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Obama's health care summit: Just for show? (AP via Yahoo! News)
Could this turn into something more than political theater? President Barack Obama's televised dialogue with Republican lawmakers on health care, promised for later this month, has the makings of an entertaining exchange. But the differences between the basic Democratic and GOP ideas are stark — and the two sides have increasingly hardened their positions in this election year.
read moreGOP: Back to drawing board on health care (USA Today)
Republicans in Congress offered a tepid response Monday to President Obama's call to start a new round of bipartisan talks on health care.
read moreGOP: Back to drawing board on health care (USA Today)
Republicans in Congress offered a tepid response Monday to President Obama's call to start a new round of bipartisan talks on health care, arguing that the current Democratic legislation is unsalvageable.
read moreS&P Equity Research; Health Care Reform After The Buzzsaw - Where Are We Now? (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
With the recent election of Senator Scott Brown in Massachusetts resulting in the loss of the Democratic supermajority, the urgency behind broad-based health care reform with the promise of universal coverage for the majority of uninsured Americans has faded dramatically, according to Standard & Poor's Equity Research. Â President Obama recently noted the country is closer than it has ever been ...
read moreArea health care facilities team up to help the uninsured (WCBD-TV Charleston)
Unprecedented Collaborative Effort Underway to Develop Network of Care for the Uninsured in Berkeley, Charleston & Dorchester
read moreObama's health care summit: Just for show? (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Could this turn into something more than political theater? President Barack Obama's televised dialogue with Republican lawmakers on health care, promised for later this month, has the makings of an entertaining exchange.
read moreObama Plans Bipartisan Summit on Health Care (New York Times)
The meeting would mark the first time in the long health care debate that leaders from both sides would be allowed to air their ideas publicly.
read moreObama's Health Care Summit: Just for Show? (ABC News)
Just for show? Chances slim for health care deal at Obama's summit with GOP _ but 'not zero' United States - Health care - Health - Barack Obama - Health Policy
read moreOregon rolls out children's health care plan (NorthWest Cable News)
SALEM, Ore. -- Governor Ted Kulongoski on Friday unveiled Oregon's new "Healthy Kids" plan. It gives every child in the state access to health care through a state insurance plan. The governor wants to enroll Oregon's 80,000 uninsured children by the end of the year. So far, 30,000 are enrolled. "It starts to get overwhelming when you have to take multiple kids to doctors or have illness run ...
read moreWhite House official: Feb. 25 health care meeting to be televised (CNN)
President Obama's bipartisan meeting on health care reform planned for February 25 will be broadcast live, a senior administration official said Monday.
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Our National Guard: Paying The Price In IraqPresident George Bush has just over six months left in office, but his Iraq deployment policies continue to put an incredible strain on not only our active-duty Armed Forces, but, with our military stretched so thin, the administration has continued to deploy tens of thousands of our troops from the National Guard -- at levels our country has not experienced since World War II.
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The emerging college affordability crisis threatens to derail the American Dream for millions of young people who either cannot afford to attend college or who are saddled with crippling debt that prevents them from furthering their education, starting a family or buying a home. This emerging crisis has not been a prominent part of the national debate, despite its long-term threat to the future of our country.
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America’s Long-Term Military Capability May Be Threatened by Iraq StrategyAmerica's ability to defend itself and, if necessary, fight a conventional war may be eroding because of military strategies in Iraq, according to a West Point historian who served two combat tours in Iraq. According to Lt. Colonel Gian Gentile, a West Point history professor who served in Iraq as an executive officer of a combat brigade in Tikrit and as commander of a battalion northwest of Baghdad, the over-emphasis on counterinsurgency as a "solution to every problem" is contributing to America "losing the ability to wage any other kind of war." After eight years of decline in military readiness, the United States can no longer afford to ignore the informed patriotism of Col. Gentile and others who speak out on America's national security needs in the 21st Century.