Posts tagged Health
U.S. Health Care Expensive And Underperforming: Study
Jun 24th
We’ll have to wait and see how well the United States men’s soccer team fares now that they are in the knockout stages of international competition at the World Cup, but if there’s one thing we can all take pride in is the fact that we are the Champions of Health Care! Top prize goes to the system that best combines mediocrity with stratospheric costs, right? No? Well, that’s bad news then, because according to a new study by the Commonwealth Foundation that relieves health care reform proponents of having to cite outdated statistics from the World Health Organization, that’s precisely the sort of health care we have
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Loading ...Wallace Turbeville: The Second Energy Revolution
Jun 22nd
In the 1930s, a great many Southerners had no access to electricity. The Roosevelt administration perceived an enormous opportunity to restructure the region’s economy
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Peter Roskam: Medicare Needs a Digital Elliot Ness
Jun 22nd
Medicare, the government health care safety net for seniors, processes $460 billion of claims every year–as much as 10% of which turn out to be fraudulent. Compare that to the financial services industry which handles $11 trillion in transactions every year, yet loses only 0.047% to fraudsters.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Robert Kuttner: The President I Voted for
Jun 21st
My Fellow Americans, You and I have been hearing a great deal of advice about the importance of cutting the federal deficit. As part of the challenge of restoring America to a condition of economic soundness, we do need to lower the deficit and bring down the national debt relative to our total economic output. But a lot of the Cassandra voices have the sequence backwards.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Saul Friedman: Are the Frail Elderly Being Urged to Die?
Jun 21st
The poet Dylan Thomas said it best for those of us of advanced age: “Do not go gentle into that good night; rage, rage against the dying of the light.” But what if there is no good alternative to quietly turning out your light? In Connecticut (the home state of insurance giants), a legal and moral battle rages that may have national implications. Two physicians have sued the state for an action that could eventually allow patients to choose a peaceful, drug-induced death to avoid the pain and terrors of a terminal illness
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...New Republican Agenda, Or Lack Of One, Divides Party
Jun 21st
WASHINGTON — It’s not easy crafting an agenda for the fall elections. Just ask Republicans in Congress
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Steven G. Brant: How To Do It: An Open Letter To Pres. Obama
Jun 20th
Dear President Obama, I am writing this letter as someone who (full transparency) actively supported your candidacy with both my time and money. In fact you and I met at a small fund raising event in NYC in September of 2007, an event at which Ted Sorensen publicly endorsed your candidacy
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Lynn Englum: Is there a Silver Lining to the Gulf Coast Oil Catastrophe?
Jun 18th
When the oil rig Deepwater Horizon sank on April 20th killing 11 people and opening an underwater oil geyser 5,000 feet below the ocean surface, few predicted the length and extent of the disaster. The inability to stop the leak, which the federal government now estimates is dumping 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil a day (approximately an Exxon Valdez spill every 4 to 7 days), is heavily impacting the Gulf Coast ecosystem, generating profound effects on its communities and economy for years and potentially decades to come. As the oil-soaked wildlife pictures roll in and uncertainty prevails around the region’s seafood and tourist industries, it’s hard to imagine any beneficial outcome from this calamity
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Robert Reich: Joe Barton and the Big Big Debate
Jun 18th
Representative Joe Barton’s apology to Tony Hayward for what he termed a “shakedown” of BP by the White House in order to get BP’s agreement to a $20 billion escrow fund, was the best thing to happen to BP since April 20, and the best boost for the White House in months. What possessed Barton, the ranking Republican on Energy and Commerce? Adding to the mystery is the fact that just four years ago, Barton, as the committee’s chair, excoriated BP’s top brass (who were then appearing before the Committee to explain the firm’s negligence in allowing 270,000 gallons of oil to spill on Alaska’s North Slope, the worst spill ever recorded in that fragile territory) for a “corporate culture of seeming indifference to safety and environmental issues …
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dr. Paul Zeitz: Fathers Can Stop Violence, Too
Jun 18th
This weekend I, like many other fathers in this country, had the joy of celebrating Father’s Day with my family.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Health Care Reform: Support For New Law Hits Record High (POLL)
Jun 17th
WASHINGTON — The patient is alive and kicking. A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds public support for President Barack Obama’s new health care law has risen to its highest point
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...John Dougherty: Obama Falls Short on BP Oil Leak in Address
Jun 16th
In his first Presidential Address from the Oval Office last night, President Barack Obama missed a rare opportunity to set this nation on a fundamentally new course for regulating the oil and gas industry.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Doug Kendall: President Washington Would Have Squashed Rick Barber Like a Grape
Jun 15th
The efforts of Tea Partiers to wrap their anti-government agenda within the imagery of our Nation’s Founding reached absurd and dangerous heights this morning with the release of Alabama congressional candidate Rick Barber’s “Gather Your Armies” campaign ad , which portrays a George Washington-like figure authorizing armed rebellion in response to federal taxation and a law passed through the process established by the Founders (the health care bill). Barber, who is in a runoff for the Republican nomination for the right to challenge Rep. Bobby Bright (D-AL) in the fall, himself is heard in the ad stating that he would “impeach him,” apparently referring to President Obama, and then adds, ominously, “and if that’s not enough .
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Peter Daou: Last Chance, Mr. President, to Go Big and Go Left
Jun 14th
A year ago, in the midst of the explosive health care debate, I argued that health care reform wouldn’t be President Obama’s defining issue: The New York Times blares: In Health Care Fight, Defining Moment Nears for President .
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...News Update: Sara Lee Corp. CEO Suffered From Stroke (NYSE:SLE)
Jun 14th
Sara Lee Corp. (NYSE:SLE) chairman and CEO Brenda Barnes revealed to the press Monday that she suffered from a stroke a couple of weeks prior. Barnes said, “I suffered a stroke a few weeks ago, and I am now in the process of recuperating.” The company named Marcel Smits as the interim CEO and board member James Crown as the interim chairman
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Randy Shaw: New Outrage Exposes Obama’s Failure To Help Unions
Jun 14th
On June 11, St. Joseph’s Health Systems (SJHS) did something that employers have long done but which Barack Obama’s presidency was supposed to stop: it filed a frivolous NLRB appeal to delay unionization for workers who won an election. In this case, SJHS is denying unionization to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital workers, who chose the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) in the largest successful hospital election of 2009.
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