Showing posts with label Health Care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health Care. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 05, 2014

CVS to end tobacco sales by October 1st

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This story is from the NY Times: CVS/Caremark, the country’s largest drugstore chain in overall sales, announced on Wednesday that it p...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Guy robs bank of $1 to get health care coverage

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There is something seriously wrong in this country, where a guy has to rob a bank in order to get health care coverage. From ABC News: A 59...
Friday, March 26, 2010

If King George will not listen....Does that mean Erick Erickson is advocating armed insurrection by right wing crazies?

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I'm not even sure how I found this Red State blog post by Erick Erickson, but I'm just amazed at how wacked out it is. The post t...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The GOP wingnuttery just continues....

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I'm not sure I know what to say about this, except that I found this National Journal story from the Daily Kos, and it is fascinating....
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Biden drops the F-bomb during health care bill signing

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Oh my. It appears that Vice President Joe Biden just dropped a dirty F-bomb right after introducing President Barack Obama during the heal...

Obama signs health care bill into law

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President Obama signed major health care legislation into law on Tuesday. Doug Mills/The New York Times Well, it is now official. President...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

House passes health care reform, Obama to sign.

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I've been busy with a number of things, but I've been watching the events taking place on the health care debate. After the Senate ...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Senate Finance Committee approves health care bill with one Republican vote

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This is from The New York Times: WASHINGTON — The Senate Finance Committee voted on Tuesday to approve legislation that would reshape the Am...
Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Star Trek Tricorders--Coming to a Docter near you!

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This is just totally cool. From MSNBC News: New handheld medical scanners coupled with regular cell phones resemble "Star Trek" t...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Video reveals abuse of cows at slaughterhouse

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I found this Washington Post story through Americablog, and it is just sickening. The WaPost story is about an new video that has been r...
Wednesday, January 09, 2008

U.S. ranks last in health care

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This is off Raw Story: The US health care system ranks last among other major rich countries for quality, access and efficiency, according t...
Thursday, January 03, 2008

Drug companies give free samples to wealthy, insured, Americans

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This is off MSNBC News: WASHINGTON - Insured and wealthy Americans were more likely than the poor to get billions of dollars in free drug sa...
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Friday, December 21, 2007

Family sues CIGNA Healthcare over teen's death

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This story is now starting to gain big interest. Seventeen-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan died just hours after her health insurance company,...

Teen dies after CIGNA first denies transplant, then reverses decision

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Natalee Sarkisyan, a 17-year-old from Glendale, Calif., died Thursday just a few hours after Cigna Health Care, her medical insurer, approve...
Saturday, November 10, 2007

US among worst in world for infant death

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You can thank the Bush administration for making this country the worst in the world for infant death. From Yahoo News: The rate at which i...
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Thursday, November 08, 2007

Veterans constitute a quarter of America's homeless

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Chart showing state-by-state breakdown on the number of homeless veterans in the U.S. From MSNBC News. I really don't have any words to...
Thursday, October 18, 2007

Rep. Pet Stark (D-CA) gives a Howard Beale moment on House floor

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This story is coming up the news media. Apparently Rep. Pete Stark is mad as hell and won't take it anymore. Let's start with par...