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Opinion: 18 Myths About Health Care Reform Bill Revealed

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(March 19) -- The Firedoglake health care team has been covering the debate in Congress since it began last year. The health care bill will come up for a vote in the House on Sunday, and as House Spe ...

Opinion: 159 New Government Agencies Won't Improve Health Care

1 day 9 hours ago |Special to AOL News

(March 19) -- President Barack Obama recently declared, "Everything to say about health care has been said, and just about everybody has said it." Yet, as his fellow Democrats embark on their final p ...

Opinion: What's in the Bill -- Read it and Weep

1 day 8 hours ago |Special to AOL News

(March 19) -- Three weeks ago, at the White House Health Care Summit, President Barack Obama gave Congress six weeks to consider his proposal and chart a course forward. The Democrats are now using e ...

Opinion: Seven Years Later, Iraq War Bearing Fruit

1 day 12 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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(March 19) -- Less than two weeks ago, 12 million Iraqis went to the polls to vote for a new parliament. The results are still trickling in, and the process of choosing a new president, prime ministe ...

Opinion: Drawing the Right Lessons From Iraq

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(March 19) -- Saturday marks the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq -- and finally the news out of that once seemingly hopeless nation seems to be hopeful. Recent parliamentary election ...

Opinion: Bill Is Too Flawed and Too Unpopular

1 day 10 hours ago |Special to AOL News

(March 19) -- In the next few days, the House of Representatives will likely "vote" on the long-debated health care reform package pushed by President Barack Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Cali ...

Opinion: End This Reckless Strategy on Health Care

1 day 18 hours ago |Special to AOL News

(March 19) -- Lawmakers in Washington have debated the Democratic plan for health care for more than a year now, and the verdict of the American people is in: In town halls, elections and survey afte ...

Opinion: America Desperately Needs Reform

2 days 11 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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(March 18) -- America desperately needs health reform. Today, nearly 50 million people are uninsured. For those of us lucky enough to get health insurance at work, a pink slip can end our coverage. W ...

Opinion: ObamaCare's March Madness

2 days 11 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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(March 18) -- This is a great time of year for college basketball fans. Too bad the same can't be said of the March madness enveloping Washington, D.C., because of the ObamaCare debate. Basketball's ...

Opinion: Why I'm Supporting the Health Care Reform Bill

3 days 12 hours ago |Special to AOL News

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Editor's note: The following are excerpts from the statement made by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, announcing his plans to vote for the health care reform bill. (March 17) -- Each generation has had ...

Opinion: Obama's Health Care Myths Exposed

3 days 21 hours ago |Special to AOL News

(March 17) -- President Barack Obama is flying Air Force One from staged pep rally to staged pep rally, whipping his left-wing base into something approaching frenzy over his health care plan. That w ...

Opinion: Where Are Obama's 'Righteous Gangstas'?

4 days 10 hours ago |AOL News

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CHICAGO (March 16) -- I remember a snowy afternoon in January 2008, sitting on an old couch inside then-candidate Barack Obama's campaign headquarters in Des Moines, the day before Obama's surprising ...