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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 [...]

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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. …… The department said the $2.3 billion settlement included a $1.2 billion criminal fine, the largest criminal fine in [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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Bleeping Golden

June 19, 2009

I've been thinking that if cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy were flammable gases, and could be captured….our national energy problems would be solved immediately…..and we could pay off our national debt with the money left over. Let me explain my jaded and cynical self. Remember those great moments of Blago a few months ago? The voting [...]

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Choices & Competition

June 15, 2009

Here's a link to update this post….it's a must read. From yesterday's Face the Nation on CBS with Bob Schieffer…. Schieffer countered (Senator Mitch) McConnell's(R-KY) contention that the Obama plan would choose (or deny) which treatments a covered individual may get; the White House is not proposing any kind of rationing board, he said. He [...]

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What We Need To Know

June 12, 2009

While extremists dominate our broader public discourse with some of the craziest sh*t I've ever heard….the most important issues of the day are being decided quietly, behind the scenes, without much media coverage or discussion. Carrie Prejean, former Miss Someone, was in the "news" again yesterday, not because any important news had been made, but [...]

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