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...effort. So when word came last month that the Democrats were drawing up a new public-relations battle plan, the insurance companies were sent reeling - and seemed to be caught off-guard. A late July memo from the House Democratic leadership about how to sell reform during the congressional August recess told members, "Hold the insurance companies accountable." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called private insurers "villains," and President Obama, in an exclusive interview with TIME, framed his push for changes to the U.S. health-care system as "insurance reform." (Read TIME's report "The Five Biggest Hurdles to Health-Care...
Keli Goff is an author, a political commentator and a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. She is a featured essayist in The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union" (Bloomsbury, August...
...Gist: Antidepressant use in the U.S. doubled from 1996 to 2005, according to a new report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. During that decade - the last period in which data were available - the percentage of Americans using antidepressants surged from less than 6% to more than 10%, or more than 27 million people. The study, which surveyed nearly 50,000 people above the age of six, reveals that antidepressants - the most commonly prescribed class of medicine in the U.S. - are being used to treat not just depression and anxiety but disorders ranging from back pain...
Update Appended: August...
...First and most obviously, photos from the meeting show a grinning Kim, the ailing dictator, looking much better physically - surprisingly so, in fact - than he has since suffering a stroke last August. The South Korean press had reported earlier this summer that Kim might be suffering form pancreatic cancer, and recent photos showed him looking haggard and not well. In recent weeks, intelligence agencies had been scrambling to nail down reports that a succession struggle was under way in Pyongyang and that Kim might not be long for the world. Foreign Ministries and intelligence agencies in East Asia - Japanese, South...