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Couldhealthcare make a comeback?

media@politico.com (Jeanne Cummings)

The candidates’healthcare platforms

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MentalHealthBreak

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Obama, McCain MakeHealthCare A Discussion Point

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HealthCare Heats Up Presidential Race

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Healthcare advisers show plan diversity

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Elizabeth Edwards: Health care reform ‘a great refuge’ (USA Today)
Elizabeth Edwards said Saturday that her passion for reforming the nation’s health care system has been "a great refuge" for her during the recent turmoil over her husband’s extramarital affair.

Could health care make a comeback in race? (Politico via Yahoo! News)
At the start of this presidential campaign, there were many who believed and hoped health care reform had recovered from its 1993 thrashing and would rise anew to become a deciding issue in 2008.

5 Democratic governors urge Obama health plan (Philly.com)
Five Democratic governors made a plea yesterday in Philadelphia for Barack Obama’s health plan, saying John McCain’s proposal would weaken the employer-based system that covers 158 million Americans.

Obama criticizes McCain over health care (USA Today)
Democrat Barack Obama sharply criticized Republican John McCain’s health care proposals Saturday, saying they could force millions of Americans to struggle to buy medical insurance.

Health care advisers show plan diversity (Politico via Yahoo! News)
To glean insight into the health care plans of Barack Obama and John McCain, it s useful to look at how much and what type of intellectual investment they ve made in the issue.

Judge: Calif. must pay for prison health care (AP via Yahoo! News)
A federal judge has scolded California officials for failing to provide the billions of dollars a court-appointed receiver says is needed to upgrade the state’s prison health care system.

Obama camp: McCain would gut health coverage for old and poor (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Barack Obama’s White House campaign Monday accused John McCain of plotting to impose savage cuts on government-run health care programs that insure the elderly and the poor.

Health Highlights: Oct. 6, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Business Cool Toward McCain?s Health Coverage Plan (New York Times)
Business leaders fear that John McCain?s proposal to revamp taxation of health benefits would help to erode employer-sponsored health insurance.

Walter Olson

Obama camp hits rival’shealthcare plan

media@politico.com (Andy Barr)

Obama RevivesHealthCare Debate

The Country Doc

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TheHealthCare Debate

By Steven Lee Myers

Healthquestions go mainstream?

Steve Benen

Obama: McCainhealthplan’radical’

media@politico.com (Mike Allen)

Frank Rich on McCain’shealth

John Aravosis (DC)

Mentalhealth parity insurance mandate

Walter Olson

Children’sHealthMonth

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McCain’sHealthCare Plan: Making Consumers Suffer More

Julie Pippert

New Obama ad hits McCain again onhealthcare, taxes

CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart

Obama camp hits rival’shealthcare plan

media@politico.com (Andy Barr)

By Steven Lee Myers

The Duggars — 17 Kids and Counting

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The John McCainHealthCare Tax

owillis@gmail.com (Oliver Willis)

media@politico.com (Mike Allen)

Connecting ForHealthConsultation

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Obama hitting McCain onhealthcare

John McCormick

Consumer Reports Analyzes Obama and McCainHealthPlans

MARK DANIELS

Children’sHealthMonth

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The Duggars — 17 Kids and Counting

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Obama savages McCain on health care with one month to go (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Exactly one month before the presidential vote, Democrat Barack Obama Saturday accused Republican rival John McCain of scheming to deprive millions more Americans of life-saving health insurance.

Obama assails McCain over health care proposal (AP via Yahoo! News)
Democrat Barack Obama sharply criticized Republican John McCain’s health care proposals Saturday, saying they could force millions of Americans to struggle to buy medical insurance.

On Health: Doctors and Their Own Diets (Newsweek)
If doctors aren’t making wise choices about their health, what kind of message are they sendingtheir patients?

Obama blasts McCain’s health care plan as ‘out of touch’ (CNN)
Sen. Barack Obama, campaigning Saturday in the battleground state of Virginia, lashed out at his presidential rival’s plan to tackle health care reform.

Obama: McCain health care plan a bait-and-switch (AP via Yahoo! News)
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says that the financial crisis is not a reason to forgo fixing the nation’s health care system.

Bush signs mental health ‘parity’ bill attached to bailout (USA Today)
A landmark law requiring employers to provide mental health insurance benefits comparable to their medical coverage cleared Congress today and is expected to be signed by President Bush.

Health Highlights: Oct. 4, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

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Candidates’HealthPlans: Healthy Impact?

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Current Events, Insurance, and Women sHealth

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The Superficial Staff

Children’sHealthMonth

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