8 New Items including:
- FDL Fact Sheet: The Truth About the Health Care Bill
- For-Profit Nursing Homes Fuel Rise In Fraud And Abuse Charges
- U.S. mentally ill and their families face barriers to care
- Liz Fowler and the government-corporate revolving door
- Papa John’s Obamacare idiocy
- Profits Over People, Medicare Edition
- Explaining Medicare for voters
- Obama's Second Term Agenda: Cutting Social Security, Medicare, and/or Medicaid
David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest
Rob Tornoe
FDL Fact Sheet: The Truth About the Health Care Bill, firedog lake
- The bill will not bring down premiums significantly, and certainly not the $2,500/year that the President promised.
- The bill will impose a financial hardship on middle class Americans who will be forced to buy a product that they can’t afford to use.
- U.S. mentally ill and their families face barriers to care
- Papa John’s Obamacare idiocy
- Liz Fowler and the government-corporate revolving door
For-Profit Nursing Homes Lead in Overcharging While Care SuffersFor-Profit Nursing Homes Fuel Rise In Fraud And Abuse Charges, Jeffrey Young, Huffington Post
The Bloomberg story details several gruesome incidents alleged by federal prosecutors, states and individuals who filed lawsuits against nursing home operators.
U.S. mentally ill and their families face barriers to care, Sharon Begley, Reuters
- Mental Health Services Erode As States Slash Budgets
- Just in time for another mass shooting!
Liz Fowler and the government-corporate revolving door, Walter Smolarek, Liberation
Elizabeth Fowler, architect of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, was rewarded for service to the capitalist class with a position as head of global health policy for Johnson & Johnson.
Papa John’s Obamacare idiocy, Prachi Gupta, Salon
- CEO John Schnatter insists that the Affordable Care Act necessitates price increases. Experts disagree.
Profits Over People, Medicare Edition, Progress Report, ThinkProgress
Explaining Medicare for voters, Columbia Journalism Review
- In their efforts to prevail in a contentious Medicare policy debate, both the Obama and the Romney campaigns risk muddying the waters for voters. The Los Angeles Times recently noted <http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-the-medicare-feud-explained-b... that "one of the best explanations of the differences between the two approaches...has been offered by Trudy Lieberman, a veteran healthcare journalist who currently works for the Columbia Journalism Review."
- Nygaard Notes | #510: Health Care, and The Real Issue
Obama's Second Term Agenda: Cutting Social Security, Medicare, and/or Medicaid, Matt Stoller, Naked Capitalism
The White House already tried cutting all three main entitlement programs, last year (cuts to Medicaid are actually cuts to Obamacare, for what it’s worth, since an expansion of Medicaid was a key plank of the new health care law).
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Answer Coalition Editor's Note: The following article was published in August, 2012, after July was reveled to be the highest month for U.S. Army suicides on record. We are republishing it today (Jan 14) as the U.S. military has revealed 349 active-duty suicides in 2012, the highest number on record. In that same year, there were 295 U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan.
In the same month, 30 U.S. soldiers were killed in Afghanistan, the highest number in a single month so far this year, who should have never been sent to their deaths in the first place. 
