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By Bill Boyarsky — Now that President Barack Obama has signed health reform into law, insurance industry lobbyists will turn their attention to trying to cripple it. This will be done under the pretense of improving the reform proposal—or, as they say in the lobbying business, loving the law to death.
Posted on Mar 24, 2010
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AP / Charles Rex Arbogast
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By Bill Boyarsky — People are just barely hanging on at employment offices, homeless shelters, food banks and community centers around the country. Help is needed right away and Barack Obama is struggling to give it.
Posted on Mar 8, 2010
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AP / Ted S. Warren
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By Bill Boyarsky — A major reason for enacting health reform is the fate of elderly and disabled patients—especially the indigent—in nursing homes and assisted-care facilities. Nobody is affected more by the confluence of the health care stalemate and the recession than these patients.
Posted on Feb 22, 2010
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Bill Boyarsky — Those telling President Obama to ditch health reform and concentrate on employment are wrong. What’s missing in such advice is a basic understanding of the grim intersection of a failing health system and rising joblessness, especially in blue-collar America.
Posted on Feb 12, 2010
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Bill Boyarsky — Words won’t put people to work. Not even Obama’s eloquence—and he did reach that point on occasion—will be enough to inject courage into the gutless Democrats running from a mild heath care reform bill. Nor will words turn Republicans away from the unrelenting opposition they think will bring down the Democrats.
Posted on Jan 28, 2010
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Bill Boyarsky — Just pass the damn thing. If the health care bill fails, President Barack Obama’s legacy could be limited to the failing war in Afghanistan. Worse yet, many thousands more Americans will die because they don’t have adequate medical care.
Posted on Jan 20, 2010
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AP / Marcio Jose Sanchez
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By Bill Boyarsky — Why should we care about the Proposition 8 same-sex marriage trial in San Francisco? Most people aren’t gay or lesbian. Many think marriage is unimportant. Others feel Afghanistan, unemployment, Haiti and health care are much more deserving of attention.
Posted on Jan 17, 2010
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Bill Boyarsky — The flawed health care bill could still be improved if the president would stand up to the insurance companies that have, so far, been the most powerful force shaping reform.
Posted on Dec 29, 2009
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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By Bill Boyarsky — The liberals attacking the Senate health reform bill must never have known real illness. They’ve never been fired at the age of 50 and left without health insurance. They’ve probably never known anyone who died for lack of health insurance.
Posted on Dec 18, 2009
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White House / Chuck Kennedy
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By Bill Boyarsky — Two Obama administrations are now on view. The good one is for health care reform, the bad one for war escalation.
Posted on Dec 9, 2009
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AP / Lauren Victoria Burke
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By Bill Boyarsky — In his powerful new book, “The Healing of America,” T.R. Reid asks, “Which inequalities will society tolerate? Is it acceptable that some people are left to die because they can’t see a doctor when they get sick? That question encompasses a more basic question: Is health care a human right?”
Posted on Dec 1, 2009
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By Bill Boyarsky — I’ve been thinking of I.F. Stone while reading the growing stack of reports and essays giving recommendations on how to save the declining news business. The outrageous solution increasingly favored by the journalism establishment is one that Stone would have hated—turning to Washington for help.
Posted on Nov 5, 2009
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AP / Evan Vucci
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By Bill Boyarsky — It’s now clear that health care “reform” is a bonanza for the insurance companies. But these acquisitive businesses want even more. Their efforts to increase their profits are at the center of the clandestine Senate and House negotiations currently shaping the health bill.
Posted on Oct 19, 2009
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AP / Gerald Herbert
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By Bill Boyarsky — In Obama’s nine months as president, he has put U.S. relations with Russia on a more constructive course; has seen Iran agree to open its nuclear facility near Qom to international inspection; and, despite Israeli and Palestinian intransigence, has kept the two sides negotiating with America’s dogged envoy, George Mitchell, who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland.
Posted on Oct 9, 2009
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AP / Jae C. Hong
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By Bill Boyarsky — One way to give people a good deal on their health care is the so-called public option. A better way is the kind of strong regulation that isn’t even being discussed.
Posted on Oct 5, 2009
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Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery
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