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Opinion: Waiver-ing on Health Care Reform

When the House passed health reform in March, Joe Hansen, president of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, responded with fulsome praise. "This is an achievement that will rank among the highest in our national experience," he said. Among other things, he said, the law would put "an end to the...

Opinion: Health Reform's Promises Keep Faltering

(Nov. 20) -- Everyone knows the old cliche – Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. But what do you say when you get fooled the third, fourth, fifth or sixth time? That's what supporters of health care reform might want to ask themselves 'round about now. After all, early promises made about the...

Opinion: Health Reform's Legal Challenge Lacks Any Merit

(Oct. 15) -- One minute, Christina Turner was enjoying drinks at a Fort Lauderdale bar with some men she'd recently met. The next minute, she woke up on a roadside covered with cuts and bruises indicating that she'd been raped. And this drug-assisted assault was only the beginning of Christina's nightmare. Months later,...

Opinion: A New Day for Health Care in America

(Sept. 23) -- Today marks a turning point for health care consumers. As part of the new health insurance reform law, the Affordable Care Act, new patient protections will begin to take effect, ending some of the worst abuses of insurance companies and giving Americans important new rights. Thanks to these reforms,...

Poverty Rate Isn't Only Bad News for US Economy Lately

(Sept. 16) -- As the American economy shows some signs of pulling out of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, a host of dire statistics paints a less-than-rosy fiscal portrait for poor and middle-class citizens. Growing Poverty Rate The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that the poverty rate in America...

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Thomas A. Bass: The Double Game of the U.S. Health Insurance Companies

In the novels of doctor-turned-writer Robin Cook, health-insurance companies are so predatory that they not only charge outsized fees but kill you.

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Obama Says Supreme Court Ruling Could Mean Back To The Drawing Board On Health Care

One of the more positive sounding admonitions from health care reform opponents was that the United States had "the best health care in the world," so why would you mess with it?

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ObamaCare Isn't Just About Health Care - It's a Winning Jobs Issue

Massachusetts is the only state in the country where you don't have to worry about losing your health insurance if you lose your job, and it will remain that way if Mitt Romney, the man who signed that Massachusetts bill into law, gets elected president.

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Mitt Romney Is the Inequality Candidate

America is an unequal society , and our inequality is growing.

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Wendell Potter: There's a Sleeper in the Reform Law That Could Transform U.S. Health Care

When members of Congress who led the effort to overhaul the U.S. health care system saw the public option slipping away, some of them suggested that a viable alternative would be the fostering of nonprofit health insurance CO-OPs (Consumer Oriented and Operated Plans) throughout the country.

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06/01/12 McCaskill slams attack ad as 'lies' Source: CW - KMBC TV - Kansas City MO U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said the producers of a new television commercial that criticize her are lying.
06/01/12 Wanted: Women's Questions About Health Care Reform Source: WebMD Do you have questions about how the Supreme Court's upcoming decision on the health reform law will affect your insurance coverage?
06/01/12 Why We Shouldn't Dismiss "Death Panels" As Pure... Source: Forbes Sarah Palin 's "death panel" description polarized the nation; it was dismissed by PPACA proponents as " pure demagoguery ," and taken up by PPACA critics as a cudgel with which to pound "Obamacare."
06/01/12 Roberts' Legacy And The Health Care Law Source: NPR In just a few weeks, a decision is expected from the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law.
06/01/12 Best of the Web Today: Promises, Promises Source: The Wall Street Journal The nationwide unemployment rate dropped to 5.7% in May, as--huh?

Background on healthcare reform

Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major health policy creation or changes—for the most part, governmental policy that affects health care delivery in a given place.

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