Health Care

Wal-Mart Kicks an Injured Cop When He is Down

David Nassar | Posted 07.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Walmart, Tyson's, Health Care, Wal-Mart, Deborah Shank, Arkansas, Jimmy Singleton, Target Corp, Harris, Communications Consulting Worldwide, Lee Scott, Walmart Ceo Lee Scott, Health Benefits, Business News
David Nassar

Wal-Mart now seems determined to keep disability benefits from all Americans, not merely its own employees.

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Peaceful Revolution: McCain a Clear and Present Danger to Families

Robert Drago and Arlene Holt Baker | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, John McCain 2008, Family Values, Mccain, Children's Health Insurance, Health Insurance, John McCain Health Care Plan, Mccain Healthcare, Health Care, Politics News
Robert Drago and Arlene Holt Baker

McCain's voting record on family issues speaks clearly and in a single voice: he does not value family in any meaningful sense of the word.

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Obama, McCain and Mother Vote

Lisa Witter | Posted 06.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Family Planning, John McCain, Michelle Obama, Pay Equity, Women Voters, Mothers, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Health Care, Web Sites, Politics News
Lisa Witter

Obama may have the clear advantage with the mother vote on the image, talk and policy fronts, but McCain has shown lately that he isn't willing to let the mom vote go without a fight.

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National HIV Testing Day: An Epidemic in Our Nation's Capital

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 06.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Hiv Infection, US Hiv Rates, Hiv Msm, Hiv, Science, Aids Epidemic in Africa, Health Care, Hiv Washington Dc, Politics News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

Our country is succumbing to "AIDS fatigue" as infection rates have stayed high. But complacency does not save lives; more commitment, funding and science-based policies will.

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Blame Game vs. Root Cause Analysis

Deane Waldman | Posted 06.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Heathcare System, Evidence, Systems Thinking, Medical Economics, Health Insurance, Health Care, Healthcare, Living News
Deane Waldman

No one controls or even "is responsible" for the failing healthcare system, and it's not fixed by punishing or changing the people. It's fixed by changing the processes within the system.

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"Expanding Access to Care": The Health Insurance Industry's Magic at Work

John Geyman | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Employer-Sponsored Insurance, Health Insurance Industry, Insurance Industry, Health Care, Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenses, Medigap, Esi, Universal Health Care, Health Care System, Politics News
John Geyman

As the costs of health care surge ever higher, the financial barrier to care has clearly become the biggest impediment of all.

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Gardasil or Guard Your Girls?

Doug Bremner | Posted 06.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Drugs, Vaccine, Medication, Health Care, Prevention, Gardasil, Living News
Doug Bremner

The vaccine for the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine, Gardasil, was mandated for all young girls in Texas in 2006 and there were proposals for mand...

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Jason Linkins

Elizabeth Edwards: I'm Already Working With Obama's Team On Health Care

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Video, Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, Universal Health Care, John McCain Health Care Plan, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Barack Obama, Politics News

Elizabeth Edwards appeared on this morning's Good Morning America to discuss the Democratic Party's approach to universal health care. While Edwards ...

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Death Under the Guise of Health Care

Norman Solomon | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Care for All, John Conyers, Insurance Industry, Donna Smith, Martin Luther King Jr., Single Payer, Medicare, Marilyn Clement, America's Health Insurance Plans, Health Care, H.R. 676, C. Rocky White, Health Care Meltdown, Politics News
Norman Solomon

In San Francisco yesterday, over 1,000 protesters were spilling from the sidewalks outside the Moscone Center -- demanding health care for all.

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10 Ways To Save Thousands On Your Health Care

abcnews.com | Julian Kesner | Posted 06.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Health Care, How to Save Money, How to Save on Health Care, Medical Insurance, Health Care Costs, Insurance, Living News

After a car accident left Michelle Katz, a Washington, D.C., nursing student, with persistent back pain and numbness in 1998, she consulted a neurosur...

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McCain's Healthcare Plan: From A Nuclear Perspective

Paul Peete | Posted 06.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Obama, Mccain, Nuclear, Health Care, Healthcare, Universal Coverage, Bush, Home News
Paul Peete

The process of going nuclear has already begun under Bush. John McCain, in turn, has mimicked the Bush plans. Citizens need to push back now so that research dollars will go to promising alternative energy sources instead of becoming a windfall for the corporations who push nuclear power.

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It Doesn't Have To Be Like This

Beth Broderick | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: California, Health Insurance, Health Care, Nurses, California Nurses Association, Politics News
Beth Broderick

All of us have stories about desperately ill friends and family who have faced the cold cruel reality of being denied treatment by an indifferent insurer. We must all make our voices heard.

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Health Care Reform is Coming -- But From the Bottom Up

Buck Goldstein | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Web 2.0, Entrepreneurship, Business, Health Care, Health 2.0, Business News
Buck Goldstein

At the heart of this bottom up revolution is a concept called Health 2.0, which promises to do for medical care what the Web did for travel only a few years ago.

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Postcards to the Next President

Sheryl Oring | Posted 06.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: College Students, The Next President, Postcards, College, Economy, Iraq, Health Care, Appeal to the Next President of the United States, Politics News
Sheryl Oring

295 people have already participted in my traveling public art project "I Wish to Say," in which I set up an office -- complete with a manual typewriter -- and invite passersby to dictate postcards to the next president.

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Time to Die! (Oops, I Mean Time To Quit!)

Doug Bremner | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Psychiatry, Depression, Drugs, Cigarettes, Smoking, Medication, Health Care, Chantix, Living News
Doug Bremner

The clinical trials of anti-smoking drug Chantix excluded people with mental disorders, but smoking is increased in this population, and these people are obviously at increased risk of suicidality.

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Here Comes The Sun

Robert Silvers | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Iraq War, Abortion, Supreme Court, Gas Prices, U.S. Economy, John McCain, Economy, Hillary Clinton, Gas Tax Holiday, Health Insurance, Iraq, Roe vs Wade, Health Care, Barack Obama, Obama McCain, McCain Iraq, Obama Mccain Ideology, Obama Substance, Home News
Robert Silvers

The Democratic primary was bruising. The good news is that it's over and that there are genuine ideological differences for McCain and Obama to battle over. Even better is that on the issues, Obama will win.

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A Gold Rush Town That Symbolizes our Health Care Crisis

Rose Ann DeMoro | Posted 06.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Single-Payer Health Insurance, Nurses, National Nurses Organizing Committee, HR 676, Health Care, Barack Obama, California Nurses Association, Politics News
Rose Ann DeMoro

The small Gold Rush town of Magalia in the shadows of the Sierra Nevada mountains just north of Paradise, Ca. might not be the first place you'd thin...

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A Good Case for Universal Healthcare

Bryan Young | Posted 06.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Universal Health Care, Health Care, Health Insurance, Universal Healthcare, Politics News
Bryan Young

It's sad and disgusting to me that that I considered cost when my only thought should have been getting my son immediately to the hospital. Within a month, my son and I had accumulated $40,000 in medical bills.

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Guns N' Robes: A Canadian Perspective

Bruce Kluger | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Supreme Court, Gun Control, Tim O'Driscoll, D.C. vs. Heller, Canada, Quebec, Health Insurance, Health Care, Politics News
Bruce Kluger

I've always liked Canada. Its health care system apparently works; its comedians are consistently a hoot; and the gentle behemoth just upstairs always manages to keep a cool head in a hot world.

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Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?

Andrew L. Yarrow | Posted 06.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Gdp, Cost of Higher Education, Supply, Higher Education, Gross Domestic Product, Health Care, Health Care System, Demand, Business News
Andrew L. Yarrow

How did two proud symbols of American greatness from the late 19th to the late 20th centuries become emblematic of deep social and economic problems and the nation's slide from global pre-eminence?

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The Costs of Health Care Are Burying American Families

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Children's Health, Health Care, Marian Wright Edelman, Child Watch, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

More than 2,100 people are born in the US every day without health insurance. Children simply can't wait while policymakers argue over the best way to get health coverage for everyone.

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Not Just Us

Mike Fishman and George Gresham | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Puerto Rico, Labor, Seiu, Health Insurance, Justice, Labor Unions, Health Care, Politics News
Mike Fishman and George Gresham

Over the next three days, nearly 2,000 delegates from Unions across North America will meet to elect leaders, debate on current issues and set the agenda for our union for the next four years.

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The DMI Injustice Index: Can You Afford to Get Sick?

Andrea Batista Schlesinger | Posted 06.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Drum Major Institute, Paid Sick Leave, Health Care, Flu, Business News
Andrea Batista Schlesinger

Percentage of employees without paid sick leave who say they cannot afford to take unpaid time off work when they become ill: 58

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The Path Ahead

Jared Bernstein | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Public Policy, MPG Standards, President 2008, Economic Policy, The Economy, Immigration, Energy Policy, Health Care, Immigration Policy, Politics News
Jared Bernstein

Here is a list of problems we face as a nation, and solutions, guided by one insider's view of what we've learned over these last two terms which have been dominated by conservative ideology.

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We're Angry, Uneducated and Unhealthy-- Now What?

Dave Winer | Posted 06.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Jeff Jarvis, Education, Clinton Democrats, Health Care, Carl Levin, Politics News
Dave Winer

Which kind of president would you rather have -- one who accepts the world as it is and then maps out a way to win, or one that grouses at how irrational it is?

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