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Tag: Health Care

Reports: Contraception and the Cost of Culture Wars

Cartoons: Flock This Way

Reports: America’s Pro-Choice Majority Speaks Out

Ear to the Ground: Boehner Goes on the Attack Against Contraception Policy

Ear to the Ground: Catholic Churches Bring Birth Control Debate Into Sunday Services

Reports: Corporations Have No Use for Borders

Reports: Obama Owes More on Religious Freedom

Reports: Thank You for Standing Up

Reports: Forget Roe, Try Griswold

Ear to the Ground: White House Pushing Big Pharma to Report Payments to MDs

Reports: Romneycare, v. 2012

Reports: Bitter Primary Reveals the Real Romney

Reports: 10 American ABCs We May Soon Forget

Reports: A Brainpower Revolution

Ear to the Ground: Krugman Deems PolitiFact ‘Useless and Irrelevant’

Reports: Three Supreme Court Cases That Should Worry You

Reports: The GOP’s Rational Reality Show

Reports: Weapon of Choice

Reports: Below the Safety Net

Reports: Will Moderates Defeat Moderation?

Reports: Obama’s Catholic Friends and Enemies

Reports: New ‘Mature’ Newt Is Just Same Old Gingrich

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Takes Its Time on Health Care

Reports: Mindless—but Always Talking Loud

Reports: The Nonsense Debate

Reports: Romney and the South Carolina Conundrum

Cartoons: Err Obamacare

Reports: Paging Dr. Paul: The Sickness Is in the System

Reports: A Movement Too Big to Fail

Reports: Truthdigger of the Week: Citizen Radio

Reports: Government by Death Panel

Reports: Grocery Workers Struggle Despite L.A. Union Victory

Reports: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace

Reports: Preserving Life (Unless It’s Uninsured)

Reports: Texas Medicaid’s Vast and Dangerous Wastefulness

Reports: 10 Years Later, It’s Time to ‘Broaden the Context’

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Act Wins a Battle on Its Way to the Supreme Court

Reports: What the Country Needs Is a New New Deal

Reports: Flaming Hypocrisy

A/V Booth: Obama Labor Day Speech (Video and Transcript)

Ear to the Ground: Activist Spells Out Our Great Shame

Reports: The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas

Ear to the Ground: Appeals Court Panel Strikes Down Health Law Mandate

Reports: The Bizarro FDR

Reports: Without a Debt Deal, Obama Can Make the Rich Pay

Reports: Power of the Big Idea

Reports: Debt Madness Was Always About Killing Social Security

A/V Booth: Alan Grayson Tells It Like It Is

Truthdig Podcast: Alan Grayson Tells It Like It Is

Reports: Robin Hood in Reverse

Ear to the Ground: Forget Congress, Alan Grayson Should Pull a Palin

Reports: Making a Progressive Case

Ear to the Ground: Patients Seek Greater Role in Mental Health Recovery

Reports: Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for President

Reports: John Dean Knows How to Get Rid of Clarence Thomas

Reports: Washington’s Deeper Immorality

Reports: Watch Your Back, Barack

Reports: Front and (Too) Center

Reports: The Canary in the GOP Coal Mine

Reports: Workers and Women Fight for Their Share of Egypt’s Revolution

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Job Problems, Budget Battles, Romney Runs

Reports: No Need to Demagogue the Ryan Plan

Reports: Cutting Kids’ Health Care Will Make Deficits Bigger

Ear to the Ground: Romney’s In for 2012

Reports: From Wisconsin to Florida, Strong Winds of Political Remorse

Ear to the Ground: Vermont Approves Universal Health Care

Reports: The Tea Party Is Yesterday’s News

Reports: Vermont, the Land of Healthy Firsts

Reports: Why Liberal Sellouts Attack Prophets Like Cornel West

Reports: Meltdown on the Launch Pad

Reports: The Gingrich Style

Reports: Obama Gets No Credit for Courage

Ear to the Ground: Health Insurers Reaping Record Profits

Reports: Will the Courts Wreck Health Care?

Ear to the Ground: Romney’s First Plan as President: Nix Obamacare

Ear to the Ground: Libyan Rebels Going Broke

Reports: A Generation of Termites?

Reports: Out of Touch, Again

Cartoons: Economic Boom

Reports: Democrats Can Win the Budget Debate

Reports: Lines in the Sand

Reports: Cuba’s New Economy

Ear to the Ground: Budget Bill Gets House’s Vote

Reports: At Last: A President, Not a Ref

Reports: This Is What Resistance Looks Like

Reports: The End of Progressive Government?

Reports: Truth About a False Choice

Reports: The Collapse of Globalization

Reports: March of the Deficit Pandas

Reports: Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand

Reports: What Wisconsin Can Teach Washington

Reports: A ‘Where’s Waldo?’ Presidency

A/V Booth: Obama Gives States Health Care Options

Ear to the Ground: Down With Democracy, Let’s Have a King

Reports: Lifting the Heavy Thumb

Reports: The Mayor Rahm Mystery

Reports: Unintended Consequences

Reports: The Tea Party Is Winning

Reports: The Submerged State

Arts and Culture: Justin Bieber Likes Health Care Too Much to Become ‘Evil’ American

Reports: Why Do They Hate Social Security?

Reports: The Leadership Vacuum

Reports: State Budget Cuts Are Bad for Your Health

Reports: Reagan’s Democrats

Reports: Obama to Resort to Communicating With Mubarak in Caps

Reports: Countering the Usurpers

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Repeal Shot Down in Senate

Reports: Governor Laser Beam

Reports: All Talk, No Action on Deficit

Reports: Obama Changes the Narrative

Reports: Without Obama, We Lose So Much More Than an Election

Reports: How Obama Can Define Moderation

Reports: In New Era of Civility, GOP Says Obama Born ‘Near America’

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Obama’s All Business

Reports: It’s Repeal That’s Ailing

Reports: Fudging the Facts on Health Care and Deficits

Ear to the Ground: House Huffs, Puffs, Blows Health Care Down

Ear to the Ground: Obama and Hu Play Up the Positive

A/V Booth: Again With the Health Care Debate

Ear to the Ground: Time for More Health Care Fun on Capitol Hill

Ear to the Ground: Half of Younger Americans Have Pre-Existing Conditions

Reports: Health Care and the New Civility

Reports: Even Lost Wars Make Corporations Rich

Reports: Gabrielle Giffords: Tragic Prophet

Reports: Turning the Tables on Health Care

Reports: Underwhelmer of the House

Ear to the Ground: Boehner Bursts Birthers’ Bubbles

Reports: The House of Professors

Reports: Lanny Davis Puts Dems to Shame

Reports: Health Care Melodrama

Reports: Celebrating the New GOP Majority

Reports: No Time for ’Tirement’

Reports: Will Liberals Learn From Adversity?

Ear to the Ground: Reid & Co. Open Fire on GOP

Reports: Save Us From Our Devices

Reports: A Reality Check for the GOP

Reports: The Game-Changer List

Arts and Culture: Jon Stewart: Shades of Edward R. Murrow?

Reports: 2011: A Brave New Dystopia

Reports: Award Recognizes Uncompromising Change-Makers

Ear to the Ground: GOP Gets Ready to Rumble in 2011

Reports: Sept. 11 Heroes Disdained on the Right

Reports: The Pride of ‘Obama’s Orphans’

Reports: The B-Plus President

Arts and Culture: White House Looks to Jon Stewart in 9/11 Health Bill Bid

Reports: Assange to Launch Social Network for Diplomats: Twofacebook

Reports: So Far Health Care Rulings Are Disturbingly Predictable

Reports: Labels Aren’t the Problem

Reports: Obama Speaks Ill of His Allies

Reports: Where Is Obama Going?

Truthdig Podcast: Wendell Potter on ‘Deadly Spin’

Reports: Wendell Potter on ‘Deadly Spin’

Reports: The Health Insurance Industry’s Vendetta Against Michael Moore

Reports: Power and the Tiny Acts of Rebellion

Ear to the Ground: Alzheimer’s Strikes Latino-Americans at a Younger Age

Reports: Look Who’s the Decider Now

Ear to the Ground: Recessions Are Not Good for Your Mind

Reports: The Earmark Sideshow

Ear to the Ground: Victorious Foe of Government Health Care Demands Government Health Care

Reports: Rank-and-File Frustration

Reports: Republicans Repeal Health Care at Their Peril

Reports: Do Only Conservative Victories Count?

Reports: More Than a Failure to Communicate

Ear to the Ground: Noam Chomsky on Misguided Outrage

Reports: Why Pelosi Wants to Stay

Reports: A Speaker Who Stood Out

Reports: From Uprising to Hostile Takeover ... and Back Again

Reports: The Tea Party and the Midterms

Ear to the Ground: Blue Dogs Get Taken to the Pound

Reports: And Now for the Next Battle

Reports: Message for the Day After

Ear to the Ground: Health Care Bill Might Make ‘the Pill’ Free

Cartoons: Running on Obamacare

Reports: What If? So What?

Reports: Tea Party Robber Barons

Reports: A National Election, Like It or Not

Reports: Don’t Man Up, Grow Up

Reports: The Wave and the Reality

Reports: The GOP’s Triple Play

Reports: Will Black Voters Respond to Obama’s Needs?

Reports: How Democracy Dies: Lessons From a Master

Reports: The Ideologies Behind the Ideologues

Reports: Tom Perriello’s Political Experiment

Reports: March to Nowhere

Reports: The Cash Cow of Anonymity

Reports: Health Care’s Second Wind

Cartoons: McDonald’s Health Care

Reports: The Real Democratic Whiners

Reports: Lies of the Tea Party

Reports: Obama and the Progressive Paradox

Reports: Cuba by the Numbers

Ear to the Ground: U.S. Stocks Dip After Stronger September

Ear to the Ground: ‘A Pledge to America’

Ear to the Ground: President Obama to the Whiny Left: ‘Wake Up’

Ear to the Ground: Jimmy Carter Blames Lack of Health Care on Ted Kennedy

A/V Booth: Axelrod on ‘Politically Toxic’ Health Care Reform

Reports: Do Not Pity the Democrats

Reports: A Chance for Supreme Court Damage Control

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Afraid of the D-Word

Ear to the Ground: Obama: ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom Is Over’ (Full Video and Text)

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