Public betrayal: The Children Are the True Healthcare Victims

Put forth by XicanoPwr


Even though our country has pioneered many major medical developments, millions of Americans do not have access to needed medical care. The growth of the nation’s uninsured population is about to reach it’s breaking point. With his long awaited promise to veto, President Bush vetoed legislation, State Children Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), that would have [...]

CNN Admits to Manufacturing News Against Michael Moore

Put forth by XicanoPwr


Last week, CNN accused Michael Moore of fudging the facts and cherry-picking numbers from different academic studies to make his arguments stronger. On CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Wolf Blitzer (video) aired Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s senior health correspondent, “fact check” report that attempted to verify the facts Michael Moore’s 2007 film ‘SiCKO.’
Moore was furious [...]

Show Us Your Papers!

Put forth by XicanoPwr


Beginning next month, all US citizens applying for Medicaid or renewing their Medicaid eligibility will have to prove their citizenship by presenting a U.S. passport or the combination of a U.S. birth certificate and an identification document. Individuals who cannot do so will be denied health services financed with federal Medicaid funds. It seems Dudya [...]

Health Insurance Who Needs It?

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In 2002 the Institute of Medicine came out with their finding in their landmark study, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, which documented the disparities in treatment of minorities in the American healthcare system. They found:

Racial and ethnic minorities tend to receive a lower quality of healthcare than non-minorities, even when [...]

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