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Is the House's Health Bill Really Worse than Nothing? By Joshua Holland, AlterNet Some progressive opponents of the health care bill say it's so bad, we may as well drop it. That analysis ignores the millions of Americans who stand to get coverage. Read more » Watch AlterNet's Adele Stan talking health care and more on C-SPAN's Washington Journal: Click here to watch. Japan Fines 'Fat' People, Companies Must Measure Waist Lines of Employees By Tara Lohan, AlterNet And 'fat' here is most definitely a relative term. more » 10 Signs Vegetarianism Is Catching On By Kathy Freston, AlterNet Martha Stewart promotes a vegetarian Thanksgiving? Recently, much attention has been lavished on the horrors of factory farming and the advantages of a meatless diet. more » 47,000 Women Could Die As a Result of the New Mammogram Guidelines By George Lakoff, AlterNet Cost-benefit analysis can kill. Scaling back on mammograms, as a government task force suggested, could result in 47,000 unnecessary deaths. more » Gun Lobby's Absurd New Claim: Healthcare Reform Will Take Away Your Guns Think Progress Gun Owners of America is sending action alerts warning that the Senate health care bill could "jeopardize their ability to obtain a firearms license." more » Is Taxing Plastic Surgery Sexist? By Jill Filipovic, Feministe Part of the funding for the Senate's health care bill will come from a 5 percent tax on cosmetic surgery, on procedures overwhelmingly obtained by women. more » What Denying Unauthorized Immigrants Health Insurance Will Cost You AlterNet Call it a "nativist tax." more » Palin Suggests Reforming Canada's Universal Health Care System: 'Let The Private Sector Take Over' By Igor Volsky, Think Progress Words of wisdom for neighbors. more » What Does it Mean to Take Sarah Palin and the Tea-Bagger Set "Seriously"? By Joshua Holland, AlterNet I know we're supposed to, but ... more » Sponsored message: Had enough of Sarah Palin's Going Rogue propaganda fest? So have we. Our tolerance for falsehoods, fabrications, and fantasies is shockingly low. Our antidote to the farce? Going Rouge: Sarah Palin - An American Nightmare, edited by Richard Kim and Betsy Reed, editors at The Nation. Together with some of AlterNet's favorite authors, including Max Blumenthal, Jim Hightower, Naomi Klein, Robert Reich, and Matt Taibbi, they have compiled many points of view about a dangerously vapid politico whose sights are set on 2012. Click here now to buy it and support AlterNet

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