Healthcare

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  • Private health-insurance companies get ready to self-medicate

    Big healthcare industry players promise the White House they'll get on board with reform -- so they don't get trampled by it.
  • Obama strikes a deal with the healthcare industry

    The biggest players in healthcare say they'll help reform efforts by cutting spending growth by $2 trillion over 10 years -- can they be trusted?
  • "I am not a puzzle, I am a person"

    People with autism don't need to be "cured," argues the burgeoning "autism culture" movement. Not all parents or medical experts agree.
  • Nelson on healthcare: Make me an offer I can't refuse

    The Nebraska Democrat thinks you've got an awfully nice reform package here, and it'd be a shame if something were to happen to it.
  • Are Republicans ready to fight healthcare reform?

    Democrats line up an array of groups to keep a compromise on the table; the GOP may not have the firepower to just say no.
  • Let's fast-track universal healthcare

    Obama will be tempted to bargain for his agenda with spending cuts; healthcare's not the place to trim.
  • While you were out

    Back from Baghdad, the president clears out his in box and talks healthcare, pirates and mortgages. He will fix your muffler AND refinance your home.
  • If we nationalize health care, more celebrities will die!

    Conservatives opposed to health care reform say Natasha Richardson's death was due in part to Canada's system.
  • Why are Republicans scared of competition?

    The GOP can't stomach the prospect of American consumers having free choice over their healthcare programs.
  • Barack Obama is an evil human-race-enslaving robot

    New Deal critic Amity Shlaes compares the president's healthcare plan to "The Matrix."
  • The questions our healthcare debate ignores

    Why does every developed nation except the U.S. have universal healthcare? Why do they pay half as much in medical costs? Why are their infant mortality and longevity statistics superior?
  • Harry and Louise, meet Thelma and Louise

    Private health insurers helped kill Bill Clinton's healthcare reforms with a famous series of TV ads. Now the situation is so dire they're on board with Obama's reforms.
  • Obama's timid liberalism

    Once, even Republican presidents like Eisenhower and Nixon believed in the public sector. Now, during a national crisis, a Democrat opts for inadequate, neoliberal, private-sector remedies. What happened?
  • This is not George Bush's budget

    Budgets are about priorities, not numbers, and President Obama's first budget marks a sea change from the past eight years.
  • Quote of the night

    A writer for the National Review offers his idea for health care reform: die younger.
  • Reform healthcare -- and leave Social Security alone

    During his fiscal responsibility summit, President Obama must not cave in to the privatizers and slashers.
  • Past the point of no return

    With unemployment rising, a healthcare crisis and the planet on the brink of incineration, the stimulus bill is only the first step in fixing the nation's problems.
  • How to do healthcare stupidly, online

    The Internet is good at many, many things. Online doctor's visits, maybe not so much.
  • Obama's hopes Daschled

    His ties to the former senator may have blinded him to potential ethics problems -- but in the end, the president takes the blame.
  • Is a shortage of patients hurting hospitals?

    Annals of an economic contraction: Rumors fly of revenue shortfalls attributed to a drastic decrease in sick people willing to pay for health care
  • An economic Bill of Rights for Americans

    We need a new citizen-based Social Contract that would deliver universal healthcare and paid family leave.
  • My mom has halitosis!

    My mother's breath stinks but I'm afraid to mention it!
  • W. and the damage done

    President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.
  • WTF of the day: Recessionary healthcare madness

    Laid-off expectant mother induces for insurance purposes.
  • How national healthcare could have saved Detroit

    The Big Three blame legacy retiree benefits for crippling their business. But it's their own darn fault.
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