So, what then is Socialism?

Among the things one can’t avoid noticing after living in North America for more than two years is the bizarre use of the ‘S-word’. It recently keeps popping up in the context of health care reform in the US but it also rears its allegedly ugly head in many other...

Grass-roots outrage - or PR firms?

The argument is ongoing - and what I find odd, decidedly odd is that so many grass-roots average Joes actually believe that US healthcare reform will mean that the US will, over night, turn into the Peoples...

Health care reform getting "meager"

Richard Wolff: Obama must create the support needed to reform health care

Healthcare Is a Good, Not a Right

If ever I have seen an argument that shows, more than anything, that Libertarians are consummate loons, this post does."Natural law states that people have rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. A good is something you work for and earn. ...

Tax the rich to pay for health care?

Wolff: Rich people do not make an economy strong. What makes the country wealthy is its people.

Obama defends healthcare proposal

" President Barack Obama has defended his plans for health reform in a news conference broadcast live in the US. In opening remarks, Mr Obama pledged to push through a reform by the end of the year that would...

Standards as to the UK Gov on Healthcare

A mother of two Bernice Sowter whom is suffering from leukaemia has been denied the right to appeal against a Primary Care Trusts (PCT) decision which denies her the drug Dasatinib on the NHS. Her Specialist Consultant wanted to switch her from Imatinib to Dasatinib however...

Provision in HealthCare Bill would make Private Insurance Illegal

President Obama has assured Americans that they can keep their private insurance if they want to but, he didn't mention the process by which to do so.  He also didn't mention that those with Individual private...

Alberta Conservative MLA will help Plan Healthcare Protest

Guy Boutilier is the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo, in Alberta.  He is a member of the governing Conservative Party in Alberta. He has turned against his own government due...

Democrats Push Public Healthcare Option in House and Senate

Health care reform is indeed needed but is should not be rushed through,  It needs to be duscussed and checked out before being passed "That fight, of course, is over whether healthcare reform should include...

The Weekly Riot: Healthcare Sanity

Let me pose a scenario to all of you. Please imagine this scenario in relation to your normal lives. Suppose you and your significant other had just mortgaged all that you owned on an investment that you thought...

Health care reform debate

Thousands of supporters of Obama's plan rallied in Washington but some say his reform is not enough.

Health care a human right?

A single payer rep finally testifies to Congress; insurance industry steps up attack on any public plan

Doctor Says Obama Healthcare Plan Has Real 'Mechanical' Problems

"The Grouch” is a Tennessee emergency room physician who penned a must-read piece today under the headline, Socialized Auto Repair and Car Care.  In it, he diagnoses some real “mechanical problems” of...

Sen. John McCain Lies About Foreign Healthcare VIDEO

The Republican smear machine has gone into action, right on schedule.  Sen. John McCain, who has universal health care through the government, is on TV trying to scare Americans on how awful universal health...

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