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ALICE EMBREE / Town Hall Lessons in Accountability / A Poison Bill and its Antidote
By Alice Embree / The Rag Blog / May 26, 2025 This article originally appeared in Alice Embree’s Substack. The New York Times provided the autopsy report on the budget bill that passed by one vote. The tax and spending … Continue reading
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Report from the weeds: My struggles with the pharmaceutical pusherman
I see myself in some virtual Kafka novel. By Anne Lewis | The Rag Blog | January 18, 2018 January 10 4:53 p.m. Today I found myself suddenly unable to afford Jim’s basic medications. Rasagiline went from $24.38 to $716.00 … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Lewis, Drug Prices, Health Care, Medical Bureaucracy, Medicare, Pharmaceuticals, Rag Bloggers
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Ted McLaughlin : Are We Moving Towards Single-Payer?
Photo by Glyn Lowe Photoworks / Flickr. Image from OtherWords.The pressures moving the U.S. closerto a single-payer health care system There will be a huge pressure to reform Medicaid — and the only way to reform it adequately is to … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care, Health Insurance, medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, Single Payer, Supreme Court, Ted McLaughlin, Universal Health Care
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Rag Bloggers : A Conversation about Life, Death, and Washington
Rag Blog Discussion Group. Image from bsimple.com. A Rag Blogger conversation: Life, Death, Washington, and the healthcare universe By The Rag Bloggers / The Rag Blog / July 13, 2011 The budget/deficit negotiations in Washington have recently provoked a flurry … Continue reading
Dr. Stephen R. Keister : Saving Granny from Vouchercare
Political cartoon by Nick Anderson / Houston Chronicle.Unkindest cut of all:Saving Granny from Vouchercare By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / June 15, 2011 “Avarice has so seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Dr. Stephen R. Keister, Drug Law Reform, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Medicare
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Lamar W. Hankins : Medicare and the Corporatist Agenda
The assault of corporatism. Image from The Nation blogs.Medicare’s backstory:How corporatism controls the agenda By Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / June 7, 2011 Ever since President Lyndon Johnson succeeded in getting Medicare enacted in 1965, corporatist politicians … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Corporate Power, Lamar W. Hankins, Medicare, Public Health
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Dr. Stephen R. Keister : Democrats, Medicare, and the ‘Jaws of Victory’
Jaws: Leaving an opening for the Republicans.From the jaws of victory…The Democrats, Medicare andthe ‘winning message’ By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / June 1, 2011 “In a country well governed poverty is something to be ashamed … Continue reading
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Tagged Democratic Party, Dr. Stephen R. Keister, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Medicare
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Lamar W. Hankins : The Republicans and ‘Medicare As We Know It’
Rep. Paul Ryan and ‘medicare as we know it.’ Photo by J. Scott Applewhite / AP.(but should be made ineffective…)Republicans agree that Medicare is essentialBy Lamar W. Hankins / The Rag Blog / April 13, 2011 This past week, House … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Economics, Federal Budget, Health Insurance, Lamar W. Hankins, Medicare, Paul Ryan, Republican Party
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Dr. Stephen R. Keister : Political Idiots and Economic Dementia
Aldous Huxley: the “dogmatism and proselytizing zeal… of religious or political idiots.”Huxley’s ‘political idiots’ andpublic health in America By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / April 13, 2011 “At least two thirds of our miseries spring from … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr. Stephen R. Keister, Medicare, Medicine, Public Health, Republican Party
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Congress : Health Care on Life Support
Cartoon by Matson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch / The Moderate Voice.Good riddance to Senate bill;Some encouraging words from the PresidentBy Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / February 8, 2010 The word emanating from Washington regarding health care … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Dr. Stephen R. Keister, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Political Opinion
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Faustian Bargain : Congress and Health Care
Cutting the health care deal:Bargaining behind closed doors By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / January 11, 2010 “The country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Dr. Stephen R. Keister, Economy, Health Care Reform, Medicare
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Health Care ‘Reform’ : Just Say No to Traitor Joe!
Don’t Surrender to Senator JoeVote “No” on the health care joke By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / December 16, 2009 It looks like the United States Senate is going to cave in and surrender to Joe Lieberman. They … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Health Care Reform, Joe Lieberman, Medicare, Progressive Democrats, Public Option, Ted McLaughlin, U.S. Senate
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