Healthcare Surrender Monkeys
Barbara Ehrenreich : Health Care Policy
America has faced down the Third Reich and the Red Menace, but it has met an enemy it dares not confront: the private health insurance industry.
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Let the CHIPs Fall...
Trudy Lieberman : Children & Child Care
Bush has turned renewal of a successful child health insurance program from a no-brainer to a battle on the future of healthcare.
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Healthcare vs. the Profit Principle
Barbara Ehrenreich
Sure we have a healthcare system in America. The trouble is, it's designed not to make people healthy but to make money.
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Andy Stern: Savior or Sellout?
Liza Featherstone : Labor Organizing & Activism
SEIU President Andy Stern heads one of the strongest unions in the country. Why is he so cozy with corporations?
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High Stakes on Health
Robert L. Borosage & Katrina vanden Heuvel : Health Care Policy
Campaign '08 is heading for a great debate: Will individualized plans or a broad public guarantee of coverage replace our broken corporate system?
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Time to Fix Healthcare
The Editors : Electoral Politics
Affordable healthcare is rapidly emerging as the top domestic policy issue in the 2008 presidential race. Candidates, got ideas?
2006
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No Rx in Massachusetts
If it becomes a national model, a new, highly touted health insurance law in Massachusetts would make American healthcare, already on life support, take a turn for the worse.
2005
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Mismanaged Care
Trudy Lieberman : Health Care Policy
Tennessee once had a visionary health care plan for that left only 14 percent of residents uninsured. But with federal cuts and a governor's misguided attempt to privatize Medicaid, Tennessee is just another state unable to protect its citizens.
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Wal-Mart Tries to Grow a Pair
If Wal-Mart finds resistance irksome, it should lobby for universal healthcare.
2003
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Labor's Health Problem
While fighting givebacks, unions can't lose sight of the big healthcare picture.
2002
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A New Horizon for the Democratic Party
Rep. Dennis Kucinich : Democratic Party
The Democratic Party must become the party of reregulation, of public control, of public accountability and of public power.
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