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House prevents Bush from sticking it to the poor (again)

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:20 PM
By a lopsided vote of 349-62, the House of Representatives voted today to impose a moratorium on seven regulations promulgated by the Bush White House which would have eliminated $13 billion in Medicaid funding for health care for the poor. Every House
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Majority of US doctors support single payer health care

Tuesday, April 01, 2008 9:10 PM
A new survey has concluded that 59 percent of US doctors support a national, single-payer health insurance plan, while only 32 percent of doctors oppose the idea. That's a huge shift from the last survey, done just six years ago, which found 49 percent
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The Healthy Americans Act

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:11 PM
Fourteen senators from both parties have signed on as co-sponsors of the Healthy Americans Act (S. 334); accompanied by a companion bill introduced in the House, the HAA seeks to address the problems of the crumbling US health care system. My mind isn't
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Some thoughts on Edwards

Friday, January 04, 2008 12:07 PM
After John Edwards's strong second-place finish in last night's Iowa caucus, he had this to say : [C]orporate greed has got a stranglehold on America. And unless and until we have a president in the proud tradition of Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt,
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Another study shows US health care inadequate

Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:25 PM
Yet another study comparing health care in the US to that of the civilized world shows the stark reality of our system's inadequacy; its inefficiency and defects stand in blinding contrast to countries with universal coverage: Americans spend double what
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Rep. Pete Stark apologizes for telling the truth

Tuesday, October 23, 2007 8:08 PM
During the debate on whether to override Bush's veto of S-CHIP funding last week, Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) set wingnuts aflame with manufactured rage over these remarks he made on the House floor: You don't have money to fund the war or children. But you're
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Romney panders on health care reform

Friday, August 24, 2007 12:40 PM
So, what kind of country do we want, and what kind of people do we want to be? We can either continue making the mistakes of the past, pretending they never happened, or we can really apply ourselves and solve the problems that face us. That's the choice
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A couple of notes on poverty

Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:02 AM
One of the flashpoint issues of the 1965 Watts riot was the lack of a hospital in that inner-city LA district. As a result of the riots, Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital was built. Its recent failures of care and performance have made headlines;
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Some thoughts on "Sicko"

Saturday, June 30, 2007 3:00 PM
I attended the Knoxville opening of "Sicko" last night, courtesy of R. Neal . Randy and Michelle bought scads of tickets and gave them away to readers/contributors of KnoxViews , and this turned out to be a mighty successful strategy. The turnout was
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Two reporters tell the truth about Fox News, get squashed like bugs

Thursday, June 28, 2007 11:45 PM
Two reporters exposed the health risks of bovine growth hormone in US milk in a story for Fox News. Monsanto, makers of BGH, freaked out and ultimately managed to suppress the story. Fox helped Monsanto kill the story: Share this post: Email | del.icio.us
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The Democratic candidates on health care reform, side by side

Friday, June 15, 2007 9:50 PM
I thought it would be interesting (and maybe even helpful) to compare the current herd of 2008 presidential candidates side-by-side on the issue of health care. I've posted before on the plans put forth by Clinton , Edwards , and Obama ; in this post,
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John Edwards on health care

Monday, June 04, 2007 9:12 PM
I've posted previously about the health care proposals put forth by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton . This time, I'm going to look at what John Edwards is saying. In brief, his plan consists of the following factors: Require businesses and other employers
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Barack Obama on health care

Tuesday, May 29, 2007 7:35 PM
Obama outlined his health care reform proposal during a speech in Iowa today . His plan holds a lot in common with the one outlined by Hillary Clinton a few days ago , with some notable differences. First, the Obama bullet points : Obama’s plan will provide
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Hillary Clinton on health care

Friday, May 25, 2007 7:47 PM
Hillary Clinton is still bruising from the smack-down Congress gave her health care proposal in 1993. The health care system in this country was in need of serious reform in those days; today, it's fundamentally broken. Given the worsening of health care
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What GATT hath wrought

Sunday, May 20, 2007 8:45 PM
Here's what "free trade" has brought us : Dried apples preserved with a cancer-causing chemical. Frozen catfish laden with banned antibiotics. Scallops and sardines coated with putrefying bacteria. Mushrooms laced with illegal pesticides. These were among
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The uninsured: doubly screwed

Thursday, May 10, 2007 8:38 PM
Forty-seven million Americans have no health insurance , either through an employer, a public agency like Medicare/Medicaid, or a private policy, yet they are charged two and a half times what the insured are charged for the same services. That's 15%
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John Conyers and universal health care

Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:06 PM
Rep. John Conyers has introduced HR 676 , which would expand the Medicare program to cover all Americans; currently, the bill has 66 co-sponsors. Although I'm not entirely certain that a single-payer system is necessarily the best solution, the idea certainly
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