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So You Want To Be a Sword Swallower?

(April 4) -- So you want to be a sword swallower? Well, chew on this: For all the babes you may get -- and you will get a lot, according to professional sword swallower Murrugun the Mystic -- the downside is that you are very unlikely to benefit from Barack Obama's new health care plan. "I can't get health insurance,"...

Without a Public Option, Is It Really Reform?

(Dec. 15) -- The holiday season rush is on in Washington. President Barack Obama is pushing the Senate to pass a health care reform bill by Christmas. Now it looks like the legislation won't include everything on his wish list. Senate Democrats have decided to drop a proposal to let people buy into Medicare starting at...

Opinion: Health Care Needs 'Public Option'

(Nov. 30) -- As the Senate takes up health care reform this week, a key sticking point will be the "public option" -- a government-run insurance plan that is supposed to help keep costs down by providing competitive pressure to private insurers. But a new report from the nonpartisan Urban Institute concludes that the...

Uninsured Trauma Victims Face High Death Rate

(Nov. 16) -- It's federal law: All seriously injured emergency and trauma patients must be given equal lifesaving care, whether or not they can pay for it. But that's not happening, according to a new report. The study, conducted by Children's Hospital Boston research fellow Dr. Heather Rosen and colleagues from three...

Opinion: This Time, Failure Is Not an Option for Health Care Reform

(Nov. 13) -- If the health reform debate of 1993-94 taught this nation anything, it's that there are very real moral, economic and political consequences from failing to fix our health system. This time, health reform will succeed because failure is not an acceptable option. Sixteen years ago, Democrats -- faced with...