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Progressive Issues for "more and BETTER" Democrats
"Health care is a fundamental right." (Ted Kennedy, 8/26/08)
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Is Health Care a Commodity, or a basic Human Right? with Poll

by: jamess

Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 16:40:17 PM EDT

Well according to this former HMO Medical Director, she traded Necessary Patients Care, for Career Advancement and a 6-figure Salary:

Linda Peeno MD, testifies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Question: Are the Patients, who are Denied Care, to save the Insurance Companies Money -- DO those Patients have a RIGHT to their Health Care?

Or are Those Patients simply a Commodity -- a "Cost Center" -- that must be constantly constrained?  

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Insurance Industry Exec admits Michael Moore was RIGHT about Health Care

by: jamess

Sun Aug 02, 2009 at 23:29:47 PM EDT

Former CIGNA Exec Wendell Potter, says Michael Moore was right!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

WENDELL POTTER: I thought that he hit the nail on the head with his movie.

But the [Insurance] Industry, from the moment that the Industry learned that Michael Moore was taking on the health care industry, it was really concerned.

BILL MOYERS: What were they afraid of?

WENDELL POTTER: They were afraid that people would believe Michael Moore.

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EENR for Progress: Health Care is a Human Right

by: be inspired

Sun Feb 24, 2008 at 20:10:29 PM EST

Health care is a human right. In my own definition of the progressive movement, I count that as a basic progressive principle.

For various reasons, from my own personal perspective, it is simply unacceptable to settle for anything less than true universal health care. Some of those various reasons are my experiences with health care in the United States, as well as those of my friends and family, some of whom have serious or chronic conditions.

In tonight's EENR for Progress, we look at why we need universal health care, proposals for universal health care, and what progressives can do to achieve it.

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