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From the outset, President Barack Obama's strategy on health-care reform has been to study everything the Clinton Administration did in 1993 and '94 - and do the opposite. Where Bill and Hillary Clinton delivered a byzantine bill of more than 1,300 pages to Capitol Hill, only to see it shredded once it got there, Obama has kept his distance from the fine print. He set forth a few ambitious goals: expanding coverage, reining in health-care spending, improving medical quality. And then he left it to Congress to develop a plan that could win the votes necessary...
...family is not here with me today, at least not in person, because of preventable diseases. While I can't change my family's past, I can be a voice in the movement to improve our nation's health care and our nation's health for the future." -Speaking about losing her father, mother and only sibling to illnesses (White House transcript, July...
...didn't have anyone before her. We were just a bunch of shrimp pickers that no one cared about." -Bill Menton, a retired state senator who remained under Dr. Benjamin's care despite being financially able to travel anywhere for treatment (New York Times, April...
...face-to-face with a patient, you can't worry about the fact that they can't pay." -As quoted in a full-page ad in the Journal of the American Medical Association as part of the organization's campaign to get doctors to provide 50 hours of charity care each year (Chicago Tribune, February...
Washington politics may not be good at producing health-care reform, but it's great at creating catchy new lingo. Getting "Borked." "Hanging chads." "Lipsticks on pit bulls." The latest is "wise Latina," two words that have been repeated ad nauseam since the middle of May, when conservatives started flogging the text of a 2001 speech given by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor at the University of California, Berkeley. In that talk - on the subject of a Latino presence in the American judiciary - Sotomayor now famously said, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness...