Word: healthfulness
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...they did not improve: they're unconscious, or often clinically dead, with an absence of heartbeat and breathing. The second component [is that] at the time they're having a close brush with death, they have an experience. [It is] generally lucid [and] highly organized. (See "The Year in Health 2009: From...
With respect to financial reform: This was always one of our top agendas. I started talking about this during the campaign, and I made a major speech about how we're going to move forward [last] March. My hope had been that health care wouldn't take this long. And that we would've teed up both energy and financial reform before the end of the first year. If there's one thing I have learned - you asked earlier about something I've learned about this process - it always takes longer than you think...
...Inauguration was an ominous sign for Democrats for the midterm elections ahead and a potentially crippling blow to Obama's entire agenda. Brown ran explicitly on a promise to be the "41st Senator," who would give the Republicans the power to block what he called "the trillion-dollar health care bill that is being forced on the American people," one that will "raise taxes, hurt Medicare, destroy jobs and run our nation deeper into debt...
...That such a message would resonate here was poignant, given that no one had fought harder and longer than Kennedy for universal health care, something that the terminally ill liberal lion had referred to before his death in August as "the cause of my life." And it was all the more ironic considering that Massachusetts has come closer than any other state to assuring coverage to all of its citizens, thanks to a 2006 law that was championed by a Republican governor, Mitt Romney, who was celebrating onstage with Brown on election night...
...talked with voters braving the snow to get a glimpse of Brown in the days leading up to the election, the health care issue came up again and again. They were unsettled by the mounting costs of their state's program and even more so by the process they saw going on in Washington. Rather than being drafted with the common good in mind, they said, the health bill was turning into a series of backroom deals - a Medicaid exemption for Senator Ben Nelson's Nebraska, tax breaks for unions, sweeteners for the hospital and drug industries. As a veteran...