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November 11, 2009 08:18 PM EST --
Lou Dobbs is leaving CNN, he announced at the end of tonight's 7 p.m. broadcast. I already had flipped the channel at the start of his show -- as I always do -- so I missed the big news. I must say I . . .
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November 12, 2009 10:30 AM EST --
Barack Obama will host a jobs summit at the White House in December it was announced this morning. The President will convene business, labor and non-profit leaders at the summit to discuss more ways . . .
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November 23, 2009 12:41 PM EST --
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield has stopped subsidizing premiums for some families in the Pennsylvania Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The insurance company said it will no longer subsidize . . .
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November 24, 2009 10:48 PM EST --
Why should launching wars and cutting taxes for the rich require only 50 votes while saving lives requires 60? asks Representative Alan Grayson (D-Florida). Grayson pointed out a number of bills that . . .
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November 05, 2009 07:38 AM EST --
The AARP is set to endorse the historic health care reform bill. The House bill could make it to the House floor as early as Saturday. The endorsement is seen as a major boost to President Obama's goal . . .
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November 07, 2009 08:38 AM EST --
President Obama on Friday officially endorsed the House health care bill. He will meet with House Democrats today in advance of the vote.
Here is the official statement from the White House, released . . .
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November 10, 2009 09:41 AM EST --
Bill Clinton will meet with Democrats in the U.S. Senate today as they work on their health care bill, the Associate Press is reporting. Anti-abortion groups and Republicans are hoping to drive a wedge . . .
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November 23, 2009 04:45 PM EST --
A new poll of Pennsylvania AARP members released last week finds strong support across party and ideological lines for elements of health care reform included in the Affordable Health Care for America . . .
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November 23, 2009 12:01 PM EST --
Healthcare access, not cost, is the most urgent healthcare problem, according Americans who responded to the Gallup poll on Health and Healthcare released today. The survey has been taken annually since . . .
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August 20, 2009 02:10 PM EDT --
At least that's what he admits in a new book to be released Sept. 1. Tom Ridge, our nation's first director of Homeland Security, was asked to raise the terror alert three days after the Democratic National . . .
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November 05, 2009 08:31 AM EST --
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. "
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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November 05, 2009 02:38 PM EST --
Finding savings in our current health care system is not just about paying for reform in the short-term – it’s about controlling unsustainable health care costs in the long run, or "bending . . .
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November 11, 2009 09:17 AM EST --
The Harvard Medical School is reporting that 2,266 veterans under the age of 65 died last year as a result of not having health insurance. Researchers emphasize that "that figure is more than 14 times . . .
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October 27, 2009 03:53 PM EDT --
Joe Lieberman's doubletalk on the public option is widely documented. Why not toss him overboard and get on with the work of real health care reform? He is grabbing too much undeserved attention.
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November 05, 2009 04:09 PM EST --
The Affordable Health Care for America Act: Short Summary The Affordable Health Care for America Act provides quality affordable health care for all Americans and controls health care cost growth. CBO . . .
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November 05, 2009 06:39 PM EST --
This morning, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) joined the AARP and the AMA and announced support for the Affordable Health Care for America Act saying:
The House bill . . .
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November 05, 2009 07:21 PM EST --
Despite writing in June that “quality health coverage must exist for every American, regardless of pre-existing health conditions,” Republican Leader John Boehner introduced a substitute amendment . . .
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November 09, 2009 03:57 PM EST --
Saturday's vote to pass the Health Care for America Act, HR 3962, will strengthen Medicare for seniors, relieve small businesses from unsustainable insurance costs, and provide affordable health insurance . . .
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November 04, 2009 08:09 AM EST --
Democrat Bill Owens defeated conservative Republican Doug Hoffman in a hotly contested race for Congress in New York's 23rd congressional district. For the first time since the Civil War, the seat will . . .
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November 12, 2009 09:01 AM EST --
Larry King's interview with Carrie Prejean was cut short last night when the mic went dead on Larry King Live. The dethroned beauty queen and Christian-porn-star-religious-right spokeswoman decided she . . .
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