Wed, 03/11/2009 - 12:07am — DCblogger
Economist, Healthcare Activists Also on Tap; John Nichols of Nation Magazine Will Moderate
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - March 10 - Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), author of HR 676 The U.S. National Healthcare Act, will be the featured speaker at "Turning Hope Into Action," a community forum on healthcare and the economy on Friday, March 20 at the Northampton High School auditorium, 320 Elm St. The forum will begin at 7:30 p.m. and admission is free to the public.
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Sounds great! Too much of a trek. alas. On your PC, however, you
can catch 3 segments on heatlcare from today's Democracy Now program. Plus, there's an Amy Goodman essay on the right side about healthcare needing to be on the table.
On Fresh Air today, two segments healthcare make up the program: first, Karen Tumulty talks about her brother's brush with insurance horrorshows due to kidney disease and second, Uwe Reinhardt talks about the hidden costs of healthcare. He says he could see this nation going to a rate-based rationing of care, with cheaper plans only permitting care at cheaper hospitals with poorer outcomes. He also said something must be done now; that this opportunity may not come again for a long time. Recalled that in Germany as a child, even when his family went into poverty, there were at least o worries about healthcare.
The MCM is taking the tact of saying Obama should drop healthcare as he needs to spend every waking second on the economy. Just another way of putting healthcare entirely off the table. Sheesh.