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  1. I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    blue note replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    It is no secret where Michael Moore is coming from. John Stossel pretends to be an impartial journalist when he is

  2. I want to know what nurses think about socialized medicine.

    blue note replied to ratchet41's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    How true. That John Stossel is a hack corporate shill is not news. Remember the 20/20 organic food story he did, which resulted in ABC reprimanding him for lying about tests conducted and he was...

  3. Obama's health plan takes shape

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    economics professor uwe reinhardt asks, "is health care reform worth $1.6 trillion?" and puts the numbers into perspective: a price tag of $1.6 trillion seems immense if one contemplates the figure...

  4. GOP releases healthcare plan; actual plan not included

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    More of Stephen Colbert on health care: America's Health Plan-Demic The House Republicans' health care reform plan is practical in that it's practically three pages long and has no numbers. Interview...

  5. GOP releases healthcare plan; actual plan not included

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Stephen Colbert skewers Faux News/conservative outrage over the ABC health care special, and the GOP "plan." The part about the GOP "plan" starts at about 2:37 in the clip. :roll Click to

  6. GOP releases healthcare plan; actual plan not included

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Chairman of the House Health Care Solutions Group Roy Blunt (R - MO) met with the editorial board of the Kansas City Star to discuss the GOP health care "plan," and it did not go very well for

  7. Health Insurers Bilked Patients Of Billions Of Dollars: Senate Report

    blue note posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    health insurers bilked patients of billions of dollars: senate report ex-insider testifies to 'fear

  8. Obama's health plan takes shape

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    no, i do not see your narrow definition as the be-all and end-all of uhc. and while i have no problems with the term "redistribution of wealth," i'll thank you to not presume to know what i like,...

  9. Insurance Executive Admits To Killing Patients

    blue note replied to herring_RN's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Related article on the problems facing people with pre-existing conditions from the LA Times. Last-resort health coverage barely covers

  10. Obama's health plan takes shape

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    But we do know that the current system is costly, cumbersome and fails too many people. We do know how costs will increase if nothing is done. Insurance Premiums On The Rise Premiums for...

  11. Obama's health plan takes shape

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    How arrogant. Just because you and conservatives call UHC redistribution of health does NOT make it

  12. Obama's health plan takes shape

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    In other words, you claim UHC to be a "redistribution of wealth" yet totally ignore the consequences of such

  13. Obama's health plan takes shape

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Amazingly, countries with UHC like the UK and Canada still have millions living in poverty, despite this "redistribution of wealth" - 13.2 million in the UK (22% poverty rate), 3.5 million in Canada...

  14. Obama's health plan takes shape

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Why, thank you. I've got more - Fixed News, Fox Noise..... Same old Republican fearmongering that we've all heard hundreds of times before. And all centering around the false premise that...

  15. Obama's health plan takes shape

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    SEIU teams up with Laughing Liberally to parody anti-reformers: Community outreach qoHCmq2lhe4 Message strategy session AzDwXr9szxw What if we ran the fire department like we run the health care...

  16. Private insurance, most efficient , cost effective funding of Healthcare ?

    blue note replied to nicurn001's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    More on the ridiculous administrative costs necessitated by the health insurance industry Physician practice interactions with health plans cost $31 billion a year A new national survey finds that:...

  17. Obama's health plan takes shape

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Source: Employee Benefit Research Institute and Matthew Greenwald & Associates, Inc., 2009 Health Confidence Survey. The "public plan option" results include respondents' reaction to the...

  18. Private insurance, most efficient , cost effective funding of Healthcare ?

    blue note replied to nicurn001's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    All the back and forth, and backtracking by the politicians (and I am looking at you, Dem Senators) is purely because they are trying to protect the precious interests of the health insurance...

  19. Obama's health plan takes shape

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Faux News has about as much journalistic "credibility" as Pravda or TASS from the Soviet Union

  20. GOP releases healthcare plan; actual plan not included

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    RNC Chairman Michael Steele says health care reform is "easy!" All we have to do is "figure out who" doesn't have access to health care, "and give them access!" Just, "do the deal!" :smackingf Really,...

  21. GOP releases healthcare plan; actual plan not included

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    78-UelAcyyE

  22. Obama's health plan takes shape

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Hopefully, those poll numbers will help put an end to the waffling of some of the Dems, get them to stop being the health insurance companies' sock puppets, and drive home the point that health care...

  23. GOP releases healthcare plan; actual plan not included

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Yep. Love how they just blithely dismiss the how-ever-many millions as not Americans and so, they don't count. There are many legal immigrants in this country who pay taxes as well, so they deserve...

  24. Obama's health plan takes shape

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Obviously, your mind has already been made up even before the ABC special has aired, and regardless of what would actually be on the program. As for ABC being the new Al-jazeera, it's laughable...

  25. Obama's health plan takes shape

    blue note replied to blue note's topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Wow, objections straight out from the RNC press release. The special is not an infomercial for the Obama administration. The special will include a town hall style Q&A with an audience picked by...