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Dick Morris, cut loose from Fox News after years of embarrassingly wrong political analysis , is still gainfully employed by The Hill , which continues to publish his weekly column. The very public battering Morris took following the 2012 election has done nothing to improve the quality of his commentary, and his most recent Hill column demonstrates as much. Headlined “Latinos could be GOP allies,” the column is based on a Republican-funded push poll conducted by a pollster whose work in the 2012 Mexican presidential election distinguished itself with near-Dick Morris levels of inaccuracy.

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As congressional leaders debate a framework for comprehensive immigration reform that will likely grant undocumented immigrants legal status, conservative media are engaged in promoting myths and falsehoods about what reform means for the country.

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South Dakota Republicans aren’t satisfied with imposing one of the nation’s longest waiting periods for women seeking abortions.

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Hospitals would need to check the immigration status of uninsured patients under a new bill introduced by an Arizona lawmaker. Rep. Steve Smith’s (R) H.B

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The Food and Drug Administration proposed new rules on Friday aiming to prevent outbreaks like those experienced in recent years, such as salmonella from peanuts and listeria from cantaloupe.

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Coinciding with World Contraception Day , former President Bill Clinton announced on Wednesday a new agreement that will reduce the price of long-acting birth control for millions of women worldwide. The trade deal, announced jointly with the Clinton Foundation and several world leaders at the UN, will cut the price of Bayer-manufactured progestrogen implants by half or more in exchange for a six-year purchasing commitment.

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In a Medicare Advantage hearing before the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee on Friday, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) President Karen Ignagni confirmed that Obamacare is encouraging health care providers and private insurers to adjust their business models, just as the law was intended to do.

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Health care reform advocates argue that encouraging providers to use electronic health records would reduce medical errors, lower administrative costs and improve patient care, but the transition could also lead doctors and hospitals to easily prescribe unnecessary care and bill more for services, increasing costs for Medicare and private insurers. From the New York Times : Over all, hospitals that received government incentives to adopt electronic records showed a 47 percent rise in Medicare payments at higher levels from 2006 to 2010, the latest year for which data are available, compared with a 32 percent rise in hospitals that have not received any government incentives , according to the analysis by The Times.

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Paul Ryan was not well received when he spoke at the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Friday afternoon, getting booed for supporting the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and transforming Medicare’s benefit guarantee into a “premium support.” But the animosity appears to be mutual. Throughout the health care reform debate, Republicans regularly lashed out at the AARP for backing the effort, with Sen

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Although cigarette taxes are a very effective way to encourage people to stop smoking — as well a potential source of important revenue for some cash-strapped states — a new study suggests that they also work to highlight income inequality among American smokers. New York places a $4.35 tax on each pack of cigarettes, the highest rate in the country, and researchers used data from the state health department to calculate how much money its residents are spending on cigarettes each year

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