Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) "misstated" the health care position of opponent Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) during a campaign event on Thursday in Ohio, the Boston Globe reports. Under her health care proposal, all U.S. residents would have to obtain health insurance. The Obama health care proposal ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The prices of brand-name medications have continued to increase despite calls from all three major presidential candidates for pharmaceutical companies to make their products more affordable, the Wall Street Journal reports. Wholesale prices for the 50 brand-name medications with the most sales increased by an average of 7.82% in 2007, ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Tuesday pledged to remain in the presidential nomination race to advocate for a constitutional ban on abortion and ensure that the ban stays on the Republican Party's official platform, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports. "The human life amendment has been part of our party's ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Summaries of several recent developments related to health care in the presidential election appear below.
* Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.): Clinton on Monday released a pamphlet that details her health care proposal and other plans in her economic package. According to the 13-page pamphlet, over the ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Summaries of an editorial and opinion piece that address health care issues in the presidential election appear below.
* Washington Post: Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) "touts her ... leadership of the health care task force in the early years of the Clinton administration" ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) on Tuesday won Democratic presidential primaries in Arkansas, Arizona, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma and Tennessee, and Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) won Democratic primaries and caucuses in Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, North Dakota and Utah, the ...
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