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    Health Care vs. Politics: Who Wins?

    JULY 9, 2012 6:01PM

    By Brian Carter


    Topics: 2012 election, affordable care act, americans, community, democrats, economy, fact check, family planning, health care, health care reform, health insurance, obama, obamacare, obesity, politics, republicans, romney, supreme court

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    • 10 Ratings
    • 3842 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    History Repeats Itself in New Gilded Age

    APRIL 20, 2012 3:29PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: occupy wall street, robber barons, 14th amendment, declaration of independence, constitution, new deal, conservative movement, alliance for justice, women's rights, health care reform, socialism, paul krugman, michael lind, corporations are people, mitt romney, progressive movement, john marshal harlan, plessy v. ferguson, kevin phillips, jeff rosen, george will, constitution in exile, capitalism, right wing, democrats, republicans, federal income tax, bush v. gore, citizens united, judicial activism, founding fathers, civil war, pollock v. farmer's loan and trust, supreme court, conservatism, liberalism, democracy, plutocracy, gilded age, economics, politics

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    • 23 Ratings
    • 7840 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

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 2549 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    Koch Brothers v. Health Reform

    MARCH 26, 2012 3:41PM

    By Robert Greenwald


    Topics: open call, health care reform, landmark legal foundation, family research council, cato institute, freedom works, texas public policy foundation, pacific research institute, competitive enterprise institute, galen institute, claude r. lambe charitable foundation, national federation of independent business, koch brothers exposed, americans for prosperity, affordable care act, supreme court, rand paul, jim demint, michelle bachmann, jesse lava, brave new foundation, robert greenwald, david koch, charles koch, koch brothers

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 2452 Views
    • 14 Comments
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    Health Care Reform Comes to Comics

    FEBRUARY 2, 2012 8:28AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: health, health care reform, healthcare reform explained, affordable care act, jonathan gruber, reid pillifant, health care reform: the comic book, mitt romney, romneycare, obamacare, capitalnewyork.com, the bob edwards show, sirius/xm, the pre-existing condition insurance plan (pcip), election 2012, repeal of health care reform, repeal of obamacare

    • Editor's Pick
    • 37 Ratings
    • 6302 Views
    • 42 Comments
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    Extremism on Both Sides? Show Me

    OCTOBER 20, 2011 8:54AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: universal health care, health care reform, consumer protection agency, faux extremism, rightwing extremism, leftwing extremism, extremism, tea party, kaiser permanente, theodore roosevelt, hank paulson, bernie sanders, michael moore, keith ellison, barack obama, ronald reagan, tip o’neil, nancy pelosi, barney frank, dennis kucinich, mitch mcconnell, occupy, occupy america, republican primary campaign, michele bachmann, leftwing ideology, liberalism, progressivism, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 777 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Health Care Manifest0

    AUGUST 16, 2011 7:06PM

    By Mary Wagner


    Topics: health care reform, universal health insurance, chronic illness, preexisting conditions, a mother's worry, motherhood, health care, fairness, obama, insurance

    • Editor's Pick
    • 18 Ratings
    • 1930 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    Third World Mississippi

    JUNE 25, 2011 12:12PM

    By Ryan Ebersole


    Topics: news, economy, politics, health care reform, obamacare, barbour, health care, gop, poverty, mississippi

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 1672 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Weiner's Lies Pale Compared to Other Congressmen's Actions

    JUNE 9, 2011 5:40AM

    By Michael Russnow


    Topics: gossip, gay/lesbian, belief/religion, politics, youtube, facebook, twitter, environment, prostitution, pro-choice, u. s. senate, scott pelley, ram productions international, michael russnow, family values, newspapers, nbc, msnbc, magazines, journalism, health care reform, gay rights, gay marriage, environment, education, cnn, cbs, birthers, abortion, abc, obama health care, new york, john ensign, house of representatives, fox news, eliot spitzer, diane sawyer, david vitter, chris matthews, brian williams, bill clinton, anthony weiner, anderson cooper

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 2131 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    On Health Care, Laurence Tribe is Half-Right

    FEBRUARY 9, 2011 12:28PM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: constitutional fundamentalism, business, commerce, politics, federal legal system, health care reform, individual mandate, constitutionality of health care reform, laurence tribe, new york times op-ed, judge roger vinson, u.s. district court pensacola, u.s. supreme court, interstate commerce, the patient protection and affordable care act, insurance mandates, the government made me do it, "on health care--justice will prevail"

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 2531 Views
    • 41 Comments
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    Is Health Care Reform Unconstitutional?

    FEBRUARY 3, 2011 8:32AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: politics, legal system, health care reform, individual mandate, constitutionality of health care reform, judge roger vinson, u.s. district court pensacola, u.s. supreme court, interstate commerce, the patient protection and affordable care act, ezra klein, article i section 8 of the constitution, insurance mandates, the government made me do it

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1178 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Federal Judge Rules Capitalism Unconstitutional

    FEBRUARY 1, 2011 7:51AM

    By William K. Wolfrum


    Topics: health care reform, vinson, capitalism, constitution, satire

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 2026 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    An Insider Switches Sides in the Health Care Wars

    JANUARY 20, 2011 8:30AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: kerry miller, know, midmorning show, obamacare, deadly spin, “deadly spin: an insurance company insider speaks out on how corporate pr is killing health care and deceiving americans”, remote area medical, defunding the affordable care act, repealing health care reform, health care wars, health insurance industry, cigna, the best health care system in the world, death panels, government takeovers, health care reform, wendell potter, business, health, news, media, : politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 1456 Views
    • 62 Comments
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    Repeal & Replace…With What?

    NOVEMBER 24, 2010 8:27AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: empowering states to innovate act, ron wyden, scott brown, brown-wyden plan, deregulating health care, market-based health care reform, republican health care reform proposals, eliminating third party payers, hsas, health savings accounts, interstate insurance operations, tort reform, 2011 republican agenda, health care reform threatened, health care reform, cato institute, repeal and replace, politics, health, business

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1101 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Today's the day - Health care reform is here

    SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 6:08PM

    By Alicia PhD


    Topics: health insurance reform, health care reform

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 3650 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    Health Care Reform Is Here: Insurers Forced to Comply

    APRIL 28, 2010 3:24PM

    By Linda Shiue


    Topics: policy, news, rescission, wellpoint, unitedhealth, health insurance, health care reform

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 4469 Views
    • 29 Comments
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    Quittin' Time: How Stevens and Stupak Are Ultimately Alike

    APRIL 9, 2010 1:42PM

    By Saturn Smith


    Topics: health care reform, hcr, politics, obama, supreme court, scotus, stevens retirement, stupak retirement, bart stupak, john paul stevens

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 3561 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    Insurers Agree to Cover Kids With Pre-Existing Conditions

    MARCH 30, 2010 3:43PM

    By Saturn Smith


    Topics: obamacare, obama administration, kathleen sebelius, children's health care, pre-existing conditions, health care reform, hcr, insurance

    • Editor's Pick
    • 29 Ratings
    • 5096 Views
    • 48 Comments
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    Nurse Brown Starts a Class War

    MARCH 30, 2010 5:41PM

    By Nurse PhD


    Topics: health care reform, nursing, hospital

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 1776 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    HCR in 3-D: the $11,837 that could lower abortion rates

    MARCH 26, 2010 12:33PM

    By Cathy Wilson


    Topics: insurance, prenatal care costs, pregnancy costs, health care reform, abortion, women and choice

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