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Health Care : True Reform Must Include Public Option
Public Insurance Option is Necessary For True Reform It’s becoming obvious that these Repubs and Blue Dogs have been bought off by the millions of dollars the lobbyists are throwing at them. To them, getting re-elected is far more important … Continue reading
Single-Payer Health Care: Some Reasons to Do It
Health CareBy Hosea W. McAdoo M.D. / The Rag Blog / July 29, 2009 “The Americans will always do the right thing . . . After they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.” — Winston Churchill PART IAfter carefully following all the … Continue reading
Doctors Want Real Health Care Reform
Cartoon from LTSaloon.orgDoctors show support for health care reform; Lobbyists, Blue Dogs and Republicans work to gut real change By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / July 28, 2009 This past Wednesday I listened to President Obama’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Lobbyists, Obama Administration, Single Payer
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Hoosiers and Health Care : WellPoint’s Susan Bayh
Political wife: Susan Bayh, with husband Evan Bayh, D-Indiana, owns between $500,000 and $1 million in employee stock in health insurance giant WellPoint.Susan Bayh and WellPoint:What Hoosiers know about health care By Harry Targ / The Rag Blog / July … Continue reading
Witch Doctor Obama : Conservative Activist Circulates Racist Image
Though I am hesitant to forward such horrific racist imagery, I also believe it absolutely necessary for our readers to know that this kind of right wing white supremacist activity is flourishing, even among conservaties who retain a modicum of … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatives, Health Care Reform, Obama Smear Campaign, Racism
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Cost of Health Care Reform : Wails of Indignation from the Right
Graphic from sibson.com. ‘According to the logic of those now shedding crocodile tears, we ought, in order to remain truly American and truly free, retain the precious liberties of our people to be illiterate, to suffer accidents without indemnification, as … Continue reading
The Health Care Stories for America Blog
Not only can you read the stories, but write one yourself on this website. It also recognizes your zip-code location when you link up so you get the immediate stories that are in and around your location. When you read … Continue reading
‘Medicare Advantage?’ Advantage Big Business
Health care reform and the 85 percent solution By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / July 13, 2009 “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Obama Administration, Public Health
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If It Can Happen in Port Angeles, Washington, It Can Happen Anywhere, USA
July 4th demonstrator’s cry: Health care now!By Tim Wheeler / July 5, 2009 PORT ANGELES, WA. — Thousands of onlookers stood and applauded along the July 4 parade route in this paper-mill town as marchers walked by with banners demanding … Continue reading
Congress : Return Health Care to the People
Health care should be a profession, not a business. By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / June 29, 2009 The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of … Continue reading
Where’s Waldo? Play ‘Find That Health Care Lobbyist!’
NPR has started to identify individuals and publish how much cash they have thrown at elected officials to maintain the status quo for private health care insurance companies… By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / June 26, 2009 National … Continue reading
