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Last Updated: Jan 29th, 2010 - 00:34:57 |
Health
If you liked bovine growth hormone, you’ll love beta agonists
By Martha Rosenberg
While researchers and scientists investigate the
cause of our diabetes, obesity, asthma and ADHD epidemics, they should ask why
the FDA approved a livestock drug banned in 160 nations and responsible for
hyperactivity, muscle breakdown and 10 percent mortality in pigs, according to
angry farmers who phoned the manufacturer.
Jan 29, 2010, 00:24
Health
The sellout on health care is now complete
By Sean Fenley
In comes Mr. Scott Brown, this year’s version of
Mitt Romney to save the day for the corporatist forces of evil and mayhem! Not
that single-payer or the original
public option, for that matter, were ever seriously considered.
Jan 28, 2010, 00:32
Health
Health care brouhaha
By Keith Taylor
“IT’S SOCIALISM!” cried the teabagger. He was so
upset at the idea of having a national health care system in the land of the
free he wanted to go back to the way America was in the beginning. I wondered
if he also wanted to explain to his wife why she couldn’t vote or own property.
Or maybe he just wanted to buy a slave.
Jan 8, 2010, 00:26
Health
Before you take that antidepressant, visit this web site
By Martha Rosenberg
With our national love of drugs, sex,
celebrities and violence you’d think SSRIstories.com
would be more popular.
Jan 6, 2010, 00:36
Health
With health care, don’t let the perfect be the enemy
By Mary Shaw
Early in the morning on December 24, the U.S.
Senate passed its version of a health care reform bill. The next step is
conference committee, where the Senate and House versions -- quite different
each another -- will be reconciled and merged.
Dec 29, 2009, 00:13
Health
WHO ‘Swine Flu Pope’ under investigation for gross conflict of interest
By F. William Engdahl
The man with the nickname “Dr Flu,” Professor
Albert Osterhaus, of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Holland, has been
named by Dutch media researchers as the person at the center of the worldwide
Swine Flu H1N1 Influenza A 2009 pandemic hysteria. Not only is Osterhaus the
connecting person in an international network that has been described as the
Pharma Mafia, he is THE key advisor
to WHO on influenza and is intimately positioned to personally profit from the
billions of euros in vaccines allegedly aimed at H1N1.
Dec 15, 2009, 00:22
Health
A real revolution in the making in the U.S. health care industry
By Rodrigue Tremblay
The
U.S. Congress is presently debating a most important piece of legislation that
would profoundly reform the U.S. healthcare system.
This is without a doubt the most important domestic proposal advanced by the
Obama administration.
Nov 25, 2009, 00:22
Health
Open letter to the House Progressive Caucus (except Kucinich and Massa)
By Kéllia Ramares
I am deeply disappointed in you for voting for
the “Greater Health Insurance Industry Profits Act,” a.k.a. H.R. 3962, and especially
for voting for it with the Stupak anti-abortion amendment attached, after your
voting against the amendment’s being attached in the first place.
Nov 20, 2009, 00:22
Health
Why I voted no on H.R. 3962
By Dennis Kucinich
We have been led to believe that we must make
our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory,
for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care. We
cannot fault the insurance companies for being what they are. But we can fault
legislation in which the government incentivizes the perpetuation, indeed the
strengthening, of the for-profit health insurance industry, the very source of
the problem. When health insurance companies deny care or raise premiums,
co-pays and deductibles they are simply trying to make a profit. That is our
system.
Nov 9, 2009, 00:19
Health
No to single-payer, yes to prayer?
By Missy Comley Beattie
A recent Los Angeles Times article by Tom
Hamburger and Kim Geiger detailed a provision to the healthcare Band-Aid, one
introduced by Sen. Orrin Hatch and supported by other congressional luminaries
like Sen. John Kerry, which “requires insurers to consider covering Christian
Science prayer treatments as medical expenses.”
Nov 9, 2009, 00:15
Health
Is your doctor's continuing ed funded by pharma?
By Martha Rosenberg
Raise your hand if you've breathed a sigh of
relief seeing your doctor had a CME certificate next to the medical school
diploma on the wall.
Nov 6, 2009, 00:14
Health
What physicians know
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
I had a long conversation with my favorite
physician, who has operated on me twice successfully. He is an incredibly kind
person without an ounce of greed or pretense. Like other physicians I have
spoken to, he spoke eloquently about the terrible times he consistently has
with private health insurance companies.
Nov 4, 2009, 00:19
Health
Health care: Ignoring the huge red elephant in the room
By William Blum
In the frenzied search of recent months for a
better way of delivering health care to the American people, the American media
has often discussed health-care systems in other countries, particularly
Europe. Usually, little, if anything, is mentioned about Cuba’s system, where
everyone is covered, for everything, where pre-existing conditions do not
matter, and no patient pays for anything; i.e., nothing at all.
Oct 1, 2009, 00:31
Health
United Health Care profits soar 155 percent on Medicare plans
By Jerry Mazza
United Health Care’s 155 percent profits on
Medicare plans must
be a company record, especially in a down economy, and an embarrassing
fact, particularly as the concervatives on the Senate Finance Committee fight
to preserve the present payment structure of United Health Care and its fellow
private insurance companies.
Sep 25, 2009, 00:20
Health
In praise of Senator Max Baucus
By Mike Ferner
We may not yet comprehend how big a favor
Senator Baucus just did for his 330 million fellow citizens. But from today on,
it is my personal crusade to insure that he gets at least a footnote in the
history books.
Sep 21, 2009, 00:18
Health
Health care is an inalienable right
By Lawrence Fiarman
Health care reform? Health insurance reform?
Single payer? Death panels! It can all be so confusing, because no one is
speaking plainly enough about the two basic issues.
Sep 18, 2009, 00:28
Health
Obama’s and Congress’ health care deceit
By Paul Craig Roberts
The current health care “debate” shows how far gone representative government is in the
United States. Members of Congress represent the powerful interest groups that fill their
campaign coffers, not the people who vote
for them.
Sep 15, 2009, 00:15
Health
Health care: You can’t win the Super Bowl with a third-string quarterback
By Dennis Rahkonen
We’ve recently seen U.S. conservatives at Barack
Obama’s public rallies wearing pistols and even assault rifles to protest what
they imagine is his “socialist” approach to health care reform.
Aug 31, 2009, 00:16
Health
Even Camelot needed health care
By Michael Winship
Toward the end of George McGovern’s failed
presidential bid in 1972, I was helping advance a bus trip for vice
presidential candidate Sargent Shriver. The final weekend of the campaign, his
caravan would start in New Hampshire and work its way down the Eastern
seaboard, holding rallies along the way and winding up in Washington, DC, just
before Election Day.
Aug 31, 2009, 00:14
Health
Who’s got a ticket to live?
By Jerry Mazza
I was killing time until the Boston/Yankee game
on Sunday Night. It was the rubber game of the slugfest, in which Yankees won
20 to 11 over the Sox in the first game and the Sox beat back the Yanks 13 to 2
in the second game. Now, which way would the third, rubber game bounce? You
could never tell with these two teams, never tell with baseball, or with life
for that matter. After all the program that had gripped my attention until the
game went on was Bill Moyers Critical Condition, a documentary of a significant handful
of cases from the 47 million uninsured in America who are battling death and
the medical/insurance system. Somehow, that game seemed fixed from the get-go.
Aug 26, 2009, 00:21
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