As the Senate prepares to take up the issue of health care reform, the Republican Party is gearing up for a fight to the finish, a fight to defeat any attempt at improving our health care system. It is a desperate struggle the Republicans are waging, desperate because it is about money – lots of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘pandemic’
The H1N1 Vaccine Shortage: A Failure of For-Profit Health Care
Posted in Economy, Government, Life, Technology, Thoughts, World Affairs, politics, tagged Republican Party, Health-care, lobbyists, pandemic, H1N1, government health plan, health-care reform, death panels on November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The H1N1 Vaccine Debacle
Posted in Government, Life, Technology, Thoughts, World Affairs, tagged CDC, flu, pandemic, swine flu, vaccines on October 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Well, here we are. The Swine Flu is sweeping over the country like an invisible Tsunami, or maybe like an invisible Katrina. Several months ago the government – CDC etc – promised that they were on top of the situation and there would be plenty of flu vaccine available. “Brownie, you’re doing a heckuva [...]
The Lesson of the Swine Flu Pandemic
Posted in Economy, Government, Life, Technology, Thoughts, World Affairs, politics, tagged health-care reform, healthcare, pandemic, rationing health care, swine flu, vaccines on October 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the swine flu is now “widespread” in the majority of states in the U.S. In those states where it is not officially “widespread” it is mostly categorized as either “regional” or “local”. In other words, its pretty much everywhere – right now. Today, the very first swine [...]
50 Million People Without Health Care Await A Deadly Pandemic
Posted in Economy, Government, Life, Technology, Thoughts, World Affairs, politics, tagged flu, H1N1, Health-care, pandemic on August 31, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I’m not talking about some third world country, I’m talking about the United States. Approximately 50 million Americans have no health insurance and now face the prospect of being turned away from for-profit hospitals if they are in need of treatment for swine flu. So why is that a concern? Isn’t that also the way [...]
The Worst of All Possible Worlds
Posted in Economy, Government, Life, Thoughts, World Affairs, politics, tagged CDC, Health-care, insurance, pandemic on August 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
What would Voltaire say? Here we are facing the prospect of trying to cope with a catastrophic pandemic flu in a few months and we don’t have enough vaccine for everyone. Meanwhile, our government, through the department of Homeland Security and it’s countless subdivisions, has made plans for the distribution of what vaccine we might [...]
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