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Showing posts with label health insurance. Show all posts

Showing posts with label health insurance. Show all posts

Monday, September 17, 2007

Harry and Louise's Golden Years

In the early 1990s, they were on TV all the time, a middle-aged, middle-class American couple named Harry and Louise, sitting around the kit...

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Middle-Class Health Care Crisis Gets Worse

The newest Census figures put a statistical face on the sickening truth about health care in America. Even as household incomes go up, so d...

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

The War Bush Is Winning

Things may not be going too well in Iraq or against Al Qaeda in Pakistan, but there is one front where the Bush Administration is prevailing...

Friday, August 03, 2007

Covering the Super-Healthy Only

If Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney or Chief Justice John Roberts applied for private health insurance, they wouldn’t get it. Neither would Michael...

Thursday, August 02, 2007

Health Care: Good vs. Evil

This should be just the kind of battle the President loves, right against wrong, no nasty little nuances to fog the mind, but here he is on ...

Thursday, July 19, 2007

George W. Bush, Philosopher

The President is threatening to veto a bipartisan Senate proposal to increase the State Children's Health Insurance Program by $35 bill...

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ROBERT STEIN: editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former Chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and author of “Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?” Before the war in Iraq, he wrote in The New York Times: “I see a generation gap in the debate over going to war in Iraq. Those of us who fought in World War II know there was no instant or easy glory in being part of 'The Greatest Generation,' just as we knew in the 1990s that stock-market booms don’t last forever. We don’t have all the answers, but we want to spare our children and grandchildren from being slaughtered by politicians with a video-game mentality." This is not meant to extol geezer wisdom but suggest that, even in our age of 24/7 hot flashes, something can be said for perspective. The Web is a wide space for spreading news, but it can also be a deep well of collective memory to help us understand today’s world. In olden days, tribes kept village elders around to remind them with which foot to begin the ritual dance. Start the music.

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