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  • Free Education and Free Healthcare are Fundamental Human Rights
    22 December 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    “Free Education and Free Healthcare are Fundamental Human Rights”- Interview with Juan Antonio Fernández Palacios, Cuban Ambassador in Geneva
    CC.Since the Cuban Revolution in 1959 the country has often been regarded as an appendix of the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union many people in the West expected an end of the cuban socialism. However, 18 years later, the Cuban system still exists, even more solid than before.
    After the 1959 revolution the US established (…)

  • Video: Rep. Cummings: Health Care is a Life and Death Issue!
    1 November 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Five Democratic members of the U.S. Congress from the state of Maryland declared their support for “Health Care for America Now!,” (HCAN), on Oct. 31, 2008, at a press conference held at the AFSME headquarters in South Baltimore. Three members of the U.S. Congress, Rep. Elijah Cummings (7th D), Rep. C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (2nd D), and Rep. John Sarbanes (3rd D), personally signed onto the statement of principles and also spoke at the event. Rep. Cummings said: Health care is a “life and (…)

  • Video: “47 Million People Can’t Wait!”
    9 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On Sept. 8, 2008, a symposium entitled, “The US Healthcare System in Crisis: Achieving Universal Coverage,” was held at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, MD. One of the speakers was attorney Joel Segal. He is the Senior Health Legislative Assistant to the Hon. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI). Rep. Conyers is chair of the House Judiciary Committee and a champion in the U.S. Congress of a universal health care system. See:
    Mr. Segal said: “The 47 million (…)

  • Report: 79 Million Have Trouble Paying Medical Bills
    1 September 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    An estimated 79 million adults in the United States are now having problems paying medical bills or are paying off medical debt.
    This according to a new report by the Commonwealth Fund. Declining insurance coverage and rising healthcare costs are also contributing to the sick skimping on needed care. 45 percent of adults reported that the high costs of healthcare prevented them from getting needed care in 2007.
    Karen Davis, the president of the Commonwealth Fund said, "These findings (…)

  • Video: Derek Cooper: The State of Maryland Says: “I Should Just Die!”
    24 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On June 19, 2008, I interviewed Derek Cooper at a protest action in Baltimore City relating to the ongoing health care crisis in this country. Mr. Cooper is 34 years old and suffers from a “chronic disease.” He has no health insurance and his current medical debts exceed $36,000. Maryland’s Health Insurance officials have “refused” to help him. Mr. Cooper says that they figure: “I should just die!” The governor of Maryland is Martin O’Malley. Mr. Cooper lives in Montgomery County. He added: (…)

  • Video: Dr. Margaret Flowers Urges Single Payer Health Care System
    20 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    On June 19, 2008, a national protest was held in 19 cities across the country with regards to the health care crisis which impacts on millions of Americans’ lives. Activists in Baltimore City participated in the action. They mounted a picket at the corners of Lombard and Charles St. in the downtown area, where Care First: Blue Cross, Blue Shield has an office. One of the activists I interviewed was Dr. Margaret Flowers. She supports a “Single Payer Health Care System.” Advocates for change (…)

  • Power lines link to cancer in new alert
    21 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Power lines link to cancer in new alert By Nicholas Cecil, Evening Standard 20.04.07 Homes and schools could be banned from being built near power lines
    A secret report has raised fresh fears of a link between power lines and cancer.
    The confidential study, obtained by the Evening Standard, urges ministers to consider banning the building of homes and schools close to overhead high-voltage power cables because of possible health risks.
    It says a ban is the best way to reduce (…)

  • Medicaid cuts could affect students
    11 February 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON - Democrats have made it clear: They don’t support recommendations from President Bush that would shave an estimated $77 billion from government health programs for seniors and the poor. But Bush doesn’t need lawmakers’ support for some of the changes that he wants to make to Medicare and Medicaid. He could get about $23 billion in savings over the next five years by issuing new federal regulations.
    Students are among those who could (…)

  • Health care reaches tipping point
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Companies can no longer afford insurance; only government can
    by Ron Gettelfinger
    This Labor Day, you can find a solution to one of the most difficult problems facing American workers and employers by reading a single magazine article: "The Risk Pool," by Malcolm Gladwell, in the Aug. 28 issue of the New Yorker magazine.
    Examining the roots of our health care and pension dilemma, Gladwell reports that when General Motors and the United Auto Workers were negotiating in 1950, corporate (…)

  • Has Canada Got the Cure?
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Holly Dressel Publicly funded health care has its problems, as any Canadian or Briton knows. But like democracy, it’s the best answer we’ve come up with so far.
    Should the United States implement a more inclusive, publicly funded health care system? That’s a big debate throughout the country. But even as it rages, most Americans are unaware that the United States is the only country in the developed world that doesn’t already have a fundamentally public—that is, tax-supported—health (…)