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Tag: Universal Health Care

Romney on ‘60 Minutes’: Uninsured Can Go to ER

On CBS’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday night, Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney revealed his new plan for the millions of Americans who don’t have any health care coverage. It differs dramatically from the one he supported when he was governor of Massachusetts.

Posted on Sep 24, 2012 READ MORE

Mexican Journalists Silenced to Death

Freedom of the press is threatened every day in Mexico as journalists are tortured and killed; Obama’s support of gay marriage distracts the public from the impunities in Afghanistan; press freedom is also under attack in the U.S. as journalists are arrested for protesting. These discoveries and more after the jump.

Posted on May 20, 2012 READ MORE | 1 COMMENT

Republicans Drill for Issues in Health Care Reform Act

RJ Matson, Cagle Cartoons, Roll Call —

Posted on Mar 24, 2012 READ MORE

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Congress Health Care Is Not Real Reform

Two doctors from the Physicians for a National Health Program dissect the current government health care plan, arguing that the health care bills passed through Congress are not “real reform.”

Posted on Jan 28, 2010 READ MORE | 11 COMMENTS

AP / Harry Hamburg

Senate Leaps Health Care Hurdle

The Senate health care bill found 60 votes and cleared a major obstacle Monday morning. The diluted bill—which is expected to win final approval in the Senate this week—is a far cry from the public option-based draft initially proposed months ago. Nonetheless it aims to provide health coverage for 30 million who are now uninsured.

Posted on Dec 21, 2009 READ MORE | 8 COMMENTS

AP / Lynne Sladky

Real Talk on Health Reform

President Barack Obama has finally put into words what everyone already knows: that insurance companies are “deceptive and dishonest” in their efforts to kill any semblance of health care reform, no matter the cost. Now let’s see if he does anything with this knowledge.

Posted on Oct 17, 2009 READ MORE | 21 COMMENTS

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The $380 Million Gorilla

With six lobbyists for every congressperson and $380 million spent on lobbying in recent months, the health care industry has pulled out all the stops in battling against any reform to the nation’s health insurance system, no matter how watered down it might be.

Posted on Oct 1, 2009 READ MORE | 5 COMMENTS

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In a Reasoned Debate, Single Payer Will Come Out on Top

By Laura S. Boylan, M.D., and Joanne Landy, M.P.H. —

Single-payer advocates have been excluded from debate not because our premises or facts are wrong but because special interests, including the private health insurance industry and the big drug companies, have been allowed to define the limits of “politically feasible.”

Posted on Aug 19, 2009 READ MORE | 44 COMMENTS

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Gupta Pulls Plug on Surgeon General Post

The rocky road to staffing still-vacant government positions suffered a bit of a setback Thursday, as the creamy filling—Dr. Sanjay Gupta, henceforth known as “The Gupta”—of Obama’s team withdrew his name from consideration for the post of surgeon general.

Posted on Mar 6, 2009 READ MORE | 7 COMMENTS

Keystone / Eddy Risch

Streisand: Clinton Backers Should Support Obama

Once strongly in favor of Hillary Clinton, actress and chanteuse Barbra Streisand says her switch to supporting Barack Obama was instantaneous when Clinton pulled out of the presidential race, and that other Clinton supporters should back the Illinois senator instead of throwing their vote to Republican John McCain in protest.