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POPSCitizens For A Public Option (Petition) Without a public option, there is NO HEALTHCARE REFORM. This is why the deep-pockets of the insurance industry are fighting the public option tooth-&-nail. Let Congress know that you're one of the roughly 80% of Americans who actually do support the creation of a public option, and will consider it a FAILURE without one.
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POPSStephen Hawking: "National Health Service Save My Life" "End-of-life counseling" is about living wills, advanced care directives, and power of attorney. It's about establishing what you want re: your care in advance so they're on record if you find yourself not in a position to express them yourself, e.g. a coma. It is NOT about euthanasia, or bureaucrats deciding who is worth keeping alive. That's an outright lie. AND the UK National Health Service is the reason Stephen Hawking is alive today.
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POPSHow Republicans are LYING about "end-of-life" counseling
More In her chat with Thompson, McCaughey said the language can be found on page 425 of the health care bill, so we started there. Indeed, Sec. 1233 of the bill, labeled "Advance Care Planning Consultation" details how the bill would, for the first time, require Medicare to cover the cost of end-of-life counseling sessions. According to the bill, "such consultation shall include the following: An explanation by the practitioner of advance care planning, including key questions and considerations, important steps, and suggested people to talk to; an explanation by the practitioner of advance directives, including living wills and durable powers of attorney, and their uses; an explanation by the practitioner of the role and responsibilities of a health care proxy." The Republicans want to stop healthcare reform, because if it passes they know Americans will abandon them as being without ideas. This is why all the lies and attempts to shut down the discussion. Desperation
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POPSPBS Frontline: "Sick Around America" "Every doctor I meet says he's underpaid. I've yet to meet a hospital executive who thinks he or she can operate on less. I have yet to meet a patient who is willing to sacrifice care. So we have this $2.2 trillion system, and I haven't met anybody in any of the stakeholders that's willing to take less. And until we're willing to have that conversation, we're just sort of nibbling around the edges." People who think that Americans don't wait on lines, don't get denied coverage after paying their premiums, don't get their coverage rescinded right when they're about to incur huge costs, don't go bankrupt from medical bills, don't DIE because some corporate bean-counter denied their claim... You're either unaware of the facts, or lying. We spend more than any other country on the planet for healthcare, and are ranked somewhere around 50th in health outcomes. That's an undisputed fact. Corporate healthcare is a failure. Social insurance I can't be any worse.
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POPSBlue Dog Dem: Healthcare CORPORATIONS more inportant than people The Blue Dog Dems are nothing but corporate tools, bought & paid for . I'm so sick of the "rationed care" meme. We ration care in this country based on how much you can afford. For more and more Americans, that's ZERO. And in rationing care based on how much you can afford, we spend MORE MONEY and have WORSE HEALTH OUTCOMES that just about every other industrialized nation. The people who cry over the evils of "Socialized Medicine" have no problem with "Corporate Medicine". The same corporatist framework that gave us Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, and the others yet undiscovered, waiting to explode. These are the profit-driven "bureaucrats" that right now, at this moment, are looking for ways to deny paying for people's healthcare (even in the absence of fraud) because FINDING WAYS TO NOT PAY PEOPLE'S HEALTH BILLS IS MORE PROFITABLE THAN ACTUALLY PAYING THEM!
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POPSDebubunking Canadian health care myths Don't believe the right-wing noise machine's lies and distortions about Canadian-style healthcare, especially the attempt to slander the public option as "Socialized Medicine": Princeton University health economist Uwe Reinhardt says single-payer systems are not "socialized medicine" but "social insurance" systems because doctors work in the private sector while their pay comes from a public source. Most physicians in Canada are self-employed. They are not employees of the government nor are they accountable to the government. Doctors are accountable to their patients only. More than 90 percent of physicians in Canada are paid on a fee-for-service basis. Claims are submitted to a single provincial health care plan for reimbursement, whereas in the U.S., claims are submitted to a multitude of insurance providers. Moreover, Canadian hospitals are controlled by private boards and/or regional health authorities rather than being part of or run by the government.
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POPSRepublicans fear Public Option Healthcare becaise IT'S CHEAPER more: Bachmann’s statement echoes the sentiments expressed by Rep. John Kline in an interview with Minnesota Public Radio’s Tom Crann in late June . He also said that millions of people will flock to the cheaper insurance plan, also called the public option. ...our fear is that if you actually get in there looking at the legislation that it’s set up in a way that employers would increasingly opt to letting their employees move over to the public, to the public option. And because it is cheaper, it’s designed to save money , the government-run program has some very clear advantages. Republicans care more about corporate profits than getting affordable healthcare for ALL AMERICANS. PUBLIC HEALTHCARE NOW!
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POPSSplenda causes weight gain, impairs digestion, and affects chemotherapy & other drugs More: As of 2006, only six human trials have been published on Splenda. Of these six trials, only two of the trials were completed and published before the FDA approved sucralose for human consumption, and the two published trials had a grand total of 36 total human subjects. 36 people sure doesn’t sound like many, but wait, it gets worse: only 23 total were actually given sucralose for testing, and here is the real kicker — The longest trial at this time had lasted only four days, and looked at sucralose in relation to tooth decay, not human tolerance. Even more shocking, the absorption of Splenda into the human body was studied on a grand total of six men! Based on that one human study, the FDA allowed the findings to be generalized as being representative of the entire human population. Including women, children, the elderly, and those with any chronic illness — none of whom were ever examined.
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POPSWhere There Is No Doctor: A Village Health Care Handbook - full text available online! WTIND is an unbelievably useful basic diagnosis, treatment, and prevention handbook for common health care issues. More (not enough room to add the links, so click through): # Chapter 20: Family Planning- Having the Number of Children You Want # Chapter 21: Health and Sicknesses of Children # Chapter 22: Health and Sicknesses of Older People # Chapter 23: The Medicine Kit # The Green Pages: The Uses, Dosage, and Precautions for Medicines # The Blue Pages: New Information # Vocabulary: Explaining Difficult Words # Information: Addresses for Teaching Materials, Dosage Blanks, Patient Report, Information on Vital Signs, Abbreviations, Weight, Volume # Index
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POPSBlocking Obama's health plan is key to the GOP's survival The Republicans preached "deregulation & free markets" like the good corporate shills they are. We let the corporations & the investor class dominate the economy, and they got rich, drove the fucking thing into the ground, set us up for the next great depression, then held out their hands for a taxpayer-funded bailout. I for one think that maybe letting the government dominate the economy for a while might not be all that bad. The government is us, the citizens. It's answerable to us. The corporations are answerable to their shareholders. Bring on the Socialized Medicine and lets put a spear through the heart of the GOP once & for all . ;-)
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POPSIs your workout wasting your time? A approach to fitness stresses the training of movements over muscles, the irrelevance of strength without mobility, the neurological foundation to strength and athleticism, and the use of simple tools to gain complex results. The main purpose of FT is to bridge the gap between absolute strength and functional strength, to achieve peak performance, and to prevent injuries, says Gambetta, one of FT's early proponents. In general, FT discourages the use of machines in favor of free weights, body-weight exercises, and certain devices used in physical therapy, such as medicine balls, stability balls, wobble boards, and resistance bands. I quit my gym over a year ago and haven't looked back. These days I'm totally dedicated to working out with my kettlebells
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