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  • Reply to: CMD's Lisa Graves Testifies Before U.S. Senate on Patriot Act   15 years 1 week ago
    Power to The People is just as relevant today as it was in the beginning. Stand up to the "Govern mint$" now so our children will onece again be able to Stand With the Government as was intended....God Bless Us Everyone! (We're gonna need it!!!) Peace out.
  • Reply to: A Victory for Ehren Watada -- and for Freedom of the Press   15 years 1 week ago
    As a Vietnam Vet, a American Citizen, a person to be proud and honored to be living in the USA, I find this man deplorable, a coward, and he will pay the price when he gets this discharge, unless he opens his own business. yes, he has the right to say and do what he wants, but he is a coward.
  • Reply to: Humana's Medicare Scare Called Out   15 years 1 week ago

    Humana was vindicated today by the CBO...benefits will be cut under Baucus plan

  • Reply to: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Downsized   15 years 2 weeks ago

    My, my! What's happened here? Wouldn't it be nice if this were the new fad among all corporations? Truth and science based facts rule the debate??? What will the neo-cons do? What will they have to talk about? I'm going to print and frame this!

  • Reply to: Wendell Potter: Rally Against Wall Street's Health Care Takeover   15 years 2 weeks ago
    We've had them in Israel before we were even a state... They're called "patients funds" (I believe the source is German, as I understand there are more than 100 of these bodies in Germany). The Israeli healthcare system was practically built on them. About 80%-90% of all Israelis were covered by them before the national health insurance bill was passed in 1995. These days we pay our premium (aka "health tax") directly to the government and the government pays the funds a fixed price per registered patient. But the funds existed before we had public insurance, and while we still had some of the problems your country is facing: about 10% uninsured, mainly the poor; some of the funds (though not all) rejected patients on the base of pre existing conditions etc. We still had health insurance that was affordable for most of the population to obtain privately, not through the employer; and people didn't pay their premiums only to realise their coverage had been dropped right when they needed it most. Is it possible to form such bodies in USA? If your political system fails you, perhaps this is an easier way to break the healthcare industry cartel, and lay the grounds for a real public insurance in the future.

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