Wendell Potter: Sarah Palin's rhetoric torpedoed Medicare savings

By Wendell Potter - The Affordable Care Act might havebeen able to curtail spending further if it hadn’t been for Sarah Palin’s reckless rhetoric. It was Palin who charged that a provision of the law allowing Medicare to pay doctors for having end-of-life discussion …

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House Republican Plan to Overhaul Medicare Opposed by Original Advocate

One of the original advocates of overhauling Medicare by providing direct but limited government support to individual patients says the current House Republican plan that includes this provision should be rejected by Congress. In a hearing before the House Ways and Means Comm …

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BREAKING: Pennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Frigging Fecking Fracking Gag Rule on Toxic Chemicals Used in Fracking

Fracking exposes citizens to a wild mix of highly toxic chemicals and carcinogens. So when patients show up at their doctors' offices, the doctors need to figure out which chemicals are the likely culprits. The doctors of sick patients can, with great effort, access the names of …

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Five myths about independent voters and the corresponding "facts"- The Washington Post

Myth: 1. Independent voters aren’t really independent. Fact: About half are, swinging from party to party. Myth: 2. Independent voters are less engaged.

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Ordinary citizens protest fracking because it contaminates drinking water and spews carcinogens while President Obama cheers the frackers on

Fracking can provide massive amounts of methane gas to be used domestically and millions of gallons of wastewater containing carcinogens. There are roughly 400,000 of these wells across America and they have created a lot of committed opponents. During Obama's State of the Un …

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How badly has fracking polluted drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania

The trouble started in 2008, when the wells used by several Dimock families were contaminated with methane. In 2009, fracking firm Cabot Oil & Gas was fined by state regulators for contaminating the wells with methane while fracking underground. Cabot routinely denies cau …

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BREAKING: The Third Party National Group "Americans Elect" drops out: Is this a Sign of the Demise of Democracy in America?

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President Obama's Wealth Level Makes Him One of the Elite 1%

President Barack Obama has $500,001 to $1 million in a JPMorgan Chase private client asset management checking account.  "This is a checking account used by the president and the first lady," said White House spokeswoman Amy Brundage. The president's other principal assets …

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How Obama Gave Rise to the Occupy Wall Street Movement

Obama is twice over responsible for Occupy Wall Street's existence. On the one hand, the failures and disappointments of his administration have been well documented and have totally undercut his campaign promises of hope and change, leaving former supporters completely disil …

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