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What Do MoveOn Members Think About Health Care? Who Knows? A Reply to MoveOn's Eli Pariser

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics

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Something seemed strange. Could it really be that the average American voter is more progressive on universal health care than the average MoveOn member?

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Is MoveOn.Org Ignoring Its Core Democratic Principles in Setting its Direction on Health Care Reform?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

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Without asking its members, MoveOn's leaders have elected to join the steering committee of, and pledge at least $500,000 of its members' money to, a new health care coalition.

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Why Not Single-Payer?

Richard Kirsch | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics

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Health care reform holds the promise to create a generation of Americans who support a government that works for everyone, just as the New Deal led to 4 decades of activist government for the public good.

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Why is Health Care for America Now Giving Up on Real Reform?

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics

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In search of a supposedly politically viable plan, the coalition has surrendered in advance on the only overhaul that will actually cure the disease: a single-payer, mproved Medicare for all reform.

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What Americans Want: National Health Insurance

Sarah van Gelder | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living

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It doesn't have to be this way. A video of a woman dying in a Brooklyn hospital waiting room after nearly 24 hours waiting for treatment is just one m...

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Death Under the Guise of Health Care

Norman Solomon | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

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In San Francisco yesterday, over 1,000 protesters were spilling from the sidewalks outside the Moscone Center -- demanding health care for all.

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A Challenge To John McCain: Buy Your Own Health Insurance

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.30.2008 | Politics

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I challenge McCain to be the first to do what he is asking all Americans to do: give up his employer-based health care, and purchase his own health insurance on the open market.

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Why Not Single Payer? Part 5: The Single Payer Health Care Movement and the Plans of the Democratic Presidential Nominee

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 03.31.2008 | Politics

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If a Democrat is elected president, the progressive mass movement should use the opportunity to move beyond their compromised health care plans to push for Medicare For All.

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Is There a Future for Private Health Insurers?

Harold Pollack | Posted 02.16.2008 | Politics

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Even if we could correct these misplaced incentives of private insurers, it seems as though anything beneficial insurers can do could be accomplished better and cheaper by government.

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Why Not Single Payer? Part 4. In Partial Defense of Obama Against Clinton's Attacks on His Health Care Plan

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

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Obama is right to criticize Clinton for putting forward a plan that would penalize the uninsured middle class, unless the cost can be brought down to an affordable level. Hillary's plan is a political loser.

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Is Karl Rove Working For The Clinton Campaign?

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics

Either Karl Rove has joined the Clinton campaign as their advisor, or somebody over there has learned a lot from his standard campaign playbook. Beca...

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Clinton Hits Obama For Wavering On Single-Payer Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics

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Pivoting off of one of the few policy spats in Monday night's presidential debate in South Carolina, Hillary Clinton hit Barack Obama on Tuesday for w...

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Answer: Send the Editor into Space

Merrill Goozner | Posted 01.02.2008 | Media

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This is a multiple-choice question pulled from the MCAT to get into the DeVry School of Newspaper Editing: You're the page one editor of the world's...

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Why Not Single Payer? Part 3: The Clinton/Obama/Edwards Individual Mandates Represent a Losing Political Strategy

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics

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The whole health care dust-up among Clinton, Obama and Edwards makes clear why Individual Mandate plans are likely to end up being as big a political disaster as Hillary's 1994 health reform fiasco.

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The Hard Work Recovery Program

Bob Franken | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

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This country has spent a long time on a long downward slide. The only way to recover is through hard work, sacrifice, a reordering of priorities and a rejection of the politicians who suggest there's any other way.

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