Health Care Ads Go Retro, With A Twist

They were television icons back in the 1990s - a fictional couple starring not in a sitcom, but in political ads that transformed a very real national debate, reports CBS News correspondent Wyatt Andrews.
Fifteen years ago, when President Clinton was proposing universal health coverage and First Lady Hillary Clinton was selling it to Congress, the [...]

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Clintons Legacy: Health-Care Truth

Finally, the Democratic primary race is over. Above and beyond her persistence and her historic effort as a female presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton’s campaign legacy is health insurance truth.
Forty-seven million Americans do not have health insurance. According to Consumer Reports, nearly half, 49 percent of Americans, are unprepared financially to cope with a costly medical [...]

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Reducing Health Care Costs

The economy and the Iraq War may be the top concerns of voters this election year, but the cost and availability of health care is close behind.
It’s an issue regularly discussed on the campaign trail, and the next president is likely to seek significant changes in the way health care services are delivered and paid [...]

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Health Care: Change It Or Tear It Down

People in the United States and Western Europe are broadly dissatisfied with their health care systems, a new poll shows, with Americans even more upset than Europeans.
More than 4 in 5 Americans say the U.S. health system needs fundamental changes or even a complete overhaul, according to the poll by Harris Interactive for the International [...]

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Health Care Among Top Issues For Voters

How big might the change be? Well, you might be taxed on what your employer pays for your health insurance coverage, for instance. (Right now, you’re probably not, if you work for a big company.) Or you might be guaranteed health insurance, with the government picking up the tab.
Indiana and North Carolina Democrats are to [...]

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Consider Individual Function Not Age Of Presidential Hopeful

Boston  It was probably not wise for the 64-year-old Brit Hume to describe the 71-year-old John McCain as having a “senior moment.” Health And Beauty A blip would have been better. Or a gaffe. Or even a dent in the candidate’s “experience” armor.
But when the traveling senator confused Shiites and Sunnis, when he conflated [...]

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Wonderful Wonderlic

You need only look at what has happened with “Pacman” Jones and Michael Vick to conclude that it isn’t working too well for the NFL.
Besides, in the real test, athletes must answer 50 questions in 12 minutes!
Hey, if you can even read 50 questions in 12 minutes you can be a [...]

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Romney endorses McCain

WASHINGTON Sixteen days ago, rivals Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain picked at each other from various cities across Florida, but Thursday, Romney endorsed his former challenger based on the same message of a need for Republican unity he used when dropping out of the race last [...]

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Mitt quits #151; Romney concedes race takes jabs at Demos

WASHINGTON Mitt Romney dropped out of the presidential race Thursday in front of a sympathetic crowd of conservatives, putting an end to his bid to become the first Mormon to win the White House.
“This isn’t an easy decision. I hate to lose,” Romney told [...]

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With Romney out Utahns in quandary

LDS Church members gamely took it on the chin during Mitt Romney’s failed attempt to win the Republican presidential nomination.
National polls early in the campaign revealed Americans to have reservations about a Mormon as president. Anti-Mormon sentiment, especially among evangelical Christians, ran high. At least [...]

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