Thursday, September 3, 2009
Chris Hedges on Health Care "Reform"
This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery
TruthDig Posted on Aug 23, 2009
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| AP / Bob Child | |
Protesters, in front of health insurer Aetna’s headquarters, hold signs with the company’s profit for 2007’s first quarter, $434 million. The company would report $27.6 billion in revenue for the year and $31 billion for the following year. |
By Chris Hedges
Percentage change since 2002 in average premiums paid to large US health-insurance companies: +87%
Percentage change in the profits of the top ten insurance companies: +428%
Chances that an American bankrupted by medical bills has health insurance: 7 in 10
—Harper’s Index, September 2009
Capitalists, as my friend Father Michael Doyle says, should never be allowed near a health care system. They hold sick children hostage as they force parents to bankrupt themselves in the desperate scramble to pay for medical care. The sick do not have a choice. Medical care is not a consumable good. We can choose to buy a used car or a new car, shop at a boutique or a thrift store, but there is no choice between illness and health. And any debate about health care must acknowledge that the for-profit health care industry is the problem and must be destroyed. This is an industry that hires doctors and analysts to deny care to patients in order to increase profits. It is an industry that causes half of all bankruptcies. And the 20,000 Americans who died last year because they did not receive adequate care condemn these corporations as complicit in murder.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
More than ice in the veins ...
... it's Novocaine to one's brain.
As you read this you can almost feel the life blood of creativity, and what it means to be truly free, being sucked from your soul.
These are our children, or at least they once were. Now they are theirs.
They're pushing the God worship thing hard now. Let's pray to any real God's there are that not enough fall for this crap.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama%E2%80%99s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009
As you read this you can almost feel the life blood of creativity, and what it means to be truly free, being sucked from your soul.
These are our children, or at least they once were. Now they are theirs.
They're pushing the God worship thing hard now. Let's pray to any real God's there are that not enough fall for this crap.
http://www.docstoc.com/docs/10582301/President-Obama%E2%80%99s-Address-to-Students-Across-America-September-8-2009
Hey Boys & Girls, It's Not Too Late to Sign Up For a Trial Flu Shot !
But just in case you aren't that hard up for cash and you, or someone you love, gets "accidentally stuck" (I hate when that happens) with three of those nasty flu shots, check out what you should do next....
The Pentagon Wants Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in U.S.
By Matthew Rothschild, August 12, 2009
The Pentagon has approached Congress to grant the Secretary of Defense the authority to post almost 400,000 military personnel throughout the United States in times of emergency or a major disaster.
This request has already occasioned a dispute with the nation’s governors. And it raises the prospect of U.S. military personnel patrolling the streets of the United States, in conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.
In Spite of Polk - A Big Longhorn Salute For The Lone Star
Will Texas secede? Should Texas secede? What would happen once Texas secedes?
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