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6061. robertjayb - 4/1/2004 3:36:35 AM Frist tends family business...(John Nichols, WI CapTimes)
Last week, Senator Bill Frist took to the floor to denounce Richard Clarke. "Mr. Clarke makes the outrageous charge that the Bush administration, in its first seven months in office, failed to adequately address the threat posed by Osama bin Laden," Frist griped. "I am troubled by these charges. I am equally troubled that someone would sell a book, trading on their former service as a government insider with access to our nation's most valuable intelligence, in order to profit from the suffering that this nation endured on Sept. 11, 2001."
That was rich coming from Frist, whose Senate service has been all about profiting from the suffering of the nation. By blocking needed health care reforms, pushing tort reforms that would limit malpractice payouts and supporting moves to privatize Medicare, Frist has pumped up his family's fortunes at the expense of Americans who lack health care.
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Frist has delivered well for his family. That $800 million stake in HCA that his father and brother had when Frist was elected in 1994 shot up in value over the decade that followed. In 2003, Forbes estimated that Frist's brother, Thomas Frist Jr., was worth $1.5 billion. According to Forbes: "source: health care."
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6062. jexster - 4/1/2004 3:55:52 AM No need...want the rest?
Email me for access to SFSU library electronic reserve
And be careful Swede of who you fuck with.
Title Format # of Pages Size
California's Propostition 186: Lessons from a Single-Payer Health Care Reform Ballot Initiative Campaign (Farey, K.) pdf 11 543 KB
Comparing Health System Performance on OECD Countries (Anderson, G.) pdf 14 485 KB
End of an Era: What Became of the "Managed Care Revolution" in 2001? (Lesser, C.) pdf 19 659 KB
Health Care for All - California Folder - -
Health Services in the United States: A Growth Enterprise for a Hundred Years (Anderson, O.) pdf 15 705 KB
Health Spending Rebound Continues in 2002 (Levit, K.) pdf 13 531 KB
Hospital Haves Prosper, Have-Nots Cut (Thomas, S.) pdf 5 201 KB
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Methods Used by European Countries to Obtain Reasonable Drug Prices for Consumers (Huttin, C.) pdf 1 35 KB
Prescription Drug Coverage for Medicare Beneficiaries: A Summary of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 pdf 12 416 KB
Proposal for the Physicians' Working Group for Single-Payer National Health Insurance (Woolhander, S.) pdf 11 612 KB
Rise and Resounding Demise of the Clinton Plan (Skocpol, T.) pdf 21 1006 KB
Side-by-Side Summary of Presidential Candidates' Proposals for Expanding Health Insurance Coverage pdf 5 206 KB
The Health Insurance Act of 2003: An Overview of SB 2 pdf 3 96 KB
Understanding the New Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit pdf 4 139 KB
Universal Health Care Action Network
6063. wonkers2 - 4/1/2004 9:57:17 AM Frist and family are parasites on the populace. 6064. wonkers2 - 4/1/2004 10:20:22 AM Wasn't one of Frist's hospitals in California exposed on 60 Minutes for performing hundreds of completely unnecessary heart surgeries? They were practically dragging the streets for candidates. Here in Detroit a local for profit lasik/cataract surgery clinic cleaned up for years by trolling nursing homes for candidates for unnecessary surgery. They were running a bus service to all the local nursing homes and herding them in. That's the nasty underbelly of free enterprise. 6065. robertjayb - 4/4/2004 8:11:06 AM Show-me-the-money health care...
RENTON, Wash. -- When Chuck O'Brien visits his doctor, they talk about his aches and pains, his heart problems and his diet, but never about his health insurance. That's because Dr. Vern Cherewatenko is one of a small but growing number of physicians across the country who are dumping complicated insurance contracts in favor of cash.
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When O'Brien leaves the exam room, he writes a check for $50 and he's done -- no forms, no ID numbers, no copayments.
"This is traditional medicine. This is what America was like 30 years ago," said O'Brien, 55 and self-employed, who believes he has saved thousands of dollars by dropping his expensive insurance policy and paying cash. "It's a whole world of difference."
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6066. judithathome - 4/12/2004 12:13:39 AM Faulty Gene For Crohn's Disease Found
Canadian researchers have isolated a gene that predisposes people to Crohn's disease, a painful disorder that strikes young people and that has sharply increased in frequency in recent years.
The discovery will have an immediate impact, allowing researchers to distinguish more readily between Crohn's and colitis, both inflammatory bowel diseases.
"The diagnostic benefits will be immediate," said Katherine Siminovitch, a professor of medicine at the University of Toronto. "That's important because you really want to catch these diseases in the early stages . . . then you can start a therapy that might put patients in remission and even eradicate the disease."
6067. concerned - 4/12/2004 12:40:24 AM Anomie,
With the old white men running the country right now that are each worth in the tens of millions that are so out of touch, I don't see anything positive coming anytime soon.
And how is Kerry not all of the above, except that he's supposedly worth hundreds of millions? 6068. concerned - 4/12/2004 12:41:13 AM 'We don't like old rich white men, so we'll vote an even older, richer and whiter man in for president.'
What kind of sense does that make? 6069. judithathome - 4/12/2004 1:29:13 AM Perfect. 6070. judithathome - 4/12/2004 5:19:48 AM I have just been stunned by a statement from my insurance company. That little electronic gizmo that helped my leg to start healing agian cost $4,678.00!
I guess it is cheaper than surgery but still, that seems extremely costly. 6071. seadate - 4/12/2004 7:03:25 AM Concerned,
Re: Old White Men
It was I who made the reference. Unlike yourself, I have no tribalistic ties to either political party. Yes, Kerry is also one of them ... with his ties, don't count on ketchup to lose market share to mustard if he wins.
6072. seadate - 4/12/2004 7:13:06 AM Concerned,
And to answer your question, Kerry offers a regime change. 6073. anomie - 4/12/2004 9:37:36 AM 6067 is not me.
Concerned, I think you meant to reference someone else.
I am for regime change, however. 6074. anomie - 4/12/2004 9:39:21 AM I am an old white man myself. Sort of off-white, really. 6075. seadate - 4/12/2004 9:47:39 AM Anomie,
Concerned was referencing my post. Old white guy am I. 6077. seadate - 4/12/2004 9:55:17 AM I'm outta here. Gonna rustle up a game of bouree and get a beer to raise a toast to the good health of all you moterheads. 6078. robertjayb - 4/12/2004 1:10:51 PM Florida may ban mammogram lawsuits...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) --
Radiologists who make mistakes when reading a mammogram couldn't be sued for malpractice under a measure narrowly approved Monday by a Senate committee, despite concerns the bill could promote carelessness.
Supporters say the ability to get mammograms performed and read quickly is threatened because of the high cost of malpractice lawsuits. The American Cancer Society supports the bill (SB 2306).
On more courthouse door closeing...
6079. robertjayb - 4/16/2004 7:38:21 AM Socialized medicine!!! As pockets pinch, Fat cats not so fast to sneer...Where's Phil Gramm? (Slate)
The American health care system, a patchwork of government-provided benefits overlaid on a voluntary system of private-sector coverage, is a case study in economic inefficiency. Companies that provide health care to employees put themselves at a disadvantage to competitors—domestic and foreign—that don't. And because uninsured people frequently receive care—from the government or hospitals—those who pay for health care are essentially subsidizing those who don't.
6080. anomie - 4/17/2004 8:46:24 AM Don't know if I mentioned this here before, but I'll bring it up again.
I think we are barbaric in our heath care policies in the U.S. Our young people have to depend on corporations for something so vital as their life and health. It's shameful.
It is refreshing to hear young people in Europe discuss their future and their career aspirations without having to worry about paying doctor bills for themselves or their children.
We have given big business another hammer to wield over our future.
Call it socialism if you must, but we won't be a free people until we control our own health care. 6081. anomie - 4/17/2004 8:49:07 AM Do you know anyone stuck in a crap job because of the health care bennies? This is freedom?
I'm on a rant. Forgive me. But at 50 years-old, I have two friends with breast cancer in lousy jobs where they work their asses off for peanuts...and health care.
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