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Health 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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