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How we killed health care, and how we can bring it back to life

Mon, 12/21/2009 - 8:32pm — admin2 (not verified)

America has at least 36 million uninsured citizens. Unpaid medical bills are the leading cause of personal bankruptcy. Approximately, 45,000 Americans die every year because they don't have health insurance. Many Americans think that they have health coverage only to have it taken away from them through a process called "rescission," which basically means your insurance company accuses you of lying on your initial questionnaire and refuses to pay.

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Private Insurance Successfully Fights Obsolescence Through Bribery (As Congress Applies Medicare 55+ Lipstick to the HCR pig)

Mon, 12/14/2009 - 8:01am — libbyliberal

[I am actually posting this on libbyliberal's behalf, since she's now on vacation. --lambert]

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/12/0082740

The present challenge to health care reform in the United States is not an intellectual or logistical one. It is an ethical one. The medical industrial complex has resorted to unprecedented levels of bribery of Congress and of the current and past administrations to sustain its profit-bloated at the same time increasingly irrelevant existence. Luke Wilson in Harper’s asserts:  Read more…

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Taibbi: Elizabeth Warren for President. In 2012.

Thu, 10/22/2009 - 9:59pm — lambert

Isn't it time to have a Democratic President? A long quote from Taibbi, but a good one. And I'm glad we're starting this discussion now instead of in 2010 or, heaven forfend, 2012:

I’m personally of the opinion that our main problem lay with the fact that the Democratic Party as currently constituted is more afraid of losing the financial support of Wall Street and the health insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry than it is of losing progressive voters. In fact, I think I’ve put that wrong, because it implies that the Democratic Party pushes the agenda of industry insiders out of fear. That is a misread of the situation, I think.

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