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July, 2006

Single Payer Health Care

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Tagged: bureaucracy, Economic theory, executive pay, health care reform, Health insurance and single payer
If you are one of the super-rich and have given in to the various stereotypes, you probably don’t know it is broken. If you are one of the 46 million Americans who are uninsured, you know it is broken. If you are one of the ... Keep Reading

Posted July 26th, 2006 @ 09:27pm More Posts in: Progressive Platform, Essays and Opinion

Health Insurance, the Incentive Not to Care

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Tagged: capitalism and health care, economic disincentives, health care and Higher profit greater suffering
I have chosen this evening to talk about health care in this country. It is a shame indeed that an endeavor so deeply rooted in the most fundamentally decent human instinct, the effort to alleviate suffering, should have deteriorated into a mechanism for the creation of wealth. That the wealth ... Keep Reading

Posted July 26th, 2006 @ 09:25pm More Posts in: Progressive Platform

Robert MacNeil and the Mainstream Media

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Tagged: Bob Parry, Iran Contra, Left journalism, Mac Neil Lehrer, Mainstream media and Rio Sumpul
Back in the 1980’s some of us were driven to political activity. We were children of the ‘60’s, had marched against the war in Vietnam, cheered deliriously at the removal of Richard Nixon, and sunk into a deep depression through Ford and Carter. Once you learn that there is serious ... Keep Reading

Posted July 26th, 2006 @ 09:23pm More Posts in: 911, Essays and Opinion

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July, 2006

Single Payer Health Care

Health Insurance, the Incentive Not to Care

Robert MacNeil and the Mainstream Media

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