The bill is far from perfect, but doing nothing was to let the insurance and pharmaceutical companies continue their reign of terror unabated. This bill is a decent beginning…100 years in the making. If, for no other reason, it was a crushing defeat for the fear-mongering, lying and self-serving antics of the GOP leadership!!
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This is a wonderful speech and worth listening to, in its entirety. It is inspiring and gives me hope.The vote is today. Keep your fingers crossed “Every once in a while a moment comes where you have a chance to vindicate all those best hopes that you had about yourself, about this country, where you...
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I could not have said this better myself. Oh, that’s right…I have been saying this all along (“The Republican Party is a fully owned subsidiary of the insurance industry.”)…but this is a live broadcast to the American people on the so-called health care debate, out of the mouth of NY State Representative Weiner. Now, if...
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No Stone Left Unturned One of the biggest indicators of how much we need health care reform is the extent and costs of the battle that the special interests of the medical-pharmaceutical-industrial complex are waging to kill it. Theirs’ is a well financed, coordinated, no-holds-barred war, leaving no stone un-turned in their efforts to influence...
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Health care is a sick business Imagine an entity that is both amoral and soulless; its guiding precept is profit and growth. This is the foundation of the modern American conglomerate; including those of the health care, pharmaceutical and insurance industries. Witness: “Health insurance giant Aetna is planning to force up to 650,000 clients to...
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Republican vs. Democratic Health Reform Plans US Representative Alan Grayson, from the great state of Florida, sums up, simply and precisely, the Republican Health Reform Plan vs. the Democratic Health Reform plan, the public option. What don’t people get?
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Things are getting seriously ugly as the health care reform debate moves forward. That’s because we have a President who is determined to actually DO something. What it is that he actually CAN do, remains to be seen. Conservative and GOP-backed think-tanks along with the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance industrial complex’s media, advertising arms and hired guns/lobbyists have...
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Health Care Deformed Just how powerful are the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance special interests that oppose health care reform? More powerful than ever, and their power grows daily. During the Clinton administration these special interests were able to squash attempts at health care reform as if the President and First Lady were as insignificant and powerless as gnats....
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Political InAction Whether or not you are paying attention to, and engage in, the health care reform debate the outcome will be determined by the most vocal and influential voices in Washington. Take heed, the vested interests of the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance industrial complex are geared up and out in full force. “The big guns are out...
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At the end of the day, when you strip away all the distractions, the battle for health care reform is a battle of powerful special interests protecting obscene and expanding profits at the expense of the health and welfare of Americans. At the end of the day, our government will have to choose to side...
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