jEFFSTANA on August 6th, 2007

I wrote recently about Bush and his critique of the State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (S-CHIP). A successful program which bridges the gap for children without health care insurance and has the support of fair-minded organizations, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics. SCHIPs also runs more efficiently than Medicare programs which allow private pay […]

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jEFFSTANA on July 31st, 2007

Some think there is not a dime’s worth of difference between the two dominant political parties in the US. The sentiment is heard all the time, whether the talk is of civil defense, military spending, education, equal rights or big business — and let’s not even begin with negative connotations (they’re all doing it). Right. […]

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jEFFSTANA on July 31st, 2007

Analysis by Barbara Ehrenreich of W’s speech in Cleveland on 10 July 2007, where among other things, George spoke up vs. socialized medicine — or in Bush-babel, “Federalized medicine”. GWB: “I strongly object to the government providing incentives for people to leave private medicine, private health care to the public sector. And I think it’s […]

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jEFFSTANA on April 21st, 2007

— Updated below — While 90% of Americans wish the Federal Government to negotiate group discount rates for prescription medication, a minority of Senators blocked this legislation (S. 3, The Medicare Fair Prescription Drug Price Act of 2007) from coming to a vote on the Senate floor. Here in Arizona, our senior Senator, John McCain […]

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jEFFSTANA on September 4th, 2006

In a special to the Arizona Republic on Sunday, September 3, 2006, Dr. George Poste advocates for animal testing as a necessary research tool. Dr. Poste’s credentials as a veterinarian and director of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University (ASU) are duly noted. He claims 30 years in biomedical research as corroboration for his […]

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