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Screening Debate Reveals Culture Clash in Medicine - — This week, the science of medicine bumped up against the foundations of American medical consumerism: that more is better, that saving a life is worth any sacrifice, that health care is a birthright. — Two new recommendations … |
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142 days ago |
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U.S. Cost-Saving Policy Forces New Kidney Transplant - — SAN DIEGO — Melissa J. Whitaker has one very compelling reason to keep up with the health care legislation being written in Washington: her second transplanted kidney. — The story of Ms. Whitaker's two organ donations … |
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159 days ago |
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Dealing With Being the Health Care 'Villains' - — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Max Shireman says that when he looks in the mirror he does not see the monster the politicians have made him out to be. — Sure, he could stand to lose a few pounds. And there was that speeding ticket last year for going 40 in a 30-mile-an-hour zone. |
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162 days ago |
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Calm, but Moved to Be Heard on Health Care - — MONTEZUMA, Ga. — Until Thursday evening, nothing in Bob Collier's 62 years had stirred in him the slightest desire to take a stand — about anything — in public. — He skipped the antiwar protests of his college years, took a job … |
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166 days ago |
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Where Elderly Back Obama, Health Bill Anxiety - — SUNRISE, Fla. — It was karaoke night at the Sunrise Lakes retirement village, and 76-year-old Shirley Scrop, wearing a T-shirt commemorating her granddaughter's bat mitzvah, was laying down a rap about health care. |
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170 days ago |
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In Arkansas, a Democrat Navigates the Health Fight - — SPRINGDALE, Ark. — Nobody got in Senator Blanche Lincoln's face about health care last week. That was because she did not let them. — While her colleagues subjected themselves to brickbats at town-hall-style meetings … |
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194 days ago |
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For Public, Obama Didn't Fill in Health Blanks - — SNELLVILLE, Ga. — As Craig Brown watched President Obama's news conference on Wednesday night on his TiVo-equipped television, he kept hitting the pause button so he could throw questions at the image frozen on the screen. |
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199 days ago |
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Defying Slump, 13 States Insure More Children - — Despite budgets ravaged by the recession, at least 13 states have invested millions of dollars this year to cover 250,000 more children with subsidized government health insurance. — The expansions have come in the five months since Congress … |
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