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Remember the Alamo

Tom Bell | Posted 07.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Insurance Companies, Free Speech Police, Healthcare Veterans, Free Speech San Antonio, Healthcare Protest, Universal Healthcare, Free Speech Healthcare, Healthcare Reform, Veterans Health Care, Healthcare, Healthcare Crisis, Home News

Some people object to this healthcare because they think it's socialized medicine. It's not. I know because I, like every other veteran who uses the V.A. Medical System, am treated under a socialized medical program.

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"What Kind Of A Nation Are We?" -- Congress Must Make Access to Care a Top Priority

Rep. Steve Kagen | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics

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I've refused to accept the health care benefits offered to me until everyone I represent has the same offer made to them.

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Social Security Choking On Paperwork From Insurance Companies

New York Times | MARY WILLIAMS WALSH | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Social Security System, Social Security, Insurance Companies, Social Security Administration, Business News

The Social Security system is choking on paperwork and spending millions of dollars a year screening dubious applications for disability benefits, acc...

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Are You In Therapy?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 03.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Insurance Industry, Therapy, Cost Therapy, Insurance Companies, Cost of Therapy, Price Therapy, Therapy Covered by Insurance, Hmo, Living News

Not many people can afford therapy anymore. You may need it, want it, know that it will help you, but you have to be pretty comfortable financially to get it.

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Warren Buffett: Don't Bank On Double-Digit Returns

Fortune | Colin Barr | Posted 02.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, See's Candy, Insurance Companies, Netjets, Business News

Berkshire Hathaway had another excellent year in 2007, posting an 11% gain in net worth, CEO Warren Buffett said in Friday's annual report to sharehol...

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Ending Discrimination in Health Insurance

Rep. Steve Kagen | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Health Insurance, Discrimination, Insurance Companies, Steve Kagen, No Discrimination in Health Insurance Act, Politics News

The grim reality is our Constitution does protect you against discrimination, until you become ill. My legislation puts discrimination where it belongs -- in the past.

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Revealed At Last! Obama's Secret Weapon Against The Oil, Drug & Insurance Companies...

Martin Lewis | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Walter Mondale, Blind Faith, Al Gore, Pharmaceutical Industry, Change, Oil Industry, Reality Check, John Kerry, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, George Mcgovern, Insurance Companies, Barack Obama, Hubert Humphrey, 2008 Election, Politics News

...a winning smile. Here are some other winning smiles.

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That's America Baby

Leslie Griffith | Posted 12.13.2007 | Politics

Read More: Education, Bush SCHIP, Terrorism Insurance, Insurance Companies, Children's Health Insurance, Schip, Politics News

So here we are: living in a country that is so hated by the world and driven by it's own greed; lobbyists are spending millions fighting for higher deductibles on terrorism insurance.

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The 18 Year Old's Happy Birthday Insurance Policy

Karen Stabiner | Posted 11.09.2007 | Living

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Who's going to be enticed by $1,000 insurance policy for accidentally dying or losing a limb?

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A Very Blackwater Thanksgiving: Profiteers Are Wrecking Our Health and Destroying Our Security

Glenn W. Smith | Posted 11.06.2007 | Politics

Read More: Insurance Companies, Private Health Care, Insurance, Private Contractors, Blackwater, Thanksgiving, Health Insurance, Blackwater USA, The Myth of Thanksgiving, Privitization, Politics News

The blackwatering of health care - putting the power in the hands of unaccountable, non-medical, private interests - has taken a deadly toll on our health and lives.

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Our Healthcare System Sucks

Doug Bremner | Posted 11.02.2007 | Politics

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I think that it is criminal that someone like Mitt Romney can sit there and say that we have universal healthcare because if you break your arm they are going to take you to the ER even if you don't have insurance.

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Even As They Criticize, Dems Taking Dollars From Health Care Industry

New York Times | RAYMOND HERNANDEZ | Posted 10.28.2007 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Industry, Health Care, 2008 Elections, Congress, Hmos, Insurance Companies, Democrats, 2008 Election, Politics News

In a reversal from past election cycles, Democratic candidates for president are outpacing Republicans in donations from the health care industry, eve...

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