How to Win the Holiday Healthcare Debate With Your Conservative Relatives
Fran Quigley | commondreams.org | 2019-11-24
Supporters of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) hold signs during an event on healthcare September 13, 2017 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Japan Leads the Way in Child Health: No Compulsory Vaccines. Banned Measles Mumps Rubella (MMR) Vaccine
Kristina Kristen | globalresearch.ca | 2019-11-24
Important article first published by Children's Health Defense, posted on Global Research on April 28, 2019 | In the United States, many legislators and public health officials are busy trying to make vaccines de facto compulsory–either by removing parental/personal choice …
globalresearch.ca/japan-no-vaccine-mandates-no-mmr-vaccine-healthier-children/5675901
'Any doctors here?' Crew calls for help as co-pilot falls ill MID-FLIGHT in Russia and DIES just after emergency landing
rt.com | 2019-11-24
The crew of a Russian passenger plane desperately appealed for medical help after a pilot suffered from an acute health problem mid-flight. He died shortly after the jet made an emergency landing. | An Aeroflot Airbus 320 took off from Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport on Sunday morning, bound for Anapa, a Black Sea resort. The aircraft had to make an emergency landing in Rostov-on-Don, however, after its first officer was suddenly struck by a health issue. | The cause of death is unclear but it is believed to have been a heart attack or blood clot. A source told RIA Novosti that the co-pilot had earlier complaine…
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Giuliani says his 'dead man's switch' not about Trump, but Biden's alleged corruption spanning a decade
rt.com | 2019-11-24
President Donald Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, has claimed he keeps compromising files on the Bidens in a safe, which would be made public if he vanishes. He brushed off reports that his 'insurance policy' relates to Trump. | Giuliani has dismissed the notion that he has "an insurance policy" in case he falls out with his most famous client. The report stems from Trump's personal lawyer's heated interview with Fox News' Ed Henry on Saturday. | Asked if he has spoken to Trump recently, Guiliani refused to answer, citing attorney-client privilege, but stressed that his relationship with Trump could not be bet…
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Striking Dutch healthcare workers speak about first ever nationwide strike
wsws.org | 2019-11-23
The WSWS spoke to striking healthcare workers at a rally in Utrecht about their working conditions and strike amid an international resurgence of class struggles.
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Dialysis Patients Panic as Financial "Life Raft" Becomes Unmoored
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-11-23
Russell Desmond received a letter a few weeks ago from the American Kidney Fund that he said felt like "a smack on the face." | The organization informed Desmond, who has kidney failure and needs dialysis three times a week, that it will no longer help him pay for his private health insurance plan — to the tune of about $800 a month. | "I am depressed about the who…
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Chile Police Continue to Use Pellet Rounds Despite Ban
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-23
Chilean police continue to implement pellets despite the official suspension of their use this week in all but the most extreme situations, according to health officials reported by Al Jazeera Saturday. | RELATED: | Chile's Police Suspend Use of Pellets After 270 Eye Injuries | "They are still using the projectiles," Francisco Sepulveda told Al Jazeera in Antofagasta, a city 1,400km (860 miles) north of Santiago, adding that "the suspension changed nothing." | The health official i…
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In WWII-Era Fashion, the Saudi-led Coalition is Weaponizing Disease in Yemen
Ahmed Abdulkareem | mintpressnews.com | 2019-11-22
TAIZ, YEMEN — Beyond the devastation it has caused on the back of tens of thousands of airstrikes, a crippling blockade and the intentional targeting of civilian infrastructure, the Saudi-led coalition supported by the United States has sparked an outbreak of disease and epidemics in Yemen in a manner not seen since World War II. | Yemeni activist Aseel Sweid told MintPress News how a young boy, Abdulkarim al-Ma'amari, "died of dengue fever after it spread with alarming speed in Taiz, threatening many innocents." Sweid added that three of his own brothers had been infected with dengue. "There are a huge amo…
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Beware of the Medicare Disadvantage Corporate Trap
Ralph Nader | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-11-22
While the Democratic presidential candidates are debating full Medicare for All, giant insurance companies like UnitedHealthcare are advertising to the elderly in an attempt to lure them from Traditional Medicare (TM) to the so-called Medicare Advantage (MA) — a corporate plan that UnitedHealthcare promotes to turn a profit at the expense of enrollees. Almost one …
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Latin America at the Toronto International Film Festival
Bill Meyer | peoplesworld.org | 2019-11-22
TORONTO–Cuba, plagued by endless U.S. boycotts and sanctions, has little money left to sustain and develop their cultural exports. Films coming from Cuba dubbed or subtitled in English are becoming a rarity at film festivals in the U.S., even though there is still world interest in what's going on in Cuba. Instead, other countries are …
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The Future of Meat
Staff | truthdig.com | 2019-11-22
As people become aware of the effects of eating animals on climate change and human health, a new book asks whether we will see an end to it.
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Trump's Course Correction on E-Cigarettes: Great Idea, No Matter His Reasons
Thomas Knapp | counterpunch.org | 2019-11-22
Annie Karni, Maggie Haberman, and Sheila Kaplan of the New York Times describe US president Donald Trump's proposed ban on flavored e-cigarette products as "a swift and bold reaction to a growing public health crisis affecting teenagers" that Trump backed away from…
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Big pharma's new opium war: Exporting the addiction crisis to China
Donald Donato | peoplesworld.org | 2019-11-22
As the People's Republic of China's economy grows and integrates more fully into global commerce, so does the risk to its people's health. To meet the new demand for cancer and pain medications, China has had to harmonize its pharmaceutical regulatory structures with international ones and beef-up its investment in innovative biotech research and production. …
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With Health Effects Already Well-Documented, Wolf Must Stop Fracking
commondreams.org | 2019-11-22
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Macri Repealed Abortion Protocol: Rubinstein's Resigned
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-22
After the controversy unleashed nationwide in Argentina, after the publishing on the Official Gazette and immediately repealed by the Government, of the Care Protocol for the Legal Interruption of Pregnancy (ILE), the secretary of Health, Adolfo Rubinstein handed in his resignation. | RELATED: | Argentina: Rubinstein's Protocol Unleashes National Debate | His departure opens a new internal conflict in the governing coalition Cambiemos, which backs current President Mauricio Macri and…
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How Can Big Pharma Make Amends for the Opioid Epidemic?
Mattea Kramer | thenation.com | 2019-11-22
How Can Big Pharma Make Amends for the Opioid Epidemic?
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Ebola in DR Congo: New transmission chain risks reversing major gains
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-11-22
Amid multiple deadly attacks on civilians by armed groups in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an Ebola death "unlinked to any chain of transmission" risks reversing major gains against the epidemic, which is now down to just a handful of cases, a top UN medic said on Friday.
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Coal Knew Too: Explosive Report Shows Industry Was Aware of Climate Threat as Far Back as 1966
Eoin Higgins, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2019-11-22
"It wasn't just big oil that knew about climate change decades ago." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
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Congress Just Temporarily Extended the Government's Spying Powers
Neema Singh Guliani | aclu.org | 2019-11-21
Congress today temporarily extended the NSA's spying powers that time and again have been used to violate our rights. Disturbingly, this three-month extension was snuck into a broader funding bill, forcing members of Congress to choose between extending this program and causing a government shutdown. The extension is an unnecessary lifeline to spying programs that are plagued with compliance violations, have no proven intelligence value, and violate our rights. | Under Section 215 of the Patriot Act, one of the spying | powers extended, the government believes it has the right to collect our | personal inform…
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Four in five adolescents failing to exercise for even 60 minutes a day, UN health agency warns
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-11-21
An alarming lack of exercise among adolescents across the world risks seriously compromising their health into adulthood, the UN said on Thursday.
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Australian Women Win Vaginal Mesh Landmark Class Action
telesurenglish.net | 2019-11-21
More than 1,350 women who have suffered debilitating side effects of pelvic mesh implants won a landmark class-action lawsuit against multinational giant Johnson & Johnson on Thursday in Sydney. | RELATED: | Australia's Premier to Ban Climate Boycotts | The case, which began in 2012, has been described by the prosecution as the biggest class action concerning women's health in Australia's history. | The Federal Court of Australia held the behavior of the American mul…
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Thursday's Daily Brief: Deadly Syria violence, risks of working at sea, poor health in jail, concern over ISIL suspect, and her child
United Nations | news.un.org | 2019-11-21
A recap of Thursday's stories in brief: Syria's violence continues to strike children; governments must do more for human rights in business; poor health in Europe's prisons; rights experts' concern over Irish ISIL bride and her child in Turkey; Fishing workers face huge risks at sea.
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Make Dental Care a Health Care Benefit
Jess Pernsteiner | progressive.org | 2019-11-20
Dental care is not a luxury–it is essential for overall health.
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All out for relaunching of the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-19
Fight Back! interviews Frank Chapman on the November 22-24 Chicago conference to refound the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression. | Fight Back!: Could you say a few words about what the conference to relaunch the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression will look like? | Frank Chapman: The most powerful incentive for the relaunching of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression is the national epidemic in police crimes and state violence being perpetrated against Black and brown people, LBGTQ and trans people. Nothing demonstrates this more clearly than th…
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All out for relaunching of the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression
Fight Back | fightbacknews.org | 2019-11-19
Fight Back! interviews Frank Chapman on the November 22-24 Chicago conference to refound the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression. | Fight Back!: Could you say a few words about what the conference to relaunch the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression will look like? | Frank Chapman: The most powerful incentive for the relaunching of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression is the national epidemic in police crimes and state violence being perpetrated against Black and brown people, LBGTQ and trans people. Nothing demonstrates this more clearly than th…
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If You Care About Medicare for All or a Green New Deal, Here's the Senate Primary That Matters
Ryan Grim | theintercept.com | 2019-11-18
Chris Coons, a devotee of bipartisanship, is being challenged by Jess Scarane, who was inspired by progressive Kerri Harris's 2018 Senate campaign.
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Warren's Head Tax Is Not More Popular Than A Payroll Tax
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-17
As we know by now, Elizabeth Warren's Medicare head tax proposal is a regressive mess ( I, II, III, IV). Warren's team knows this. The goal of the proposal i…
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CAP's Topher Spiro Is Trying to Deceive Journalists By Lying
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-17
It's been fun to see how the Center for American Progress (CAP) navigates this year's presidential election. For insider political reasons, they can't support Biden or Sanders. But for a long time, it was unclear who the alternative candidate they could support would be. | When Kamala Harris was rising, CAP's staff was doing overtime boosting her on Twitter and in the press, including boosting Harris's absurd health care proposal. But Harris's collapse put an end to that strategy. Recently Warren has risen as the alternative and so CAP has been working to promote her campaign, which puts CAP in the comical positi…
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Warren's Medicare Head Tax Would Be About $9,500
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-03
On Friday, I wrote a piece arguing that Elizabeth Warren's use of an employer head tax was not a good way to fund Medicare for All and that instead the more conventional choices of income and payroll taxes would be better. The reason they are better is because income and payroll taxes are based on how much income you receive while a head tax charges the same dollar amount for every worker regardless of their income, making it much more onerous on the lower and middle classes. | This point holds…
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What Is a Middle Class Tax Hike? Am I Losing My Mind?
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-02
I have been swimming in the Medicare for All waters for over a decade now, going back to when I worked on the Ralph Nader presidential campaign that made Medicare for All its number one issue. And during this time, I developed a specific understanding of what we might call the M4A Financing Problem. | The Problem: | The M4A Financing Problem, in simple terms, is that even if you bring in existing federal spending on health care, existing state spending on health care, and a bunch of new rich-people taxes, you still fall short of financing the program. Thus to actually complete the financing, you have to u…
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Warren's Perpetual Medicare Head Tax Is Unworkable and Bad
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-01
Elizabeth Warren released her Medicare for All financing plan today. The main purpose of the proposal appears to be to find a plan that you can message as "not increasing middle class taxes," which is of course a nonsensical goal insofar, as Warren herself has said, what matters is middle class health care costs, not whether you categorize those costs as premiums, taxes, or out-of-pocket expenses. | Nonetheless, bowing to the stupid media discourse on this, Warren put forward a financing pro…
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Warren's Perpetual Medicare Head Tax Is Unworkable and Bad
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-11-01
Elizabeth Warren released her Medicare for All financing plan today. The main purpose of the proposal appears to be to find a plan that you can message as "not increasing middle class taxes," which is of course a nonsensical goal insofar, as Warren herself has said, what matters is middle class health care costs, not whether you categorize those costs as premiums, taxes, or out-of-pocket expenses. | Nonetheless, bowing to the stupid media discourse on this, Warren put forward a financing pro…
peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/11/01/warr…
New Poll Finds Voters Strongly Oppose Employer Insurance
Matt Bruenig | peoplespolicyproject.org | 2019-10-24
Many centrist pundits have convinced themselves that Medicare for All (M4A) is unpopular because, when you include certain details about M4A in polling questions, support levels drop significantly. But in convincing themselves of this, centrist pundits seem remarkably incurious about whether this same thing occurs for employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) when you include certain details about it in polling questions. | Earlier this week, Emerson Polling helped answer this question when it aske…
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