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Health Care rally in front of Humana HQ
1,000 Picket Health Insurance Convention In San Francisco
SF: NEWSOM SIGNS RESOLUTION ENDORSING UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE BILL
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Per capita health care spending (2007):
United States: $7290
Switzerland: $4417
France: $3601
United Kingdom: $2992
Average of OECD developed nations: $2964
Italy: $2686
Japan: $2581
-- Bob Somerby
The text of HR676 (Medicare For All) as PDF (30 pages). The FAQ. Compare HR3200 with HR676.
Medicare for All would save $350 billion a year (study in New England Journal of Medicine).
In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program*." -- Bill Moyers.
* Medicare For All.
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A political operative who manipulates the religious impulse to attain personal or organizational power; in the United States, generally a "conservative" SIC.
Prob. back formation from "neocon" (neo-conservative). First seen by this writer in a column by Sidney Blumenthal excerpted back here.
Usage example: The theocons are setting up a madrassa to train staffers for the White House at Patrick Henry University.
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Excellent
Thanks for the post and follow up. A good show, I'd say.
Is the organization that put this together going to keep doing these. Because it occurs to me a large protest in Washington right before or right after the inauguration might be a good thing. And not just because I could likely attend. :-)
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
I really wanted to go
But, we were having a going away party at my work for a loved employee, so....
Bill Clinton for First Dude!!!
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
While the FISA vote makes me want to hurl...
... these events are a sign of hope and just might, in the end, prove more important.
[x] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
skeleton in a wheelchair
i really like that guy. wish somebody had got a picture of him.
thanks for this compilation. it's great to see that ordinary citizens care enough to go to these and then blog about it later, adn also to see this being written up in msm outlets, even if they do a less than stellar job of reporting.