Even the staging of the hand-picked doctors in starched white coats could not keep the truth of the healthcare reform process from oozing out of President Obama during Wednesday's press event. Not just...
Since I was a little child huddled in the elementary school hallway for the bomb drills to the present day when I listen to the reasons my nation must spend more on foreign military actions, the means of securing public support for war in this nation seems to have centered on one word. Terror.
Submitted by lorinpda on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 10:15am
Original Publisher Peoples World written by Juan Lopez
My 88-year-old mom, who fell and broke her arm some eight weeks ago, had to endure a two-pronged battle - with herself and with the health care system.
I suspect that her story, while not tragic, is more commonplace than generally recognized. But, as with other common experiences, it carried the potential for tragedy.
After less than a week in the hospital, she was sent home with her arm in a sling. No need for surgery. It was a clean break, the arm would heal on its own.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- The California Senate approved creating a government-run health care system for the nation's most populous state on Thursday, ignoring a veto threat from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Supporters said it is time for state legislatures to take up the debate as the Obama Administration's national health care proposal falters in Congress.
Everybody in, nobody out. It's the battle cry of millions of people throughout the United States who believe healthcare is a basic human right and who advocate for Medicare for All system as an achievable and just answer to that cry.
Everybody in, nobody out. It's the way we are all looking at the suffering and injured people of Haiti. We are not asking for hospital finance officers and bookkeeping staff or insurance company personnel to pre-screen the injured for acceptable methods of payment or evidence that their pre-existing living structures did not contribute to their crush injuries. We are just rushing in to help.
Should Democratic members of the House vote 'No' on any reform legislation that includes an excise tax on health benefits? Even if it's now the President's preferred funding method for the healthcare insurance company bail-out bill (or health insurance reform bill, as it's known in the proper political framing terminology)? And should they actually intend to vote 'No' and not just make threats followed by a seemingly begrudging 'Yes' vote?
With all this talk of healthcare reform, we all might be forgiven for imagining that our experiences as patients might be looking up as 2010 dawns. Our reality is that we'll still be in the most weakened position of any of the parties involved in the U.S. healthcare system. We are fodder.
So, all the great fanfare and all the king's horses. The great and almighty U.S. Senate has spoken. I will have to buy private health insurance -- forever, amen. The defective product that has left me wanting for real healthcare for all of my adult life is now a step closer to being the law of the land.
A lump of Christmas coal all polished up with sparkling rhetoric.
If nothing else, the acrimonious debate over health care reform has contributed some potent new expressions to the American political vocabulary.
You heard weeks ago about "death panels." And the vaguely named "public option," which has nothing to do with finding a suitable men's room at the shopping mall.
Submitted by nechfamily on Thu, 12/24/2009 - 3:58am
Published by Think Progress written by Faiz Shakir, Amanda Terkel, Matt Corley, Benjamin Armbruster, Zaid Jilani, Lee Fang, andAlex Seitz-Wald
Billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch are the wealthiest, and perhaps most effective, opponents of President Obama's progressive agenda. They have been looming in the background of every major domestic policy dispute this year. Ranked as the 9thrichest men in America, the Koch brothers sit at the helm of Koch Industries, a massive privately owned conglomerate of manufacturing, oil, gas, and timber interests. They are best known for their wealth, as well as for their generous contributions to the arts, cancer research, and the Smithsonian Institute. But David and Charles are also
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Should Democratic members of the House vote 'No' on any reform legislation that includes an excise tax on health benefits? Even if it's now the President's preferred funding method for the healthcare insurance company bail-out bill (or health insurance reform bill, as it's known in the proper political framing terminology)? And should they actually intend to vote 'No' and not just make threats followed by a seemingly begrudging 'Yes' vote?
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