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Health Insurance : The High Cost of ‘Competition’
Can private insurers compete? The truth is that the Republicans aren’t opposed to a government-run system because the private companies can do it better and cheaper — they can’t. They oppose the public insurance choice because they want to protect … Continue reading
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Obama Must Fight for Public Option, Real Health Care Reform
President Obama addresses the American Medical Association, June 15, 2009. Photo by Charles Rex Arbogast / AP. In some way the message must get through to the Senate Democratic leadership that they were elected to represent THE PEOPLE and were … Continue reading
Blue Dog Cowardice and the State of Health Care Reform
Photo of blue dog Democrat from dogguide.net.Health Care Reform: The State of the Debate The Democrats, though in the majority and supported by 67% of the American people, act confused, impotent, lacking in courage and conviction. By Dr. Stephen R. … Continue reading
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Health Care for the Rich : U.S. 50th in Life Expectancy
How can it be that 49 countries have a longer life expectancy, if we supposedly have the ‘best’ health care system in the world? It is because our system is the best only for the rich. By Ted McLaughlin / … Continue reading
Health Care Reform and the Senate : Do as the Romans Did
Cicero addresses the Roman Senate in a 19th century fresco. Image from Wikipedia Commons.Cicero put the Senate itself on trial ‘…if [Gaius Verrus’] immense wealth is sufficient to shatter your honesty — well then… they will certainly know all they … Continue reading
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Robert Reich : Big Pharma and Big Insurance Vs. Health Care ‘Public Option’
Sen. Olympia Snowe: diluting the “public option.” Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images.How Pharma and Insurance intend to kill the public option, and what Obama and the rest of us must do By Robert Reich / June 5, 2009 … Continue reading
Finance Universal Health Care? Legalize Cannabis
Photo from rolledtootight.com Why is this reasonably safe compound currently forbidden when its use, as well as that of many toxic hallucinogens, goes as far back as biblical times and may indeed have been instrumental in producing, in part, the … Continue reading
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Health Care Reform : Our Last Stand
Health Care for America Now This effort, in my opinion, represents our last stand to effectively combat the forces that would deny Americans decent health care merely to increase the profits of the insurance and pharmaceutical cartels. By Dr. Stephen … Continue reading
Medical Referrals: Another Part of the Problem with the American Health Care System
Mark Allen Miller.Referral System Turns Patients Into CommoditiesBy Sandeep Jauhar, M.D. / May 25, 2009 I was chatting recently with a doctor friend who was depressed because he thought he had lost a referral source. “This internist was sending me … Continue reading
Congressional Health Care Hearings : Pure Flim-Flam
Dr. FlimFlam’s Miracle Cream, as sold by Sen. Max Baucus and the gang. Image of Dr. Zoidberg from Futurama Wiki. These hearings are pure flim-flam and the Senate will support a ‘health care plan’ largely dictated by the insurance and … Continue reading
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Cartoon: The Health Care Reform Plan
Source / Seattle P-I Thanks to Jeffrey Segal / The Rag Blog
Single Payer Health Insurance: Ending a Parade of Preventable Misery
Dr. Claudia Fegan.Single-payer health insurance is way to goBy Don Terry / May 14, 2009 An army of lawyers and lobbyists is gathering along the Potomac. The upcoming battle in Washington over national health care reform is going to be … Continue reading
