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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 13, 2009 09:27 AM EST --
Female veterans in my hometown will benefit from stimulus dollars now that a place called My Father's House is there to greet them when they come home from Iraq or Afghanistan. The veterans will be able . . .
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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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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 01:57 PM EDT --
Nearly three-quarters of Americans believe it is extremely or quite important to give Americans the choice between a government-run health care plan and a private plan in any final health care bill, according . . .
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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.
I . . .
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November 02, 2009 01:49 PM EST --
Imagine my surprise when I read in yesterday's New York Times that Republican congressional candidate Dede Scozzafava had dropped out of tomorrow's special election in upstate New York only days before . . .
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November 03, 2009 02:55 PM EST --
They packed up their toys and went home. Instead of rolling up their sleeves to work on a bill to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, Republicans decided to boycott . . .
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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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