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Key Senator: With Franken Seated No Need for Compromise on Public Option

By Sam Stein, Huffington Post. July 6, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Senator Schumer criticizes Senators wanting to compromise on health care and draws a line in the sand.

Labor Rallies for Health Care, But Keeps it Vague

By Jane Slaughter, Labor Notes. July 3, 2009.
Health and Wellness: It’s no secret that the union movement is divided on health care reform.

Toxic Chemicals: A Culprit Behind the Autism Outbreak

By Harvey Karp, Huffington Post. July 2, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Teflon, plastics, formaldehyde, and other household chemicals are seen as leading drivers behind the autism outbreak.

Worker Uprising Against Wells Fargo Spreads After Major Victory to Keep Factories Open

By Mike Elk, AlterNet. July 2, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Workers fight back against Wells Fargo for closing their factory and they win! Now other workers take on the fight.

Only A Public Option Can Make Decisions in Patient's Best Interest

By Maggie Mahar, Health Beat. July 1, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Only a public sector plan has the political and moral standing to set limits on coverage and control costs.

Bernie Madoff: Fall Guy or First of Many?

By Eric Lotke, Campaign for America's Future. June 30, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Congressional Commission on financial fraud has the ability to put hundreds of Madoffs in jail and lead the way for real bank reform.

Hey Progressives, Join Forces to Fight the Health Insurance Industry!

By Karen Dolan, Institute for Policy Studies. June 29, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Single-payer and public option advocates are fighting each other. We must remember that we're on the same side.

Corporate Campaign Contributions Make Us All Sick - Literally!

By Joe Conason, Truthdig. June 27, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Whenever Democratic politicians are confronted with this conflict between the public interest and their private fund-raising, they choose the latter.

The Public Option Will Improve Private Health Insurance

By Robert Reich, AlterNet. June 25, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Without the government as competition, the private sector has little incentive to improve.

Taxing Health Care Will Destroy Democrats

By William Greider, The Nation. June 19, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Taxing health care will turn working class people against Obama and ruin the Democratic Party.

Corporate Profits Muscle Out The Public Opition

By Robert L. Borosage, Campaign for America's Future. June 17, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Senators are catering to the private insurance industry that has profited from the problem rather than helping to solve it.

Union Busting Ended My Love Affair with a Beer

By Mike Elk, AlterNet. June 17, 2009.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Women had come and gone, dogs had died, but Yuengling had always been there for me - until now.

Disease Profiters Fear Public Option Will Kill Their Ponzi Scheme

By Robert Parry, Consortium News. June 13, 2009.
Health and Wellness: The estimated 119 million Americans wanting to join the public option has made the debate over it into a death match for the insurance industry

Four Reasons Why the Public Health Care Option is Irrefutable

By Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks. June 12, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Politicians who talk about compromising on it have no policy ground to stand on. Without the public option, there is no health care reform.

FDA Approved Drugs Despite Fraudlent Testing

By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet. June 10, 2009.
Health and Wellness: A major allergy and respiratory management company knowingly produced flawed clinical trials of FDA approved drugs currently on the market.

Health Care is a Right

By Sen. Bernie Sanders, Huffington Post. June 9, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Six times as many Americans die every from lack of health care than the number of Americans killed in 9/11.

Why Americans Don't Want Single-Payer

By Bernie Horn, Campaign for America's Future. June 8, 2009.
Health and Wellness: The real reason why single-payer isn't on the table is because Americans simply don't want it as evidence suggests.

The Right's False Rhetoric on Abortion

By Marie Cocco, Truthdig. June 5, 2009.
Health and Wellness: The murder of Dr. George Tiller cannot be smoothed over with a speech.

Health Insurance Bankrupts Americans

By Deepak Bhargava, Center for Community Change. May 31, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Without a public plan we will continue to lack a way to force improvements in private plans.

Why We Can't Compromise On Public-Plan Choice

By Jacob S. Hacker, Campaign for America's Future. May 29, 2009.
Health and Wellness: A well-designed public health insurance option is vital for driving down costs and provided a guaranteed coverage for all Americans.

Autopsies of War Dead Reveal Ways to Save Others

By Denise Grady, The New York Times. May 26, 2009.
Health and Wellness: The inside look at how a team of pathologists are saving lives.

Wrong Way in the War on Cancer

By Merrill Goozner, Gooznews. May 25, 2009.
Health and Wellness: The financial incentives of our current medical system make curing cancer nearly impossible.

Bill Moyers: How Can We Expect an Industry That Profits from Disease and Sickness to Police Itself?

By Bill Moyers, Michael Winship, AlterNet. May 24, 2009.
Health and Wellness: The health care industry has spent $134 million on lobbying this year to keep its profits high and public health in the shadows.

Medical Research Bought Off by Big Pharma

By S.L. Baker, Natural News. May 21, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Study finds 29 percent of published journal articles on cancer research contained financial conflict of interests.

U.S. Sick Leave Policy Makes Nation More Vulnerable To Swine Flu

By Arthur Delaney, Huffington Post. May 20, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Costs U.S. economy $180 billion annually in lost productivity.

Supreme Court Hands Medical Marijuana Major Victory

By Ryan Grim, Huffington Post. May 18, 2009.
Health and Wellness: The Supreme Court removes one of the last barriers to full implementation of medical marijuana laws.

That Didn't Take Long: Insurance Industry Breaks Promise To President Obama

By Jason Rosenbaum, Health Care for America Now!. May 15, 2009.
Health and Wellness: Industry officials are already starting to back off their commitment to President Obama.

Baucus Healthcare Plan: Arrest Doctors, Nurses

By John Nichols, The Nation. May 14, 2009.
Health and Wellness: While the health-insurance lobby has been welcomed to the roundtable discussions organized by Baucus, the nurses and their allies were told to leave.

Obama for Single-Payer Before He Was Against It.

By David Sirota, Open Left. May 11, 2009.
Health and Wellness: How Political Elites Have Made Single Payer "Politically Impossible"

Obama Bans Funding for Needle Exchange

By Ryan Grim, Huffington Post. May 9, 2009.
DrugReporter: Obama's budget goes back on a position he had taken during the campaign.

Americans Are Raring for a Fight Against Corporate Power

By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown. March 16, 2009.
Rights and Liberties: 3/4 of Americans want to see a huge worker protection bill pass through Congress, and the greedy corporations are running scared.

Why Are We Shocked By Obama's Centrism?

By David Sirota, AlterNet. November 28, 2008.
Obama's 'grass-roots' movement revolves around him, not progressive issues.

LGBT People Have Much To Be Grateful for This Thanksgiving

By Deb Price, AlterNet. November 24, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: Despite recent heartbreaking setbacks, things are better for gay Americans now than at any other time in the nation's history.

Why Obama Shouldn't Listen to the Media Noise Machine

By David Sirota, AlterNet. November 21, 2008.
The media are telling Obama to ditch the agenda he won on and appease electorally humiliated Republicans. This is the last thing he should do.

Corporate Media Try to Scare Obama Into Betraying Progressives

By Norman Solomon, AlterNet. November 20, 2008.
Bill Clinton's alleged lurch to the left in '92 is being used to push Obama to the right. Problem is, it never happened.

South America: Can Recession Be Avoided?

By Mark Weisbrot, AlterNet. November 18, 2008.
Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace: Can South America escape the wrath of the economic and financial storms that have their epicenter in the United States?

Yet Another Reason the GOP Failed

By Deb Price, AlterNet. November 17, 2008.
Republicans are soul-searching right now. They'd be wise to consider jettisoning their gay-baiting.

How Obama Can Help Redeem the White House

By Amy Goodman, Truthdig. November 13, 2008.
On Inauguration Day, Obama could outlaw torture. It would be a tribute to those slaves who built his new home, the White House.

Cold War Hawks Hovering Around Obama

By Robert Scheer, Truthdig. November 12, 2008.
ForeignPolicy: Why are Obama's closest advisers inveterate hawks who needlessly provoked tension with the Russians during the Cold War?

Election Results Are Bittersweet for Gays

By Deb Price, AlterNet. November 11, 2008.
Sex and Relationships: In a reminder that time always sides with those fighting for equality, a majority of young people voted against the gay marriage ban in California.

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