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    • 14 Ratings
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    Even With Obamacare, It's As If I Don't Exist

    APRIL 26, 2011 11:59PM

    By bonnie bernstein


    Topics: true story, health, bonnie bernstein, politics, supreme court, mark levin, medical insurance, medicaid, president obama, price of gas, war, economy, obamacare, mammography, my obamacare story, afghanistan

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 2932 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    Romney, GOP Offer Only Empty Slogans

    APRIL 27, 2012 2:49PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: stereotypes, public opinion, walter lippmann, allegory of the cave, plato's republic, plato, david frum, planned parenthood, social justice, catholic bishops, catholic church, spending cuts, tax hikes, david brooks, partisanship, ezra klein, frank luntz, jennifer rubin, head start, medicaid, student loans, politico, class warfare, andrew breitbart, thomas frank, divisive, socialism, 2012 election, democratic party, president obama, poverty, lucky duckies, wall street journal, job creators, eric cantor, republican party, ryan budger, paul ryan, mitt romney, economics, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 2235 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    A 5-Point Plan To Fix Health Care

    MARCH 31, 2009 6:12AM

    By Mortimer Hayden Smyth


    Topics: center for american free thought, trickle down, doctor, medical, disease, illness, medicaid, medicare, free market, gop, obama, universal health care, mortimer hayden smyth

    • Editor's Pick
    • 26 Ratings
    • 2154 Views
    • 51 Comments
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    Who needs Medicaid anyway?

    NOVEMBER 8, 2010 7:53AM

    By Laura Deurmyer


    Topics: politics, withdraw from medicaid, medicaid, healthcare texas

    • 0 Ratings
    • 2078 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    It is not Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid!

    MAY 27, 2011 5:18PM

    By PonteVedraMan


    Topics: politics, foreign aid, michelle obama, afghanistan, unions, senate, congress, federal workers, government departments, medicaid, medicare, social security, pontevedraman, jim walker, barack hussein obama

    • Editor's Pick
    • 22 Ratings
    • 2042 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    Talking Points in the War on the Poor

    OCTOBER 7, 2010 12:04AM

    By aaroncynic


    Topics: medicaid, kentucky, rand paul, elections, news, politics, poverty

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 2026 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    GOP Attacks on Health Reform Argue FOR Socialized Care

    SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 10:15AM

    By J.E. Robertson


    Topics: healthcare smears, us election 2008, rhetorical advantage, rhetoric, schip, obama, republicans, politics, healthcare, healthcare reform, medicaid, medicare

    • 18 Ratings
    • 1939 Views
    • 24 Comments
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    Expensive Meds for the Poor. Cheap Meds for the Insured

    MAY 3, 2010 9:24PM

    By Dr. Evan Levine


    Topics: business, health, politics, medicine, evan levine, lipitor, zocor, crestor, obama, heart disease, medicaid

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1717 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Foraging for Food Stamps

    OCTOBER 6, 2011 10:33AM

    By Kathy Elrick


    Topics: government aid, government help, government assistance, out of work, unemployment, unemployed, poverty, lines for food stamps, government lines, government interviews, bureaucracy, government questions, government paperwork, economic assistance, irene victims, citizens, county assistance office, philadelphia county assistance, philadelphia, medicaid, irene, food stamps

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1594 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Occupy Healthcare

    OCTOBER 24, 2011 1:48PM

    By bonnie bernstein


    Topics: archie bunker, social services, wheaten terrier, angiogram, aarp, medical insurance, occupy, healthcare, occupy healthcare, medicaid, economy, tea party, open call, occupy america, occupy wall street, mammography

    • 1 Ratings
    • 1524 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Doing some basic health care reform math

    JULY 1, 2009 10:09PM

    By BobbyG


    Topics: health care, reform, medical care, medicare, medicaid, single payer, public option, rx

    • 1 Ratings
    • 1461 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Socialism, Taxes and Entitlement Programs

    MAY 21, 2009 4:37PM

    By Elizabeth McKinley


    Topics: politics, welfare. open call, food stamps, medicare, medicaid, tanf

    • 8 Ratings
    • 1427 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    Ballooning health care cost: is Medicare the culprit?

    OCTOBER 14, 2011 11:00AM

    By Kanuk


    Topics: libertarian, bill clinton, barak obama, george w. bush, george h.w. bush, ronald reagan, small government, medicaid, medicare, canada, health care expenditures, unclechri, health care costs, united states

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1377 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    What the Affordable Care Act Means for Women

    MAY 20, 2012 8:20PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: national women's health network, center for american progress, medicaid, medicare, gender rating, maternity coverage, domestic violence, caesarean section, breast cancer, pre-existing conditions, women and health insurance, katherine b. waddell, women's strike force, national women's health week, affordable care act, health, politics

    • 3 Ratings
    • 1262 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    One Very Stressful Day with Healthcare, Death, and Anger

    MARCH 20, 2010 7:46PM

    By Shannon Moon


    Topics: chips, medicaid, health care, assistance office, angry thoughts, children, thesis, dead dogs

    • 5 Ratings
    • 1248 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Healthcare, breast cancer, and "benefits-eligible" employees

    AUGUST 25, 2009 11:10PM

    By Patrick D Hahn


    Topics: medical-industrial complex, overmedicalization, national health service, cancer screening, breast cancer, medicaid, health insurance, health care, health

    • 17 Ratings
    • 1144 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    MEDICARE-MEDICAID TROJAN HORSES

    JANUARY 4, 2011 10:58AM

    By Rw005g


    Topics: medicare, medicaid, trojan horse, trojan-horse, lbj, great society, health, health-care, health care, price controls, socialized medicine

    • 8 Ratings
    • 1001 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    "But I like my employer-based health insurance!"

    AUGUST 18, 2009 7:52PM

    By Patrick D Hahn


    Topics: ivan illich, medical-industrial complex, overmedicalization, death panels, medicaid, medicare, health insurance, health care, health

    • 3 Ratings
    • 937 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    An Impending and Inevitable Train Wreck

    OCTOBER 31, 2010 7:39PM

    By Steven J. Gulitti


    Topics: 2010 elections, tea party movement, republican party democratic party, barack obama, george bush, social security, medicare, medicaid, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 922 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    The Fair Hearing

    APRIL 12, 2011 8:52PM

    By Erica K


    Topics: joe versus the volcano, tom hanks, medicaid, poverty, the legal system

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