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Never has a domestic political issue beckoned so brightly for decent Americans as the Republican Party's attack on healthcare. Here ...

Scott Walker: "I care too much about the people of this state not to empower them to control their own destiny." ( Stein. Milwa...

Update : Fight for the public option . As everyone gets back to work on Tuesday and awaits President Obama's national address on healt...

President Obama is floating the idea that next week's healthcare address to Congress may disappoint progressives seeking Obama's adv...

Crooks and Liars has links to sane proposals : Esquire : Drug War Facts: America's prohibition of narcotics may be costing more lives th...

John R. Bohrer is appalled that the GOP wants to politicize the moral power of the services for Teddy Kennedy. We all should be. As the dyi...

Update : Gov. Dean predicts healthcare legislation with public option signed in September. Margaret Talev sets the record straight in Who...

And not pot. The online Salon magazine is publishing the most insightful work on these seemingly crazed protesters upset that health care ...

As the corporate bought-and-paid-for Blue Dogs do their worst to ensure that health care reform is not universal, President Obama faces anot...

It looks like the rightwing's strategy of throwing our government into a fiscal crisis is working in halting universal care. The fact th...

Update : Jonathan Cohn - Early Word on the House Bill: So Far, So Good If national health care's fate were to be decided by Wisconsin...

One thing Obama will not back off from is Health Care. Most readers here would like to see single payer on the table, but getting anything f...

Among one of very bad things that the GOP hates Obama for is healthcare reform to guarantee that every American will have access to what is...

Update : Obama, Congressional Leaders Vow Passage of Health Care by June 31 , GOP will call it socialist though it will be anything but soci...

Why does every other developed nation have universal healthcare , asks Joe Conason.

There's a great story by Jason Wilde about Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback David Garrard who has Crohn's disease in the State Journ...

McCain Secretly Plans Tax On The Middle Class says The Hill "So let me get this straight," Obama said. "He wants to run healt...

Update : McCain-Bush Big Oil Giveaway Cost 2,600 Janesville Jobs G.M. Closing 4 Plants in Shift From Trucks Toward Cars reads the NYT head...

From The Independent : British patients may soon have the right to be treated anywhere in EU. Europe stands on the brink of a historic decis...

Those crazy socialists! American College of Physicians Endorse Single-Payer ###