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23 hours ago ago from Democracia's Blog
Last Call on Reforming Health Reform Bill I recently sat in on the daily meeting of a palliative care team at a hospital — doctors, nurses, a social worker, a chaplain and others, all working with seriously ill patients in extreme pain. One of the patients was a middle-aged man whose advanced cancer had destroyed a major bone in his leg. His wife had already done heroic work caring for him, and more was going to be needed in the months ...
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6 hours ago ago from Hunter\'s Nest
Several quotations from "candidate" Obama relating to health care and what he was going to do, compared immediately by what "president" Obama actually did. I'm already tired of this liar y'all voted into office. Can we please impeach this assclown now? And conservatives, are you really mad about Obama, or just pretending? Because I can't think of anything Obama has done that is contrary to Bush's plans. He's kept Gitmo, kept the wars ...
Related contentEqual Time: Barack Obama Outlines Positives in Health Care Reform Package
11 hours ago ago from The Washington Note
President Obama did a very good job, in my view, outlining in this NPR interview the positives in the health care package that has not been completely ironed out in Congress, but in his terms, is 95% there. I have problems with the fact that women's rights, particularly in abortion policy, have been eroded -- but as I have written before -- I want to move beyond health care to the many issues that are getting short-changed while this ...
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20 hours ago ago from John Stossel
Today's Washington Post has an interview with President Obama that doesn't question any of his answers. Take what he says about the health care bill bulldozing towards its Christmas Eve vote: "Nowhere has there been a bigger gap between the perceptions of compromise and the realities of compromise than in the health-care bill," Obama said. "Every single criteria for reform I put forward is in this bill." In listing those ...
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16 hours ago ago from 2009
Obama 'Brittany Murphy's Death Why We Need Health Care Reform' In a bold move that all major news outlets are describing as "well-timed", "brilliant", and "sexy" (except for Fox News which only characterized it as "mildly genius") President Obama called an emergency press conference out on the White House lawn to lament the death of actress Brittany Murphy, and put her untimely demise squarely on our ...
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Mitchell Bard: Political Labels 101: A Lesson for Republicans and Tea Baggers
18 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
I am a big believer in open political debate. While my views may be solidly progressive, I have the utmost respect for anyone interested in making honest arguments as to how to proceed on the issues of the day. I admire Jurgen Habermas's view of democracy requiring a public sphere in which citizens come to the table not just with arguments for their side, but with an open mind to hear the views of opponents. I was reminded of how far the ...
Related contentDavid Sirota: On Health Care Promises, I Agree With Obama: "We ARE Tired" (VIDEO)
14 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
There's a lot of righteous - and rightful - outrage that President Obama is now blatantly lying about his campaign promise to give every American a choice of a public plan for health care. But that's only the beginning of the broken health care promises if you watch this 48-second video: So here you have candidate Obama on 10/4/08 reiterating how important the "detailed health care plans" are - how serious he thinks they are. And here we ...
Related contentDem Pollster: Don't Expect Obama Bump From Health Care
14 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
When Bill Clinton addressed a crowd of mildly despondent progressives at the Netroots Nation conference this past August, he made a prediction. If health care reform were to pass, the former president said, it would result in a massive uptick in Obama's popularity. "Within a year, when all those bad things they say will happen don't happen, and all the good things happen, approval will explode," Clinton declared . A polling bump has ...
Related contentJason Rosenbaum: It's not over yet: We must finish health reform right!
18 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
Last month, history was made. The House passed a health care bill that gave the American people what they want. In poll after poll , people want to have the choice of a public option, to keep their health care benefits untaxed, and to have affordable health care. The House bill came very close to those goals. The Senate took its first step towards passing a health care bill. While the Senate bill includes significant reforms, it looks ...
Related contentWhat the Polls Tell Us About the Health Care Battle
3 hours ago ago from Politics Daily
Republicans and other critics of health care overhaul have seized on poll numbers reflecting public opposition and unease to accuse President Obama and congressional Democratic leaders of trying to ram through a measure that Americans don't want.
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