Special Project | Health Care Reform: Week of July 8

Tue, 07/03/2012 - 11:47 — Dave Culver

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“Tonight, the Supreme Court upheld the bad healthcare reform that will insure the profits of private healthcare companies at the expense of American’s access to healthcare.”
Pallor or Power, Patients or Consumers: Which Model Do We Want

Pallor or Power, Patients or Consumers: Which Model Do We Want? Donna Smith, Common Dreams
Let’s be about improving and expanding Medicare to All for life. Let’s move beyond the din of this moment and rise up together. Our power is enough to offset the all the crazy posturing.

Health Care: Give the People What They Want, Robert Scheer, Truthdig

Most Americans want pretty much the same outcome from health care reform, and it’s not what either major-party candidate is offering.
Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis
Chris Hedges | America's Superficial Health Care Debate Silences Single-Payer Supporters
The Real Health Care Debate

Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis ~ John C. Goodman, Reviewed by The Independent Institute
The most important problems that plague American healthcare arise because virtually all of us—patients, doctors, caregivers, employers, employees, etc.—are locked into a system fraught with perverse incentives that raise the cost of healthcare, reduce its quality, and make care less accessible than it should be.

Let States Create Single-Payer Healthcare, RootsAction Team
Universal coverage, Medicare for all, single payer — call it what you will. It's clear that conservative forces are determined to prevent such a system from ever being introduced at the national level. So it's up to the states.
Legislation may enable states to offer universal healthcare

Pfizer and Merck under investigation for colluding with Obama Administration on health care overhaul, Ethan A. Huff, Natural News

"For [Big Pharma], the ACA (Obamacare) is a gift, bringing in anywhere between 30 - 40 million people who could not previously afford pharmaceuticals," Peter Pitts from the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest is quoted as saying by Medical Marketing and Media.
Chris Hedges | America's Superficial Health Care Debate Silences Single-Payer Supporters
The Incestuous Relationship Between Government and Corporate America

Chan Lowe

The debate surrounding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act illustrates the impoverishment of our political life. Here is a law that had its origin in the right-wing Heritage Foundation ... and was solidified into federal law after corporate lobbyists wrote legislation with more than 2,000 pages.... But you would never know this by listening to the Democratic Party and the advocacy groups that purport to support universal health care but seem more intent on re-electing Obama.
Should Supreme Court Find Insurance Mandate Unconstitutional?
The Real Health Care Debate

I went to the doctor/Guess what he told me/Guess what he told me... - Sinead O'Connor
Healthcare Reform Diagnosis: We're All in This Together
The Real Health Care Debate

It is worth taking a few minutes to question whether it is an individual matter.
The Real Health Care Debate

Mike Luckovich

The Real Health Care Debate, Chris Hedges, Truthdig

Lost between conservatives and Democratic front groups were a few stalwarts including public health care advocates Dr. Margaret Flowers, Dr. Carol Paris and attorneys Oliver Hall, Kevin Zeese and Russell Mokhiber who displayed a banner that read: “Single Payer Now! Strike Down the Obama Mandate!”
Should Supreme Court Find Insurance Mandate Unconstitutional?
The case for universal care at the state level

How health care law affects lives of 7 Americans, Carla K.Johnson and Ricardo Alonso-zaldivar, Associated Press / Real Clear politics
As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, the Associated Press spoke with a variety of people to hear their experiences so far with the landmark legislation

How to Cover Everyone: Vermont’s Single-Payer Success, Amy Gluckman, Yes! Magazine
The state’s progressive health care model has already bolstered campaigns in more than 20 other places.

Doctors for Single Payer Health Care Take On Supreme Court, Russell Mokhiber, News Junkie Post

Fifty medical doctors who favor a single payer health insurance system today urged the US Supreme Court to strike down the individual mandate.
The death panels are already here.
Social Crisis in America: Uniting Occupy and Labor Over Health Care
3 big health insurers stockpile $2.4 billion as rates keep rising

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