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Playing Publicity With Health Care?

Staff / Truthdig Jul 1, 2009 SEIU President Andrew Stern and Wal-Mart have joined forces, breaking with most other companies to support President Obama's plan requiring employers to provide health insurance to workers. The thing often forgotten is Wal-Mart's horrible record on health care and its current move to make about 40 percent of its employees part-time and thus ineligible for benefits. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The AMA Does Not Represent Us

Staff / Truthdig Jun 15, 2009 As the American Medical Association begins its annual convention in Chicago, we want to take this opportunity to make it clear to the American public, to the media, and to the president and members of Congress, that the AMA does not represent us. In fact, the AMA represents less than one-third of America's physicians, and half of those are retired. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Gupta Pulls Plug on Surgeon General Post

Staff / Truthdig Mar 7, 2009 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Streisand: Clinton Backers Should Support Obama

Staff / Truthdig Jul 29, 2008 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )