health care

Women, and everyone else affected by this compromised legislation, deserve better.read more

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The bill is still grossly inadequate, as Kucinich himself recognizes. And as Howard Zinn taught us, our job, as citizens, is not to compromise but to stand on principle.read more

President Obama’s health reform proposal is not good for women, so it’s ironic he’s pushing it through during Women’s History Month.read more

How do we get where we want to be—nonprofit national health care—from where we are right now?read more

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On Wednesday, he exploited advocates of a single-payer health care system as a foil to say, in not so many words, “I’m not an extremist like they are.”read more

The proposal contains important elements that could improve the lives of many disabled Americans. But the thrust of the overall proposal seems so wrongheaded that passing it as is may do more harm than good in the long run.read more

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The bill says it will eliminate discrimination against children with preexisting conditions within six months of enactment, but adults will have to wait for this ban to take effect until 2014.read more

Since my brother died in July, I’ve been challenging our leaders in Washington, on both sides of the aisle, to be part of finding the solution rather than exacerbating the problem.read more

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I’ve had enough of the derisive talk about “Cadillac” health insurance plans. They’re not all that they are cracked up to be, and they are not what is driving health care costs skyward.read more

The Senate health care bill, which just passed 60-39, is nothing to cheer about. It will do “more harm than good,” say the leaders of Physicians for a National Health Program and National Nurses United.read more

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