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  • Health care co-ops: Strategy for killing real reform

    Health care co-ops: Strategy for killing real reform

    August 22, 2009

    Original source: U.S. House and Senate health care reform bills that have won committee approval contain a public health insurance option as a vital component and that, says a new report released this morning, “is considerable...

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  • Subsidised medicines to be available to Chinese

    Subsidised medicines to be available to Chinese

    August 22, 2009

    Original source: The Chinese government has issued a list of more than 300 commonly used drugs that will be sold at controlled prices from next month as part of reforms aimed at making health care more...

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  • LETTERS: public option, getting to the roots, Labor Day, film showing

    LETTERS: public option, getting to the roots, Labor Day, film showing

    August 21, 2009

    Public option We need the public option now more than ever. What the Tea Party elderly don’t know is that they are bankrupting government Medicare without some other form of health care reform. The public option...

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  • Fixing busted budgets

    Fixing busted budgets

    August 21, 2009

    In state capitals across the country, the fiscal year began July 1 with financial catastrophe. Summer schools were shut in California, state parks closed in Arizona, drug treatment and home health workers were slashed in Illinois,...

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  • Truth-telling time

    Truth-telling time

    August 21, 2009

    This is truth-telling time in the fight for health care. The voices of the uninsured and underinsured, of those who have insurance but live in fear of losing it, must be heard. The stakes could not...

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