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".......The very purpose of insurance reform is to create a broad market in which the less healthy will be able to get coverage at affordable prices. This made a certain amount of cost-shifting inevitable, a truth captured succinctly by the New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn, one of the nation’s premier health policy writers:“You can’t fix health insurance without changing health insurance.”...............A detailed comparison of two Pew surveys — one conducted in December that found Obama with a 55 percent approval rating(with 39 percent disapproving)and the more recent survey with the 12-point approval deficit — shows that, while he has lost support...

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The new liberal mantra regarding the current drive to quote, reform our health care system, unquote, is that the current system is broken and furthermore, we have debated the idea for 40 years as thee reasons for change. On the surface, the sales pitch is compelling, but like all things liberals attempt to sell the public they are short on details and when those details are revealed, the whole system is found to be one big unworkable boondoggle. One thing we have learned over the years is that liberal assertions are nothing more than falsehoods waiting to be exposed. I...

<p>Iowa labor leaders Wednesday urged TV stations to pull anti-immigrant political ads that appear to represent a coalition of Iowa workers.</p> <p>"They don't represent anybody in the labor movement in Iowa," said Iowa Federation of Labor President Mark Smith.</p> <p>The ads, airing on KCCI and WHO television stations in central Iowa, call on the presidential candidates to change their positions on allowing more immigrant workers into the United States. The image of a fist hitting a punching bag, printed with a human face, is shown while a narrator talks about foreign workers dragging down wages and taking jobs away from Iowans.</p>