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Rights With No Responsibilities?

Deane Waldman | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Is a Right, Healthcare System, Medical Malpractice, Healthcare Financing, Obamacare, Evidence Based Decision Making, Medical Negligence, Medical Errors, Healthcare, Root Cause Analysis, Healthcare Regulations, Obama Healthcare, Hipaa, ARRA 2009, Adverse Medical Outcomes, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act, hr3200, Medical Costs, Systems Thinking, Problem Solving, Single Payer, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Aahca, Universal Health Care, Health Information Technology, Electronic Medical Records, Politics News

Do we have the right to make ourselves unhealthy? I would answer, Yes! That is part of being free.

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The Cause of Our Lives: Meaningful Health Care Reform

Ron Gettelfinger | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Uaw, Medicare, Public Option, Employee Free Choice Act, Ted Kennedy, Ron Gettelfinger, Politics News

Healthy economies and healthy communities require good jobs and good wages. The collective voice of a union is the only instrument workers have to put a check on corporate power.

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The Cause of Our Lives: Meaningful Health Care Reform

Ron Gettelfinger | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Uaw, Medicare, Public Option, Employee Free Choice Act, Ted Kennedy, Ron Gettelfinger, Politics News

Healthy economies and healthy communities require good jobs and good wages. The collective voice of a union is the only instrument workers have to put a check on corporate power.

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Progressives Should Vote No on Obama's Health Care Proposal

Cenk Uygur | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Progressive Caucus, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama, Corporations, Lobbyists, Progressives, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Politics News

The Obama White House is doing untold damage to its credibility here by scheming against the centerpiece of healthcare reform -- the public option. This is the very heart of reform.

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Health Care: Why the World Intensely Watches the US Debate

Georges Ugeux | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Public Option, Obama Health Care, U.S. Healthcare System, Politics News

The rest of the world is watching the U.S. debate over health care reform and is flabbergasted at the country's opposition to the obvious answers.

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Racial Resentment, Authoritarianism and Health Care Reform

Jonathan Weiler | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Authoritarianism, Racial Resentment, Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care, Politics News

Preferences about health care reform and feelings about race have become intertwined.

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Your Health Insurer Will Screw You

Peter J. Ognibene | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance Industry, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care, Anthony Weiner, Public Option, Public Health Insurance Plan, Health Insurance Loopholes, Health Insurance Premiums, Politics News

Individuals who lack the negotiating leverage that organizations exercise on behalf of their members, wind up paying the highest rates for coverage and are left to hope they won't get trapped by an exclusion or loophole.

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The Life and Death of Ted Kennedy: Continuing to Learn as We Mourn

SaraKay Smullens | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Even those who win one moment can face horrific, brutal loss in the next. The rich and famous are no more spared than the rest of us.

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The Time Is Now for Kennedy Care

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ted Kennedy's Legislative Triumphs, Universal Health Care, Social Justice, Ted's Memorial Tributes, Obama Care Myths, Civil Rights, Politics News

I was wrong. A few weeks ago I wrote that maybe now is not the time for health care reform, after two stimulus packages and a cap and trade bill. I have since changed my mind.

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The Emperor Has No Clothes

Deane Waldman | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Washington is guilty of management malpractice. Simply throwing more money into the waste of the middle will not fix health care.

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Don't Worry, Get Angry: Hillary's Health Care Travesty

Linda Keenan | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Seventy-eight percent of the people who had to file for medical-related bankruptcy actually had health insurance. Hillary St. Pierre, a spunky 27-year-old mother, is a case in point.

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Solidarity (PO/PO)

Peter Clothier | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Barack Obama, Solidarity, Universal Health Care, Politics News

I'm asking the more than 70 percent of us who say we believe in significant health care reform to be "solid" with our friends, our neighbors, our families, ourselves--and yes, our online contacts.

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National Healthcare Reinsurance Pool

Kim Davis | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

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Republicans need to accept the notion of universal care and a functional healthcare safety net for all of our citizens.

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What to Ask at a Town Hall on Health Care

Deane Waldman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

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What to ask our Representatives at town hall meeting, and in letters or emails.

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Why Isn't Health Care a Right?

Kate Southwood | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

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So if America is already spending more on health care than anyone else and if America's health care technology is second-to-none, why isn't health care a fundamental right?

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Health Care Reform Now

Felton Newell | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Universal Health Care, Public Option, Healthcare Reform, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, H1n1, Politics News

Refusing to vote for a health care reform bill just because it does not include a public option would be a classic case of making the perfect the enemy of the good.

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Health Care Reform: Some Optimism Please

SaraKay Smullens | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama and Health Care, Rationing of Service, The Public Option, Civil-Rights-Act-of-1964, Right Wing Conspiracy, Hillary Clinton, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

Health care costs are rising fast and are the largest cause of personal bankruptcies. Our life expectancy is lower than most industrialized countries, but our health care costs more than any of them.

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My Open Letter on Health Insurance Reform

Rep. Jerrold Nadler | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rep. Jerry Nadler, Public Option, Jerry Nadler, Jerrold Nadler, Public Plan, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, Politics News

Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.

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Greatest Tribute to Kennedy: Pass Health Care for All

Robert Creamer | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Universal Health Care, Medicare, State Children's Health Care Program, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, Limbaugh, Health Care for All, Senator Ted Kennedy, Politics News

It would be fitting if Sen. Kennedy's passing itself served to refocus the health care debate on the moral principle that lies at its center.

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I Want You to Sell Your Body!

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

We grouse about Congress people prostituting themselves all the time. If we believe in health care, we may have to do the same, as it were.

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How Obama Fumbled Health Care Message

John F. Wasik | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Economic Policy, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News

The most audacious health plan in two generations is sputtering thanks to really awful communication planning, a mixed and confusing message and poor defensive strategy.

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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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Reform With and Without a Public Option

Stephen M. Davidson | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, The Public Option, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Politics News

It is important to understand what we will get -- and won't get -- if a bill passes without a public option.

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Health Care: What Ever Happened to Personal Responsibility?

James Arthur Ray | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Anti-Aging, Health, Health Care Reform, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Living News

Banks and automotive companies that ran their businesses irresponsibly were bailed out with little accountability. I don't know about you, but if I make poor financial decisions in my personal life or business, I've never found anyone (much less the government) ready to bail me out.

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The Current Reforms Need People, Not Money

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Right Wing Radio, Joe the Nerd, Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Health Care Reform, Joe Ferraro, Michael Smerconish, Joe the Nerd Ferraro, Universal Health Care, Health Insurance, Health Care, Barack Obama, Michael Smerconish Obama Interview, Politics News

If you want healthcare you may have to take grief from the party-insiders in the area. Tough noogies. Guess what -- the Congresspeople need political cover to get this done. Make their knees stronger.

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