The politics of health
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This week, one issue hit home with voters and forced the candidates to re-think their scripts. The issue even walked off with the Political Play of the Week.
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ome health issues are different when you see them up close. For Deb Hann, HIV/AIDS is one of them, and that prompted her to do something.
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By Terry Rindfleisch, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 21--When people talk about a statewide smoke-free workplace law, Doug Mormann understands the politics but wishes legislators and others would be more concerned about public health.
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CHRIS CLARK: There&#39;s no end in sight to the soaring tally of health funding promises in the election campaign. In the latest, Mark Latham has come up with a $1 billion dollar parcel for hospitals, and the signs are there&#39;s more to come.
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A bureaucratic shuffle within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has prompted a political firestorm among experts in worker health and safety and has reignited questions about the Bush administration's commitment to sound science.
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Illustration by Mark Coomer / Courier &amp; Press. WASHINGTON - At family gatherings, talk of the latest ailments is a dinnertime staple.
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Bush and Kerry express different philosophies about health care system and how it can be changed. â¢ President Bush: Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
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With soaring insurance costs squeezing workers and employers, votersâ choices this November may well be swayed by an issue that has great personal significance to Americans and their pocketbooks: health care.
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OTTAWA - Some Liberals are complaining that last week&#39;s federal-provincial health agreement may have been a bit too generous. Last week, Prime Minister Paul Martin and the first ministers signed a $41-billion 10-year agreement on health.
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The Bush administration's health agenda this year will consist largely of fending off Democratic lawmakers until a new president and Congress take charge
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When real issues manage to rise above the smoke and mirrors of political warfare in this exhausting presidential campaign, the cost of health care and medical insurance is just behind terrorism and keeping the country safe among top voter concerns.
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Recent national opinion polls rank health care as one of the key issues this presidential election, but it&#39;s a topic that&#39;s been on the mind of one expert in the field for years.
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It's supposed to be a golden rule from the schoolyard to the corporate suite and beyond: truth or consequences. But when it comes to politics, things are different.
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ATLANTA -- The American Cancer Society this week will take its biggest step ever into the politics of health care reform, spending $15 million in advertising on behalf of Americans with too little health insurance or none at all.
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The Labor leader who heads the Scottish government has made the state of his country's health a priority.
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Our health care system is a frustrating mix of routine miracles and scandalous failures. The miracles abound; Bill Clintonâs recent open-heart surgery was cutting-edge a few decades ago.
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The Bush administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress are fighting over who will have the most influence over writing rules on health and safety issues. While the dispute is not as dramatic as the ones over fired prosecutors and wartime surveillance, the stakes are high.