Posts Tagged ‘public health’
Former insurance exec tells how industry threatens elected officials
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See part 1 of the interview here.
Indeed. And we’ll see if our Congressmen and women will use government to further increase corporate profits or to begin to decrease the cost of healthcare to ordinary people. The industry’s spending a million dollars a day. Our only hope is in letters and letters and letters.
There’s link in the right sidebar.
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Written by Monte
July 13, 2009 at 9:44 am
Posted in healthcare, Politics, Poverty, Social change
Tagged with Bill Moyers, Capitol Hill Washington D.C., CIGNA, Corporate Communications, government health care, Health, Health care, health care ad, health care costs, health care reform, health care TV ad, Health insurance, health insurance premiums, Health Policy, healthcare, immoral health care, Insurance, Lobbying, Medicare, morality health care, public health, single-payer healthcare, Universal health care, universal healthcare, WENDELL POTTER
Wanted: A prophetic voice in the healthcare debate
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Many other good points are made in Rabbi Lerner’s post. I recommend it.
I want love to win the day. I want care for the least to matter more than riches for the CEO. And I see no ethical reason to compromise with those who protect millionaires.
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Written by Monte
July 10, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Posted in healthcare, Loving, Politics, Religion, Social change
Tagged with Barack Obama, heal, Health, health care reform, Health insurance, healthcare industry, John Conyers, poor, Prophet, prophetic, public, public health, public option, Religion, religion and healthcare, single, single-payer, Single-payer health care, single-payer healthcare, United States, United States National Health Insurance Act
Name 10 things the government does well
A dear friend of mine left a challenge in a comment. Here ’tis:
Other than the military, can you name 10 things that the government has done really well, better than the private sector?
It’s an important question, for skepticism toward all government (rather than reform of bad government) is not only common, but at the root of a couple of major political outlooks. And because it’s important, it seemed worth a post of its own.
Here’s my quick response. Maybe you can do better:
You betcha. Off the top of my head, I’ll give you twenty, most of which are under-funded for the work they do:
- The FAA. Crashes are a rarity here, thanks to equipment safety tests and massively successful air flight controlling.
- Medicaid: private sector insurance companies make money by ditching their customers when they get very sick. Medicaid picks up the castoffs.
- Social Security: What if Mr. Bush had succeeded in privatizing SS before the markets crashed? Can you imagine how many old people would be working at WalMart, since their SS would have been cut in half? And did you know that before SS, thousands of older Americans simply starved to death?
- SCHIP: Healthcare insurance for children who would not otherwise have it – enormously preventive of school absence, long-term illness, loss of physical and mental development
Written by Monte
May 11, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Posted in Politics
Tagged with big government, CDC, Centers for Disease Control, Conservatism, Dwight D. Eisenhower, FDA, FDIC, FEC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Elections Commission, Federal government of the United States, federal regulation, Food and Drug Administration, free public library, good government, government is bad, Health care, Interstate Highway System, large government, libertarian, libertarianism, Military-industrial complex, NASA, public health, regulation, SCHIP, small government, Social Se, Social security, Soil Conservation, State Children's Health Insurance Program, United States, University of Iowa, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, US, Washington