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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
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
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
Single Payer: The Republican Perspective
Thanks to Diane Stirling-Stevens / The Rag Blog
Health Care Reform : Private Companies Just in it for the Money
Graphic from lamiavitafolle. We have an opportunity to make real and substantial changes to fix America’s health care. A few promises and some band-aids on our current system are not nearly enough. By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Single Payer, Universal Health Care
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Dr. Stephen R. Keister : The Insurance Industry Could Use a Hippocratic Oath
Hippocrates / josh pincus is crying. Nowhere, does the Hippocratic Oath require a physician to be a peon, or a servant of a HMO or insurance company. By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / April 6, 2009 … Continue reading
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Richard L. Scott: Healthcare Enemy Number One
See also Dr. Stephen R. Keister’s remarks below about Richard L. Scott. All of this is rather enlightening to say the least. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog Former Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp. co-founder Richard Scott is now chairman of Solantic, … Continue reading
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Massive Profits : The Moving Force Behind our Health Care System
Angels Mourning Avarice leading to lack of Public Healthcare in America. Painting by ProfessorEmeritusPAB. If one believes that the Marquis de Sade espoused sexual abstinence one can believe that the CEOs of AHIP desire decent health care. By Dr. Stephen … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Mainstream Media, Universal Health Care
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Dr.Stephen R. Keister : The Doctor and the Body Politic
The Doctor by Luke Fildes. I, as an elderly retired physician, idealize what is shown in the painting by Luke Fildes’ ‘The Doctor,’ and look upon the word ‘physician’ in the Greek derivation, i.e. ‘healer.’ I think of Hippocrates, Maimonides … Continue reading
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Health Care in the USA : Go Team! We’re 26th!
US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), sponsor of HR 676, with filmmaker Michael Moore and US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)on Capitol Hill in June, 2007. All are supporters of single-payer universal health care. Photo by AFP / Getty Images. As a … Continue reading
Dr. Stephen R. Keister : John Ruskin, Big PhARMA and the Big Lie
“The essence of lying is deception…” John Ruskin — British socioligist, author, artist and art critic — in old age, 1894. Photo by Frederick Hollyer / public domain. PhARMA and the insurance industry do not want to see a government-sponsored … Continue reading
