As many doctors struggle to keep their practices financially sound,some are buckling under money woes and being pushed into bankruptcy. It’s a trend that’s accelerated in recent years, industry experts say, with potentially serious consequences for doctors and patients. Some physicians are still able to keep practicing after bankruptcy, but …
If there is one problem that symbolizes the ongoing national healthcare emergency, it is the rampant price gouging in the healthcare industry that continues to price too many Americans out of access to care and into financial ruin. Not only is the problem not solved by the Affordable Care Act, …
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As Minnesota’s physicians, health care leaders and legislators grapple with the complex changes brought by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many are concerned that even after the law is fully implemented, hundreds of thousands of people will remain uninsured while health care costs continue to spiral. What if there were …
Today on the program we look at why people in the US continue to pay more for health care that any other industrialized county. Annually tens of thousands die from lack of care and Obama is now proposing cuts in Medicare. We first interview Dr. David Himmelstein is professor in the CUNY …
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Updates on “recovery,” No. Dakota’s public bank, costs of US wars, global austerity, and rising health care costs for employees. Major discussions of banking crisis, Stockton, CA bankruptcy, declining US manufacturing and “neutrality on raising corporations’ taxes. WSDEs: Mexican tire factor run by workers since 2005; responses to questions on …
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The most important thing to realize about Obamacare is that it is just a giant, money-making scam. If you truly understand this, everything else falls neatly into place. The outrage makes sense. It certainly doesn’t excuse or justify it but at least it is the logical outcome. All these various …
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Today is Valentine’s Day, and this year we learned that President Obama gave all American families a minimum health care expense of $20,000, according to the IRS. The guys discuss on today’s program. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (0.0KB) | Embed
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Many of us have known, simply because of observation, that children are no longer healthy. Now, a scientific study documents what we’re seeing. The average child is now sick, chronically ill. It doesn’t bode well for the future of the United States, and is almost certainly true of other …
Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, addressing the American College of Physicians recommending a longer battery of vaccines for all health care workers Also, a challenge to the mantra that green capitalism and eco-capitalism is a solution to climate change and its failures, with Heather Rogers. Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is an osteopathic medical …
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In a striking example of the intersection between America’s broken health care system and 21st century information technology, doctors and dentists are successfully luring younger Americans between the ages of 20 and 40 into purchasing online coupons for their health care needs, Kaiser Health News reports. The coupons tend to attract …
After Vermont hospitals started buying up the medical practices of local physicians, state Sen. Kevin Mullin of Rutland, began hearing complaints that prices some patients were paying for routine medical care had soared. One family accustomed to paying about $120 in out-of-pocket costs for doctor visits and other medical services …
Incredulous that Wall Street investment bankers and billionaire CEOs have descended on Washington in the midst of ongoing budget talks to tell Americans that they should “lower their expectations” when it comes to the security of their retirement and future health care, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders took to the Senate …
First, Allyn Rose, Miss America contestant, announced in early November that she would be undergoing a double mastectomy to “prevent” breast cancer. Rose, a healthy 24-year old Maryland native who lost her mother to breast cancer when she was 16, has been lauded by certain media outlets as an “awareness raising” role …
Election rhetoric shuns the big picture in favor of the bigger platitude. Now that The Show is over, we are left with the equivalent of a Sunday morning hangover following a binge of promises and lies. We leave the theatre of political spectacle on steroids for the real world …