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Iraq’s main Shiite parties Monday announced the formation of a new alliance that excludes the prime minister — at least for now. The coalition, named the Iraqi National Alliance, was formed to compete in the country’s national elections in January
As President Obama struggles to regain control of the health care debate, he’s finding himself caught in a game of tug of war with members of his own party.
Correction Appended: Aug. 20, 2009 Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won’t bite one another. To prevent him from getting sick in such close quarters, he is dosed with antibiotics.
If Washington wants health care reform with bipartisan support, experts say consider what former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney did as governor in Democratic Massachusetts. “You don’t have to have a public option,” Romney said. “You don’t have to have the government getting into the insurance business to make it work.” Three years after enacting its own version of reform, Massachusetts now has near-universal coverage.
Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won’t bite one another. To prevent him from getting sick in such close quarters, he is dosed with antibiotics
A 14-year-old boy allegedly beaten at a boot camp in China for young Internet addicts was in critical condition Thursday, less than three weeks after a youth at a different camp died, Chinese state media reported. Internet use has skyrocketed in China, especially among teens
Christina Aguilar sits in a converted storage room of a Las Vegas medical center, the best hope for underinsured cancer patients to get the treatment they need.
The White House sought to reassure jittery supporters Monday that President Obama is not abandoning the fight for a public health insurance option. The assurance came amid a media firestorm ignited over the weekend by administration officials seeming to indicate a willingness to drop such an option in order to secure congressional approval of a health care reform bill.
Cardiologist Steven Greenberg keeps tabs on his patients around the clock, but he doesn’t have to lose much sleep to do so. Greenberg is able to monitor his patients daily, thanks to a device billed as the world’s first wireless pacemaker
George Orwell never wrote about health insurance, but his ghost hovers over the current health-care debate, providing inspiration for all manner of fears about Big Brother-like intrusions by the government into the lives of ordinary Americans. First was the rumor—promoted by high-profile Republicans like Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich and Iowa Senator Charles Grassley—that Democratic health care plans would create “death panels” which would pass judgment on which citizens deserved to live.