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  • Hospital execs slurping up big bonus bucks

    Hospital execs slurping up big bonus bucks

    August 13, 2009

    As the right wing tries to convince Americans that health care reform is unaffordable, hospitals, claiming they have to stay “competitive,” are spooning out multi-million dollar pay packages to their top executives.  Recent reports printed in...

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  • Death panels, euthanasia, abortion: health care fiction and facts

    Death panels, euthanasia, abortion: health care fiction and facts

    August 13, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu

    Death panels. Euthanasia. ACORN. Abortion. Immigrants. An insurance industry-backed right-wing smear campaign wants to inject these highly emotional terms into the health reform debate in order to scare people into opposing a major overhaul of the...

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  • Summers says Obama will fix Social Security  question is how

    Summers says Obama will fix Social Security question is how

    August 13, 2009 By Susan Webb

    One of President Obama’s top economic advisers, Lawrence Summers, told leading economists Aug. 11 that the president intends to overhaul Social Security before he leaves the White House.

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  • Crisis and opportunity

    Crisis and opportunity

    August 13, 2009

    Original source: The dog days of August have arrive, Washington has mostly cleared out and neither health care reform nor the Employee Free Choice Act have been passed. The Republicans, the Hard Right, and Corporate America...

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  • Obama awards 16 with Presidential Medal of Freedom

    Obama awards 16 with Presidential Medal of Freedom

    August 13, 2009

    The lifetime accomplishments of 16 activists, entertainers, doctors, scientists and athletes will be awarded the highest civilian honor this afternoon, known as the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The awards, presented by President Barack Obama recognizes individuals...

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