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• Blue America for Single Payer

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 748
  The problems in the current health care debate became apparent early on, when single payer advocates were excluded from participation. Part of that was certainly due to the fact that single payer challenges the logic underlying the entire health care reform effort: if we really cared about cutting costs and ...
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• How state funded climate hysteria works

  
  Man in a Shed — Authority: 131
  One of the lest commented on items from the UEA CRU file leaks was a government document that gives "the line" on how to run your Climate change propaganda. Its called " The Rules of the Game " - a title that betrays more that it perhaps intends to. Remember there are public funded "neutral" civil servants producing ...
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• Bernie Sanders announces his single payer amendment

  
  Corrente — Authority: 624
  From the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders [ via PNHP ] Summary : This amendment would establish a single payer health insurance system that would cover every person legally residing in the United States. The single payer system would be regulated and funded by the federal government through a payroll tax and an income ...
  18 hours ago

• Crusading Professor Challenges Dartmouth Atlas On Claims Of Wasteful Health Care Spending

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  The Obama administration demands four cornerstones of healthcare reform: (1) a Medicare cost-containment Commission , (2) taxing high-cost private insurance , (3) reform of medical payment incentives, and (4) deficit reduction. Each of these cornerstones has serious potential to reduce our health coverage, while the ...
  20 hours ago

• 62% Oppose Single-Payer Health Care System

  
  Coralville Courier — Authority: 487
  Only 27% of voters nationwide favor a single-payer health care system where the federal government provides coverage for everyone. That’s down five points from August . The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 62% are opposed to a single-payer system and another 12% are undecided.
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• Barbara Ehrenreich, The Swine Flu Vaccine Screw-up

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  Tom Dispatch posted 2009-11-03 16:27:36 Tomgram: Barbara Ehrenreich, Why Your Child May Not Get a Swine Flu Shot Soon This week, the Obama White House released a very partial record of those who had visited since January 20, 2009. This it hailed as “transparency like you’ve never seen it before” and ...
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• NakedEmperorNews: Marxist Physician Mentor Says Obama Is Being ‘Dishonest’ About Single-Payer

  
  RBO — Authority: 510
  Dr. Quentin D. Young with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!Here we have a full Democracy Now! interview from March 2009.Another from September 2009. Tagged: Barack Obama, health care, politics, Quentin Young, RBO, Real Barack Obama, single-payer healthcare, The Real Barack Obama
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• America’s Pervasive Pattern of Race-Based Medical Disparities

  
  God's Politics Blog — Authority: 648
  Our country has a long history of underserving and mistreating African-Americans and other marginalized groups. We are seeing this history come to a head in cases such as the 2007 death of a twelve-year-old African-American child, Deamonte Driver of Prince…
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• Dec. 10th : Stand Up and Sit-in for Single-Payer Health Care

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 519
  Dec 10: Stand Up and Sit-In for Single-Payer Health Care! Join one of the largest civil disobedience campaigns since the Civil Rights Movement. We need you to be one of more than 100 people risking arrest on December 10 to demand the passage of single-payer amendments by targeting our senators. For more ...
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• Tax on high-cost health plans is to strip down employer-provided health coverage, not raise revenue

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  As this and another recent NY Times piece explain, the Obama administration demands four cornerstones of healthcare reform: (1) a Medicare cost-containment Commission, (2) taxing high-cost private insurance, (3) reform of medical payment incentives, and (4) deficit reduction.  Each of these cornerstones is designed ...
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• Would You Compromise Your Cancer Cure?

  
  Medical Malprocess — Authority: 110
  Your doctor has good news and bad news. The bad news is you have cancer in your abdomen. The good news is that it can be cured, using a combination of three drugs and ten radiation treatments. Would you settle for just two of the three drugs? Would you compromise your medical care and take one drug the doctor ...
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• Healthcare “exchanges” only guarantee an to end private health insurance so Obama loves them

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Smoking guns prove the point. Barack Obama was caught on tape in 2003 and in 2007 expressing his intentions to kill private healthcare insurance companies and pledging his support for a “single payer” system of healthcare delivery. There is nothing ambiguous about this Marxist anti capitalist president’s ...
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• Information On Single Payer National Medical Insurance

  
  Naked News — Authority: 176
  Canada has a unitary payer medical care system. Within a single payer health insurance system the federal government would be the predominant contributor to the health care system as a consequence of federal tax dollars.
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• “Reese” Ring in Gold and Silver

  
  Ring-O-Blog - Directory of Wonderful Rings — Authority: 444
  “Reese” Ring in Gold and Silver This Jeanine Payer ring is engraved with the sweet saying  “At one glance I love you with a thousand hearts.” The ring is made of antique sterling silver except for the ring band with is 14k yellow gold. I’m not sure what’s on the end – at first I thought it was ...
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• Nader to speak in NY and NJ Dec. 3rd and Dec. 5th

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 481
  From an e-mail announcement by Nader supporter Matthew Zawisky:Ralph Nader [former Green Party, and then independent, candidate for President of the US] will be speaking in Bronx, New York on this Thursday December 3rd and in Princeton and Lincroft, New Jersey this Saturday December 5th.Ralph will be speaking and ...
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• Reason.tv: How to Fix Health Care or, Lasik Surgery For The Medical Debate

  
  Big Government — Authority: 816
  Health care “reform” is coming. But what’s the best way to fix our health care system, which is an inefficient, complicated mess of private actors, third-party payers, public subsidies, and innumerable state and federal regulations? Should we place our faith in the government or in the free market? ObamaCare ...
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• Michael Moore’s Sicko Misses the Solution: Health Savings Accounts

  
  fresh healthy body — Authority: 453
  Michael Moore’s new movie SICKO is a humorous and at times emotionally moving look at the state of U.S. healthcare, but it promotes a solution (government healthcare) that would only make matters worse. Instead of more bureaucracy and government control, we should be encouraging competition among healthcare ...
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• Orszag embarrasses himself and a side note

  
  Corrente — Authority: 624
  What Did Orszag Discuss with Blue Cross/Blue Shield? Last week, the Associated Press reported that White House officials – including Orszag – met early and often with a long list of health care industry lobbyists as the White House was developing its health care overhaul earlier this year. ... ...“I’m not ...
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• “Commission” is Washington Speak for Cutting Social Security and Medicare

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  Truthout, December 1, 2009 Dean Baker Commission” Is Washington Speak for Cutting Social Security and Medicare The “experts” who could not see the $8 trillion housing bubble that wrecked the economy are now telling us that we have to create a special commission so that they can cut Social Security and ...
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• Lets all chip in and buy Bernie Sanders a new suit!

  
  Corrente — Authority: 624
  Sanders informal style has changed so little that his staff was surprised and amused when a Capitol Hill magazine, Congressional Quarterly Weekly, described him last month as wearing "dark, tailored suits and natty member-of-the-club ties" now that he has become a senator. Sanders admits to buying one new suit, and ...
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