tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65802443674451740482026-08-13T09:14:14.143-07:00Why must we pay to live on the planet we're born on?Kellia Ramareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10798417413227170819noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6580244367445174048.post-56008383187947661362010-03-26T13:29:00.000-07:002010-03-26T14:19:51.178-07:00

The 24th and last podcast of the Broadcaster At-Large series is a special on single-payer health care featuring Dr. Margaret Flowers of Physicians for a National Health Program (pnhp.org) and the Baucus 8. Although the Greater Health Insurance Industry Profits Act of 2010 has been passed, it should not be the final word in health care, so download and distribute this program widely. You will find

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As of this writing, the "Greater Profits for the Health Insurance Industry Act" has not yet passed. But already people are organizing against the mandate to buy private health insurance contained in  both the Senate and House versions of the act. My radio news story on one such movement, Millions Against Mandates, can be found on the left sidebar.

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Are you using personal-care and household products that are linked to breast cancer? While cancer experts estimate that 5% to 10% of breast cancers are hereditary (associated with the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes), the majority of women who get breast cancer have no family history and no known risk factors for the disease. In an effort to explain the breast cancer epidemic, health experts are looking

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By Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet Posted on November 26, 2009, Printed on December 28, 2009 In August, the Associated Press asked the Obama White House -- which has promised to be the most transparent administration 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has ever seen -- to release information on all communications between top staff and health care industry bigwigs. The call went unanswered, so in September

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Invetech, an innovator in new product development and custom automation for the biomedical, industrial and consumer markets, today announced that it has delivered the world's first production model 3D bio-printer to Organovo, developers of the proprietary NovoGen bioprinting technology. Organovo will supply the units to research institutions investigating human tissue repair and organ replacement

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No, the title of this blog entry isn’t alarmist, nor is it a conspiracy theory. Let’s talk a moment about…FD&C Yellow #5. We’ve all heard of it, but what is it, really? And why is it that everywhere you turn, you find it in…something that you typically use, or would like to use? FD&C (Federal Dye & Coloring) Yellow #5 is also known as tartrazine – this is a substance that

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Why Are We Drugging Our Kids?By Evelyn Pringle, TruthOut.org Posted on December 14, 2009, Printed on December 14, 2009 http://www.alternet.org/story/144538/Prescriptions for psychiatric drugs increased 50 percent with children in the US, and 73 percent among adults, from 1996 to 2006, according to a study in the May/June 2009 issue of the journal Health Affairs. Another study in the same

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  December 12, 2009 Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics By DUFF WILSON New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe

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“No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." -- John Donne, Meditation XVII Self-sufficiency, a.k.a. self-reliance or rugged individualism, is one of the great fetishes of American culture. To the self-sufficiency fetishists, being able to take care of

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November 30, 2009, 7:03 pm Millions of Jobless Lose Insurance Aid By KATHARINE Q. SEELYEThe changes that the health-care bills in Congress envision are years away — not soon enough to help the millions of unemployed people who, on Monday, lost their temporary federal subsidies for health insurance. That means that people like Linda Rasor, 56, who lives in Haslett, near East Lansing, Mich., and

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Medicare in Crisis: The Devastating Impacts of a Corporate Health Care Bill By Shamus Cooke Global Research, November 27, 2009; Reprinted by permission of the author. Wading through the endless debate over health care has exhausted the patience of most Americans — the zigzags, obscure language, and long-winded discussion is inherently repulsive. But now the dust is starting to settle, and the

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OpEdNews Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rejecting-the-Narrative-fo-by-Kevin-Gosztola-091123-711.html Reprinted by permission of the author. November 23, 2009 Rejecting the Narrative for Health Reform in America, Believing in a Better Way By Kevin Gosztola Flickr photo by Truthout.org To the extent that politicians in Washington, D.C. have not attempted reform of this

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I am deeply disappointed in you for voting for the “Greater Health Insurance Industry Profits Act” a.k.a. H.R. 3962, and especially for voting for it with the Stupak anti-abortion amendment attached, after your voting against the amendment's being attached in the first place. Stupak goes beyond even the Hyde Amendment, in that it forbids women from buying insurance coverage for abortion services

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OpEdNews Original Content at November 8, 2009 Kucinich: Why I Voted NO By Dennis Kucinich Washington D.C. (November 7, 2009) – After voting against H.R. 3962 - Affordable Health Care for America Act, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement: “We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory

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  Washington, Nov 6 - Following a statement on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement: “Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money for war?  “The inequities in our economy are piling up: trillions for war, trillions for Wall Street and tens of billions for the insurance

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by Kellia Ramares [This essay was originally published on Cyrano’s Journal Online on July 9, 2009] THERE SHOULD NOT EVEN BE A DEBATE OVER SINGLE PAYER.  All of the objections to it are a bunch of baloney. Waiting times: I remember my dying grandmother stooped over her cane in agony while waiting hours for Montefiore Hospital, a prestigious private hospital in the Bronx, to find a bed for

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