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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Doctor Critical of Baucus Promotes Single-Payer Plan
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Saturday, June 6, 2009. Doctor Critical of Baucus Promotes Single-Payer Plan. By Mike Dennison. Published on June 6 by The Billings Gazette (Montana). Maryland psychiatrist Carol Paris is calling herself one of the "Baucus 13" these days - in other words, one of the 13 doctors, nurses and activists arrested last month while protesting before a Washington, D.C., health reform hearing chaired by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont. Single-payer advocates held rallies in six Montana cities on Friday. In an interview F...
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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Tap Water Worries Have You Buying Bottled? Safeway Loves You!
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Tap Water Worries Have You Buying Bottled? By Jonah Owen-Lamb. Published June 2 by the Merced (California) Sun-Star. And posted on Commondreams.org. Wells are drying up across the county from an overtaxed and sinking water table. Drought and climate change threaten the future of local water supplies. And Merced has been selling its tap water since 2002 to a water bottling plant, which then sells that water at rates far above what it costs the plant to buy it from the city. The Si...
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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Up in Smoke: Health insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks
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Monday, June 15, 2009. Up in Smoke: Health insurers hold billions in tobacco stocks. By Desiree Evans, published at Facing South. The Journal of the Institute for Southern Studies. A recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that major U.S., Canadian and British life and health insurance companies are investing billions of dollars in tobacco company stock. The report found that seven health and life-insurance companies in both the United States and overseas have nearly $4.5 ...
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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Single payer health care is the only way to control costs
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Monday, June 15, 2009. Single payer health care is the only way to control costs. By Dr Peter Mahr. Our current healthcare system is a mess for both those who carry health insurance and those without. Only a single payer national health insurance program that provides public financing for privately delivered healthcare services can clean up this mess and provide all Americans access to needed medical services regardless of ability to pay. Furthermore, a single payer system is the only reform proposal tha...
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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Peru Suspends Decree That Fueled Amazon Violence
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009. Peru Suspends Decree That Fueled Amazon Violence. Compiled from reports by Agence France Presse, Indymedia, and Democracy Now! Peruvian lawmakers suspended one of several controversial laws that eased restrictions on lumber harvesting in the Amazon rain forest, days after it sparked clashes between police and indigenous protesters, killing dozens of people. President Alan Garcia's APRA party. Angry legislators with the opposition Nationalist Party (PNP) called for the decrees to...
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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Fasting for our future, climate activist enter fifth week of hunger strike
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Monday, May 18, 2009. Fasting for our future, climate activist enter fifth week of hunger strike. A hunger strike for strong climate legislation has entered its fifth week just as a weak climate action bill begins its Congressional mark-up. Seven people—Kathleen Breault, SKCM Curry, Ted Glick, Jere Locke, Cathy Luna-Desaulnier, Vincent Pawloski and Diane Wilson, acting as part of Fast For Our Future. Posted by Alliance for Democracy. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). In the real economy. Need strict re...
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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Media Quarantine of Single-Payer Continues: Fifteen Years Later, Public Health Insurance Still Taboo
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Saturday, June 6, 2009. Media Quarantine of Single-Payer Continues: Fifteen Years Later, Public Health Insurance Still Taboo. By Julie Hollar and Isabel Macdonald. Published on Thursday, June 4, 2009 by Extra! A publication of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. Reposted on Commondreams.org. As a big healthcare policy debate looms once again in Washington, one thing remains as certain as it was in 1993: A single-payer plan that would provide government health insurance to everyone is off the media agenda.
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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Max Baucus, the "Senator for K Street," Should Not Be Deciding Health Care for America
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009. Max Baucus, the "Senator for K Street," Should Not Be Deciding Health Care for America. By Kevin Zeese. Published by the Baltimore Chronicle. Why aren’t single payer advocates allowed to testify before Baucus’ committee? Senator Max Baucus and the Senate Finance Committee are too corrupted by corporate health industry profiteers donations to give America the health care policy it needs. Why aren’t single payer advocates allowed to testify before Baucus’ committee? Over his career h...
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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Pennsylvania Town Fights Big Coal on Mining Rights
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009. Pennsylvania Town Fights Big Coal on Mining Rights. By John Hurdle. Published by Reuters. A small Pennsylvania town is trying to ban coal mining in a battle being played out across the state as rural communities try to assert control over mining, gas drilling and other businesses. Penn Ridge Coal LLC, a unit of Alliance Resource Partners, and Allegheny Pittsburgh Coal Co., a unit of Allegheny Energy, say Blaine's laws violate their corporate rights. The township has gone further t...
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The Alliance for Democracy - Headlines: Facing Down the Private Insurance Industry
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Saturday, June 6, 2009. Facing Down the Private Insurance Industry. By Robert Kuttner. Published on June 4 by T he Boston Globe. Despite budget pressures, President Obama has not backed off his commitment to universal healthcare reform. But the devil is in the details. And if he is not careful he could end up with a reform worse than nothing. The US healthcare system is the most expensive and least cost-effective in the advanced world mainly because private insurance companies waste about 25 cents on the...
