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    Celebrate This Historic Day For Women's Health Rights!

    AUGUST 2, 2011 6:34AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: women's health, federal department hhs, affordable health care act, news, politics, economy, economics, environment, insurance, insurance companies, deductibles, out-of-pocket expenses, premiums, gestational diabetes, nursing, hpv. hiv, stds, contraception, counseling, cynicism

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    • 507 Views
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    Health Care Premiums and where they go

    NOVEMBER 12, 2010 11:56AM

    By zacherydtaylor


    Topics: child health care, lobbying, advertisements, preventive medicine, pharmaceuticals, the mass media, insurance companies, health care premiums

    • 2 Ratings
    • 410 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    Health Care Divide and Rule Tactics

    NOVEMBER 9, 2010 12:38PM

    By zacherydtaylor


    Topics: pharmaceuticals, patent laws, weight loss programs, anti-smoking programs, preventive medicine, the problem with the media: u.s. communications politics in the twenty first century, robert mcchesney, health care town hall meetings, lobbying, advertising, insurance companies

    • 0 Ratings
    • 289 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    History Reveals: We're in a Time Warp!

    NOVEMBER 2, 2010 8:47PM

    By Lisa Scroggins


    Topics: rocky horror, time warp, dallas, economy, health care costs, pre-existing conditions, election campaigns, election, tea partiers, mid-term elections, laws, health insurance, insurance companies

    • 1 Ratings
    • 226 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    The Unexpected

    SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 8:04PM

    By Lisa Scroggins


    Topics: perceptions, isolation, loneliness, pre-existing conditions, open enrollment, worry, fear, bureaucracy, medical decisions, cost of living, insurance companies, insurance reform, multiple sclerosis, ms, health insurance, health, health care

    • 6 Ratings
    • 641 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    The One-Two Punch of Autism

    JULY 20, 2010 2:23PM

    By Liane Carter


    Topics: politics, family, new york news, new york state, new york senate, new york assembly, insurance companies, health insurance reform, governor david paterson, early-intervention-autism, developmental disability, centers for disease control, autism treatment, autism, applied behavior analysis

    • 25 Ratings
    • 1056 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Why I agree with Rush Limbaugh

    MARCH 23, 2010 12:15AM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: obama health care, congress, single payer, insurance companies, public option, pre-existing conditions, democratic congressional majority

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    • 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

    • 1 Ratings
    • 280 Views
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    No Guts. No Glory.

    DECEMBER 15, 2009 7:46PM

    By Claire Dobie


    Topics: revolution, greed, insurance companies, republicans, democrats, health care reform, health, martin luther king, joe lieberman, politicians, public option

    • 0 Ratings
    • 464 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    The immorality of our healthcare system. A metaphor

    NOVEMBER 21, 2009 6:07AM

    By Teri Szucs


    Topics: health care, healthcare, universal health care, single payer, insurance companies, medicare, politics

    • 1 Ratings
    • 314 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Disagreeing With Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

    NOVEMBER 18, 2009 7:01PM

    By Catherine Forsythe


    Topics: health and human services, policy, insurance companies, profits, kathleen sebelius, mammogram guidelines

    • 1 Ratings
    • 362 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    - - - -and the lies go on and on and on

    OCTOBER 13, 2009 9:12AM

    By Kenny1948


    Topics: television, politics, news, gossip, healthcare debate, insurance companies, lies, medicare

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1846 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    DIVESTMENT IS THE ANSWER; VOTE WITH YOUR STOCK!

    OCTOBER 4, 2009 4:52AM

    By Teri Szucs


    Topics: health care, healthcare, universal health care, single payer, insurance companies, wall street, stock market, labor unions, afl-cio, divest, divesting, politics

    • 0 Ratings
    • 164 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Getting the insurance companies out of the picture

    OCTOBER 3, 2009 3:15PM

    By Ellen Finkelstein


    Topics: health insurance, co-ops, insurance companies

    • 3 Ratings
    • 818 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    How Stupid Are the American People?

    SEPTEMBER 15, 2009 1:17PM

    By charlesalbertmoster


    Topics: drug companies, insurance companies, congress, republicans, democrats, belief, business, obama, healthcare, politics

    • 0 Ratings
    • 181 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    It's Criminal for Insurance Companies to Kill Customers

    SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 11:35AM

    By charlesalbertmoster


    Topics: heathcare reform, news, open salon, politics, insurance companies, healthcare, obama

    • 2 Ratings
    • 299 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    My Town Hall-Protesting Friends: The Death Panels Are Here

    AUGUST 26, 2009 1:42PM

    By Edward Rhymes


    Topics: executives, bonuses, insurance companies, elderly, poverty, morality, bankruptcy, under-insured, uninsured, president obama, town halls, healthcare reform, death panels

    • 0 Ratings
    • 467 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    NOT A DAMN SEAT FOR THEM!!!!

    AUGUST 24, 2009 2:28PM

    By AMLICAR CABRAL


    Topics: president obama, insurance companies, gop congressmen lobbyists

    • 1 Ratings
    • 421 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    YOU CAN PUSH THE HEALTH CARE WEINIES

    AUGUST 23, 2009 11:49AM

    By Bobby the Lip


    Topics: health care, health insurance, president barack obama, senators, representatives, congress, insurance companies, medicare, crisis, news, politics

    • 1 Ratings
    • 339 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    And they're off....Obama, Republicans & Blue Dogs!

    AUGUST 13, 2009 11:08PM

    By Grannypower


    Topics: open call, news, politics, health, obama, republicans, blue dog democrats, insurance companies, special interests

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