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  1. Obama's health plan takes shape

    blue note posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Barack Obama's health plan takes shape

  2. Architect of Canadian health care system wants private health care

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

    The writer of that piece, David Grazter, has a history of distorting opinions to suit his own political agenda. Mediamatters reported on how an op-ed piece of his falsely suggested that Canadian...

  3. Architect of Canadian health care system wants private health care

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

    I thought so

  4. Obama's health plan takes shape

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

    And now, for some health care reform humor, with charts! Courtesy of Ezra Klein from the WaPo. John Boehner's office tries to make the House Dems' plan look really scary, via chart! (click for larger...

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

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

    Here you go: Side-by-side comparison of major health care reform

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

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

    U.S. Health Spending Breaks From the Pack The U.S. is the only industrialized country that doesn't have universal health care, and it spends a much higher percentage of its GDP, and much more per...

  7. Interview with a former health insurance company exec

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

    The former CIGNA exec, Wendell Porter, was on Bill Moyer's Journal recently. You can watch the video of the interview on the PBS site. From the transcript: On why he started speaking out: On...

  8. Interview with a former health insurance company exec

    blue note posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Interview with a former health insurance company exec Full interview at Columbia Journalism Review (Trudy Lieberman = interviewer; WP = Wendell Porter, former CIGNA head of corporate communications)...

  9. Health reform would be expensive. So would no health reform.

    blue note posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Health reform would be expensive. So would no health reform

  10. Obama's health plan takes shape

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

    Anti-public plan Sen. DeMint inadvertently concedes that public plan won't take over the market

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

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

    A Kaiser Foundation study found that many American companies do not offer health insurance to employees. Very small companies in particular are especially unlikely to provide such benefits: Even...

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

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

    CDC: Private health care coverage at

  13. Physicians' perspectives on health care reform

    blue note posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    Hopefully, this will be a useful catch-all thread instead of starting a new thread for every new article! A Day in the Life of a Primary Care Physician: Prior Authorizations, Denials, and Delays in...

  14. Physicians' perspectives on health care reform

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

    Getting a second opinion on healthcare reform: There are voices besides the AMA LA

  15. Insurance Executive Admits To Killing Patients

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

    New Report: Private Insurance Mergers Lead to Near-Monopolies Across the Country Full article

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

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

    who's afraid of public insurance? full article at national journal the writer discusses several recent surveys and polls showing high support for a public option - check out the consumer assessment of...

  17. Insurance Executive Admits To Killing Patients

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

    We Must Stop the Rampant Fraud in the Health Care Industry by Sen. Bernie Sanders (a real health care

  18. Insurance Executive Admits To Killing Patients

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

    Even those with health insurance are going broke Full article at Seattle

  19. GOP releases healthcare plan; actual plan not included

    blue note posted a topic in Activism, Healthcare

    GOP releases healthcare plan; actual plan not included Source: Salon Remember the House Republicans' alternative budget plan where the only numbers were the page numbers? Well, they've done it again!...

  20. Insurance Executive Admits To Killing Patients

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

    Yet, they are adamant about not letting the government compete in a free market by offering a public option as an alternative to the private insurance

  21. Insurance Executive Admits To Killing Patients

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

    Has anyone from the anti-reform side defended the practices of the health insurance companies? I'd like to see what kind of rationale they come up with to justify denying insurance, denying claims,...

  22. GOP releases healthcare plan; actual plan not included

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

    Oooh, Socialism!! Scary! Reminds of these Daily Show with Jon Stewart reports: [/url] The Stockholm Syndrome Pt. 1 Wyatt Cenac travels to Sweden to wake up their hauntingly thin citizens from...

  23. Insurance Executive Admits To Killing Patients

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

    Health Care Stories for America A new site launched last week as a counterbalance to claims that the administration's agenda for health care reform will create a government-run bureaucracy that will...

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

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

    Sorry you got your Stossel bubble

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

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

    He was asked, "If you believe that consumer reporting works, and is a better regulator than regulation or lawsuits, why did you stop doing it?" His reply: "I got sick of it. I also now make so much...