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20 hours ago ago from newsandwx.com
Why the health care bill is the greatest social achievement of our time. Jonathan Chait American liberals have a habit of withdrawing into cynicism and ennui at the most inopportune moments. The 2000 presidential election, and subsequent recount, was one such moment. The most die-hard reaches of the left, deeming the Democratic Party hopelessly corrupt, rallied to Ralph Nader’s fulsome populist denunciation of Al Gore’s subservience ...
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21 hours ago ago from USWGO Alternative News
Buffet Picture I found to symbolize that Health care rationing may ban certain people from buffets which is exactly like during the segregation when people were kicked out of places because of their color of skin now Obamas plan may bring fourth a system that may keep people from buffets because they are disabled which is discrimination and exactly what the segregation was about keeping out people who were diabled, a certain skin color, or ...
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5 hours ago ago from What The Hell....
The health care debate is slowly coming to an end and what do we really have to show for it? The way that I see it – not a whole lot. What could have been a shining moment for our country only produced a lot of heated noise and rhetoric and the end result is a reinforced feeling of powerlessness mixed with the knowledge that “change we could believe in” promise is never going to come true. I have to admit that on the night that ...
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4 hours ago ago from See First Blog
By Evan Falchuk A friend sent me this interesting graph from the blog of the National Geographic. You'll have to click on it to see a bigger version. It captures a lot of data very elegantly on a single graph Professor Tufte would love it. What it shows is health care spending per person across a group of countries, along with life expectancies, average number of doctor visits per year, and whether a country has a system of ...
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5 hours ago ago from Training Family Doctors
Health care reform is another step closer. I'm excited, my colleagues are excited, our Academy is excited . With 46.3 million uninsured Americans and another 25 million who have inadequate coverage, the possibility of a bankrupting illness has shadowed people of all ages and in virtually all income brackets for too long, Epperly said. This bill represents important progress toward removing that threat. In addition, said Epperly, the ...
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As Health Bill Advances, Few Changes Seen for Millions
18 hours ago ago from The New York Times
Now that the Senate has caught up with the House by passing a sweeping health care bill, lawmakers are on the verge of extending coverage to the tens of millions of Americans who have no health insurance . Health Care Conversations Share your thoughts about the health care debate. Top Discussions: The Public Option | Medicare and the Elderly | The Senate Bill Health Care Reform Recent developments on the ...
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14 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
There are many lessons to learn from the health care war that has raged over the past year. We'll get to some of them below. But here's the bottom line: Pass the bill, then improve it. The health care bill that will emerge from the House-Senate conference committee won't be what most progressives had hoped for, but it is a major, historic turning point in American social reform legislation, comparable to the Social Security Act, the ...
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HARRISBURG, Pa. Why is the cafeteria at the Pennsylvania Capitol infested with mice? Probably because health inspectors didn't visit it for four years. State law requires annual checks for health and sanitation. Auditor General Jack Wagner said Thursday he received assurances in 2005 that the state Agriculture Department would inspect it. He says his auditors later received false assurances that it was being inspected regularly. When an ...
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