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Democratic candidate for North Dakota's U.S. Senate seat Heidi Heitkamp speaks to supporters early Wednesday morning Nov. 7, 2012, in Bismarck, N.D.. As votes continue to be counted, Heitkamp has a slim lead over Republican challenger Rick Berg. Berg has not conceded. (AP Photo/Will Kincaid)
Roundup: Energy Challenges for Obama, NRA-Backed Dems and Political War Profiteering
January 18, 2013 | What Matters Today

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Beyond Obamacare
November 8, 2012 | Group Think

The former health insurance industry insider says it’s time to move forward, not backward, from Obamacare. MORE

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At the End of Life, Seniors Face Huge Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenses
September 11, 2012 | Smart Charts
In the last five years of their lives, many seniors spend all of their assets covering health care costs — and they're on Medicare.
An emergency room physician, center, attends to a patient, while gurneys, patients and staff fill the hallway in the Red Zone trauma center at the Emergency Room of Grady Hospital in downtown Atlanta, in 2005. (AP Photo/Ric Feld, Files)
The Health Spending Map of the World
July 3, 2012 | Smart Charts
Americans spend more than any other country on healthcare — nearly $8,500 per person. Find out how the we compare to other Western countries and the world.
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Katherine Newman on The Missing Class
November 2, 2007 | Bill Moyers Journal (2007-2010)

Bill talks about the missing class — the “near poor” — with professor Katherine Newman. Continue reading

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A Death of One’s Own
September 10, 2000 | On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying (2000)

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