Just more fuel for the reform fire…
As health care reform moves forward, Congress must impose tighter regulation of companies that clearly are not doing enough to regulate themselves. Creating a public plan could also help restrain the worst practices, by providing competition and an alternative.
A House oversight subcommittee took a close look at a particularly [...]

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Health care in 1960 was between you and your doctor. Just what conservatives say they want to preserve. Everyone had a doctor patient relationship…It was usually something you grew up with. And the uninsured office visit cost about $15…And almost all of America was uninsured.

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This is the most important subject on the President’s agenda. The economic crisis is important, but health care is the problem that is affecting everyone’s lives…
Nowhere else in the world is so much money spent with such poor results.
On that point there is rare unanimity among Washington decision makers: The U.S. health system needs a [...]

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Is eating locally produced food a civic duty?
The folks at Kitchen Gardeners International might not call it a duty, exactly. But the group — one of the organizations whose efforts led to the planting of a kitchen garden at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. this spring — argues that buying and eating locally bolsters American communities and [...]

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