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    Sarah Palin Is Of No Importance

    MARCH 9, 2010 8:24AM

    By Heather Michon


    Topics: political stature, political celebrity, tea party, canada, health care, sarah palin

    • Editor's Pick
    • 35 Ratings
    • 2676 Views
    • 285 Comments
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    Health Care Address Live Blog

    SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 2:47PM

    By Saturn Smith


    Topics: health care, president obama, obama address to congress, politics

    • 4 Ratings
    • 1090 Views
    • 162 Comments
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    Obama--Our New Captain Queeg?

    OCTOBER 31, 2009 7:24PM

    By Gordon Osmond


    Topics: obama, politics, health care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 77 Ratings
    • 17522 Views
    • 133 Comments
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    Switzerland: Inside the World’s Finest Health Care System

    AUGUST 24, 2009 8:14AM

    By Steve Blevins


    Topics: obama, switzerland, health care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 6092 Views
    • 109 Comments
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    ObamaCare’s Day in Court: Reductio ad absurdum

    MARCH 28, 2012 2:10PM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: chief justice roberts, roger pilon, cato institute, free market solutions to health care costs, ayn rand, rand paul, national public radio, nina totenberg, emtala, the emergency medical treatment and active labor act, supreme court review of the affordable care act, individual mandate, obamacare, affordable care act, health care reform, health care, public policy, law, justice alito, : justice scalia

    • 39 Ratings
    • 966 Views
    • 107 Comments
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    The Moral Core of the Current Debate

    AUGUST 4, 2011 6:59AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: jesus, king, hillel, ghandi, mother jones, budget, health care, ther jones

    • 15 Ratings
    • 2012 Views
    • 97 Comments
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    U.S. Health Care: Welfare for a Bloated Medical Bureaucracy

    NOVEMBER 3, 2011 8:31AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: health care insurance, ewe e. reinhardt, corporate welfare, the mckinsey global institute, new york times, congressional budget office, ezekial j. emanuel, affordable care act, health care reform, health care costs, health care, health, economy, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 5211 Views
    • 92 Comments
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    On Cheney's heart, Grey's Anatomy, and death panels

    JULY 15, 2010 2:03PM

    By Saturn Smith


    Topics: cheney heart surgery, cheney lvad, grey's anatomy lvad, heart transplants, death panels, heart transplant statistics, national transplant regulations, politics, health care

    • 28 Ratings
    • 995 Views
    • 89 Comments
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    Guess Whose Infant Mortality Rates Beat Ours?

    SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 6:32AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: neo-natal death/suvival rates, reform, politics, health care, medicine, scientific studies

    • Editor's Pick
    • 30 Ratings
    • 4740 Views
    • 88 Comments
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    Obama Didn't Betray the Left, the Left Betrayed the Left

    MAY 29, 2009 8:51AM

    By Kevin Gosztola


    Topics: politics, health care, freedom, liberty, constitution, accountability, betrayal, left, kucinich, wars, afghanistan, iraq, change, hope, republicans, progressives, liberals, obama

    • Editor's Pick
    • 52 Ratings
    • 9045 Views
    • 86 Comments
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    I'm filing a grievance with Blue Shield -- and you can, too!

    MARCH 19, 2010 12:36PM

    By Cary Tennis


    Topics: cancer, chordoma, health, cary tennis, surgery, recovery, blue shield, insurance company, health care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 63 Ratings
    • 6955 Views
    • 86 Comments
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    Boca Raton Hospital & Grille, Want Fries With That IV?

    AUGUST 28, 2009 5:31PM

    By Sally Swift


    Topics: open call, aging parents, heart attacks, wth?, bad hospitals, wtf?, bad medicine, medicine, doctors, nurses, crisis in health care, lack of health care, health care

    • 46 Ratings
    • 1935 Views
    • 84 Comments
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    Medical Insurance Has Gone Beyond the Pale

    MARCH 14, 2010 1:36PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: uninsured, upsetting, horrifying, tragedy, shame, shocking, travesty, uninsurable, pre-existing cancer, pre-existing condition, previously insured, was paid up, had been insured, lacking insurance, not insured, no longer insured, recently, suddenly, now, death spiral, medical care, health care, health insurance, medical insurance, insurance, medical, health, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 79 Ratings
    • 3850 Views
    • 81 Comments
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    I'm cannon fodder in the health care war

    AUGUST 17, 2009 5:11AM

    By Kevin Lee


    Topics: health care, single payer, reform, insurance, emphysema, disease, alpha-1 antitrypsin, respiratory

    • 71 Ratings
    • 2107 Views
    • 79 Comments
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    Please Cover Your Assets

    FEBRUARY 12, 2010 10:41AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: cover placement, politics, meta, open salon, cover, editor's pick, editors pick, health care, health insurance, funding, ebay, bake sale, part of the problem, part of the solution, take a stand, taking a stand, make a difference, making a difference, wasted, squandered, articles, invisible, invisibility, visible, visibility, responsibility, leave of absence, king kaufman, cary tennis, policy, editorial policy, cover policy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 38 Ratings
    • 2744 Views
    • 72 Comments
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    Toxic Trash Talk

    MARCH 24, 2010 5:26PM

    By Nikki Stern


    Topics: tea party, fringe, radical, dangerous, rant, hate, trash talking, toxic, health care, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 28 Ratings
    • 2269 Views
    • 71 Comments
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    "They've Become Political Terrorists"

    AUGUST 7, 2009 8:05AM

    By Barbara O'Brien


    Topics: wingnuts, health care, politics

    • 29 Ratings
    • 2749 Views
    • 67 Comments
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    My Brother Is Pregnant

    OCTOBER 29, 2009 5:59PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: politics, birth control, catholic, keeper, keep, immoral, moral, unethical, ethical, irresponsible, responsible, public option, universal coverage, health insurance, health care, children, child, raise, care for, afford, economics, financial, finances, carry to term, unwanted pregnancy, unwanted child, pro-abortion, pro-choice, pro-life, adoption, abortion, pregnancy, pregnant, unwanted

    • Editor's Pick
    • 44 Ratings
    • 8778 Views
    • 67 Comments
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    The Word That Lurks Beneath...

    SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 11:10PM

    By Mortimer Hayden Smyth


    Topics: mortimer hayden smyth, racism, gop, republican, conservative, obama, muslim, radical, socialist, hitler, nazi, health care, town hall, joe wilson, hussein, illegitimate, antichrist, racist, words, i want my america back, country, indoctrination, code words, dog whistle

    • Editor's Pick
    • 40 Ratings
    • 1878 Views
    • 66 Comments
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    A Line in the Shifting Sands of Health Insurance

    DECEMBER 16, 2009 5:11AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: filibuster, universal health care, private, public, public option, price pressure, price control, competition, howard dean, dean, joseph lieberman, joe lieberman, lieberman, insurance companies, health insurance, health care, republicans, democrats, we need this to pass, rcredibility, failure is not an option, failure, lame duck, presidency, president, politics

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