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Waffling Democrats' Health Care Hypocrisy

Peter Dreier | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Veterans Health Administraiton, Ben Nelson, Public Option, Va, Mary Landrieu, Health Insurance Lobby, Socialized Medicine, Blanche Lincoln, Health Care Reform, Veterans Administration, Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman, American Medical Association, Medicare, Kent Conrad, Health Care, Campaign Contributions, Politics News

After years of feeding at the health insurance industry trough, it's no wonder these conservative Democratic senators oppose a public option plan to compete for consumers.

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Health Care Reform Struggle Will Not End This Year

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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No matter what healthcare bill passes, it is not going to remain static. It is going to be revisited again and again over the next few decades. That's how lawmaking works.

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Ten Inevitable Tragic Consequences of National Health Care

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted 10.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Sterilization, Peter-Breggin, Public Option, Rationing Health Care, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Euthanasia, Health Care, Politics News

With the looming probability of a "public option" as a prelude to full-blown national health care, it's important examine the most threatening and eve...

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Afraid of Socialist Healthcare in America? It's Already Here

Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Health, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Socialism, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Politics News

Any health care system that does not provide unlimited care to everyone employs rationing.

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Senator Mark Begich's Town Hall on Health Care: Tales from a Survivor

Jeanne Devon ("AKMuckraker") | Posted 11.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Alaska Health Care, Alaska, Mark Begich, Town Hall Meeting, Senator Begich, Health Care Reform, Baucus Bill, Alaska Politics, Alaska Town Hall, Politics News

We know that people that go to health care town halls really aren't interested in what anyone has to say. But to see it so clearly and so close at a meeting in Anchorage this weekend was quite something.

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Better Health Care Through Rationing

Gov. Dick Lamm | Posted 11.24.2009 | Denver

Read More: Health Care Reform, Socialized Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Medicaid, Medicare, Health Care Rationing, Colorado, Denver News

Rationing is the price we must pay for our creative success. It is the ugly child of the marriage of our ingenuity and our egalitarianism.

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Poll: Majority Dismiss Right Wing Healthcare Attacks As "Scare Tactics"

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Socialized Medicine, Right Wing Attacks, Senate Finance Committee, Scare Tactics, Health Care Rationing, Death Panels, Illegal Immigrants, Healthcare Reform, Politics News

Wow, this is cause for cautious optimism: Buried in a new Bloomberg poll is evidence that solid majorities dismiss all the leading right wing health c...

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4 Countries With Better Health Care Than Ours

usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Switzerland, Health Care Costs, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Health Care Spending by Country, Health Care, Healthcare, Healthcare Costs, Health Care Europe, Business News

If the healthcare systems in Canada and Europe are so much worse than ours, somebody ought to tell the Canadians and Europeans....

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The Real NHS

Sarah E. Jones | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Socialized Medicine, British NHS, Health Care, Bangor, Walking Pneumonia, Living News

Based on what I experienced at Gwynedd Hospital, I would walk into any hospital in the UK confident that I would receive the treatment I needed. I cannot say the same of American hospitals.

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The New Town Hall Reality: Why Did Congressman Baron Hill (D-IN) Blow Up?

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Pnhp, Blue Dog, Tort Reform, Federal Reserve, Indiana University Southeast, Midwestern, Iraq, Physicians for a National Health Program, Politics News

At the New Albany meeting, people were polite and even relaxed enough to chuckle whenever someone spoke with dry Indiana wit. Yet Hill silenced would-be hecklers by saying "Let me answer that before you interrupt, please!"

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Canadians Defend Their Health Care System In Video

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Politics News, Universal Health Care, Video, Government Health Care, Canadians, Health Care Reform, Socialized Medicine, Canada, National Health Service, Nhs, Video Canadian Health Care, Media News

One of the unfortunate side-effects of the often confused health care reform discourse is the way so many perfectly nice health care systems that oper...

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GOPers Decrying "Socialized Medicine" Go To Govt. Hospital For Surgeries

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Obama Government Care, Government Health Care, Health Care Reform, Mitch McConnell, Roy Blunt, Medical Care, Government Run Hospitals, John McCain, Politics News

Republicans in Congress have raised the specter of a bloated, "socialized," bureaucrat-run nightmare of a health care system as a means of undermining...

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In a Town Hall Meeting, Healthcare Swing-Vote Representative Baron Hill [D-IN] Takes a Clear Stand on Reform

Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

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Hill could not represent a southern Indiana consensus view, because there was none; whatever he chose to do, it would cost him votes.

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The Modesty of Hope

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Since the dawn of the Industrial Age, and even before, there has been a deep strain of exceptionalism in the American character.

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Public Option Rides Again -- $100,000 In 24 Hours

Howie Klein | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Blue Dogs, Public Option, Rachel Maddow, Jane Hamsher, Politics News

Leaving the obstructionists out of the equation, Democrats have the opportunity to come up with a bill that serves the needs of ordinary American families instead of the special interests

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

Rob Warmowski | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

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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British Defend Their Healthcare System

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Nhs, Government Health Care, Daniel Hannan, National Health Service, Glenn Beck, Universal Health Care, Fox, Politics News

Where other British citizens saw gross lies, exaggerations, and frustrating half-truths, Graham Linehan saw a "golden opportunity to kickstart a campaign to redress the balance a little bit."

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Health Care, Why Call it a 'Right'?

John David Lewis | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Right to Healthcare, Health, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Socialized Medicine, John David Lewis, Government Health Care, Medicare, Health Care Right, Health Action, Politics News

To reform our health care industry we should challenge the premises that invited government intervention in the first place. The moral premise is that medical care is a right. It is not.

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The Truth About Socialized Medicine

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare, Socialized Medicine, Ronald Reagan, Madeleine M. Kunin, Socialized Healthcare, American Medical Association, Health Care, Politics News

Ronald Reagan turned out to be wrong. Most of us are so happy, in our sunset years, to have access to Medicare, and yes, we are still free.

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"Louise" Always Wanted Healthcare Reform

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Health Care Reform, Harry and Louise, Harry and Louise Health Care Reform, Harry and Louise Ads, Socialized Medicine, Obama Healthcare Plan, Socialized-Healthcare, Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care, Obama Health Care Reform, Media News

The new ads have a decidedly upbeat tone. In the first ad to be aired, Harry tells Louise: "Well, it looks we might finally get health care reform," to which Louise responds: "It's about time."

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An Ordinary Man

Norman Horowitz | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Medical Industrial Complex, Socialized Medicine, Medical Malpractice, Canada Health Care, New York Subway, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Healthcare, Politics News

My primary connection to health care is my being a consumer of it, and nothing more. I will apologize at least once for having the temerity to suggest...

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It's the People Who Got Small

Tom Sullivan | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Sara-Robinson, Frank Schaeffer, Glenn Beck, Health Care, Health, Socialized Medicine, Conservatives, Personal Health, Obama Administration, Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care, Politics News

When town hall protests begin attracting large numbers of foot soldiers youthful enough and fit enough to engage in organized violence, be afraid.

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The GOP's Health Care Plan: Attack the Democrats

David Goodman | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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Sixty-four percent of Americans say the government should guarantee health insurance for all Americans. Yet, the only plan Republicans can agree on is to attack the Democrats.

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Is Health Care Reform Possible Without Caring For The Providers?

Srinivasan Pillay | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Srini Pillay, Brain Drain, Depression, Salaries of Doctors, Srinivasan Pillay, Health Care Reform, Suicide, Physician Burnout, Burnout, Living News

The current mentality of socialized medicine will usher in a new kind of doctor and usher out many talented, gifted and important physicians who could have made contributions to health care.

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Health Experiences From Around The World -- How Do Universal Health Care Systems Compare?

Huffington Post | Margo Irvin and Morgan Korn | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Health Care Bill, Health Care Debate, Canadian Health Care, Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Slidepoll, World News

Landmark health care legislation that would provide health insurance for all Americans is under intense scrutiny -- in particular, the "public option,...

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