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17 hours ago ago from Risk Managers
We wrote a local talk show host, offering our views on our current health care system. Below is his response: Free Markets do not produce solutions they only produce profits. The Free Market of Doctors, Health Insurers etc have created a “class system” in America with regards to healthcare. Over 50 under 65, laid off, got health problems…..tough Born with a disease or disability, tough. Injured from breathing bad air, water or unsafe ...
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13 hours ago ago from Now's the Time
I love Atul Gawande’s writings on health care. He has a rare talent for describing technical details of health care, insurance and finances in terms that most people can understand. His recent article in the New Yorker discussed the current health reform bills’ approach to curbing costs, using the agricultural industry as a potential model. One of his basic points is similar to one I have made before. He describes two kinds of ...
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19 hours ago ago from MAinfo
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16 hours ago ago from Family Magazine Blog
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14 hours ago ago from The Radford Free Press
Two things come to mind when I watch the debate' over health care and banking reform, the Senate needs to be fixed, and we need to provide lessons in economics. The Senate has never been a democratic institution. It was designed with stasis in mind. The over representation of small states is astounding in a country that likes to flaunt its democratic heritage in the world's face: a voter in California or any of the larger states is ...
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14 hours ago ago from Huffington Post
With Senate Dems furiously scrambling to arrive at a compromise health care bill, progressives have reached a point where most fear a health care bill more than they initially hoped for it. For politicians with reputations to manicure, a health care bill, any health care bill, at any cost, may be better than nothing. For the people of the Unites States, killing the bill would be better than a disease care reform, which from the way things ...
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