Corporate “Free Speech”, or The Buying Of America.

It’s understandable the drugmakers would want a roll-call accounting of who their friends and enemies are, considering the size of the investment they are making on Capitol Hill: in the

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In America, This Should Not Have To Be Said…

Eating a hamburger should not be a death-defying experience. Too often it is. via Editorial – Toxic Hamburgers – NYTimes.com. This is where Food Policy and Health Policy come together.

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A Democrat Speaks Out…Loudly.

“We as a party have spent the last six months, the greatest minds in our party, dwelling on the question, the unbelievably consuming question of how to get Olympia Snowe

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Health Care Reform, Keith Olbermann Comes Out Swinging…

Churchill’s argument was this”I have heard it said that the government had no mandate such a doctrine is wholly inadmissible. The responsibility for the public safety is absolute and requires

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Quote Of The Day…

The insurance industry, of course, loves the Baucus plan. Need we say more? via Paul Krugman – Baucus and the Threshold – NYTimes.com.

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Industrial Agriculture and GMO’s

I grew up with a strong support for the power of technology…But the abuses perpetrated in the name of technological advancement of agriculture in the past few decades have left

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The Real Health Care Reform

Something I keep pushing in the healthcare reform debate…Agriculture is key to real reform. Recently a team of designers from M.I.T. and Columbia was asked by the foundation of the

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The Status Quo Leads To What?

America spends twice as much on healthcare as other developed nations for worse results, yet real reform remains stalled. Opponents successfully muddy the debate, offering weak alternatives like Health Savings Accounts while private insurers prepare to profit off mandates and subsidies without genuine cost controls—leaving consumers and the country at risk.

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