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    • 26 Ratings
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    'Principled' Isn't Enough

    AUGUST 1, 2011 7:51AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: health, news, polls, health centers, medicaid, rick scott, florida, affordable care act, principles and their contents and effects

    • 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

    • 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

    • 20 Ratings
    • 442 Views
    • 41 Comments
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    Tax You More If Your Health is Poor

    APRIL 11, 2011 5:39AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: economy, science, politics, news, health, family, environment, design, business, professor just, diabetes, cancer, weet virginia voters, arizona state senate, gov. brewer, arizona, poor people, medicaid

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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
    • 14 Ratings
    • 4176 Views
    • 27 Comments
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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

    • 11 Ratings
    • 722 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    The cynicism of Barack Obama

    JULY 26, 2011 8:20AM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: news, medicaid, medicare, social security, democrats, tea party, debt ceiling, sadism, presidential personality, james klonoski, herbert hoover, pearl harbor, bill clinton, timothy geithner, rodney king, harry s truman, chicago politicians

    • 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

    • 10 Ratings
    • 676 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    A Canadian's tale of socialized medicine

    AUGUST 6, 2009 10:07AM

    By peppermint


    Topics: healthcare, insurance, medicaid, socialized, medicinie, commies?

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 8 Ratings
    • 597 Views
    • 37 Comments
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    President Bachmann? It could happen.

    JUNE 25, 2011 6:42AM

    By Kemstone


    Topics: social security, sarah palin, republicans, primaries, politics, obama, mitt romney, michelle bachmann, medicare, medicaid, jobs, afghanistan, 2012 election

    • 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

    • 7 Ratings
    • 391 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Danny and the Ryan Plan

    MAY 22, 2011 11:54PM

    By Margarita Mercure Hibbs


    Topics: expert opinion, medicare, medicaid, social security, open call, politics, republicans, gop, democrats, barack obama, john boehner, paul ryan, ryan plan, deficit, budget, economy, family, christianity, health, news

    • 7 Ratings
    • 522 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    In Which I Grit My Teeth and Try Not To Scream, "Asshat!"

    JULY 28, 2009 10:28PM

    By Pepper Ellis-Hagebak


    Topics: worthiness, malpractice insurance, wrongheaded right-winged polycrap, poverty, medicaid, elitest, republican, insurance, healthcare reform

    • 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

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