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Reports: Passing Universal Healthcare Could Kill The GOP

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

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Barack Obama's selection of Tom Daschle as Health and Human Services Secretary, as well as "health reform czar," signals that the incoming president i...

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Health Insurers Make Pitch For Mandated Coverage

AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The health insurance industry said Wednesday it will support a national health care overhaul that requires them to accept all custo...

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President Obama's Path to Greatness: Health Care As Stimulus

Dean Baker | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

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Dean Baker

Over the long-run the task of containing health care costs is clearly doable. The question for President Obama now is whether he is prepared to take the big leap toward being a truly great president.

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Health Care Next!

Matt Miller | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics

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Matt Miller

Now that we've socialized large chunks of the mortgage, banking and insurance industries, universal health coverage is among the most conservative initiatives left for America to pursue.

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Children's Defense Fund Founder: McCain Will Leave Millions Of Children Uninsured

Diane Tucker | Posted 09.24.2008 | Home

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Diane Tucker

"Sen. McCain has no specific plan for children. We keep a Congressional scorecard... Senator McCain received the lowest score of anyone in the Senate in 2007."

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Halfway to Universal Health Care

Gavin Newsom | Posted 09.23.2008 | Politics

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Gavin Newsom

By thinking outside-the-box, San Francisco has provided innovative solutions that can help solve our national health crisis rather than passing the buck. We are proving that it can be done.

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Universal Healthcare and the 2008 Election

Thomas DeLorenzo | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

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Thomas DeLorenzo

We need to get back to basics and take care of the needs of people living with HIV/AIDS right here in this country first.

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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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Miles Mogulescu

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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Miles Mogulescu

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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Music Cures

Marissa Moss | Posted 08.11.2008 | Entertainment

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Marissa Moss

Superchunk, The Rosebuds and Birds of Avalon will be playing a concert to benefit the Cy Rawls Benevolance fund on August 29th at Cat's Cradle in NC.

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Beyond Sicko

Marty Kaplan | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics

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Marty Kaplan

Pick any national metric of healthiness -- life expectancy, infant mortality, birth weight, chronic diseases incidence -- and America's comparative performance is in the cellar. How can this be?

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Remember the Alamo

Tom Bell | Posted 07.17.2008 | Home

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Tom Bell

Some people object to this healthcare because they think it's socialized medicine. It's not. I know because I, like every other veteran who uses the V.A. Medical System, am treated under a socialized medical program.

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Why Not Single Payer? Part 6: New "Health Care For America Now" Coalition May Reflect Divisions in the Movement for Universal Healthcare

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

HCAN is right that we must mobilize a massive citizens' movement for universal healthcare. Where they're mistaken is in trying for a compromise that will never work.

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The Medical System Meltdown

Paul Peete | Posted 07.05.2008 | Home

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Paul Peete

If McCain is allowed to determine our future medical care, we will continue to suffer as a nation from a system designed to cater to only the smallest percentage of the very most wealthy people on earth.

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Bush Freezes Medicare Fee Cuts

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration said Monday it will delay paying doctors for treating Medicare patients in early July to give Congress more...

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Notes from the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: Socialized Medicine

Jeffrey Jena | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

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Jeffrey Jena

The government taking over the health care system would be a blunder almost as grand as George and Dick's Excellent Iraq Adventure and in the long run it would be about 1000 times as expensive.

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Health Business Frets Over Universal Healthcare "Risk"

Footnoted | Michelle Leder | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business

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It's no secret that the two major candidates for President have vastly different takes when it comes to healthcare reform (here's Obama's plan and her...

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A Good Case for Universal Healthcare

Bryan Young | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics

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Bryan Young

It's sad and disgusting to me that that I considered cost when my only thought should have been getting my son immediately to the hospital. Within a month, my son and I had accumulated $40,000 in medical bills.

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Hillary's Fake Populist Proposals Would Pad Bottom Lines of Oil, Defense and Insurance Companies

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

Hillary's actual policy proposals are more likely to pad corporate bottom lines than better the lives of those at whom she lobs her populist campaign rhetoric.

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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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Miles Mogulescu

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 Unwed Motherhood Really the Problem?

Louise Sloan | Posted 03.27.2008 | Living

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Louise Sloan

Is lack of a marriage license so bad for kids that any kind of married parents are better than literally any kind of single one?

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Don't Forget The Movement

Simon Woods | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

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Simon Woods

I worry that the democrats will kick themselves if Obama is their nominee: they will kick themselves for allowing a "movement" to distract them from keeping their eye on the prize.

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Criminal Health Care

Eric Stoner | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics

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Eric Stoner

I am a life-long cash cow for the drug companies and, paradoxically, an enormous liability for any insurance company -- one that ideally should be expunged as quickly as possible.

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Hillary Ad Cites Paul Krugman Praise On Healthcare Plan

Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics

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Hillary has hit the air in Wisconsin with a new ad focusing on her health care plan. The ad features praise from Paul Krugman over her plan: See...

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The Disease That Is Socialized Fire Rescue

Lee Camp | Posted 12.23.2007 | Politics

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Lee Camp

It makes me nauseous to think of the hundreds of illegal aliens who have had their fires put out on my tax dollar.

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