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The Doctor Is In: Why Support for Health Reform Is Crumbling
11:00AM 12/18/2009
Why is public support falling? People are confused by all the rhetoric, shocked by the huge price tag and scared that the proposed changes will only make the situation worse. Yet it's not too late for Congress to come together and improve a system that isn't working now.
Dollars & Health: Living wills, death panels and my dad
4:00PM 10/08/2009
When I arrived at the hospital, my father lay unconscious in the intensive care unit. A staff member was able to waken him. He opened his eyes and, recognizing me, moved his hand toward mine. Then he quickly lapsed back into an unconscious state.
My father was 88 and had multiple health problems:...
It's the bottom of the ninth inning for the Obama health care plan
12:30PM 9/08/2009
When future historians write about the Obama presidency, the question of how the once-obscure junior senator from Illinois handled the task of reforming the nation's health care system will be foremost on their minds as they judge his domestic policy achievements.
Democrats are eager to pass the...
Health care reform has created a whirlwind of facts and fictions. Feeling confused about the issue? Walletpop cuts through the noise to give you clear and simple answers:
Isn't the public option for freeloaders? Why should we adopt it when critics are calling it socialist?
A public option...
While the supposed "death panels" that would decide whether granny lives or dies have grabbed headlines recently, it seems that the public furor that they have generated may be the least of concerns for health care reformers. More troublesome for President Obama is the fact that a persistent...
The Doctor Is In: Distorting the facts on health care
2:00PM 8/14/2009
In the beginning, there was Sarah Palin. who warned that the proposed health care reform bill called for the creation of "death panels" to decide whether an elderly patient gets to live or die. Then, along came Rush Limbaugh, who referred to the bill as "a Hitler-like policy." Now, critics of the...
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