By Helen Thomas
San Francisco Chronicle
Politics Blog
Aug. 13, 2009
It's all so sad. Well-organized conservatives have launched a full-scale attack on health care reform. And they appear
Inside Story on Town Hall Riots: Right-Wing Shock Troops Do Corporate America’s Dirty Work
How the health-care industry, the GOP and one media mogul made common cause with the anti-government fringe.
By Adele M. Stan
Alternet
August 10, 2009
The recent spate of
A Raucous Side of the Health Debate
Letters
New York Times
August 12, 2009
To the Editor:
What's wrong with our health care system? The profit margin. Take it out and it's possible to compare us
The Health Insurers Have Already Won
How UnitedHealth and rival carriers, maneuvering behind the scenes in Washington, shaped health-care reform for their own benefit
By Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein
Cover Story
BusinessWeek
August 6,
Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates
The corporate ties between insurers and media companies
by Kate Murphy
From FAIR.org Extra!
Aug 6, 2009
How often are employees allowed to work on projects that might put
Activist Fought for Civil Rights, Health Care
By T. Rees Shapiro
Washington Post
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Marilyn Clement, 74, a social activist who helped expand black voting rights under the guidance of the Rev.
What About a Single-Payer System?
By Steffie Woolhandler
New York Times
Room for Debate Blog
August 10, 2009
"The Health Insurers Have Already Won" reads the cover story in Business Week's Aug. 6 issue.
Single-Payer & Interlocking Directorates
The corporate ties between insurers and media companies
by Kate Murphy
From FAIR.org Extra!
Aug 6, 2009
How often are employees allowed to work on projects that might put
Medicare points the way to genuine health care reform
By John Geyman and Deborah Burger
Star-Ledger
July 30, 2009
Medicare, which turns 44 this week, has taught us many valuable lessons, perhaps none more valuable than this:
Health care agency's payroll bloated
Staff, salary has ballooned since inception
By Hillary Chabot and Joe Dwinell
The Boston Herald
Thursday, August 6, 2009
The payroll at the agency steering the state's controversial universal
GOP doesn't dare challenge this government health care
By Eric Zorn
Chicago Tribune
Friday, August 07, 2009
Nice poker play last week by U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner.
As the House Energy and Commerce Committee was marking up
Obama gives powerful drug lobby a seat at healthcare table
The pharmaceutical industry, once condemned by the president as a source of healthcare problems, has become a White House partner.
By Tom Hamburger
From the Los Angeles