http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:09:29 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:09:29 As Americans search for the cure to what ails our health-care system, we've overlooked an invaluable source of ideas and solutions: the rest of the world. All the other industrialized democracies have faced problems like ours, yet they've found ways to cover everybody -- and still spend far less tha... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1492 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:20:47 In Pensacola, Fla., retired FBI agent Ted Gunderson tells a gathering of antigovernment "Patriots" that the federal government has set up 1,000 internment camps across the country and is storing 30,000 guillotines and a half-million caskets in Atlanta. They're there for the day the government finall... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1491 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:56:36 ....even though this was presented at John Hopkins in 2003, it is as true today as it was then...maybe even more so.........

The Inhuman State of U.S. Health Care
by Vicente Navarro


This essay was the opening address at a seminar sponsored by the medical and public health students of the Jo... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1490 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:56:49 A freelance cameraman’s appendix ruptured and by the time he was admitted to surgery, it was too late. A self-employed mother of two is found dead in bed from undiagnosed heart disease. A 26-year-old aspiring fashion designer collapsed in her bathroom after feeling unusually fatigued for days.

Pa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1489 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:02:48 To judge the content of a nation’s character, look no further than its health-care system.
By T. R. Reid
NEWSWEEK
Published Sep 12, 2009

“Us Canadians, we’re kind of understated by nature,” Marcus Davies told me in his soft-spoken way. “We don’t go around chanting ‘We’re No. 1!’ But you know,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1488 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:08:26 You Might Be a Redneck Gardener If ...
Posted by sylviatexas z8a Tx (My Page) on Mon, Jun 1, 09 at 14:02


you mow your lawn and find a wheelbarrow

you think a chain saw is a musical instrument

you know how many bags of fertilizer your car can hold

you've ever cleaned your house wi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1487 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:47:22 In his book The Family, Jeff Sharlet has done a masterful job of exposing the machinations of the of shadowy evangelical group known variously as “The Fellowship,” or “The Family,” (or, most recently, “those nuts from Congress living in a far-right commune on C Street who counsel wayward congressmen... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1486 Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:21:21 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1485 Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:57:38 Last year, the Democratic Congress enthusiastically acquiesced to President George W. Bush’s insistence on carving out individualized suspicion and other privacy protections from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The Democrats did so to preempt the charge of being weak on national security ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1484 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:46:33 ...Jeff Sharlet wrote the book "The Family" ...this article is from Harpers and was written in 2003 and it deals with the right wing religious group called "The Family".

Jesus plus nothing:
Undercover among America's secret theocrats
By Jeffrey Sharlet


And a man's foes shall be they of hi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1483 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:43:46 By Jack Lohman
Posted on July 06, 2009 6:22 AM



Single-payer is the most cost efficient system for our nation and is the most humane. You get sick, you get care and the caregiver gets paid. Nothing could be simpler. And though Medicare is not perfect it is indeed the least costly system of al... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1482 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:14:19 I am an orthopedic surgeon who has been practicing in this community over the past 16 years and may be familiar to many of your readers. As our Congress debates the future of our health-care system, I am writing to urge my fellow citizens to get involved in the process. The debate in Congress is bei... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1481 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:10:16 Call me old fashioned, but a true conservative is someone who conserves, dislikes wasting money and is offended by endless corporate bailouts by hard-working taxpayers. A fiscal conservative like me. As a public health professional, I want to see health dollars used to keep people healthy through pu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1480 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:08:00 Source: [b]Washington Post[/b]

The nation's largest insurers, hospitals and medical groups have hired more than 350 former government staff members and retired members of Congress in hopes of influencing their old bosses and colleagues, according to an analysis of lobbying disclosures and other rec... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1479 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:17:23 From cell phones and computers to bicycle helmets and hospital IV bags, plastic has molded society in many ways that make life both easier and safer. But the synthetic material also has left harmful imprints on the environment and perhaps human health, according to a new compilation of articles auth... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1478 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:50:24 ....from Climate Progress

In its May 2008 Corporate Citizenship Report, ExxonMobil promised:

In 2008, we will discontinue contributions to several public policy research groups whose positions on climate change could divert attention from the important discussion on how the world will secure ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1477 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:43:01 In 2007, the IPCC warned that “as global average temperature increase exceeds about 3.5°C [relative to 1980 to 1999], model projections suggest significant extinctions (40-70% of species assessed) around the globe.” On our current emissions path, we will warm far more than that this century, which ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1476 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:20:32 As a society, we trust doctors to be more concerned with the pulse of their patients than the pulse of commerce. Yet the American Medical Association is using that trust to try to block a robust public insurance option as part of health reform.

In fact the A.M.A. now represents only 19 percent of... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1475 Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:49:42 Single-payer national health insurance is a system in which a single public or quasi-public agency organizes health financing, but delivery of care remains largely private.

Currently, the U.S. health care system is outrageously expensive, yet inadequate. Despite spending more than twice as much ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1474 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:45:19 The American Medical Association has come out against President Obama’s “public option” for health care reform, but the AMA doesn’t represent all physicians. Some physicians’ groups support the public option but others think it doesn’t go far enough to fix changes in a badly broken system. Dr. Olive... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1473 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:39:08 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1472 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:30:16 Mark Sanford has been holding a televised cabinet meeting this afternoon.

And the South Carolina governor started out by using an interesting comparison to respond to calls for his resignation. King David didn't back down after his own sex scandal, he told his colleagues, and neither will I.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1471 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:00:23 would be one of the first that I would think of....James Brown another.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1470 Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:39:12 The Sham and Shame of the Health Reform “Debate”: The Charade Goes On
Posted by John Geyman, MD on Monday, Jun 22, 2009
Now that we have a new president espousing health care reform and a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, isn’t this a time to be excited and optimistic for long-overd... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1469 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:11:09 Perils of the Public Plan
A badly designed public plan could turn out to be the opposite of what progressives intend.


In the current battle over health reform, progressives may have set themselves up for trouble by pinning all their hopes on the creation of a government-run insurance plan.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/RedEarth/1468 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:03:33