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Category Archives: Health Care Reform
The Cost of For-Profit Healthcare
Quote of the Day from http://portside.org/submittous3 January 20, 2010 ‘We have a for-profit health care system, where $800,000,000,000 every year is spent on corporate profits, stock options, executive salaries, advertising, marketing and the cost of paperwork. ‘In the for-profit system … Continue reading
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As the year ends, take time to celebrate the Most Valuable Progressives
During the last few weeks of December and the beginning of January, most media sources publish lists of “best” “worst” or “most important” people, events, or issues of the past year. After looking through many of them for inspiration in … Continue reading
Single Payer Legislation is being debated by the Senate today!
After all the hype, compromise, corruption and political weaseling, “health care reform” is looking like a cardboard cutout of meaningless legislation. The stocks of the major insurance companies that provide health insurance are soaring. The outlook for the American public … Continue reading
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New York Times Reports Union Resistance to Health Reform Legislation’s Tax on Benefits
Did you ever wonder how health care insurance in America became linked with employment? The answer is that during World War II, when wages were frozen by the government, employers objected that they would not be able to recruit or … Continue reading →