Obama’s Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick
Chris Hedges A close reading of the new health care legislation, which will conveniently take effect in 2014 after the next presidential election, is deeply depressing. The legislation not only mocks...
View ArticleLearning from Iran
Ralph Nader An article in the current issue of the AARP Bulletin is likely to get a “What’s this?” reaction from many of its millions of readers. It is titled “Iranian Cure for the Delta’s Blues,”...
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Obama Administration Applies Stupak Amendment to High Risk Pools
This week, a commotion arose over the question of whether Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plans, also known as high risk pools, can include abortion coverage. The Obama Administration responded...
View ArticleFor-Profit Insurers Leaning on Regulators to "Reform" Health Reform
Wendell Potter The nation's biggest insurers -- not happy with provisions of the four-month-old health care reform law that would force many of them to spend more of the money they collect in premiums...
View ArticleNation Fails to Honor, Protect 9/11 Heroes Again
Donna Smith For nearly nine years the 9/11 rescue workers have labored to have access to healthcare to treat the injuries sustained when they worked at ground zero on September 11, 2001, when planes...
View ArticleBorat Economics: Why do the Debt Hawks Want to Copy Kazakhstan?
Dean Baker The Washington Post and most of the important people in Washington want the United States to be like Kazakhstan. Unfortunately, this is not another Borat movie; this is the about central...
View ArticleReport: States Pass Staggering Array of Anti-Choice Laws, Policies and Ballot...
Live in Tennessee, Mississippi, Arizona, Missouri or Louisiana? The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) wants you to know that, with the implementation of health care reform in 2014, you will not have...
View ArticleSurprise! Private Insurers Skirt New Health Care Law
Jon Walker Democrats were extra proud when they put a requirement that insurance companies cover children with pre-existing conditions in their new health care law. Now, I bet the CEOs at the...
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Daschle Admits -- Then Denies -- That White House Agreed With Industry To...
In a candid interview with the Center for American Progress [on Tuesday], former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle acknowledged that the public option didn't survive the health care debate because of...
View ArticleSleeping Free of Healthcare Fear
Donna Smith Stress kills. Stress makes people sick. So wouldn’t it make sense that a reduction in stress might actually save lives? How about families? And jobs? And freedom from want and fear?...
View ArticleBeing SiCKO in a Tea Party Nation
Donna Smith RENO, Nevada -- I ventured backward in my memories to the fall of 2006 and wondered what might have happened differently if the Tea Party ruled this nation. It's not that I am thrilled...
View ArticleDreams and Promises for Health Care Justice
Donna Smith In Denver tonight, I close myself in a hotel room and wonder what might have been. But I also marvel what has been and what will be and what must be for us all in the future. In the...
View ArticleWhat Value Does Private Insurance Add to US Health?
Donna Smith Most Americans I know really don’t like to get ripped off. We don’t mind paying for something that is what we thought we were paying for. We just hate the feeling of having been taken. And...
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World Comparison Shows U.S. Healthcare Lacking
WASHINGTON - A third of Americans say they have gone without medical care or skipped filling a prescription because of cost, compared to 5 percent in the Netherlands, according to study released on...
View ArticleHealth Care Confusion Trips up ‘Confuser’ Turned Whistleblower
Donna Smith Sometimes you cannot make up the twists and turns in life that burst forward out of the relatively predictable stuff. Such is the case as for-profit, private health insurance spokesperson...
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