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POPS Universal Health Care Mecca In the past, I paid attention to the health care debate as a speechwriter who prepared speeches, talking points, op-eds, and debate prep material on the topic at different times for John Edwards, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and others. Now, I'm paying attention because I'm a citizen up the creek without a paddle. Since I care more about my country than my personal pride, here's how I lost my insurance: I moved. That's right, I moved from Washington, D.C., back to Massachusetts, a state with universal health care. In D.C., I had a policy with a national company, an HMO, and surprisingly I was very happy with it. I had a fantastic primary care doctor at Georgetown University Hospital. As a self-employed writer, my premium was $225 a month, plus $10 for a dental discount. In Massachusetts, the cost for a similar plan is around $550, give or take a few dollars. My risk factors haven't changed. I didn't stop writing and become a stunt double. I don't smoke.
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POPSMore American Health Insurance Insanity And people are still trying to get people to believe that commercial health insurance is better than government healthcare? Utter insanity. In the victim's native Philippines, she wouldn't have to deal with insanity like this. America, just get over your irrational phobia of socialized healthcare, and get universal healthcare already. The rest of the industrialized world has already realized that a healthcare system based on commercial healthcare is criminal unfair, and utterly flawed in its basic concept. The rest of the industrialized world having healthcare systems that outrank America's dismal 37th place rating is another clue that only lunatics don't want socialized medicine.
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POPSWealth Care Not Health Care! If god wasn't on Their side, they wouldn't be rich. If god was on our side, we wouldn't be so pitiful. Right? Might is not only Right but Rich and White! Let's save the Status Quo.
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POPSOur Tragedy of the Commons Essay on why private ownership works while common ownership does not and how Kennedy exploited the public sector for his own glory.
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POPSFive Endangered Freedoms In short, the Obama platform would mandate extremely full, expensive, and highly subsidized coverage -- including a lot of benefits people would never pay for with their own money -- but deliver it through a highly restrictive, HMO-style plan that will determine what care and tests you can and can't have. It's a revolution, all right, but in the wrong direction.
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POPS"I denied a man an operation, and caused his death" Former health insurance cost-cutter Linda Peeno confesses "I know how managed care kills and maims patients," and how she got a high salary for cutting care. Who invented this system? Video cuts to Richard Nixon. [clip from "Sicko"
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POPSObama Promotes Savings-News Quotes Rate Hikes.
I'm searching for the right word to describe this creation of policies and ideas for Barack Obama. If you read his words in this clip, he says cut waste, the first example being the wasteful spending such as federal crop subsidies for millionaire farmers. That's sort of hard to complain about. Obama's next examples are: the elimination of excessive subsidies ("corporate welfare,") to HMO - Health Maintenance Organization, i.e. medical insurance companies. #2) and eliminating bad practices, i.e. "not using the governments purchasing power to drive down the cost of prescription drugs" Note: The government fell victim to HMO lobbying that refused to allow the government to negotiate for better prices on prescription drugs: No discounts for buying in bulk, etc. -- a clear financial scam. So these are 2 more good things to cut corruption and waste. YET > this article had a sense of doom and gloom about raising medical insurance rates!? Raising rates was not in th
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POPSCorporate Medicine Is Bad Medicine
71% of physicians believe managed care compromises patient care. 80% of Americans believe profit considerations compromise quality of care. The Health Care Finance Administration calculates that the United States would save enough money administering our health care system through a single payer to provide health care for the 44 million uninsured, while avoiding managed care and allowing free choice of providers. The result of this government-business agreement is that corporations make large profits, recipients get poorer care, for-profits appear to be able to offer services for less than the private sector, and politicians can claim they are saving money by "privatizing" (read "corporatizing"). This serves politicians and corporations, but people pay the price. The root ethical problem with corporate medicine is its abandonment of the ethos of traditional medicine, in which the needs of the patient are placed above the needs of the caregiver, in favor of an ethos of profit.
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POPSEthics 101 And they say doctor's are smart ! This is the easiest "SAT" question ever "LOOK TO GOD" the truth is always the best way it may hurt but hurt heels all around .Then double check with the "HMO" agent for the fine print !
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POPSCan't fund the war if we give kids insurance The audience of carefully handpicked Republicans, HMO representatives and others making billions in health care rose to their feet and cheered wildly as the Marine band p layed America the Beautiful. The President acknowledged the applause, and called Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach and Merck CEO Richard Clark to the podium where the ceremony concluded with Clark presenting von Eschenbach the keys to a new Cadillac Accolaide in appreciation of the FDA's approval of the new Merck pill to cure death
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POPSHMO's have got to go (it even rhymes) Single-payer healthcare to all Americans is the only way to go. So no to the insurance industry providing for-profit healthcare. This is just one instance of HMO's failing the working poor. Healthcare is a right. How better to really protect the people of this country.
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POPSPoor and Sick? Too Bad You're An American!! Go ahead ignore it....buy your HMO Doctor his new Lexus with your hard-earned cash....oh, well, that is if you can AFFORD the insurance! Otherwise, crawl away and get sick someplace else...its about profit here, not people.
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