DOCTOR'S RANT

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Thursday March 25, 2010 · 8:58 PM PDT

2010/03/25 · 20:58

A day in the life of a family doc. How much will this health reform package really help? And how can a civilized country tolerate the rhetoric of the Republicans and the Tea Party folks?

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Tuesday January 12, 2010 · 9:03 PM PST

2010/01/12 · 21:03

Even though legislation has not yet been passed by Congress, its limited possible reform outlines are very visible. Real health reform will not happen. The loss of this moment, so full of the possibilities of real change, is due to the capture of all three branches of government by our country's financial institutions - the health insurance companies among them. Movement toward improving our country's health services and expanding social justice will not occur without comprehending how the USA has been torn asunder by the Chicago School of Free Market Economics and its off spring, the current economic depression.

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Wednesday December 23, 2009 · 7:55 AM PST

2009/12/23 · 07:55

Physicians for A National Health Program (PNHP.org), a group of over 17,000 docs, has had the wisdom recognize the waste and inefficiencies as well as the illness producing effects of for profit commercial health insurance for over 10 years. We have been the leaders in designing and promoting a single payer, Medicare for All solution to the health care crisis. After analysis of the content of the legislation about to pass the Senate, PNHP has issued the following statement identifying the need to defeat the currently proposed legislation.

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Saturday November 21, 2009 · 8:31 AM PST

2009/11/21 · 08:31

Promoting routine mammograms for low risk women is not the best way to maximize their usefulness. It is more important to have universal national health insurance to extend health care including mammograms to more high risk women.

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Tuesday June 23, 2009 · 6:44 AM PDT

2009/06/23 · 06:44

Let's compare Iran and the USA.

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Tuesday June 09, 2009 · 10:11 PM PDT

2009/06/09 · 22:11

The first draft of Senator Kennedy's health reform bill finds it to be totally inadequate.

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Sunday June 07, 2009 · 8:08 AM PDT

2009/06/07 · 08:08

Most people are unaware how similar the major health insurers are to our failed Wall Street firms.They are corporate cash cows and have virtually no fiduciary responsibility and few activities for protecting or improving health or the health care system.They will devote their vast resources to prevent any meaningful health reform. They have controlled Congress and the mainstream media. The only cure is vigorous popular support for a single payer, Medicare for All reform.

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Which Health reform Model do you suport?

1245 votes Vote Now!

Which Health reform Model do you suport?

No change.

12 votes

More purchasing power to the individual patient/consumer.

22 votes

More regulation and supervision of the private insurance industry.

8 votes

A government requirement that everyone buy health insurance, with government subsidy for the poor.

19 votes

The addition of a new "public health plan" along side commercial health insurance.

79 votes

A single payer, Medicare for All financing program with universal coverage.

1073 votes

I willl move to Canada when I get sick.

32 votes

The White House Forum on Health Care is Window Dressing

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Monday April 06, 2009 · 10:20 PM PDT

2009/04/06 · 22:20

The is a disappointing report from the last White House Forum on Health Reform held in Los Angeles on April 6. My general impression is that the attendees are being used as window dressing to preserve the power of the insurance companies.

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What would be the best practical outcome of the current interest in health reform?

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What would be the best practical outcome of the current interest in health reform?

No changes

2 votes

Eliminate insrurance, every consumer on his own

2 votes

Regulate and subsidize existing insurance companies and require universal enrollment

2 votes

Eliminate employer based private insurance

4 votes

Elinimate all insurance plans in favor of a single payer Medicare for All

63 votes

Add a public option plan alongside commercial insurance

32 votes

Have the government own all the facilities and employ all the providers.

5 votes

HEALTH CARE REFORM RED ALERT

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Wednesday March 04, 2009 · 4:51 AM PST

2009/03/04 · 04:51

On Thursday March 5 President Obama will hold a White House conference to kick off his health care reform initiative. 120 people have been invited, but there are no representatives of the single payer model. The corporate powers are stacking the deck before the game begins.Contact the White House now.

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Sunday November 09, 2008 · 10:55 PM PST

2008/11/09 · 22:55

The Bush Administration's response to the current financial crisis has not only been inept, it is blinded by ideology and prone to failure. Wake up America!

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63 votes Show Results

Is The Bush Administration doing a good job in response to the finacial crisis?

63 votes Vote Now!

Is The Bush Administration doing a good job in response to the finacial crisis?

Excellent

2 votes

Adequate

1 vote

Lacking leadership

4 votes

Horrible

8 votes

It's a farce

29 votes

It's time for Mr. Obama to intervene

19 votes

HISTORY'S JUDGEMENT

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Monday September 22, 2008 · 6:47 AM PDT

2008/09/22 · 06:47

The Bush years represent the culmination of a fifty year trend which has resulted in the collapse of any moral claim the United State has to leadership in political or human progress.

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Thursday September 18, 2008 · 8:10 AM PDT

2008/09/18 · 08:10

This is characteristically another George Bush failure.

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