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- The Nativism Tax What it will cost you to deny illegal immigrants health insurance.
Nov. 20, 2009 - ReidCare: The Remix What's inside the "blended" Senate health reform bill.
Nov. 19, 2009 - Harry Reid's Striptease What we know about the Senate's "blended" health care bill, and what we don't.
Nov. 18, 2009 - My Own Private Screening What watching ESPN could teach us about mammograms.
Nov. 18, 2009 - Mr. Level Playing Field Len Nichols explains why his "level playing field" is misunderstood by the Congressional Budget Office.
Nov. 18, 2009 - Health Reform's Senior Moment A new government report says health reform will "jeopardize access" to Medicare.
Nov. 16, 2009 - Abort Lobby Health insurers are docile about the Stupak amendment. Here's why.
Nov. 10, 2009 - Do We Have a Winner? How to reform the broken medical malpractice system.
Nov. 9, 2009 - Watch It Shrink Think the House health care reform bill's too long? Not after the Senate whittles away at it.
Nov. 8, 2009 - Government's Heavy Hand Socialized medicine intrudes on the march against Obamacare.
Nov. 6, 2009 - Don't Be Stupak Abortion foes meddle with private health insurance.
Nov. 5, 2009 - Liebermania Will Joe Lieberman filibuster health care reform, or won't he?
Nov. 3, 2009 - Public Option, RIP? The Congressional Budget Office explains the perils of compromise and the limits of its own interest in health costs.
Oct. 30, 2009 - Why the House Bill Is Better The "blended" House health reform bill is an argument for unicameralism.
Oct. 29, 2009 - Squaring the Circle The Senate's public-option talk turns baroque.
Oct. 28, 2009 - Did Lieberman Just Kill the Public Option? Don't bet on Connecticut's junior senator showing independence from the insurance lobby.
Oct. 27, 2009 - Snowe Dump Why it's smart to forget about bipartisan health reform.
Oct. 26, 2009 - The Wall Street Lyin' Journal The Journal editorial page's whoppers about public-option polls.
Oct. 22, 2009 - Sun Rises in East, Sets in West Why the Washington Post is hyping the public option.
Oct. 20, 2009 - Biting the Hand The "senator from Aetna" fights for the public option.
Oct. 19, 2009 - Busted Trust Democrats to health insurers: "Nice little antitrust exemption you've got there. Wouldn't want anything to happen to it."
Oct. 14, 2009 - Harry and Louise, Meet Marx and Engels The health insurers stumble into an argument for a public option.
Oct. 13, 2009 - Public Option Lite What half a loaf might look like.
Oct. 7, 2009 - Health Reform Winners and Losers How the House bill redistributes money to the middle class.
Oct. 6, 2009 - Public Enemy The Senate finance committee strangles health reform's best idea.
Sept. 29, 2009 - The Medicare-Isn't-Government Meme, Part 4 A pollster asks: "Do you think the government should stay out of Medicare?"
Sept. 28, 2009 - Talk to the Invisible Hand The promises and perils of treating patients more like consumers.
Sept. 28, 2009 - Markup Hell How the heck does the Senate finance committee get through 564 amendments?
Sept. 25, 2009 - Health Reform Clears Finance Real-time reporting from the Senate finance committee vote on health reform.
Sept. 22, 2009 - Write Your Own Health Reform Bill! Slate's interactive guide to amending the Baucus bill.
Sept. 22, 2009 - My Mistake How a factual error in Slate ended up in a White House speech.
Sept. 17, 2009 - Zen Health Reform If a finance committee chair introduces a bill and no one votes for it, does it exist?
Sept. 16, 2009 - Suffer the Little Children How Baucus' health care bill panders to the young.
Sept. 16, 2009 - Less for More The principle of private health insurance.
Sept. 15, 2009 - Doctors Like the Public Option! No wonder it "appears to be dying."
Sept. 14, 2009 - Let's Pay Doctor Couldn't we fix the health care system by paying doctors less?
Sept. 10, 2009 - One Reform for Another Obama should follow through on his malpractice concession.
Sept. 10, 2009 - Triggernometry Olympia Snowe's mechanism for compromise has a sorry history.
Sept. 9, 2009 - No More Speeches! On health reform, Obama needs to twist arms, not win hearts and minds.
Sept. 8, 2009 - The Other Katrina Hospital Mystery What that New York Times Magazine story missed about the Memorial Medical Center tragedy.
Sept. 4, 2009 - The GOP's Fake Doctor Council How Obamacare opponents scam physicians and the public.
Sept. 3, 2009 - Romancing the Parliamentarian If Alan Frumin can't be bullied or bought, can he be bypassed?
Sept. 2, 2009 - The Fix Is In The hidden public-private cartel that sets health care prices.
Sept. 2, 2009 - Reading Ted Kennedy The late Senator's 1972 book proposed a health care solution more radical than today's yet described problems that were less severe.
Sept. 1, 2009 - The GOP's Health Solution Dr. Tom Coburn tells the wife of a brain-injury victim to suck it up.
Aug. 28, 2009 - The Medicare-Isn't-Government Meme, Part 3 GOP Chairman Michael Steele loves Medicare but hates government.
Aug. 25, 2009 - Obama Endorses Socialized Medicine! Wait till the hard right finds out.
Aug. 18, 2009 - Why the Public Option Isn't Dispensable Health reform may not work without it.
Aug. 17, 2009 - How To Kill Those Death Panel Rumors Just shut up about them.
Aug. 17, 2009 - Color Bind How to fix racial disparities in medical care.
Aug. 14, 2009 - Fetal Extraction Could a private abortion fund save health care reform?
Aug. 13, 2009 - The Medicare-Isn't-Government Meme, Part 2 Why Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are complaining about possible spending cuts.
Aug. 12, 2009 - Why "Health Reform Lite" Is Hard Whittling the bill down is no easy task.
Aug. 11, 2009 - Cost of Living Sarah Palin is afraid Obamacare will put a price on human life. But we already do.
Aug. 11, 2009 - Obama's Biggest Health Reform Blunder How Big Pharma's Billy Tauzin conned the White House out of $76 billion.
Aug. 6, 2009 - The Medicare-Isn't-Government Meme Help Slate track the spread of this big-lie talking point against health reform.
Aug. 5, 2009 - Can Obama Make You Buy Health Insurance? An inquiry into health reform's constitutionality.
Aug. 4, 2009 - The Wrong Cure Better incentives, for doctors or insurers, won't lead to better health care.
Aug. 4, 2009 - Blank Canvass How can Obama get people to support a health care plan that hasn't been written yet?
Aug. 3, 2009 - Why Isn't Single-Payer "Uniquely American"? Congress says Canada's health care system is at odds with American values. What if that's wrong?
July 31, 2009 - ¡Salud, Amigo! The economic case for insuring undocumented immigrants.
July 30, 2009 - Did Warren Burger Create the Health Care Mess? The 1975 antitrust decision that gave you physician-owned hospitals.
July 29, 2009 - Scaring Grandma Why everyone in the heath care fight—including Obama—plays on the anxieties of the elderly.
July 28, 2009 - Co-opting the Co-op That kooky health care cooperative idea is still the Democrats' best shot at bipartisanship.
July 27, 2009 - Why You Can't Trust Your Health Insurer Private insurance companies dump very sick claimants based on stupid technicalities. That's reason enough to support health reform.
July 27, 2009 - What Do Americans Want? A new survey says they still want health care reform, with one troubling caveat.
July 24, 2009 - Hold the Mayo Making doctors salaried employees is a great goal. Health care reform won't achieve it.
July 23, 2009 - The Resurrection of Neo Obama pitches health reform to the reality-based community.
July 23, 2009 - Nobody's Normal Anymore Should we blame overdiagnosis for rising health costs?
July 22, 2009 - Health Reform Can Pay for Itself The task isn't as difficult as you may have heard.
July 20, 2009 - This Is What "Bipartisanship" Looks Like What do the GOP amendments to this Senate health care bill actually say?
July 16, 2009 - Pretty Good Health Reform The Senate health committee's bill notches a tad below the House version.
July 15, 2009 - Now That's Health Care Reform The House of Representatives shows how it's done.
July 14, 2009 - An Amgen Payoff? Why is Ted Kennedy being so nice to the biotech industry?
July 13, 2009 - What the President Ordered Regina Benjamin is just the surgeon general Barack Obama needs.
July 13, 2009 - The Health Care Express Congress has only 22 working days left to reform America's health care system.
July 8, 2009 - Going Public, Quietly Why Obama wants to be as vague as possible about health care reform.
July 7, 2009 - Med School What the 1965 Medicare debate can teach us about health care reform.
July 7, 2009 - Medical Errors Why is polling about health care reform so unreliable?
June 29, 2009 - Your Money or Your Health Everyone wants to cut costs. But what if saving my life is expensive?
June 26, 2009 - The Universal, Single-Payer God A report from the pray-in for comprehensive health care reform.
June 25, 2009 - Gaming the Game-Changers The White House's Peter Orszag and Slate's John Dickerson discuss health care reform.
June 24, 2009 - Is Our Doctors Learning? Why aren't medical students taught about health care policy?
June 24, 2009 - Bringing Down the House The sobering lessons of health reform in Massachusetts.
June 23, 2009
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