Tom Daschle

Hospital Debt Collector Taps Washington Bigwigs In Bid To Restore Reputation

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeffrey Young | Posted 05.15.2012

Accretive Health, a debt-collection company under fire for allegedly hounding hospital patients over unpaid bills, has hired former President George W...

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Al Sharpton: Supreme Court Overturning Obamacare Would Be 'A Travesty'

HuffingtonPost.com | Adam Goldberg | Posted 04.12.2012

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As part of its ongoing series of chats with influential power players who breakfast at New York's Loews Regency Hotel, The Huffington Post scored inte...

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Rising Foreclosures, Homelessness and the Women Who Need Our Help

Linda Daschle | Posted 06.06.2011

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Faced with multiple crises, many are being forced into homelessness. And homeless women -- who are at the greatest risk of violence and victimization on the streets -- need the most help.

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Obama's New Chief Of Staff: The Final Candidates Emerge

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is in what appears to be the final stages of choosing a new White House Chief of Staff from among the following c...

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10 Shadow Elitists of the Decade

Linda Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crossroads GPS, Barry McCaffrey, Michael McConnell, Michael Chertoff, Robert Rubin, Tom Daschle, Karl Rove, Larry Summers, Gerhard Schroeder, Geir Haarde, Shadow Elite, Slidepollajax, Neoconservatives, Politics News

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A Falsehood Wrapped in an Enigma Stuffed Into a Burrito

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Patriotism, Trent Lott, Tom Delay, Tom Daschle, Obama, Socialist, Health Care, Kenya, Dissent, Rush Limbaugh, Politics News

When Bush was president, criticism was unpatriotic. Under Obama, dissent is now the highest form of patriotism. That itself is absurd enough, but we have only just begun.

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Shadow Elite: Will the Real Juan Williams Please Stand Up?

Linda Keenan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Williams, who pulled off representing two vastly different brands, qualifies as agile and edgy. But he's hardly an anomaly: These days, the idea that a journalist would operate with a single standard of conduct seems as dated as an 8-track tape.

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BOLD: Democrat Runs Aggressive Pro-Health Care Ad

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The unwillingness of Democratic lawmakers to run on the passage of sweeping health care reform legislation has been an oft-noted feature of the 2010 c...

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Daschle Pins Health Care's Political Lifeline To North Dakota House Race

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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Supporters of health care reform are pinning their hopes for the long-term political viability of the legislation on an otherwise off-the-radar House ...

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Tom Daschle: Public Option Killed By 'Understanding' Between Legislators, Hospitals, Insurers

Wonk Room | Igor Volsky | Posted 05.25.2011

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In his book, Daschle reveals that after the Senate Finance Committee and the White House convinced hospitals to to accept $155 billion in payment red...

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Pete Rouse, Rahm Emanuel Replacement, To Be Named Chief Of Staff Friday

The New York Times | MICHAEL D. SHEAR and JEFF ZELENY | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mr. Obama plans to name Pete Rouse, a senior adviser, to replace Mr. Emanuel, two officials confirmed. Mr. Rouse has been at Mr. Obama's side since th...

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Tom Daschle Denies Lobbying, But Works Directly With Top Firm's Lobbyists

Politico | Craig Frates | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Daschle has earned millions of dollars telling the nation's biggest companies how to get what they want from official Washington. He's not a lawy...

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Frustrated by the Kagan Hearings? Blame Tom Daschle

Asher Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reaching for a way to impact judicial nominations while in the minority, Democrats during the Bush administration agreed upon a strategy of fighting Bush's nominees based upon ideology as opposed to qualifications.

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House Race in S.D. Could Be Decided on Indian Reservations

Tim Giago | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Indian Heath Care Reform, Indian Reservations, Tom Daschle, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, South Dakota, Health Care, Kristi Noem, George Mcgovern, Politics News

In a tight race in South Dakota, the Indian vote is usually the decider. The Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin vs. Kristi Noem race is shaping up to be that kind of a race.

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Shadow Congress: TPM Offers Guide To More Than 170 Congressmen Turned Lobbyists

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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In their ongoing efforts to destroy America, lobbying firms have hired over 170 former lawmakers to skulk around the corridors of power to make sure that moneyed interests retain their iron grip on your lawmakers.

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Reid's Problem Isn't Nevada

Ross K. Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

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The last person senators want as their spokesman or spokeswoman is a star. Why else would GOP senators have chosen McConnell?

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Core Chicago Team Sinking Obama Presidency

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Serious critiques of the internal game around Obama have to be read -- because Obama is not winning. He is failing, and people need to consider why.

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Shadow Elite: The Spy Who Came in From... Wall Street?

Janine R. Wedel | Posted 05.25.2011

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What are we to make of the BIA? Is it an offshoot of the CIA? As they trundle back and forth between Wall Street and Washington, does the information the CIA officers glean in one venue seep into the other?

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Daschle: Democrats Should Show 'Political Courage' And Pass Senate Health Care Bill

The Hill | Walter Alarkon | Posted 05.25.2011

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House Democrats should "do the right thing" and approve the Senate's healthcare bill, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) said Monday. ...

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Top Ten Things Democrats Should Do Before Abandoning Ambitious Health Care Reform

Matt Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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If Conan can be paid $30 million not to host The Tonight Show, can't some Democratic billionaire offer Scott Brown $31 million not to take his seat?

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Health Care Reform: A Postmortem Requiem

Philip Lee Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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What went wrong with health care reform? Everything. Almost immediately, this debate was a diversion from the most pressing issue facing Americans -- an anemic economy with unemployment numbers never seen in our lifetime.

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Lobbyists Delisting, Going Underground To Avoid New Law

New York Times | DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK | Posted 05.25.2011

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Before the new rules, the number of advocates who registered as lobbyists appeared to have grown steadily, peaking in late 2007. A tally by the nonpar...

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Daschle Had Public And Private Role In Push For Digital Health Records

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Fred Schulte and Emma Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

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In the government's campaign to bring medical care into the digital age, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has served as a key advisor to Pres...

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The First HuffPost Book Club Pick of 2010: Shadow Elite by Janine Wedel

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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My first HuffPost Book Club selection of 2010 is Janine Wedel's Shadow Elite, a gripping book that explains why it's been so hard to bring about any real change in America.

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Meet UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley: Rich, Powerful, Not Yet Famous

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Business as usual for Hemsley and UnitedHealth is a chronic pattern of abuse and neglect of its policy-holders, along with a powerful political influence-peddling operation that involves costly campaign contributions.

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