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‘Medicare Advantage?’ Advantage Big Business
Health care reform and the 85 percent solution By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / July 13, 2009 “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Obama Administration, Public Health
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Blue Dog Cowardice and the State of Health Care Reform
Photo of blue dog Democrat from dogguide.net.Health Care Reform: The State of the Debate The Democrats, though in the majority and supported by 67% of the American people, act confused, impotent, lacking in courage and conviction. By Dr. Stephen R. … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Health Care Reform, Public Health, Universal Health Care
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Health Care for the Rich : U.S. 50th in Life Expectancy
How can it be that 49 countries have a longer life expectancy, if we supposedly have the ‘best’ health care system in the world? It is because our system is the best only for the rich. By Ted McLaughlin / … Continue reading
The Swine Flu Scare, and the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
Masked Albertan farmworkers during 1918-1919 Spanish flu pandemic. Photo from Wikipedia Commons. When the deaths began to pile up, and most of those affected were young healthy people, just like the Spanish flu, it is easy to see how the … Continue reading
Swine Flu and the Monstrous Power of the Livestock Conglomerates
The nature of the livestock industry has been transformed dramatically. Photo by Oleg Popov / Reuters.The swine flu crisis lays bare the meat industry’s monstrous power The Mexico swine flu outbreak should alert us to a highly globalized industry with … Continue reading
Republicans Blocked Pandemic Preparedness from Stimulus Bill
Susan Collins brags that she led the fight to strip the stimulus bill of pandemic preparednes. Here she shares inanities with President Bush in 2008. Photo by Ron Sachs / Getty Images North America.GOP Know-Nothings Fought Pandemic Preparedness Every discussion … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Economic Stimulus, Public Health, Republican Party, Swine Flu
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Obama’s First 100 Days : Now a Piggy Pandemic?
Graphic by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog. The implications of a global flu pandemic superimposed upon the USA at this point in our history are staggering. By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / April 26, 2009 As President … Continue reading
Baxter Contaminates Flu Vaccine with Live Virus
‘Accidental’ Contamination Of Vaccine With Live Avian Flu Virus Virtually ImpossibleBy Paul Joseph Watson / March 5, 2009 Czech newspapers are questioning if the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus which were distributed to 18 … Continue reading
Dr. Stephen R. Keister : Tell the Republicans: ‘Without Health Life is Not Life’
François Rabelais lisant, anon. drawing, early 17th Century / Wikimedia Commons. Rabelais: ‘Without health life is only a state of languor and an image of death.’ This reminded me of a painting of a 17th century hospital with its endless … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Medicine, Public Health, World History
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Michael Moore and Paul Krugman : Is Sanjay Gupta a ‘Sicko?’
CNN’s Sanjay Gupta vs. Michael MooreBy Jim Galloway / January 9, 2009 See ‘PNHP Opposes Gupta for Surgeon General,‘ by Larry Jones; and Video of Sanjay Gupta and Michael Moore on the Larry King Show, Below. Speculation in Washington is … Continue reading
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Tagged Health Care, Michael Moore, Obama Administration, Public Health, Sanjay Gupta, Surgeon General
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The Real Melamine Story : The FDA Isn’t Protecting Us
Dr. Stephen Sundlof says traces of melanine in baby food “perfectly fine.” Photo by Paul J. Richards / AFP / Getty Images. Conscientious consumers who have followed the melamine story are appropriately outraged. Some have written off the FDA as … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, FDA, Food Contamination, Government Regulation, Melamine, Public Health
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Bush’s Toxic Legacy : The EPA’s ‘Stalin Era’
‘It’s absolutely shocking what’s going on,’ say insiders. ‘Secretive changes have diluted science and jeopardized public health.’By Rebecca Clarren / November 11, 2008 This may sound like just another Erin Brockovich-style tear-jerker. Enter stage right: Poor people exposed to toxic … Continue reading
