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Price-Gouging In ‘Free Market’ Medicine

Arnold Hamilton - February 26, 2013 0

BY FROMA HARROP When folks pan the Affordable Care Act for being nearly 3,000 pages long, here’s a sensible response: It could have been done in a page and a half if it simply declared that Medicare would cover everyone. The concept of Medicare for All was pushed by a few lonely liberals. And it […]

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Just The Facts On Medicaid Expansion

Arnold Hamilton - February 26, 2013 1

BY BRIAN RENEGAR There are a lot of misconceptions and misinformation about the Medicaid expansion that, so far, Oklahoma has not accepted. First of all, the...

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Honest Politics Or Latent Racism?

Arnold Hamilton - February 21, 2013 3

BY RICHARD L. FRICKER There’s a funny thing about thoughts – sometimes they swirl and strike each other tangentially, finally coalescing into a single stream....

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Do More Than The Minimum On The Minimum Wage

Arnold Hamilton - February 20, 2013 0

BY JIM HIGHTOWER “In the wealthiest nation on earth,” President Obama declared in his State of the Union speech, “no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty.” Right! Way to go! Not only does his call to raise America’s minimum wage put some real pop in populism, but it could finally start […]

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