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help kucinich keep his congressional seat please contribute at: http://www.kucinich.us/ http://www.michaelmoore.com/ http://www.fahrenheit911.com/l... Factual BackupSiCKO: There are nearly 50 million Americans without health insurance. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention actually reported that 54.5 million people were uninsured for at least part of the year. Health Insurance Coverage: Early Release of Estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 2006. Centers for Disease Control. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/n... The amount of uninsured is rising every year, as premiums continue to skyrocket and wages stagnate. From 2004 to 2005 the number of uninsured rose 1.3 million, and rose up nearly 6 million from 2001-2005. Leighton Ku, "Census Revises Estimates Of The Number Of Uninsured People," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 5, 2007 http://www.cbpp.org/4-5-07heal... With 44.8 uninsured in 2005, in 2007 the number will be much higher. Professors Todd Gilmer and Richard Kronick, in "It's The Premiums, Stupid: Projections Of The Uninsured Through 2013," Health Affairs, 10.1377/hlthaff.w5.143, "project that the number of non-elderly uninsured Americans will grow from forty-five million in 2003 to fifty-six million by 2013." According to these authors, by now the number of non-elderly uninsured by this date clearly would be nearly 50 million. SiCKO: 18,000 Americans will die this year simply because they're uninsured. According to the Institute of Medicine, "lack of health insurance causes roughly 18,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the United States. Although America leads the world in spending on health care, it is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not ensure that all citizens have coverage." Insuring America's Health: Principles and Recommendations, Institute of Medicine, January 2004. http://www.iom.edu/?id=19175 SiCKO: Richard Nixon and John Ehrlichman are heard discussing the concept of a health maintenance organization in Oval Office Recordings. On February 17, 1971, Richard Nixon met with John Ehrlichman to discuss the Vice President's position on health maintenance organizations, as heard in the film. The Miller Center of Public Affairs has this audio recording (conversation number 450-23. "Richard Nixon - Oval Office Recordings," http://millercenter.virginia.e... The next day, Nixon called for a "new national health strategy" that had four points for expanding the proliferation of health maintenance organizations, or HMOs. "Special Message to the Congress Proposing a National Health Strategy," February 18th, 1971, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu... The term "health maintenance organization" was coined by Nixon advisor Paul Ellwood. Patricia Bauman, "The Formulation and Evolution of the Health Maintenance Organization Policy, 1970-1973, Social Science & Medicine, vol. 10. 1976. After Congress passed Nixon's HMO Act in 1973, HMOs in America increased nine-fold in just ten years. N. R. Kleinfield, "The King of the HMO Mountain," New York Times, July 31, 1983
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ganjalfx (October 3, 2008 at 2:46 pm)
well said Alex viva the revoloution baby
ganjalfx (October 3, 2008 at 2:45 pm)
yeah me too !!!!! how is aul triler trash spears doin
meape (June 20, 2008 at 1:14 pm)
OMG!!!11! Britany is okay. Thats good. I was sitting watching Larry Kind on CNN and caring about health care, but what I was really thinking is how is Britany doing?
alexjc1984 (June 5, 2008 at 11:47 pm)
Michael Moore is right on the healthcare issue. One has to seriously lack compassion to believe that it's okay for millions of Americans to not have accee to proper health care. Private healthcare does not profit to citizens. It's a retarded system where only insurance companies and healthcare providers see benefits. As a Canadian, I can only hope that the USA will come to its senses soon. Because I care about my neighbors down south more than many Americans care for their fellow citizens...
dayglowgreendoor (March 25, 2008 at 5:20 am)
The Miller Center of Public Affairs is run by Jerry Baliles. He's an unethical piece of crap willing to sell his soul for the criminality and corruption of Nazi Southern. Don't trust him, because he's corrupt and criminal in his corporate crime complicity.
witzkeyman (March 4, 2008 at 4:17 pm)
we have socialized war.
artdirector123 (February 15, 2008 at 12:55 am)
Yes, get rid of those insurance companies!
oz22verizon (February 9, 2008 at 8:37 am)
exactly!! cut out the health insurance companies and you save 700 billion a year alone!
daveho77 (February 8, 2008 at 6:06 pm)
It'll create more poor people in our country because everyone's dollar will be destroyed and the cost of living will rise. I'm all for the government wiping my ass and paying for it, but only if we have the money to do so. If we're so hard on for universal healthcare why don't we just cut some spending overseas? I'm tired of paying haliburton to destroy and rebuild overseas. Is that where you want your taxes to go to? Cut gov waste and fraud and you'll have enough to pay for a lot of crap.
oz22verizon (February 8, 2008 at 2:15 am)
i totally agree! it will put more poor people out in the streets, which is prob what they want! they're neo cons after all! helping the new world order! |
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