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The Baucus Bill’s Inevitable Consequences
“The Finance Committee chairman’s bill is a tangled web of federally-dictated insurance regulations, which would control every aspect of health insurance from covered benefits to permissible premiums. The bill would centralize the power of medical decisions with politicians and bureaucrats, not patients and doctors. And it would result in higher health insurance premiums, less consumer choice, and, ultimately, the rationing of health care.” — US Senate Republican Whip Jon Kyl speaking on …
BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Preview: Wendell Potter pt 2 | PBS
www.pbs.org insurance companies vs. Michael Moore. Bill Moyers interviews former health insurance industry executive Wendell Potter, who left the field after almost 20 years to become a health reform advocate. Check out Potters take on the campaign against Michael Moores film Sicko and tune in to Bill Moyers Journal, Friday, July 10, 2009 at 9PM on PBS (check local listings www.pbs.org for his experiences inside the health insurance industry, their work fighting a public option, and …
Nurse Sacked for Defending British Health Service (NHS)
privatisation in the health service. Unison members feel strongly that this is why she has been singled out and victimised. As Unison Branch Chair and a member of the union’s National Executive, Karen has already received widespread support. This year’s Unison annual delegate conference gave a standing ovation to Karen on hearing about the campaign for her reinstatement. In this clip, the strikers assemble at the Victoria monument, Piccadilly Gardens in central Manchester and march to the …
Manchester Pensioner Says Defend the NHS!
NHS there is a growing private health sector for the wealthy. Over the past few decades, Thatcher, Blair and Brown have been attempting to run down the NHS by starving it of resources in order to discredit the idea of state-funded public services. And they have simultaneously opened the NHS up to the bloodsucking buzzards from the private health care corporations. Much of the money that goes into the NHS ends up in the bulging pockets of the bankers though scams like the Private Finance …
