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Barack Obama's health bill passes crucial Senate test - Times OnlineThe Senate passed it's amended Health Bill by a 60-40 margin which will insure it's final passage later this week. Interestingly, the work was done in the middle of the night.
I don't feel wellto bring attention to the sad fact that the United States of America is the only industrialized nation on planet Earth that doesn't provide some form of "Universal" health care coverage to its citizens - and that it seems about to cement its status as such for some time to come.
Charges Filed in Health Care Town Meeting Beating - 6 charged with "misdemeanor" violations for smashing a black man on the cement and calling him n*****Six people arrested in August outside a raucous town hall meeting in south St. Louis County have been charged with misdemeanor ordinance violations. The six, including a Post-Dispatch reporter, had attended a demonstration outside an Aug. 6 forum called by U.S. Rep.
Fraser Institute spins bankruptcy facts | rabble.caConclusion Canada's universal, government- run, monopoly health insurance system was not associated with lower rates of bankruptcy in Canada compared with the United States in either 2006 or 2007.
Health-care spending likely to hit record, report says - The Globe and MailIn Canada, spending can be divided into three categories: hospitals, drugs and physicians.
Germany Strains to Fund Health Care for All Germany's century-old universal health-care system, a model cited by reform advocates in the U.S. Congress, is buckling under the weight of a growing deficit that has forced the government to explore an overhaul.
Disease is the enemy of productivity. Universal health care should be conceptually treated as a category separate from welfare.
'V' aims at Obamamania -- Sci-fi throwback to the days of "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" ("V" is irresistible)Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.
Medicare Part E - "Everybody"After months of congressional fighting over verbiage, it appears the Democrats have finally come up with a bumper decal slogan to push health-care and insurance reform over the passing a bill finish line! Lets see whose willing to vote 'against' medicare...
A Heated Debate Is Dividing Generations in AARP It's not really about death panels.
The Public ImperativeThis article does a good job of showing the differences in mythologies concerning universal health care between people in the U.S. and in other industralized countries.
Who Benefits From Health Care Reform?Asking the vital question -- who profits from the most from Obamacare, and why are lobbyists pushing so hard for reform?
The New York Times Covers Up for Van Jones and Other Radical Friends of ObamaBernie Goldberg, the media commentator for Fox News, offered two good explanations on the O'Reilly Factor last night for this journalistic lapse, aside from the usual, day-to-day left-wing media bias.
Mass. bashers take note: Health reform is working - The Boston GlobePUNDITS and politicians who oppose universal healthcare for the nation have a new straw man to kick around - the Massachusetts reform plan that covers more than 97 percent of the state's residents.
Health Care is Not a RightMost people who oppose socialized medicine do so on the grounds that it is moral and well-intentioned, but impractical; i.e., it is a noble idea--which just somehow does not work. I do not agree that socialized medicine is moral and well-intentioned, but impractical.
As early as the middle of July dialog, the House of Representatives sounded a clarion call about HR 3200 by Mike Rogers, Opening Statement.
In a move recognizing the sober facts of political reality, President Barack Obama, according to Politico, is shifting his strategy on health care reform, including not insisting on a public option. It will enrage his liberal base, who flew into a tizzy when HHS Sec.
Obama wants to pass a universal health plan. A laudable goal - if you think that it could work. But it can't and won't.
How Tough is Our President? | Robert Reich's Blog#moreLatest word from the White House is that the President still supports a public option but is also standing by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's remark last weekend that a public insurance plan is "not the essential element" of health-care reform.
If Obama's universal health care plan is so great for you and me, why aren't the President and Congress also willing to join the plan? Why are our elected officials exempted from participating in this great new health care program they are designing for you and I?
The Public Option for CongressRepublican Sen. Tom Coburn, a doctor from Oklahoma, offered an amendment to the current healthcare bill being developed in the Senate that would require all members of Congress use the public option if passed.
Protesters in Ybor City drown out health care summit on Obama's proposal - St. Petersburg TimesBitter divisions over reforming America's health care system exploded Thursday night in Tampa amid cat calls, jeering and shoving at a town hall meeting. "Tyranny! Tyranny! Tyranny!" dozens of people shouted as U.S. Rep.
Health-care reform is vital to U.S.There is a big debate throughout the country regarding a publicly funded health-care system. There are many who claim that universal health care is socialized medicine and that we already have the best system.
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