Posts Tagged ‘health care’
Bill Moyers on Obama’s Moment
From PBS.org – Video of Bill Moyers’ thoughts on President Obama and his plan for health reform.
Read MoreWhite House Overwhelmed with Requests for Obama to Meet with “Mad as Hell Doctors” about Single Payer
The “Mad As Hell Doctors” from Oregon are making themselves heard at the Obama Administration with an email campaign that threatened to shut down the White House inbox. The road-tripping, physician-activists from Oregon known as the “Mad As Hell Doctors” received a pressing call from the White House this week to demand they remove a…
Read MoreThe health care wars Pt.2
From the Real News Network – From pro-single payer to anti-government plans, a discussion after a town hall meeting in Virginia.
Read MoreSingle-Payer News of the Past Week
Below is a news round up from this past week in healthcare reform. Letters to the Editor –Single-payer option works – The Patriot-News –Single-payer system is the answer – Baxter Bulletin –Support single-payer health care – Hudson Reporter –Medicare works; so would single-payer health care system – Pocono Record –Single-payer plan would prove a boon…
Read MoreMoney-Driven Medicine
From Bill Moyers Journal – The film MONEY-DRIVEN MEDICINE reveals how a profit-hungry medical-industrial complex has turned health care into a system that squanders millions of dollars on unnecessary tests, unproven and sometimes unwanted procedures and overpriced prescription drugs. Watch the full episode here.
Read MoreLiar, Liar … Well, Healthcare Pants on Fire
By Donna Smith – So, we’ve been told over and over again that under the healthcare reform plans currently defended and pushed by the President and Congress that we can keep what we’ve got if we like it. No one will take your health insurance bennies away. Not under our employer-based, for-profit system. Well, tell…
Read MoreGreatest Tribute to Kennedy: Pass Health Care for All
By Robert Creamer – There has been much commentary that the Senate debate on health care would have benefited from the parliamentary and personal skills of Senator Ted Kennedy had he been present over the months of illness that took his life last night. But it would have benefited even more from his moral clarity.…
Read MoreWhat’s the Fate of the Healthcare Reform? (Video)
From GRITtv – Is the healthcare debate making you sick? We’ve got some clear information – which just may be the best medicine. Joining us today we have Wendell Potter, former Vice President of CIGNA; Karen Finney, former Communications Director of the Democratic National Committee; and our very own Diane Shamis, GRITtv Producer and Founding…
Read MoreMessage to Americans From Canadian Doctors & Health Care Experts (Video)
Canadian Doctors for Medicare hosted a celebration of Medicare in Canada. The speakers included Roy Romanow, former Saskatchewan Premiere and Commissioner on Health Care in Canada. They tell Americans that Canadian universal health care works and encourage Americans to implement a single payer universal health care systems.
Read MoreT.R. Reid: Looking Overseas For ‘Healing of America’
From NPR’s Fresh Air – T.R. Reid made a global survey of global healthcare systems and reports on lessons for the US.
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