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Chomsky on Health Care Reform in America
Despite its age, this video from Noam Chomsky covers some of the key issues and facts concerning the health care reform debate, and in terms that are easy to understand. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog The Rag Blog
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Tagged American Society, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Noam Chomsky
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We’re Number Thirty-Seven
Thanks to Jeffrey Segal / The Rag Blog
Firefighters: Mostly Paramedics in Some Places
Firefighters from Company 10 responding to an emergency call in Washington in late August. Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times.Firefighters Become Medics to the PoorBy Ian Urbina / September 3, 2009 WASHINGTON — Peeling off his latex gloves after treating … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Public Health
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Wendell Potter: Health Insurance Executive Speaks the Truth
Health Care Fit for AnimalsBy Nicholas D. Kristof / August 26, 2009 Opponents suggest that a “government takeover” of health care will be a milestone on the road to “socialized medicine,” and when he hears those terms, Wendell Potter cringes. … Continue reading
Rabbi Arthur Waskow : Poster Child for Lousy Health Insurance
Don’t mourn, organize:How I became a poster child for lousy private health insurance By Rabbi Arthur Waskow / The Rag Blog / August 27, 2009 For 25 years I have been a member of a private health insurance plan that … Continue reading
The American Doctor : From ‘Practitioner’ to ‘Provider’
Doctor’s Office by Lee Dubin.Graphic from ‘South Park’ / Comedy Central. The practice of medicine has ceased to be a profession, it has become a business with the doctor being a ‘provider’ for the insurance company. By Dr. Stephen R. … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Medicine
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Insurance Lobby Presses Ancient Medical Equipment Into Service
Tobacco Smoke Enema (1750’s – 1810). Graphic courtesy of Dr. Charles Rookenpumpher This old bogus device has been reintroducedin Washington D.C. by the Health Insurance LobbyAre You Starting To Feel It Yet ? By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog … Continue reading
Former Insurance Exec Says Industry Behind Town Hall Disruptions
Wendell Potter on Rachel Maddow Show Whistleblower: Insurance firms ‘very much’ behind town hall disruptions The health insurance companies ‘are very much behind the town hall disruptions that you see and a lot of the deception that’s going on in … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporate Profits, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Rachel Maddow
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Exposing Lies About Canadian Health Care
Common Myths About the Canadian Health Care System Exposed By Victoria Foe / The Rag Blog / August 5, 2009 I am a dual U.S./Canadian citizen. I am American by birth. I became a naturalized Canadian in my early forties … Continue reading
Barack, Health Insurance, and Your Best Interests
Top Ten Ways To Tell Your President & His Party Aren’t Fighting For Health Care For EverybodyBy Bruce A. Dixon / July 29, 2009 With the corporate media relentlessly distorting the public discussion around health care reform, it time for … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Obama Administration
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Single-Payer Health Care: Some Reasons to Do It
Health CareBy Hosea W. McAdoo M.D. / The Rag Blog / July 29, 2009 “The Americans will always do the right thing . . . After they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.” — Winston Churchill PART IAfter carefully following all the … Continue reading
Doctors Want Real Health Care Reform
Cartoon from LTSaloon.orgDoctors show support for health care reform; Lobbyists, Blue Dogs and Republicans work to gut real change By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / July 28, 2009 This past Wednesday I listened to President Obama’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Lobbyists, Obama Administration, Single Payer
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