Articles Posted in the Opinion Category
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Compulsory Private Health Insurance:
Just Another Bailout for the Financial Sector?By Ellen Brown December 24, 2009 Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is quoted as warning two centuries ago: “Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come…
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Time to Pass the Health Insurance Industry
Antitrust Enforcement ActBy Ralph E. Stone December 24, 2009 What happened to the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009? Did it fall through the cracks along with the public option? Because there is unlikely to…
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Obama Year One: Betrayal and Failure (Part II)
“Obama wants to do George Bush one better by continuing the worst of his policies, enact more of his own, and destroy the middle class to turn America into Guatamala with ruling elites governing a…
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Obama Year One: Betrayal and Failure (Part I)
“In Obama’s America, only the privileged have rights, not people of color, the poor, and growing numbers going hungry, without jobs, and other life’s essentials his budget allocations won’t fund.” Photo by Luke Thomas By…
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Houston’s Road to Victory for Oddwads and Queers
Houston Mayor-elect Annise Parker is the first openly gay activist to be elected mayor of a major US city. Photo courtesy AnniseParker.com By Larry Bush, guest columnist December 20, 2009 Somewhere in Houston, a few…
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Somalia By The Bay?
Former Treasure Island Executive Director Tony Hall. Photo by Luke Thomas By Tony Hall, former San Francisco Supervisor and Executive Director for Treasure Island December 19, 2009 I truly wish for the sake of all…
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Obama May Pay a High Premium
for Insurance Industry LobbyistsChange we can’t believe in. Photo by Luke Thomas By Jill Chapin December 18, 2009 There are strange bedfellows aligning themselves around the country as we settle into our heated positions in the healthcare debate.…
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