Truemors
Elderly Abusing Disabled People?? [UPDATED]
"Elder Abuse" is a term to describe the abuse of elderly people. This can occur in the home (by relatives or outpatient-care nurses) or in group homes for the elderly (by employees). It's a terrible- no- horrible... 
Letting "Old People" Die is Not a Good Way to Fund Health Care
Recently, prominent liberal health care mouthpiece and former Colorado Governor, Richard Lamm openly discussed rationing as a financial solution to help fund universal health care ("Better Health Care Through Rationing," The Huffington Post), or as he puts it, "“Old people... 
UK – Political Battling over the Elderly for votes
News 06 10 2009 'Medicine errors' in care homes. A report “slams” the shocking treatment of the elderly in care home. (News more fully below ).
As is usual the Government consistently allows failure to build as a future political instrument for use at every new election... 
Sorry folks, Sarah Palin is (partly) right on health care
"But that should not distract voters from this reality: President Obama has proposed a new body that would enhance Medicare’s ability to deny care to the elderly and disabled based on government bureaucrats’... 
Multiple Myeloma Risk For 9/11 Responders
Emergency personnel that responded to the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers may be at higher risk for multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer. The findings, which were published in the Journal of Occupational and... 
created by Annina Bergman | 16 wks ago | updated 16 wks ago
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239 views | 22 recommendations | 4 comments
The Woman Behind “Health Care Reform Will Kill Old People” Lie
"MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow reported that health care executive Betsy McCaughey created the “Obama health care will kill old people” lie. The same lie that has been repeated by opponents of health care reform,...
created by TheCameraObscura | 18 wks ago | updated 18 wks ago
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963 views | 7 recommendations | 5 comments
Prisons + Tshirts = Jobs
Michael Norburyhttp://bringhomethepoliticians.comThe following is a comment I posted to a California newspaper's online Op-Ed complaining that the idea being considered to release 27,000 low risk and elderly prisoners was being unfairly opposed citing that just because the... 
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Can USA Provide Free, Public Medical Care Like Brazil? (w/fotos)
"""Free public neighborhood health clinic in Brazilwhere treatment is provided to all as fundamental right."I am not convinced that single payer is necessary to dramatically improve health care in the US. I believe that making health care a right (like the right to vote) - a... 
created by francislholland | 22 wks ago | updated 22 wks ago
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196 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Elderly Woman w/ Diabetes & No Insurance Told “Good Luck” by GOP
Stop the presses! The Republicans do have a way to reform health care in this country, it's called "good luck!" At least that what former Republican Congressman Tom David told an elderly woman, with diabetes...
created by TheCameraObscura | 23 wks ago | updated 23 wks ago
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496 views | 38 recommendations | 26 comments
Texas Police Shock White Woman, 72, Making Nightly News in Brazil
Cross-posted at the Police Brutality Blog and the Electrocuted While Black blog in the afrosphere.I live in Brazil and I just saw a scene on the nightly news here, from the US state of Texas (click here for video), that disgusts me, and will shock and astound Brazilians... 117 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
