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Wendell Potter: Health Insurance Executive Speaks the Truth
Health Care Fit for AnimalsBy Nicholas D. Kristof / August 26, 2009 Opponents suggest that a “government takeover” of health care will be a milestone on the road to “socialized medicine,” and when he hears those terms, Wendell Potter cringes. … Continue reading
Rabbi Arthur Waskow : Poster Child for Lousy Health Insurance
Don’t mourn, organize:How I became a poster child for lousy private health insurance By Rabbi Arthur Waskow / The Rag Blog / August 27, 2009 For 25 years I have been a member of a private health insurance plan that … Continue reading
Whole Foods : Investment Group Calls for John Mackey’s Head
Investment group calls for Mackey’s head; Whole Foods tries damage control CtW Investment Group calls on Whole Foods board to remove Chair and CEO John Mackey; Says damage caused by WSJ op-ed shows Mackey is a ‘liability’ See full text … Continue reading
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Tagged Austin, Business, Health Care Reform, Investments, Social Action, Whole Foods
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Backlash : Whole Foods Rep Takes Serious Dip
Whole Foods Buzz As the Whole Foods Boycott grows on Facebook, brand perception is dropping By Jennifer Van Grove / August 25, 2009 As the Whole Foods Boycott on Facebook continues to swell — the group now has over 27,000 … Continue reading
The American Doctor : From ‘Practitioner’ to ‘Provider’
Doctor’s Office by Lee Dubin.Graphic from ‘South Park’ / Comedy Central. The practice of medicine has ceased to be a profession, it has become a business with the doctor being a ‘provider’ for the insurance company. By Dr. Stephen R. … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Medicine
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Republicans, Religion and the Triumph of Unreason
Graphic by R.S. Janes / LT SaloonShrill, baby, shrill:How do they train themselves to be so impervious to reality? By Johann Hari / August 21, 2009 Something strange has happened in America in the nine months since Barack Obama was … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care Reform, Republican Party, Right Wing Extremists, Tea Baggers
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Insurance Lobby Presses Ancient Medical Equipment Into Service
Tobacco Smoke Enema (1750’s – 1810). Graphic courtesy of Dr. Charles Rookenpumpher This old bogus device has been reintroducedin Washington D.C. by the Health Insurance LobbyAre You Starting To Feel It Yet ? By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
Bipartisan Deadlock : How Best NOT to Reform Health Care
Bypartisanship at its best: hammering out a plan that will deny health care to U.S. citizens.Congress deadlocked over how to not provide health care to American citizens Senate leaders Harry Reid (D-NV) and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) point to Congress’ failure … Continue reading
Did Obama Make a Deal with Big Pharma?
Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big PharmaBy Ryan Grim / August 16, 2009 A memo obtained by the Huffington Post confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Pharma, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Pharmaceutical Companies
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Rabbi Arthur Waskow : Healing Health Care NOW
The Healing Tree / Terry the Weaver.Healing Health Care:NOW or Never We who have with illness bled,Welcome to our gory bed,Or to victory! Now’s the time and now’s the hour;See approach proud Money’s power.Will we turn and flee? Big Pharma’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care Reform, Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Social Action, Universal Health Care
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Killing Yourself with Kindness : Obama’s Bipartisan Kick
Killing Yourself with Kindness Despite the lies, the real insecurity that people feel, and the shameless Republican opportunism, health reform will be a loser for Obama and the Democrats unless this president can shake off his delusion that bipartisanship works. … Continue reading
Congress and Health Care : ‘Ye Love Wealth Better Than Liberty’
Sameul Adams: “Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.” If proposed health care legislation is to be a farce and a sham, [I hope] that the progressives… will vote it down, and deny the insurance and drug companies … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Corporate Power, Educational Reform, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration
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