Archive for the 'health care' Category

Bar AIDS: Drink Away the Virus!

Posted by Brendan on August 26th, 2010 filed in Philadelphia, beer, direct action, economy, health, health care, youtube

Cross-posted at Suburban Guerrilla

I remember this commercial, which appeared about a week before the AIDS crisis exploded.
Action AIDS is one of the many non-profit human services organizations in Philadelphia, and their name is pretty self-explanatory. Like most non-profits, Action AIDS is under the gun due to the economic calamity we’re living in. (And [...]

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Woman is the Nigger of the World

Posted by Brendan on July 16th, 2010 filed in DemocRAT, abortion, calling bullshit, health care, hypocrisy, politics, reproductive rights

I think this is an appropriate enough video to introduce the latest in hope and change, received in a fundraising email from the otherwise odious sellout on reproductive rights, NARAL:
I have an urgent update about the new health-care law.
To our dismay, the Obama administration just announced it will exclude abortion coverage in the temporary health-insurance [...]

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Shorter Specter, Casey, Fattah, Sestak, Brady, Schwartz, and the Rest of the House: If We Don’t See a Problem, It Doesn’t Exist! (UPDATED)

Posted by Brendan on July 15th, 2010 filed in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, direct action, economy, health care, plain pitiful, politics, poverty

UPDATE BELOW

Via NYCEve:
On August 4th in Washington D.C. the National Association of Free Clinics holds a Free Clinic at the Walter E Washington Convention Center in Washington DC.
An invitation from Nicole Lamoureux the executive director of the Free Clinic Association went to every member of Congress and the United States Senate. 535 in total. 435 [...]

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When Lobbyists Write Bills

OOOPS:
Reuters reports that WellPoint is under federal investigation for singling out breast cancer patients and dropping their coverage “based on either erroneous or flimsy information.” They also report that language in the House bill would have protected these women, but it was removed in the Senate version of the bill because “lobbyists for WellPoint [...]

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health care aftermath

I’ve been pretty busy with work, getting my FAFSA together, and prepping the house for spring/summer, so I haven’t done a lot of blogging recently. in the wake of health insurance reform, however, I wanted to make a few observations.
Although I have some extremely serious problems with the new law, there is one clear [...]

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Funny Jokes

While you consider the health care bill, with its restrictions on abortion access, I’d like you to consider the following funny jokes embedded in the Democratic Party Platform(pardon the pdf):
“We will never put ideology above women’s health.” (p. 15)
“The Democratic Party strongly and unequivocally supports Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose a [...]

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Classy Teabaggers Mock Guy with Parkinsons

Posted by Brendan on March 18th, 2010 filed in anger, health care, lying republican filth, right wing dingalings

Seriously, how fucked up and evil can you get?

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Excellent Question

Posted by Brendan on March 10th, 2010 filed in Democratic Idiocy, calling bullshit, health care, politics

If the private insurance industry is so evil, why would you ever possibly force me to be their customer?
No one has been able to answer this question: not the President, not his defenders, not the “pass the bill now” crowd.
The real answer to our health care problem is either single payer (as they have in [...]

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A Brief Conversation With Kent Conrad’s Office

Posted by Brendan on February 24th, 2010 filed in DemocRAT, calling bullshit, health care, phone calls

“The only way this works is for the House to pass the Senate bill and then, depending on what the package is, the reconciliation provision that moves first through the House and then comes here,” said Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND). “That’s the only way that works.”
I pointed out that House leadership has repeatedly said they [...]

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Let’s Not, and Say We Did

Posted by Brendan on February 15th, 2010 filed in calling bullshit, health care, lying republican filth, media, politics, right wing dingalings

The NY Times’ Ross Douthat wants Democrats to make a deal with Republicans on health care. Here we go again.
You don’t even have to read the article to know that it’s a hopeless clutter of gibberish and magical thinking, but because I love you dammit I tried to get more than a paragraph in…
Even in [...]

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