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Last Updated: Nov 20th, 2009 - 00:46:01 |
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
Health
The irony of the ‘socialist’ scare
By Mary Shaw
Back in the 1950s, Senator Joe McCarthy tried to
instill fear in the American people over communism. Many in Hollywood were accused of being communists or
communist sympathizers. So were academics, trade unionists, and free thinkers
in general.
Aug 25, 2009, 00:42
Health
Is the past prologue for A/H1N1?
By Wayne Madsen
(WMR) --
Perhaps one of the best presentations at the International Swine Flu Conference
was delivered by Scott Sproul, chief of the Emergency Preparedness and Response
Service for the Oklahoma Department of Health. Sproul recapped how Oklahoma
City dealt with the 1918 Spanish flu, which contained genetic elements similar
to the present avian flu, itself a recombinant genetic part of A/H1N1.
Aug 25, 2009, 00:38
Health
Will people give cholesterol drug Vytorin a second chance?
By Martha Rosenberg
For a trip down memory lane, visit
Organizedwisdom.com.
Aug 21, 2009, 00:17
Health
Open letter to President Obama: Remember the lessons of the 1938 Munich Conference
By Gary G. Kohls, MD
It seems to be a truism in the history of the
world that fascists only respect those who are tough and never compromise. In
that light, President Obama, it is good to remember what happened in September
of 1938 when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain met with Adolph Hitler
in Munich when the Fuhrer was threatening to go to war to take over
Czechoslovakia’s Sudentenland.
Aug 21, 2009, 00:15
Health
A British citizen speaks out about benefits of health care in the UK
By Rita Inklovich
I am English (and a dual citizen of England and
the United States) and I am increasingly frustrated with the misinformation reported
regarding socialized medicine. Several opponents of health care reform --
including major conservative radio and TV commentators and several Republican
politicians -- claim that in England major surgery is not given to those over
59. This simply is NOT TRUE!
Aug 20, 2009, 00:18
Health
Capitalism’s done deal
By Nick Egnatz
A socialist advocates ownership of the means of
production by workers collectively or through the government, an equitable
sharing by all of the burdens and benefits of a society and the realization
that justice denied to anyone, anywhere is justice denied to all.
Aug 20, 2009, 00:14
Health
Why single-payer is the only sensible health care reform
By Carmen Yarrusso
Health care services are in a special category
of “services.” Unlike almost all other services in our “free market” economy,
most health care services (just like police and fire services) are necessary
for all residents -- often a matter of life and death.
Aug 19, 2009, 00:29
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