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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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    • 53 Ratings
    • 4570 Views
    • 74 Comments
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    99%- Yes, Houston we have a Problem!

    OCTOBER 18, 2011 10:08AM

    By Linda Seccaspina


    Topics: occupy, occupy america, occupy america, politics, protest, iraq, enviroment, racial, oprah winfrey, social security, medicare, jesse jackson, lgbt, obama, occupy movement, houston robertson, occupy wall street, ococcupy america, news, open+call, news

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 1819 Views
    • 31 Comments
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    Plutocrats Win. Flawless Victory.

    AUGUST 1, 2011 12:56PM

    By Kemstone


    Topics: washington, social security, republicans, politics, plutocracy, obama, medicare, democrats, debt ceiling, debt, corporate power, congress, 2012 election

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 2276 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    What “Cutting the Debt” is Really About

    JUNE 15, 2011 10:26AM

    By Robert J. Elisberg


    Topics: debt, republicans, medicare, social security

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 1221 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    FoX-Men: First Class

    JUNE 15, 2011 8:56AM

    By Robert Brenner


    Topics: medicare, fox news, celebrity apprentice, politics, movies, comedy, television, x-men; first class, roger ailes, mitt romney, donald trump, paul ryan, sarah palin, michele bachmann, tim pawlenty, herman cain, newt gingrich, rick santorum, chris christie

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 6299 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    Ripping apart Ryan’s budget Plan 1000 deaths at the time…

    APRIL 29, 2011 12:27PM

    By Kanuk


    Topics: paul ryan, medicare, medical deaths, roadmap for america’s future, budget cuts, national debt, federal government

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 2110 Views
    • 38 Comments
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    Paul Ryan’s Medicare is a Nightmare

    APRIL 28, 2011 8:29AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: politics, finance, economy, health care, medicare, representaitve paul ryan, republican health care reform, republican budget plan, roadmap for america's future, path to prosperity, medicare reform, atlas shrugged, ayn rand

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 1733 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    What Democrats must say to win the 2012 election

    APRIL 22, 2011 10:14AM

    By Jimmy Zuma


    Topics: democrats, election, 2012, birtherism, taxes, budget, defense spending, medicare, republicans, paul ryan, obama, class warfare, citizen’s united, corporate welfare, congress

    • Editor's Pick
    • 27 Ratings
    • 2134 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    Boiling the Middle Class

    MARCH 10, 2011 9:20AM

    By Kemstone


    Topics: budget, chris christie, citizens united, collective bargaining, corporate power, defense, deficit, democracy, education, koch industries, medicare, middle class, politics, protests, scott walker, social security, subsidies, taxes, unions, washington, wisconsin

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 6928 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    The big healthcare sell-out

    DECEMBER 14, 2009 11:04PM

    By Joy-Ann Reid


    Topics: medicare, public option, rahm emanuel, joe lieberman, harry reid, congress, democrats, president obama, healthcare reform

    • 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

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 3744 Views
    • 45 Comments
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    Madness of the Right and Left: Part One

    SEPTEMBER 13, 2009 7:24PM

    By David Brin


    Topics: politics, medicare

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 743 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Now Let’s Get the Health Care Job Done!

    SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 9:16AM

    By Kevin Gosztola


    Topics: medicare, ted kennedy, television, sicko, sick, democratic party, single payer, public option, politics, news, media, speech, baucus, healthcare, corporations, greed, human rights, obama, democrat, republican, liberal, progressive, health care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 1300 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Sen. Ted Kennedy Was Pro-People & An Exception to the Rule

    AUGUST 26, 2009 8:48AM

    By Kevin Gosztola


    Topics: humanity, people, medicare, war, iraq, conservatives, fox news, public option, health care, chappaquiddick, republicans, liberals, democrats, barack obama, obama, edward m kennedy, ted kennedy, kennedy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1572 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    These Donuts Suck

    AUGUST 10, 2009 9:59PM

    By Cristiona de Pisan


    Topics: insurance, schizophrenia, lupus, depression, mental health, fix it already, donut hole, what jackass thought of this, medicare donut hole, medicare, obama, healthcare, politics, family, health

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1238 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    When Reality TV Trumps Informing the Public on Health Care

    JULY 23, 2009 12:38AM

    By Kevin Gosztola


    Topics: politics, medicare, republicans, democrats, barack obama, reality tv, television, drugs, pharmaceuticals, special interests, corporations, insurance, healthcare, afforable health care, news conference, news, health care, press conference, obama

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 2904 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Trust Fund, Baby: On Paris Hilton and Social Security

    MAY 12, 2009 9:51PM

    By Saturn Smith


    Topics: paris hilton, social security, celebutantes, trust funds, medicare, trustees summary report, treasury, hhs, politics, economy, obama, congress, boehner, the simple life

    • 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
    • 3 Ratings
    • 1670 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Pro-Choice Cabinet Picks Boon for Health At Home and Abroad

    NOVEMBER 26, 2008 11:39AM

    By The Media Consortium


    Topics: health, healthcare, hillary clinton, medicare, melody barnes, newsladder, obama's cabinet, patty murray

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