Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2688 opinion Opinion - Joe Conason en-us Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2688 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/joeconason/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090702/cm_uc_crjcox/op_4510514 uc/20090702/op_4510514 Joe Conason opinion Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT Joe Conason - If Americans hope to discuss health care, climate change, green economics or public infrastructure with any degree of realism, then the time has come to acknowledge that hearing someone say "a trillion dollars" is no reason to panic. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/joeconason/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090625/cm_uc_crjcox/op_4510433 uc/20090625/op_4510433 Joe Conason opinion Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Joe Conason - If Congress fails to enact health care reform this year — or if it enacts a sham reform designed to bail out corporate medicine while excluding the "public option" — then the public will rightly blame Democrats, who have no excuse for failure except their own cowardice and corruption. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/joeconason/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090618/cm_uc_crjcox/op_4510361 uc/20090618/op_4510361 Joe Conason opinion Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Joe Conason - Campaigning to build the widest possible consensus for reform of the nation's health care system, Barack Obama told the delegates of the American Medical Association (AMA) that he wants their support, too. Persuasive and always polite, the president did not mention the embarrassing truth about his hosts — namely, that the AMA has undermined universal care with mindless zeal for more than 70 years. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/joeconason/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20090611/cm_uc_crjcox/op_4510297 uc/20090611/op_4510297 Joe Conason opinion Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Joe Conason - Within the coming weeks, Americans will begin to consider critical issues concerning the future of health care for themselves and their children, including universal coverage, taxation of benefits, computerized records and the controlling of costs.