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1) HEALTH CARE Why it’s time to ignore those commercials with actors portraying Grandma and Grandpa spreading misinformation that the health care reform bill is bad for them: The AARP — the group that lobbies for the best interests of senior citizens — announced Wednesday it plans to back the House...
1) PREMIUM LUXURIES Ever wonder exactly what your skyrocketing health care premiums pay for? Surprise — it isn’t necessarily health care. Sen. John D. Rockefeller (D., WV) researched 15 insurance companies and found only about 82 cents of every dollar went to health care. An...
1) ELECTION CHAOS, AFGHANISTAN Abdullah Abdullah pulled out of the presidential run-off election against Hamid Karzai Sunday, though not without sowing more seeds of discontent and charges of misconduct in the Afghan elections...
1) HEALTH CARE BILL IN THE HOOOOUSE! The House of Representatives will unveil its new health care bill later today...
1) WHERE WE LIVE The New York Times crunched the Census numbers and found out this bit of head-shaking irony: Americans who lack health insurance today are far more likely to live in states...whose senators and representatives are least likely to support a public option which would give them access...
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1) PROP 8 PART DEUX As Maine readies for a vote on gay marriage November 3, Mormons who filmed anti-gay marriage ads for California’s Prop 8 are joining up with other anti-gay marriage activists from the Golden State to bring the battle to the Northeast. ...
1) INSURANCE COMPANY REFUSES TO COVER RAPE VICTIM You might want to sit down for this one. Huffington Post investigative journalists uncovered yet another example of dirty ways insurance companies try to profit by refusing to cover people...
1) GIVE US MEANINGFUL HEALTH CARE REFORM From the New York Times: “The basic Medicare premium will shoot up next year by 15 percent, to $110.50 a month, federal officials said Monday. ...
1) QOTD “On the Republican side, it is no, no, no. A party of obstructionism.” — Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA), interviewed on Fox News, about his former party. [Political Wire] 2) PALIN NEEDS A JOB Who said past politicians aren’t affected by the bad job market? Former Alaska Gov. Sarah ...
1) BLACKWATER BYSTANDERS BARRED U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina Wednesday barred the public from attending pre-trial hearings in the prosecution of the five Blackwater security contractors who allegedly killed 14 unarmed Iraqi citizens in 2007...
1) MAJOR NEW STUDY ON CHOICE According to a major new study by the Guttmacher Institute, banning a woman’s access to abortion does not decrease the number of women getting abortions in a given area, just whether or not they are safely terminating their pregnancies. ...
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