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22 hours ago ago from The Sideshow

As previously noted, Americans want health care reform, but do not like the bill. There are good reasons for this - real health care reform would help our economy as well as protecting Americans, just aside from saving us hundreds of billions of dollars. Now that the polls are showing it, Republicans are happy to talk about the unpopularity of the bill . What they don't say is that Americans do want a health care reform bill - just not this ...

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The Obama Administration Backing Down On The Public Option Health Insurance

14 hours ago ago from Public Health Insurance Option

Most of the White house aides to President Obama is downplaying the public option and their leader is no longer demanding a government run health care system. With all the opposition form the Senate from both the Republican and the Democrats, it seems that Obama  has mellowed down and will not like to see a government run health care system. These war of words from the within the democratic party has echoed through the halls of power! ...

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Obama Style: Seek Lowest Common Denominator

4 hours ago ago from Watts Cookin'

Published on Monday, December 21, 2009 by Huffington Post Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator by Drew Western As the president's job performance numbers and ratings on his handling of virtually every domestic issue have fallen below 50 percent, the Democratic base has become demoralized, and Independents have gone from his ...

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Health care reform' is Obama's Waterloo

9 hours ago ago from Radio NewYork International

 Until I find time to let my disgust for our two parties of entitlement and contempt for we the people' fester into a cogent rap about our national health care failure, I'll let the ever reliable Doug Thompson speak for me, as he has done quite well at summing up yet another failure of our Commander-and-one-term president. By DOUG THOMPSON President Barack Obama may regret making health care the benchmark of his Presidency. If the ...

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the top ten myths of american health care

8 hours ago ago from Health Books Review

Buy Cheap The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care Buy Low Price From Here Now The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care: A Citizen's Guide, is the latest book from health care scholar, and Pacific Research Institute President and CEO Sally C. Pipes. The book's foreword is by Steve Forbes: For anyone interested in getting to the core of America's health care troubles, this is the perfect book, he writes. And for health care policy ...

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Lincoln Mitchell: Improving the Health Care Bill After It Passes Will Not Be Easy

6 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

There is been so many distractions around the health care bill this year, that it is hard to evaluate it on its merits. Health care reform has been something of a holy grail for progressives for more than half a century, so the debate was not likely to be simple or unemotional, but the last few months have exceeded even these expectations. Opponents of health care reform launched protest movements which warned of death panels, raised the ...

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Bradford Kane: Getting Past Myopic Devotion to Sideshow Issues to Advance Health Care for All Americans

12 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Congratulations to Senator Ben Nelson and Congressman Bart Stupak. They've made their point. Very effectively. They, and other legislators, have utilized health care reform legislation as a vehicle to advance other issues. They have sent very clear messages to their constituencies that they will advocate for them whenever and however they find an opportunity to do so. But, now that they've done so, it is time to get back to the business of ...

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Americans' Views Of Health Care Steady This Year : NPR

1 day ago ago from NPR

Search hear continuous streams 24-Hour Program Stream NPR News and Shows hear the latest news [4 min 45 sec] Latest NPR Newscast Americans' Views Of Health Care Steady This Year by The Associated Press text size A A A WASHINGTON December 22, 2009, 04:03 am ET The public's views on ...

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O'Donnell: Health Care Bill Will 'Give Liberalism A Very Bad Name' (VIDEO)

15 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

On MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Tuesday, Lawrence O'Donnell pushed back against those who say that liberal pressure on Congress to pass a better health care bill is pointless or even destructive. "You do not want to live in a country where there is no one analyzing anything from a purist position," O'Donnell argued. On the show with him was CNBC's John Harwood, who said Monday that liberals need to "lay off the hallucinogens" if they think they ...

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D. Brad Wright: Health Reform In Hindsight

3 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Before they entered an indefinite hiatus, the band Matchbox Twenty released the song "How Far We've Come" which posed that title in the form of a joint exploration-style question: "Let's see how far we've come." Today, after being asked by a friend to weigh in on the pros and cons of their just-reached deal, I'm asking that question of the Senate on the issue of health reform. They've been working on it for a while now, compromising things ...

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