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Opt-Out? Why?

October 27, 2009

I've been busy. Normal daily blogging will continue tomorrow. Here's something quick on yesterday's health reform news-front.
Surprisingly, to me at least, the health reform bill to be introduced in the Senate will include a public option…..
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced what we've been reporting today – the merged health care bill will include a [...]

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Health Care Reform Debate: Just Starting

October 13, 2009

I've purposely avoided writing very much about the alleged debate allegedly going on over health care reform. As I see it, up til now, we haven't been debating anything. However, now with President Max Baucus' (D-MT) immaculately-conceived version of health reform coming up for a vote today in his Senate Finance Committee, we're getting closer [...]

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The Big 9, "One Piece" & Big Head Todd

September 10, 2009

Nine big health insurance companies own 76.7% of the health insurance business in America.
Unitedhealth Group, WellPoint and Aetna, collectively, insure 48.3% of Americans who have private health care insurance.
With Obama explaining last night his version of what a health care reform bill would look like,….including a mandate to buy health care insurance…..we can expect that [...]

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Democrats Prepared To Sell Americans Out

September 9, 2009

Digby on a health insurance mandate….
Any plan that forces the uninsured to pay their hard earned money to wealthy private insurance companies under penalty of law is a huge political risk. These are the same companies that have brought us to this place where people are routinely denied the care they were promised, lied [...]

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Media Helps Anti-Worker Cause

September 7, 2009

If the cost of health care continues to rise in America, who will it hurt the most?
It won't be the wealthy, they will be able to continue to afford medical coverage, because…they're rich.
It won't be the poorest or the seniors. Medicaid and Medicare will still cover those two most vulnerable groups.
That leaves the rest [...]

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Free Market Criminality

September 3, 2009

Perhaps you've seen this story…..
Pfizer pays $2.3 billion
Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drug maker, will pay a record $2.3 billion civil and criminal penalty over unlawful prescription drug promotions, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
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The department said the $2.3 billion settlement included a $1.2 billion criminal fine, the largest criminal fine in U.S. history. The agreement [...]

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We Are So Screwed

August 16, 2009

On June 15th, The Reverend wrote this…
"As I have blogged previously, I firmly believe that any health care reform coming out of Washington, inevitably, will exclude a public option and, most likely, will tax employer-provided health care benefits as well. Love to be wrong about that."
Two months and a hundred swastikas later….
Senator Kent Conrad [...]

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What $1.4 Million A Day Buys

July 28, 2009

We have learned that the health industry lobbyists are spending $1.4 million per day persuading Congress to do what they want and not what the American people want.
We also know that the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America has "doubled its spending to nearly $7 million in the first quarter", to fight against the needs [...]

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Capitalist Jihadists IED'ing Health Care

July 7, 2009

Former House majority leader Richard K. Armey is one of several ex-congressmen working on behalf of health-care companies as a Senate committee considers legislation. Armey represents a New Jersey pharmaceutical firm. (By Danny Johnston — Associated Press)
The Capitalist Jihadists have begun their summer offensive against the American people…….
The nation's largest insurers, hospitals and medical [...]

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The National Threat From Capitalism

June 22, 2009

One of the Akron Beacon Journal's favorite columnists, the Washington Post's George Will, is back in this morning's Journal, even though the Beacon has yet to tell it's readers about the blatant errors Will has made in a couple of his previous columns,….errors never retracted. It's very obvious that today's newspapers no longer feel obligated [...]

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