|
Last Updated: Nov 20th, 2009 - 00:50:44 |
Health
‘Death panels’ and the health insurance industry
By Alan James Strachan,
Ph.D.
Somewhere a health insurance executive is
laughing.
Aug 18, 2009, 00:18
Health
Defining socialism and single-payer health care
By Jerry Mazza
Let me clearly define socialism and
single-payer health care, since I see and hear these terms misused many times a
day on radio, television, even in newspapers, mostly to mislead and frighten
people.
Aug 17, 2009, 00:21
Health
The gorilla dust of health care
By Michael Winship
When I was 15, my father was in a near-fatal car
collision with a semi-trailer truck. At Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester,
NY, he lay in a coma for two months.
Aug 17, 2009, 00:13
Health
Health care systems’ overview and why the US needs change
By Brett King
President Obama is looking at making one of the
most significant changes to the US by introducing a socialized health care
system. The US is the only developed country in the world that doesn’t have a
socialized health system, and so the US is in a unique position to adapt a new
system based on other countries’ systems.
Aug 5, 2009, 00:24
Health
Can someone, anyone, please explain what a public option is?
By Michael Payne
By now I have heard the term “public option”
referred to in countless discussions involving health care reform by President
Obama, the national media and Internet websites. I have this problem; so far I
have heard not one explanation of exactly what a public option is -- by anyone.
And that is why I believe true health care reform is in danger of failing.
Jul 31, 2009, 00:13
Health
The politics of trashing the single-payer healthcare plan
By Jerry Mazza
The politics of trashing the single-payer
healthcare plan, or any healthcare plan for that matter from Obama, have to do
with the Republicans humiliating him so badly that they can recapture their
power. So it is in their best interest to invite the Harry and Louise TV
commercials back (from the Clintons 1993 run at healthcare), plus a bevy of
slime ads, pr types and lobbyists to spread panic plus disinformation and
defamation re Obama’s original intention of Single-payer healthcare.
Jul 29, 2009, 00:20
Health
Which is worse, germs in our food or the antibiotics that kill them?
By Martha Rosenberg
Recent recalls of pathogen tainted milk, meat,
chicken and cheese make you wonder if E.coli, campylobacter, salmonella and
listeria are the new four food groups.
Jul 28, 2009, 00:13
Health
Obama’s health care struggle -- Waterloo or water down?
By Bill Moyers &
Michael Winship
Push finally came to shove in Washington last
week as the battle for health care escalated from scattered sniper fire into
all-out combat. If it all seems to be getting more and more confusing, join the
club. It’s hard to see what’s happening through all the gun smoke.
Jul 27, 2009, 00:20
Health
The enemies of America’s real healthcare reform
By Jerry Mazza
As Wikepedia tells
us, “In 2005, Americans spent an estimated US$6,401 per capita on health
care, while Canadians spent US$3,326. This amounted to 15.3 percent of U.S GDP
in that year, while Canada spent 9.8 percent of GDP on health care.”
Jul 23, 2009, 00:23
Health
Taboos preventing universal health care for Americans
By Ben Tanosborn
Ten years after World War II had ended, as the
US was exercising economic hegemony over much of the world, Will Herberg came
out with his book, “Protestant-Catholic-Jew.” A book which socio-politically
went a long way defining the American Way of Life as a recipe of two lofty
ingredients mixed in equal parts: democracy and free enterprise. Something that
today we are more inclined to call by its appropriate name: materialism.
Jul 23, 2009, 00:21
Health
The Marie Antoinettes of health care
By Walter Brasch
Marie Antoinette, contrary to popular opinion,
never said a solution for the starving masses of revolutionary France in the
late 18th century was, “Let them eat cake.” But, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa)
apparently said something close to it.
Jul 22, 2009, 00:16
Health
House Dems’ placebo health care reform
By Rob Kall
When docs prescribe a placebo, they expect the
gullible patient to believe it will work and that the symptoms will go away,
especially if the symptoms have been psychologically caused or exacerbated. The
problem is, Americans are struggling, going bankrupt, even dying because of our
failed health care (really illness care) system. Placebos don’t work when there
is real illness, yet it seems that is what the House of Representatives has
offered in its first draft of legislation.
Jul 20, 2009, 00:22
Health
Oysters for health care
By Bill Moyers & Michael Winship
This is a story of health care and two
Americans; a tale of two citizens, if you will.
Jul 20, 2009, 00:20
Health
Public option versus unrestrained spending by health insurance companies
By Margie Burns
Why isn’t anyone
complaining more about the money wasted by health insurance
companies?
Jul 16, 2009, 00:26
Health
Private insurance is bad for your health
By John Jonik
Private health insurance is “oil” in the “water”
of public health. They do not belong together. We have heard much about the
redundancy, and excess, unnecessary costs of private insurance, and a lot about
the horrors faced by those with and without coverage. But there are other
basic, root issues that so far have not been widely addressed.
Jul 14, 2009, 00:17
Health
The real reason we don’t have single-payer, universal health care
By Kéllia Ramares
There should not even be a debate over single-payer
health care. All of the objections to it is a bunch of baloney.
Jul 9, 2009, 00:20
Health
Obama hushes health care advocates
By Laura Flanders
Don’t like the way the Wall Street bailout
turned out? It looks as if we’re in for something similar regarding health care.
Jul 8, 2009, 00:14
Health
Doctors boo Obama in Chicago
By Martha Rosenberg
CHICAGO -- You would have thought it was Wrigley
Field not the Hyatt
Regency Chicago.
Jul 2, 2009, 00:16
Health
No reason to favor private health insurers
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
In the national debate about health care reform,
absolutely nothing makes less sense than the positive views of much of the
public about private health insurers.
Jul 1, 2009, 00:19
Health
Winning and losing the war against AIDS in Africa
By Thomas Mountain
ASMARA, Eritrea -- In 1991, as AIDS was just
beginning to impact Africa, two countries that exemplify how the war against
AIDS in Africa is being won and lost experienced dramatic political
developments.
Jun 24, 2009, 00:19
|
