A Short History of Health-Care Disasters
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With Tuesday's vote in the Senate Finance Committee, President Obama's push for health-care reform came closer to final passage than any president's in history. And it's quite a history. The Daily Beast looks at Obama's predecessors, from Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, and how close they got to the finish line.
The Abortion Smokescreen
Gloria Feldt is a women’s advocate who blogs at Heartfeldt Politics. She is the author of The War on Choice and the former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She is currently writing a book about women’s relationship with power to be published by Seal/Perseus next year.
Like "death panels," the right-wing's insistence that Obamacare would bankroll abortions is just a means to an end-derailing health-care reform.
Socialized Medicine Works for the Military
Christopher Brownfield drove nuclear submarines before volunteering for duty in Iraq. In Baghdad, he worked as a liaison between the State Department, coalition militaries, and the Iraqi government. He is studying international energy policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He has written a book, My Nuclear Family: Growing up with Energy & Violence.
In the Navy, Christopher J. Brownfield was a patient under socialized health care and lived to tell the tale. He explains why the public option for health care is good enough for the military-and America.
Clinton Care vs. Obama Care
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Fifteen years after Bill Clinton's health-care plan imploded, Barack Obama is battling to keep his on track. The Daily Beast looks at how the players in today's debate stack up to their '90s counterparts.
The Perilous Task of Passing Health Care Without Ted Kennedy
Adam Clymer is a former Chief Washington Correspondent of the New York Times and author of Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography.
Senator Kennedy's booming voice may be missing from the health care debate raging on Capitol Hill, but he's still coaching from the sidelines, says Adam Clymer.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
The Daily Beast is dedicated to news and commentary, culture, and entertainment. We carefully curate the web’s most essential stories and bring you original must-reads from our talented contributors.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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