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Rally for Women’s Health
Don’t let the new anti-choice Congress take away our reproductive health care! This is an issue that affects all of us as young people who often take the right to family planning for granted.
Organizations such as Planned Parenthood – who are already banned from using government money to provide abortions – are falling victim to inflammatory pro-life rhetoric. No matter how you feel about the issue of choice, it is true that organizations such as Planned Parenthood… Read More
Tagged health care, rally, women's issues
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Ladies and Gentlemen: U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner
When Anthony Weiner breaks through the fake DC collegiality and tells it like it is on healthcare (“I mean, you guys have chutzpah. The Republican Party is a wholly owned subsidiary of insurance companies.”) the Republicans get offended and ask that his “words be taken down” (disciplinary procedure for “inappropriate language”).
So Anthony Weiner retracts his statement, and then goes on to say (this is at about the 2:25 mark in the video):
Make no mistake about it, every
Tagged anthony weiner, health care, republicans, Video
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Still coming to a hospital near you…
In case you had forgotten, the last Catholic hospital in NYC is still in danger of closing its doors.
St. Vincent’s is the only full-service hospital on the lower West Side. And, according to the Advocate, was a major player at the epicenter of treating the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980′s.
A phonebank to prevent the closure is scheduled for 5pm today at 101 6th Avenue.
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Health Care Event Tonight: Spoken Word Town Hall
MYDer Matthew Bishop passes along this awesome event tonight in Brooklyn:
Spoken word artists (even a limited open mic in the beginning) will speak out about health care and attendees will be signing hospital scrubs to send to DC lawmakers in support of the Every Patient Matters campaign.
Should be a blast, and incase you’ve never been to a spoken word event – let me just tell you they are totally cool. Hope you can swing by!
Tonight… Read More
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Must Watch re: The Health Care Battle
If you haven’t seen it yet.. Olbermann really delivers..
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Tagged congress, Corruption, health care, Lobbyists, Olbermann, Video
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Obama Woos Docs On Healthcare Reform
In one of his first major speeches on health care reform, President Obama addressed the American Medical Association (AMA) in Chicago earlier this afternoon, in an attempt to pacify concerns about a public system (and feared decreased reimbursements, similar to Medicare) and to persuade one of the most important stakeholder groups to support health care coverage for the 46 million Americans that are currently uninsured.
When it comes to the cost of our health care, then, the status quo is unsustainable. Reform
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