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The debate will be different this time around. When Hillary Clinton first attempted an overhaul of our health sector, she was no learned hand at politics. But the health plan that her presidential campaign released last month is much more politically attuned and lacks the hubris of those 1,342 pages of legislation the White House dropped on Congress 14 years ago. Today’s talking points (at variance with the actual details of her plan) stress choice, affordable private insurance, and no new government bureaucracy.

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Uncovering Facts

The Congress will vote next week on whether to override President Bush's veto of the bill to reauthorize and expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program. About 15 Republicans are getting tremendous pressure from advertisements and editorials...

The Bill the President Vetoed

Regarding Eugene Robinson's Oct. 5 column, "Bush's Veto Lies," on the State Children's Health Insurance Program: Mr. Robinson wrote that the authorization to cover children in families in New York earning up to $83,000 "is not in the bill...

Principles for Reauthorization of SCHIP

The State Children's Health Insurance Program was designed to cover children in families who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to afford private coverage. Numerous opinion polls show that Americans support continuing the program...

Clinton Redux

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Grace-Marie Turner on ABC's 20/20 with John Stossel

John Stossel?s latest special, ?Whose Body Is It Anyway? Sick in America? features a range of examples and interviews with experts, including Galen?s Grace-Marie Turner, to counter Michael Moore?s documentary ?SiCKO? and comes to a very different conclusi...

The Straight Scoop

Premiums for job-based health insurance increased by 6.1% this year, the lowest rate of increase since 1999, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported this week. Also, the number of firms offering high-deductible plans increased by nearly 30%, and premiums...

Warnings on prescription drugs may have caused overreactions

For most of the past twenty years, teen suicide rates have fallen quite consistently. Many credit the introduction of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a commonly-prescribed class of anti-depressants, for this drop. But in 2004...