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Rudy lies again: Public health care actually saved his life!

Salon's Joe Conason reveals Rudy Giuliani's latest lie. In a radio ad, in New Hampshire, the Giuliani campaign claims he stared down cancer without the help of government health care.Or as Giuliani...

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Save the Automakers with Public Health and Cheap car loans

Can a form of public healthcare save the auto industry and America?   Can the government loan me 20 grand to buy a new fuel-efficient car at no interest?  Why aren't we looking at simple solutions...

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I don't care how. Just do it. Or I smash with rock.

I'm trying to write more about candidates. But I have a problem......I think I have a very primitive way of looking at politicians. I got no finesse...it works like this:I am the boss --> politician...

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Private Insurance to Cross Heart, Hope to Die, Stick Needle in Eye

This is it folks. Health care reform, it seems, has been reduced to a pinkey promise by the insurance companies to play nice.This time we're making them cross their heart, hope to die, stick a needle...

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The Public Health Care Experiment in the 1950s

We once had a Public Health Care Program.It was in the 50s.We needed it because our children were dying. And those that didn't die were often disfigured and horribly crippled.And it affected rich and...

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My Plan: Public Health, a Foundation, not an Option.

It seems like we should be describing a public plan as a foundation for health care.Give everyone some basic level of care, that would be primary care, ER access and some basic set of generic drugs and...

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The kommie infiltration MUST STOP!!!!

They are taking over our society!  Soon it will be illegal to go to church or kill things with my shotgun!  Soon all of us will have to stand in line for HOURS for a single loaf of stale bread!  That...

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A Single Payer education project

Cross posted from The People's View.I have been following the national health care debate closely. Well, only some of it is debate. A good chunk of it seems to be angry mobs manipulated by a...

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A Canadian Suggestion on a Public Option for Healthcare

I sit here a bit frazzled trying to follow the ins and outs of the "debate" over health care overhaul and have a few suggestions that I am confident can not face shouting down by either side of the...

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Roadside Assistance - A Public Healthcare Option Metaphor?

This is a true story, but I feel like I lived through a metaphor. This morning, my wife called me at 7:30 to tell me she had a flat tire on the way to work....Expecting that the guy would be there soon...

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How to Buy Happiness

While researching another topic, I came across some interesting data that shows where the US fits with other nations when it comes to public money spent on health care. Previous work has references,...

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PNHP Staffer's Last Writings? - GATS and US HEALTH CARE -also-additional URLs

Most Americans are ignorant of the provisions of the GATS treaty, which we signed ages ago. It is dangerous to all of us because inexplicably, its set up to slowly ban public healthcare- The inherently...

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Healthcare Reform Lessons From The Antigua Online Gambling Case: IMPORTANT!

The US Must Be VERY Careful Because Triggering GATS is Irreversible, Destroying Public Healthcare ForeverDescription By Nick Skala"Critics of the WTO recognized early on that GATS rules held the...

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The Injustice Of Using Our Healthcare As a Bargaining Chip In Free Trade

I don't know how many folks here have seen my recent postings on the subject and then have been able to spend some time looking at the World Trade Organization issues that I have been posting about. I...

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Single Payer means A QUARTER OF A MILLION MORE DOLLARS in YOUR pocket! Or MORE!

An average western European or Canadian spends $3500 a year, and people live to around 75, thats $262,000 over their lifetime. They ALL get decent healthcare.EACH typical American lives a few years...

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Fighting a 'War on Drugs' Is Pointless. We Have to Fight a 'War on Addiction'

At 3 AM on Sunday morning, Carlos Andrade 22, stepped outside of the family’s Brooklyn home to smoke a cigarette with his father Joseph Andrade, 44. An hour later both he and dad were dead from a...

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