their support for that model.

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The Policy That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Robert Kuttner | Posted 07.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare for All, Single Payer, Health Care, Liberals, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert Kuttner

One of these days, a national leader will embrace national health insurance and fight for it. Until then, we will keep paying more money for less care.

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Obama's Two-Step Health Care Strategy

Bob Burnett | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

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Bob Burnett

Obama's first step deals with the most egregious problems with the current system, but doesn't adequately contain costs. Those will have to be dealt with by future legislation.

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The Dummy's Guide to Healthcare Reform

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

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Rose Ann DeMoro

The worse these proposals get, the more likely it becomes that our "cure" will do more harm than good.

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Health Care for All Americans -- Sign the Petition

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Bernie Sanders

The time is now for our country to join the rest of the industrialized world and provide cost-effective, comprehensive quality health care to every man, woman and child in our country.

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Why the AMA Doesn't Speak for Me

Dr. Peter Klatsky | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

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Dr. Peter Klatsky

Most physicians went into medicine because it allowed us to heal, comfort and help people. Sadly, the AMA feels like it exists only to help doctors help themselves.

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Sebelius On Health Care: "This Is Not A Trick"

NPR | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

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As lawmakers on Capitol Hill hammer out legislation to overhaul the nation's health care system this year, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathlee...

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Follow the Money on Health Care Reform

Deborah Burger | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

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Deborah Burger

All in all, it seems a safe bet that in the final analysis, we may yet end up with the best health care reform money can buy.

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Jason Linkins

Reader Calls Out Milbank For Distorting Health Care Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Subcommittee Hearings, Dana Milbank, Media Criticism, Health Care Reform, Washington Post, Single Payer, Media News

On Monday, the Washington Post published a Letter To The Editor from James Floyd, a "a physician and a health researcher for Public Citizen, which sup...

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