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Fixing Health Care Is Good for Business
Gary Locke – Wall Street Journal
You have probably heard the horror stories about President Barack Obama’s health-care proposals leading to rationed care and bankrupt businesses and governments. Those claims are flat wrong. The real horror story [...]
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If you agree that a public option should be part of the health care reform bill, make sure you let your representatives know!
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According to the US Census Bureau, Texas has the highest uninsured rate in the country – nearly one out of every four Texans (26%) is uninsured – over 5.5 million people. Among those, 60.4 percent of Latinos in Texas are uninsured. This would include me.
There is no doubt that this is a shocking. However, [...]
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Two years ago, Michael Moore took on the health care industry in his documentary movie, “SiCKO.” In the movie, Moore includes a security video showing a disoriented elderly woman in a hospital gown and slippers wandering in the gutter of a busy Los Angeles street. Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center near Los Angeles had discharged [...]
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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 [...]
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This is the blog of Edmundo "XicanoPwr" Rocha, a social worker, an activist, freelance writer and founder and editor of The Sanctuary. My interests include: immigration reform, critical race theory and it's interaction with equality/inequality and freedom/oppression as they relate to the experiences of people of color in the Americas.
Para Justicia y Libertad is a Latino-centered political blog focusing on the humanistic perspective of politics, history, and society as they relate to the Latina/o community throughout Texas and the United States.
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