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Why Not a "Bailout" That Restructures Health Care to Benefit All?

Michele Swenson | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business

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Michele Swenson

"Free-market" health care is as perverse an incentive as free-market police and fire protection would be, leaving everyone vulnerable, at the mercy of the marketplace.

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What Do MoveOn Members Think About Health Care? Who Knows? A Reply to MoveOn's Eli Pariser

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

Something seemed strange. Could it really be that the average American voter is more progressive on universal health care than the average MoveOn member?

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Is MoveOn.Org Ignoring Its Core Democratic Principles in Setting its Direction on Health Care Reform?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

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Miles Mogulescu

Without asking its members, MoveOn's leaders have elected to join the steering committee of, and pledge at least $500,000 of its members' money to, a new health care coalition.

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As GM Goes, So Goes America

Rep. Jim McDermott | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

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Rep. Jim McDermott

While GM may be on the road to financial health, America continues down the same old road of health care going, going, gone for millions of Americans.

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Insurance Companies Are Not "Scum of the Earth"

Deane Waldman | Posted 05.30.2008 | Living

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Deane Waldman

A response to yesterday's post - "Who Benefits from Billing in Healthcare?" - suggested that insurance companies are the scum of the earth. While most...

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