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Obama's Health Care Ads
Watching some television over the weekend, it is impossible to get away from Obama ads attacking John McCain's health care plan. It's amazing how much money and attention they are paying to the issue. But the most striking (though not surprising) element of it all is the profound and shameless ...
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youtube.com — Tax our health care? No thanks! -- Firefighters take aim at Senator John McCains health care plan. (more) Firefighters take aim at Senator John McCains health ...
Hawaii Ends Universal Child Health Care 7 Months After Start - Health News | Current Health ...
foxnews.com — Saturday, October 18, 2008 HONOLULU— Hawaii is dropping the only state universal child health care program in the country just seven months after it launched. Gov. Linda Lingle's administration cited budget shortfalls and other available health care ... (more) Hawaii Ends Universal Child Health Care 7 Months After ...
Union Workers Have Better Health Care and Pensions
aflcio.org — Union workers are more likely than their nonunion counterparts to be covered by health care and receive pension benefits, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. In March 2007, 78 percent of union workers in the private sector had jobs ... (more) Union Workers Have Better Health Care and Pensions
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The Absence of Policy
Ross Douthat — ... his promise to work across the aisle on a prescription drugs bill. Whereas the McCain camp's stabs at crafting a brand identity only beg the question: He's a maverick ... who'll do what? He's a bipartisan reformer ... but what reforms will he deliver? Etc. To the extent McCain's policy agenda has been branded in the public mind, Obama has done it for him - with a series of health-care ads that are among the most dishonest of this cycle, but among the most ubiquitous and effective as well. Meanwhile, Obama has aggressively branded himself as ...

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