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    • 6 Ratings
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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

    • 5 Ratings
    • 326 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    Republicans Running Away From Their Own Party

    MAY 1, 2012 10:36AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, republican party, scott brown, us senate, right wing, frank luntz, elizabeth warren, president obama, filibuster, tea party, george w bush, propaganda, michael gerson, social security, medicare, wall street reform, big government, budget cuts, conservative movement, obamacare, paul ryan, ayn rand, capitalism, supply side economics, catholic church, catholic bishops, social justice, new deal, keynesian economics, mitt romney, socialism, conservatism, liberalism

    • 4 Ratings
    • 201 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    OWS: Medicare protests, Nurses, May Day, Bradley Manning etc

    APRIL 27, 2012 10:12AM

    By zacherydtaylor


    Topics: occupy america, ows, pentagon papers, afghanistan, iraq, wikileaks, jill stein, immigrant rights, michael hethmon, kris kobach, barack obama, mitt romney, charter schools, arne duncan, occupy wall street, disability rights group adapt, paul ryan, bradley manning, may day, nurse protest, medicaid, medicare, politics, news, health care, health, economy, business

    • 38 Ratings
    • 708 Views
    • 40 Comments
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    My 1st OS Repost: F**ked - The Screwed Generation

    APRIL 26, 2012 10:12AM

    By jmac1949


    Topics: belief/religion, business, economy, family, health, ssi, medicare, x-gen, y-gen, boomers, death, taxespolitics

    • 19 Ratings
    • 1930 Views
    • 74 Comments
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    Why I don’t blog for the baby boomers

    APRIL 23, 2012 11:42PM

    By Robert Crook


    Topics: madonna, baby boomer, baby boomers, baby-boom generation, boomers, bushcheneycorp, dick cheney, gen x, gen xers, generation x, george h. w. bush, george w. bush, halliburton, i hate baby boomers, iraq, medicare, social security, student-loan debt, ted rall, vietnam, vietnam war, vietraq war

    • 5 Ratings
    • 186 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Nightmare: Medicare's Past and Future

    APRIL 18, 2012 4:01PM

    By Samasiam


    Topics: healthcare, obamacare, deficit, entitlements, health, baby boomers, medicare, politics

    • 3 Ratings
    • 1026 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Mitt Romney's Lying is the Real Voter Fraud

    APRIL 9, 2012 9:15AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, right wing, republican party, mitt romney, acorn, voter fraud, voter suppression, conservative movement, atticus finch, to kill a mockingbird, democratic party, fox news, rachel maddow, lying, dana milbank, james fallows, medicare, great depression, president obama, politifact, chevrolet volt, false equivalence, mainstream media, conservative movement

    • 6 Ratings
    • 499 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Green Party's ‘Doctor’ Stein: Hippocrates not Hypocrisy

    APRIL 2, 2012 5:57AM

    By libbyliberalnyc


    Topics: single payer, obamacare, medicare, mandate, jill stein, heroines and heroes department of the missingreen party

    • 4 Ratings
    • 561 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Catholic Bishops Abandon Poor, Sick for Political Power

    MARCH 27, 2012 10:47AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, religion, catholic church, bishops, catholic charities, same sex couples, birth control, president obama, medicare, medicaid, balanced budget act of 1997, cardinal timothy dolan, cardinal francis george, democracy, theocracy, citizens united, supreme court

    • 0 Ratings
    • 176 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Crazy Eddie Obama Sells Out Medicare

    MARCH 26, 2012 1:30PM

    By Jacob Freeze


    Topics: obama, medicare

    • 0 Ratings
    • 101 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Consistency, Consistency, Consistency

    MARCH 14, 2012 12:58PM

    By Howard Steven Friedman


    Topics: politics, welfare drug testing, student loans, political satire, political commentary, navy, marines, drug testing, commentary, army, armed forces, alaska, air force, taxes, satire, medicare, medicaid, unemployment benefits, mortgage crisis

    • 2 Ratings
    • 196 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Unemployed? #1 Because You're Lazy

    FEBRUARY 24, 2012 5:44PM

    By Veronica Cronin


    Topics: unemployment myths debunked, bipolar, benefits, food stamps, medicare, open call

    • 0 Ratings
    • 307 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    BP Oil Spill: Don't Forget Legal Rights of the Disabled

    FEBRUARY 15, 2012 6:27AM

    By robert evans


    Topics: economy, united states senate, medicare, coldwell banker richard ellis, richard blum, dianne feinstein, presidio, facebook, misappropriation of trade secrets, shareholdes, transocean, hlliburden, disability, americans with disabilities act, rehabilitation act of 1973, gulf coast, louisiana, florida, mississippi, alabama, disability, conspiracy, oil spill, bp, attorneys, law, politics, news, environment, business

    • 2 Ratings
    • 807 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Reagan Left Republicans Unfit for Democracy

    FEBRUARY 3, 2012 10:15AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, democracy, right wing, tea party, ronald reagan, republican party, grover norquist, impeachment, no tax pledge, barack obama, occupy wall street, racism, richard nixon, constitution, barry goldwater, socialism, social security, medicare

    • 1 Ratings
    • 495 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Are There No Prisons? Asks Ebenezer Romney

    FEBRUARY 2, 2012 10:28AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, mitt romney, poverty, republican party, tea party, welfare, karl rove, newt gingrich, charles dickens, jonathan cohn, conservatism, work ethic, social security, medicare

    • 0 Ratings
    • 228 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Dr. Jackie's Mental Health Moment--Feeling Used

    JANUARY 2, 2012 4:11PM

    By jackie2


    Topics: health care costs, psychology, psychiatric hospital, medicare, health system, mental health, taken advantage of, feelings

    • 0 Ratings
    • 239 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Uniting Occupy and Labor Over Health Care

    DECEMBER 25, 2011 10:04PM

    By shamuscooke


    Topics: medicare, afl-cio, #ows

    • 0 Ratings
    • 361 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Did Politifact Opt for the Political Choice?

    DECEMBER 22, 2011 3:42PM

    By Brian Carter


    Topics: ryan, medicare, stimulus, lie of the year, republicans, democrats, politifact, politics

    • 2 Ratings
    • 512 Views
    • 7 Comments
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    We Can’t Afford the Payroll Tax Cut Extension

    DECEMBER 21, 2011 7:49PM

    By Kenn Jacobine


    Topics: medicare, social security, payroll tax cut extension

    • 10 Ratings
    • 1636 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    Medicare is not a single-payer system, get it?

    NOVEMBER 15, 2011 8:34AM

    By Kanuk


    Topics: us health care, myth, single-payor, single-payer, canadian health care, health care reform, health care, medicare

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