Tag Archives: Socialized Medicine

Steve Russell :
Your money and your life: The politics of
VA medical care

Paleoconservatives have a long-range plan to destroy Medicare and Medicaid without attacking them directly. By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | March 31, 2018 Editor’s Note:  The Rag Blog published Steve Russell’s article, “Your Money and Your Life,” on … Continue reading

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Dr. Stephen R. Keister : Approaching 90, I Despair for my Country

Image from Free Health Care News.As I approach my 90th year:I despair for the state of my country(and its corrupted health care system) I look at the Republican ‘debates’ and wonder, where did we — as a supposedly enlightened society … Continue reading

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Dr. Stephen R. Keister : Physician, Heal Thyself

Graphic by Daniel Marsula / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.Physician, heal thyself:The sad demise of medical ethics By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / November 17, 2010 Recently I awoke to a front page article in The Erie Times-News headlined … Continue reading

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‘Socialized’ Medicine : It Works all Over the World

British Conservative leader David Cameron, certainly no “socialist,” calls the National Health Service (NHS), “one of the wonderful things about living in (England).” [The Republicans have] told so many lies about the government health care in other countries, that some … Continue reading

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Socialized Medicine? Canadian Health Care Saved my Father’s Life

The following anecdote about Canadian health care, about which we here in the South hear much negativity, came to me from a friend whose reliability I respect. Due to the intimate nature of the report, identifying information was removed to … Continue reading

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David P. Hamilton: Socialized Medicine Works for Me

Universal Health Care Now stencil art recycled vinyl LP clock by artbymags / Margaret CobleVA health care and Medicare are ‘good medicine’ In essence, health care should be a human right, not a commodity. It should not be restricted to … Continue reading

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‘Socialized Medicine’ : It Works for Others

‘Sweden and other European countries have some of the best health care in the world and provide it at a cost far less than in America.’By Hosea W. McAdoo M.D. / The Rag Blog / December 7, 2008 [President-elect Barack … Continue reading

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HEALTH CARE / Dr. Stephen R. Keister: The Gauntlet Has Been Tossed

A doctor makes a rare house call to visit patients in Florida. While such house calls are rare in the US, they are commonplace in France. Photo by Gregg Matthews / NYT.‘The insurance companies are money making businesses that have … Continue reading

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Retired Physician : Our Health Care System an Outrage

‘The insurance industry, and the Republican Party, over the years have sold the public a bill of goods’By S. R. Keister / The Rag Blog / September 30, 2008 I have been reading Vincent Bugliosi’s “The Prosecution of George W. … Continue reading

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