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Fighting For My Daughter's Life, and Against the Insurance Company Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: <em>[<strong>Editors' note: </strong>In the <a href="http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.contents&issue=soj1103" target="_blank">March issue o ...
Why It Makes Jesus Cry When UnitedHealthcare Screws People Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: This week UnitedHealthcare told a stroke victim that her health insurance with them does not include the rehabilitation necessary for her to walk, eat, or speak again.</p> T ...
Taking the Constitution Seriously Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: Today, the new 112th Congress convenes. Today, the new 112th Congress convenes. Among the new rules for this Congress adopted by the incoming Republican majority is that in th ...
Not Happy with the Results? Hallelujah, Anyhow Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:35am | Type: Blog: I am not happy with the results of the 2010 elections. I think the elections turned on misinformation, anger, and fear. I am not happy with the results of the 2010 elections. I th ...
Obama to Speak on Immigration Reform Today Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog: President Obama is keeping hope alive for <a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/comprehensive-immigration-reform/">comprehensive immigration reform legislation</a> this year. ...
Robert Byrd, Truth, and Peace Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog: Truth is a two-edged sword that cuts both ways. We may wield it against an enemy with great satisfaction. However, the truth also cuts us, and does so with a fare-thee-well. Tru ...
Fixing a Key Financial Reform Loophole Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog: When is a law not a (real) law? When there's zero penalty for breaking it. When is a law not a (real) law? When there's zero penalty for breaking it. There is a great de ...
'Doing God's Work': A Moral Case for Financial Reform Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog: As financial reform legislation stalls in the Senate for the moment and embattled Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein testifies today before a congressional subcommittee, faith-based organizations an ...
A Six-Point Summary of What the New Health-Care Law Should Accomplish Now (and Some Other Details) Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:34am | Type: Blog: On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the most comprehensive health reform legislation in decades. On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law th ...
Pray Immigration Reform Into Passage Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:40pm | Type: Blog: <p><a href="http://www.ryanrodrickbeiler.com/Protests-and-Rallies/May-Day-Immigration-Rally/8116193_7PzaR#530299533_pYZW5"></a> On Sunday, a major <a href="http://changetake ...
Endurance in the Struggle for Health-Care Reform Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:33am | Type: Blog: President Obama has postponed his trip to Guam, Indonesia, and Australia to work for the passage of health-care reform. President Obama has postponed his trip to Guam, Indonesia, ...
Health Reform: A Major First Step Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog: <p><a href="http://www.ryanrodrickbeiler.com/Protests-and-Rallies/Health-Care/10104725_XrdU4#693990437_H8wF9"></a>As I watched our president present his plan to pass the health refo ...
Obama's Attempt at a Bipartisan Health-Care Summit Originally Posted: 08/31/2011 - 4:39pm | Type: Blog: <p><a href="http://www.ryanrodrickbeiler.com/Protests-and-Rallies/Health-Care/10104725_XrdU4#694000869_TQx7a"></a>President Obama has scheduled a bipartisan meeting on health-care r ...
Low-Hanging Fruit in the Fight Against World Hunger Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:18am | Type: Blog: The World Summit on Food Security ended today in Rome, with words about cutting hunger, but no real progress on one of hunger's key causes: <a href="http://stopgamblingonhunger.com/?cat=17"&g ...
Health Care, Immigrants, and the Character of our Country Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:18am | Type: Blog: With an issue like health, deeply personal, but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play -- to define and raise the moral issues beneath the policy debat ...
Health Care: Where Do We Go from Here? Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:18am | Type: Blog: Sixteen Christian leaders talk faith, policy, justice, and reform. Featuring Jim Wallis, Harry R. Sixteen Christian leaders talk faith, policy, justice, and reform. Featuring Jim ...
President Obama to Participate in Nationwide Call-in on Health Care Originally Posted: 07/14/2011 - 8:18am | Type: Blog: Jim Wallis and other faith leaders from across America kicked off "40 Days for Health Reform" Jim Wallis and other faith leaders from across America kicked off "40 ...