Health Care Hydra

We are going from the Caduceus to THE HYDRA

In response to the article on the “primary care shortage” (Arizona Daily Star http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/287457 ):
It seems there are two kinds of doctors out there: those who get into medicine to help people and those seeking wealth. Dr. Linda Williams at El Rio Community Health Center is clearly [...]

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Lobbyists Are Good People Too, Just Not Good People First.

• Lanny Davis is a prominent Washington lawyer and a political analyst. From 1996 to 1998, he served as special counsel to President Clinton. From 2005 to 2006, he served on President Bush’s five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.

That is quite a bioblurb for a guy writing a piece on the virtues of lobbyists [...]

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Bush’s Departure Leaves Us All With The Bill

When Bush started his Presidency, one of his first major acts was to stand on a pile of rubble in New York and tell us all to go shopping.
His last major act, as he stood on a pile of rubble that was now the U.S. Economy, was to tell us all to pay the bill.

We [...]

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Put These Wall Street Criminals Where They Belong

Economic “Maestro” Alan Greenspan defended his record recently saying that the responsibilities within the Treasury Department are not an exact science, and nothing is foolproof. He explained that in forecasting markets if they get it right 60% of the time they are doing very well. So, 60% is doing very well? This means that [...]

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Where’s Powell Been? Oh! That’s Right, in Hiding.

Colin Powell’s recent endorsement of Senator Barack Obama for President left me wondering where Powell’s been all these years. We haven’t seen much of him since… when was it? Hmm….. Oh! I got it! Since shit went south in Iraq. That’s right. Now I remember. He was a [...]

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