Tag Archives: Medicare

A Speech From the Heart…”Bound To Be True”

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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Health Care Is A Sick Business

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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The Public Option vs. The Insurance Industry Profit Protection & Enhancement Act

The Public Option vs The Insurance Industry Profit Protection and Enhancement Act Recently, Wendell Potter, current whistle-blower and former Communications Vice-President of Cigna Health Insurance, of one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, testified before congress declaring the Public Option the only real option to reign in the insurance industry, control costs and provide...

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Follow the Money

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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