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    • 13 Ratings
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    License to Lie

    AUGUST 23, 2012 2:21PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: white working class, welfare queen, ronald reagan, global warming, fiscal policy, deficit hawks, paul krugman, obamacare, fox news, budget deficits, brit hume, walter lippmann, jr., martin luther king, republican national convention, liberalism, conservatism, right wing, political extemism, barry goldwater, 2012 campaign, citizens united, joe soptic, bain capital, super pac, newt gingrich, president obama, " lies and deception, "morning joe, joe scarborough, medicare, welfare, paul ryan, george will, mitt romney, republican party, economics, politics

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    • 6 Ratings
    • 2363 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    What the Affordable Care Act Means for Women

    MAY 20, 2012 8:20PM

    By Marcia G. Yerman


    Topics: national women's health network, center for american progress, medicaid, medicare, gender rating, maternity coverage, domestic violence, caesarean section, breast cancer, pre-existing conditions, women and health insurance, katherine b. waddell, women's strike force, national women's health week, affordable care act, health, politics

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    • 53 Ratings
    • 4977 Views
    • 74 Comments
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    99%- Yes, Houston we have a Problem!

    OCTOBER 18, 2011 10:08AM

    By Linda Seccaspina


    Topics: occupy, occupy america, occupy america, politics, protest, iraq, enviroment, racial, oprah winfrey, social security, medicare, jesse jackson, lgbt, obama, occupy movement, houston robertson, occupy wall street, ococcupy america, news, open+call, news

    • Editor's Pick
    • 17 Ratings
    • 2005 Views
    • 31 Comments
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    Plutocrats Win. Flawless Victory.

    AUGUST 1, 2011 12:56PM

    By Kemstone


    Topics: washington, social security, republicans, politics, plutocracy, obama, medicare, democrats, debt ceiling, debt, corporate power, congress, 2012 election

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    • 11 Ratings
    • 2431 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    What “Cutting the Debt” is Really About

    JUNE 15, 2011 10:26AM

    By Robert J. Elisberg


    Topics: debt, republicans, medicare, social security

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 1561 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    FoX-Men: First Class

    JUNE 15, 2011 8:56AM

    By Robert Brenner


    Topics: medicare, fox news, celebrity apprentice, politics, movies, comedy, television, x-men; first class, roger ailes, mitt romney, donald trump, paul ryan, sarah palin, michele bachmann, tim pawlenty, herman cain, newt gingrich, rick santorum, chris christie

    • Editor's Pick
    • 10 Ratings
    • 6695 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    Ripping apart Ryan’s budget Plan 1000 deaths at the time…

    APRIL 29, 2011 12:27PM

    By Kanuk


    Topics: paul ryan, medicare, medical deaths, roadmap for america’s future, budget cuts, national debt, federal government

    • Editor's Pick
    • 23 Ratings
    • 2507 Views
    • 38 Comments
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    Paul Ryan’s Medicare is a Nightmare

    APRIL 28, 2011 8:29AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: politics, finance, economy, health care, medicare, representaitve paul ryan, republican health care reform, republican budget plan, roadmap for america's future, path to prosperity, medicare reform, atlas shrugged, ayn rand

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 1996 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    What Democrats must say to win the 2012 election

    APRIL 22, 2011 10:14AM

    By Jimmy Zuma


    Topics: democrats, election, 2012, birtherism, taxes, budget, defense spending, medicare, republicans, paul ryan, obama, class warfare, citizen’s united, corporate welfare, congress

    • Editor's Pick
    • 27 Ratings
    • 2498 Views
    • 36 Comments
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    Boiling the Middle Class

    MARCH 10, 2011 9:20AM

    By Kemstone


    Topics: budget, chris christie, citizens united, collective bargaining, corporate power, defense, deficit, democracy, education, koch industries, medicare, middle class, politics, protests, scott walker, social security, subsidies, taxes, unions, washington, wisconsin

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 7528 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    The big healthcare sell-out

    DECEMBER 14, 2009 11:04PM

    By Joy-Ann Reid


    Topics: medicare, public option, rahm emanuel, joe lieberman, harry reid, congress, democrats, president obama, healthcare reform

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 2090 Views
    • 23 Comments
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    GOP Attacks on Health Reform Argue FOR Socialized Care

    SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 10:15AM

    By J.E. Robertson


    Topics: healthcare smears, us election 2008, rhetorical advantage, rhetoric, schip, obama, republicans, politics, healthcare, healthcare reform, medicaid, medicare

    • Editor's Pick
    • 19 Ratings
    • 4301 Views
    • 45 Comments
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    Madness of the Right and Left: Part One

    SEPTEMBER 13, 2009 7:24PM

    By David Brin


    Topics: politics, medicare

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 811 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    Now Let’s Get the Health Care Job Done!

    SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 9:16AM

    By Kevin Gosztola


    Topics: medicare, ted kennedy, television, sicko, sick, democratic party, single payer, public option, politics, news, media, speech, baucus, healthcare, corporations, greed, human rights, obama, democrat, republican, liberal, progressive, health care

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 1406 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Sen. Ted Kennedy Was Pro-People & An Exception to the Rule

    AUGUST 26, 2009 8:48AM

    By Kevin Gosztola


    Topics: humanity, people, medicare, war, iraq, conservatives, fox news, public option, health care, chappaquiddick, republicans, liberals, democrats, barack obama, obama, edward m kennedy, ted kennedy, kennedy

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1664 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    These Donuts Suck

    AUGUST 10, 2009 9:59PM

    By Cristiona de Pisan


    Topics: insurance, schizophrenia, lupus, depression, mental health, fix it already, donut hole, what jackass thought of this, medicare donut hole, medicare, obama, healthcare, politics, family, health

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1321 Views
    • 25 Comments
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    When Reality TV Trumps Informing the Public on Health Care

    JULY 23, 2009 12:38AM

    By Kevin Gosztola


    Topics: politics, medicare, republicans, democrats, barack obama, reality tv, television, drugs, pharmaceuticals, special interests, corporations, insurance, healthcare, afforable health care, news conference, news, health care, press conference, obama

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 3431 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    Trust Fund, Baby: On Paris Hilton and Social Security

    MAY 12, 2009 9:51PM

    By Saturn Smith


    Topics: paris hilton, social security, celebutantes, trust funds, medicare, trustees summary report, treasury, hhs, politics, economy, obama, congress, boehner, the simple life

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 2507 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    A 5-Point Plan To Fix Health Care

    MARCH 31, 2009 6:12AM

    By Mortimer Hayden Smyth


    Topics: center for american free thought, trickle down, doctor, medical, disease, illness, medicaid, medicare, free market, gop, obama, universal health care, mortimer hayden smyth

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 1709 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Pro-Choice Cabinet Picks Boon for Health At Home and Abroad

    NOVEMBER 26, 2008 11:39AM

    By The Media Consortium


    Topics: health, healthcare, hillary clinton, medicare, melody barnes, newsladder, obama's cabinet, patty murray

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