Archive for 'health care'
Explaining the Stupak Amendment + Palin's Pro-Life Protesters
Palin Doesn’t Convince the Pro-Life Movement, Either: Stephanie Mencimer at Mother Jones reports that a Pro-life movement, the American Right to Life, believes that Palin is secretly pro-choice. Dispute Over Repercussions of Health Care Reform Act? At the NPR health blog Shots, Julie Rovner explains that neither abortion rights groups nor anti-abortion groups believe that [...]
Posted: November 19th, 2009 under abortion, agency, government, health care, politics.
Tags: abortion, amendment, bart stupak, choice, costs, coverage, government, health, health care, health care reform, hr3962, insurance, medicaid, NPR, palin, private, pro life, public, risk pool, sarah, stupak, supplemental
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Christian Right Wants Less Liberty for Women, More Crime?
Sometimes, the left wing doesn’t know what the right wing is doing. Unfortunately, the long-awaited passage of health care reform leaves us with little to crow about. Bart Stupak’s amendment to prevent anyone receiving a federal subsidy from buying a health insurance plan that covers abortions is a shocking attack on women on welfare. What’s [...]
Posted: November 14th, 2009 under abortion, crime, economics, health care, women's health, women's rights.
Tags: abortion, burt stupak, children, choice, christian right, christina page, crime, economics, family, Freakonomics, freedom, health, health care, insurance, kevin drum, life, mother jones, politics, roe v. wade, stem-cell, stephen j. dubner, steven d. leavitt, women's rights
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Dr. Clarke On Avoiding The H1N1 Virus
This video, featuring Dr. John D. Clarke, won the Center for Disease Control (CDC)’s contest and will air as their public service announcement about avoiding H1N1, the swine flu virus. Unlike Dr. Dre, Dr. Clarke has a medical degree, and unlike Jay-Z, his PSA is not about being “CEO of the ROC”. He’s been spitting”health [...]
Posted: October 8th, 2009 under health care.
Tags: cdc, center for disease control, CEO, disease, dr. clarke, dr. dre, eyes, face, germ, germs, h1n1, hand sanitizer, handwashing, health, health care, hip hop, hygiene, illness, infection, influenza, Jay-Z, John Clarke, long-term outcome, medicine, mouth, nose, PSA, public service announcement, quarantine, rap, ROC, sickness, stay at home, swine flu, virus
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Fuzzy Math: Oh, Really, O'Reilly?
Right here, you can witness the magic of fuzzy math. Peter Gilles of Victoria, Canada writes to Bill O’Reilly, asking, “Has anyone noticed that life expectancy in Canada under our health care system is higher than the USA?” O’Reilly attempts to claim that this is because we are a more populous country. (He also claims [...]
Posted: July 29th, 2009 under Canada, Canadian, health care, math.
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Speaking Truth To Power: The Canary In the Coalmine (Literally)
Fight the Culture of Hate! Vincent Navarro, formerly Jesse Jackson’s senior health advisor in the ’84 and ’88 Primaries, tells it like it is over at Counterpunch: HillaryCare Failed. That’s right, folks, the experienced cynical candidate might not have an advantage over the young, hopeful candidate. The experienced candidate might have been involved in a [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2008 under 08, 1492, Guantanamo, Ohio, Texas, United States, abduction, afghanistan, african-american, african-americans, american way, anti-white, baltimore sun, barack, barackaway, birds, black, black males, black panther party, black panthers, bomb, brunch, brutality, california, californian, canary, candidate, capitalist, caucus, change, charges, church, clinton, coalmine, colonial power, colony, corruption, crime, cub, culture, culture of fear, delegate, dementia, democrat, democratic, detainee, dictatorship, direct traffic, drug, drug use, drugs, election, enslavement, equality, exploitation, fairness, fear, federal, funding, gender, goods, government, group, health care, hillary, hillary care, hillarycare, hitler, homeland, homeland security, hope, human, human rights, imperialism, international, jesse jackson, justice, law, lean back, male, males, manipulation, men, mental health, mining industry, minor, neighborhood, neocolonial, non-violent, oakland, obama, panthers, party, police, politics, possession, power, presidency, president, primary, profit, proletariat, property, race, radical, reagan, regime, rich, rights, rockaway, scandal, security, services, sex, stalin, state, sulfur-coloured seed eater, superdelegate, surrendur, system, ten point, ten point program, terror, terror squad, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, toddler, totalitarian, totalitarianism, u.s. government, uncle sam, vibe, vincent navarro, violation, violence, war, war on drugs, welfare, white.
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You Have the Right to Fewer Choices.
Right. So I said I’d take a break, and I haven’t slept in a while, but this bears repeating: They’re passing a TRAP law in Wisconsin (curtsy to Pandagon ). Basically, this means that women who are trying to get abortions and abortion providers will both need to jump through more hoops to “prevent women [...]
Posted: November 7th, 2007 under ACLU, Carhart, Justice Kennedy, Louise Melling, Misogyny, Pandagon, Supreme Court, abortion, abortion providers, abuse, anti-choice, birth, bullshit, carhart vs. gonzales, childbirth, coercion, consent, danger, dark humor, domestic violence, feminist, freedom, government, gynecologist, gynecology, health care, human rights, informed consent, insult, joke, justice, law, legislation, mandatory wait periods, motherhood, power, rape, stupid, terrorism, terrorists, trap law, waiting period, wisconsin, women, women's rights.
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Power Dynamics: Is Feminism the Crack of the Academy?
This is a long one. If you’re not interested in theory or crack, you might like this instead. I’ve been writing a lot about the machismo present here in Buenos Aires, and I’ve been looking at it from a pretty unilateral and experience-based place. So it was interesting to read Jo Doezema’s article, “Ouch! Western [...]
Posted: July 4th, 2007 under Amsterdam, Andrea Dworkin, Britain, Buenos Aires, Catherine MacKinnon, Coalition Against the Trafficking of Women, Female Sexuality, Japan, Jo Doezema, Once Plaza, Ouch!, Sheila Jeffries, academy, anthropology, autonomy, class, communion, crack, culture, feminism, feminist, first world, geisha, health care, human rights, human rights caucus, identification, injury, kathleen barry, machismo, men, moral autonomy, objectification, oppression, political, power, power structure, prostitute, sex, sex partner, sex positive, sex positivity, sex work, sex worker, sexual objectification, sexual subordination, social stigma, stripper, the state, the west, theory, thesis, third world, white, whore, women, women's rights, wounded attachment.
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