HEALTH CARE: Crumbling system should be topic of election debate
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Health insurance premiums are skyrocketing at five times the rate of inflation and worker earnings. Employers are shuttling more and more costs of health care onto their workers or dropping coverage (for 5
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Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards on Monday proposed spending up to $120 billion a year to fix a "dysfunctional" health care system by requiring health insurance for all Americans and helping to make it more affordable.
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For some, they&#39;re an innovative and necessary reform for the ailing health care industry. For others, they&#39;re potentially ruinous for Americansâ health care coverage.
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President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry battled over health care, jobs and taxes in their final debate on Wednesday, with Bush criticizing Kerry's "far-left" Senate record and Kerry arguing the middle class had lost ground under the president.
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The one issue that most clearly demonstrates the ideological divide between John Kerry and George W. Bush, and the parties they represent, may well be healthcare.
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Take a stand against the high costs of health care.
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President Bush derided Democrat John Kerry's plan for reforming health care on Monday as a bureaucratic nightmare and contended it would cost &#36;1.5 trillion.
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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 health care debate in this year&#39;s presidential contest has been largely boiled down to an argument over degree: Democrat John F. Kerry proposes an ambitious, costly expansion of health
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Talking about health care has become an annual ritual as lawmakers plan for the next legislative session. But this year, health care advocates and professionals think the rhetoric may actually lead to action.
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By ANNE SAILE If you&#39;re following the health care policy debate, yo. bly got a sore neck. Some say we&#39;re living in the best of times.
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US Democratic Senator John Kerry said Wednesday night that the health care system in the United States had gotten worse under President George W. Bush overthe course of the last four years.
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The demise of California's attempt at comprehensive health-care reform this week means that advocates of overhauling the health-care system will turn their focus back to Washington, several experts said yesterday, as an increasingly tough budget climate raises new questions about whether states can...
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HERSHEY | Democrat John Kerry&#39;s health care proposals would result in a massive new government program that would strip doctors and patients of their ability to make their own decisions and
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Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry Monday said we need a fresh start on health care in America, and he outlined his plan to help middle-class families by cutting costs and expanding access to quality care.
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What a mess! Instead of the war in Iraq, the economy, the health-care crisis, the environment and leadership qualities -- which should be the key issues in this year&#39;s presidential election campaign -- the
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Iowa City, Iowa, May 29--Calling for the country to "turn the page on the failed politics of yesterday's health care debates," Sen. Barack Obama today proposed a new national health care system that would aim to lower premium costs and encourage millions of people to obtain health insurance.