http://dir.salon.com/topics/healthcare/?source=rss&aim=healthcare en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST Articles and blog posts about healthcare By Joe Conason Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2009/11/20/blanche_lincoln/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2009/11/20/blanche_lincoln/index.html?source=rss Pressured from both sides, will a poll-wary Sen. Blanche Lincoln help the GOP sink healthcare reform? By Robert Reich Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/19/public_option/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/19/public_option/index.html?source=rss There's almost nothing left to give away in a healthcare compromise By Andrew Leonard Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/11/16/genentech_and_biosimilars/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/11/16/genentech_and_biosimilars/index.html?source=rss Figuring out the right rules for biotech drug development should be hard. But Big Pharma makes it easy By Gabriel Winant Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/11/12/perry/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/11/12/perry/index.html?source=rss The governor will apparently say anything to get Tea Partiers' votes in his 2010 primary By Garrison Keillor Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/11/10/republicans/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/11/10/republicans/index.html?source=rss The way to fight Republicans is to make them think you like them. It'll scare them into passing the thing By Andrew Leonard Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/11/13/great_moments_in_labor_history_viagra/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/11/13/great_moments_in_labor_history_viagra/index.html?source=rss What do we want? Four-hour erections! When do we want them? Now! By Anne Lamott Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/11/05/lamott_on_health_care/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2009/11/05/lamott_on_health_care/index.html?source=rss Stop dawdling on healthcare, forget about Snowe and Lieberman, and become the leader we voted for already By Michael Lind Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/02/healthcare_employment/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/02/healthcare_employment/index.html?source=rss The jobs of tomorrow are not what you'd expect By Robert Reich Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/02/healthcare_jobs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/11/02/healthcare_jobs/index.html?source=rss Maybe Obama can turn on a dime from healthcare to jobs, but if not, there will be trouble By Andrew Leonard Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/29/swine_flu_and_the_gop/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/29/swine_flu_and_the_gop/index.html?source=rss Treatment and prevention of swine flu hurts insurer profits. The timing couldn't be better By Lynn Harris Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/28/why_abortion_must_be_covered/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/10/28/why_abortion_must_be_covered/index.html?source=rss Opponents of choice would have you believe it's a complicated issue. It's not By Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/10/27/krauthammer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/10/27/krauthammer/index.html?source=rss In an interview, a leading voice of America's conservative intellectuals discusses Barack Obama's failures By Frances Kissling Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/25/organ_trafficking/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/25/organ_trafficking/index.html?source=rss Millions of people like me need kidneys and there aren't enough. The government should give benefits to live donors By Glenn Greenwald Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/24/american_priorities/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/10/24/american_priorities/index.html?source=rss Endless war in Afghanistan is an absolute necessity. Health care for Americans is a luxury that can wait. By Andrew Leonard Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/19/the_many_sins_of_pfizer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/19/the_many_sins_of_pfizer/index.html?source=rss After agreeing to pay the biggest criminal fine ever, Big Pharma's biggest firm says profits equal good healthcare By Andrew Leonard Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/19/bernanke_on_asia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/19/bernanke_on_asia/index.html?source=rss Chinese citizens save too much because their safety net sucks. What's the lesson for the U.S.? By Robert Reich Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/19/obama_hush_money/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/19/obama_hush_money/index.html?source=rss Letterman refused to pay his alleged blackmailer. Obama should say no to Big Pharma, the insurers and the AMA By David Sirota Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/17/snowe/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/17/snowe/index.html?source=rss Forget Olympia Snowe; pass the right healthcare bill, and voters will reward you By Alexis Fitts and Christopher Rogers Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/10/16/protests/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/10/16/protests/index.html?source=rss Video: A crowd of protesters with wildly diverse aims clamors for the president's ear in San Francisco By Andrew Leonard Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/14/our_broken_healthcare_system/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/14/our_broken_healthcare_system/index.html?source=rss The WSJ warns that public healthcare will lead to higher costs and worse care. But so will private healthcare Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/14/reich_video/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/14/reich_video/index.html?source=rss A video from Robert Reich on healthcare reform, and what the medical-industrial complex wants you to believe By Andrew Leonard Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/13/the_great_healthcare_industry_depression/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/10/13/the_great_healthcare_industry_depression/index.html?source=rss Stock prices in health insurance companies are swooning. Is that why the industry is suddenly on the warpath? By Robert Reich Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/13/insurers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/13/insurers/index.html?source=rss Insurance companies say the Senate healthcare bill will force them to raise premiums. Time to call their bluff By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/10/lobbyists/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/10/10/lobbyists/index.html?source=rss Healthcare reform might be easier if so many industry lobbyists didn't once work for legislators like Max Baucus