Medicare Drug Planners Now Lobbyists, With Billions at Stake
Region: District of Columbia
Four years ago, a group of lawmakers and aides crafted Medicare Part D, the prescription drug program for seniors that has produced billions of dollars of profits for pharmaceutical companies. Today, at least 25 of those ... more
Views: 1922Health Care Reform: Search the Competing Bills—and See What Hoops They Have to Jump Through
Region: United StatesThe hubbub has subsided after President Obama's health care speech [1], but reform's treacherous route through Congress remains the same. Obama called for reining in the insurance industry, creating a public option to hel... more
Views: 1241Improving US Healthcare Debate: Playing Doctor?
Region: New YorkAlthough I have my own views on improving healthcare in the USA, it is improving the healthcare debate that I wish to address, not the specifics of Obama's proposals ("Obamacare"). From all quarters, quotes are ... more
Views: 1323What's Not Being Disclosed On Obamacare
Region: United States
Interesting in all the debates now on the mainstream media that some rather pertinent facts and observations have also been kept from the public in all the brouhaha surrounding Obama's and Congress's plans for health care ... more
Views: 1437Schwarzenegger Wants Sweeping Reforms in Discipline System for Health Care Providers
Region: California
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday conceded [1] that long-standing delays in disciplining errant health professionals were "absolutely unacceptable" and promised broad reforms to better protect patients from dentists,... more
Views: 1095Video of President Obama Speaks at Healthcare Summit
Region: Trinidad and Tobago
Video of President Obama Speaks at Healthcare Summit. BARNES: Good afternoon. I'm pleased to welcome you to the White House Forum on Health Care Reform. Many months ago, President Obama promised the count... more
Views: 2985Fran Lebowitz on Football, Algebra, Cigarette Smoking, Marriage, and the Economy.
Region: New York
There are at least two things that essayist Fran Lebowitz does not understand: football and algebra. “If they were having the Superbowl in my living room, I wouldn’t walk down the hallway from my bedroom,... more
Views: 3414Get the Word to the Streets
Region: New York
Politics is a collective work of art. Politicians need to elicit expression from as many voters as they can to win, yet besides organizing and voting, the place for user-generated expression has mostly been limited to paro... more
Views: 1595McCain and Obama and American Socialism: It’s The Economy, Comrade!
Region: United StatesScrap any political party affiliation: both presidential nominees unveiled socialist agendas at last night’s presidential debate. This is what it has come to. John McCain spoke about f... more
Views: 1550Sick in America? You’re on Your Own
Region: United States
Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC), knows what ails the nation’s sick health care system. The AFL-CIO Executive Council member say... more
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