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Obama Aims To Avoid Bill And Hillary's Mistakes On Health Care (tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com) TMC

The Boston Globe reports that the Obama team is being careful to take a very different approach to health care reform than Bill and Hillary Clinton did in 1993 and 1994, mainly avoiding one big... More

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Submitted 10 days ago by SpencerKent | 0 Comments |

Health Care By and For the People (www.yesmagazine.org) TMC

The Obama transition team is asking you to help create a new health care policy. Really. Host a meeting, invite friends and associates, look at the Obama team's proposal, and let the transition team... More

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Submitted 17 days ago by SpencerKent | 0 Comments |

Health Care Heavyweights (www.prospect.org) TMC

By appointing Tom Daschle and Jeanne Lambrew, Obama isn't just signaling that he is serious about health care, he's putting it in the hands of people who will get it done.

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Submitted 24 days ago by SpencerKent | 0 Comments |

The Obama Healthcare Press Conference (www.prospect.org) TMC

The Obama presser on Tom Daschle and health care was promising. The first big signal concerned scheduling. "The time has come – this year, in this new Administration – to modernize our health care... More

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Submitted 27 days ago by cdoherty | 0 Comments |

Let's Raise Happy, Healthy Girls Like the Obama Girls (www.progressive.org) TMC

The Obamas' little girls represent an ideal of childhood that, sadly, too few black children enjoy. It's rare when any two little black girls get a lot of positive attention in the media. But... More

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Submitted about 1 month ago by HealthcareNewsLadder | 0 Comments |

Just Say 'No' to Drug Czars (www.motherjones.com) TMC

The "drug czar" position has never worked as intended. Originally proposed as a cabinet-level coordinator of drug policy by Joe Biden in the early 80's, it was a knee-jerk response to growing hysteria... More

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Submitted about 1 month ago by HealthcareNewsLadder | 0 Comments |

Report: Daschle to Head Health and Human Services (washingtonindependent.com) TMC

Moments after the Obama-Biden Transition team announced former Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) would head a health care policy working group in the new administration, MSNBC reports that Daschle will serve... More

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Submitted about 1 month ago by HealthcareNewsLadder | 0 Comments |

OBAMA KEEPS HITTING MCCAIN ON HEALTHCARE (www.washingtonmonthly.com) TMC

Contingencies, the magazine of the American Academy of Actuaries, published an article by John McCain, titled, "Better Health Care at Lower Cost for Every American" (pdf).

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Submitted 3 months ago by MCasanova | 0 Comments |

HEALTHCARE TAKES CENTER STAGE (OR AT LEAST TRIES TO (www.washingtonmonthly.com) TMC

Once in a while, it's probably worth taking a moment to realize that if healthcare policy drove the presidential election, Barack Obama would win the electoral college, 538 to 0. I mention this... More

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Submitted 3 months ago by klarajo | 0 Comments |

Obama Rolls Out Cancer Policy as Kerry Rebuts Palin (www.washingtonindependent.com) TMC

Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign unveiled a new plank of its health-care policy on Friday. They outlined a plan to fight cancer, double funding for cancer research to $5 billion a year, protect cancer... More

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Submitted 4 months ago by SpencerKent | 0 Comments |

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