Comments on: While Congress dallies, desperate Americans seek free healthcare

By: The myth of the liberal media, health care edition - John Knefel - Making a Mockery - True/Slant

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:36:46 +0000

[...] The idea that we don’t ration care now is insulting and disgusting — ask the people who waited in line for days to receive basic medical care. Or talk to Wendell Potter, the insurance executive turned [...]

By: Thousands queue for free healthcare (again) - Allison Kilkenny - Unreported - True/Slant

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:08:24 +0000

[...] countries. I spoke with RAM’s founder, Stan Brock, last summer when he was on his way to Cocke County High School in East Tennessee where the group was running another free clinic. (The full interview with Stan Brock can be heard [...]

By: Allison Kilkenny - Unreported – Lamar Alexander says something really racist even by GOP standards - True/Slant

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:48:21 +0000

[...] This summer, Remote Area Medical, a non-profit, volunteer relief corps dedicated to providing free health care, dental care, eye care, veterinary services, and technical and educational assistance to people in remote areas of the United States and the world, set up a free health clinic at Cocke County High School in East Tennessee. [...]

By: Allison Kilkenny - Unreported – Media, healthcare, and calling a lie a lie - True/Slant

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:52:18 +0000

[...] Very real issues like astroturfing, private healthcare industry donations to members of Congress, and Big Pharma’s private meetings with Obama go unreported or at best, underreported. The whole idea behind having a free media is to educate the populace. Unfortunately, what we have is a pack of oversized children that can’t focus on a single issue for more than five minutes, and constantly genuflect before the God of Personality that demands they obsessively document what strange amalgam of words Palin managed to string together this week. Meanwhile, Americans are uninsured, underinsured, and sometimes waiting in animal pens in to receive healthcare. [...]

By: Health Care Reform From The Other Side |

Health Care Reform From The Other Side | — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:01:15 +0000

[...] year, and citizens were already setting up camp outside the fairgrounds as early as Tuesday. (Click here to read my interview with RAM founder, Stan Brock.) Things are worse now, but they were still very [...]

By: Allison Kilkenny: Healthcare Exec Turned Whistleblower Thinks America Needs Universal Coverage » A Couple Things » A couple things about politics, sports, travel, and other stuff.

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:40:35 +0000

By: Allison Kilkenny - Unreported - Healthcare exec turned whistleblower thinks America needs universal coverage - True/Slant

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:19:19 +0000

By: briano

briano — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:56:54 +0000

That doesn’t mean it will pay for itself. What it tells me is that people who already have insurance through their employers will continue to see rising premiums. Also, taxes will help to subsidize insurance for people who have no coverage at all. It is all smoke and mirrors. We cannot pay for this without raising taxes or imposing more taxes. The only people who will see a reduction in the cost of insurance will be people who currently pay for it on their own. The bill for that will be footed by the American taxpayer after it is borrowed from other nations.

Face it man, we are heading for higher taxes and a greater separation between the wealthy and the poor. This is not going to go away and it will not pay for itself. Do not believe them when they tell us that.

By: jasong

jasong — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:24:19 +0000

"Health reform can help pay for itself, but both private and public insurance choices are critically important," said Commonwealth Fund president Karen Davis. "A public insurance plan can help drive new efficiencies in the system that will produce large cost reductions. Without a public plan, much of those potential savings will be lost."

By: briano

briano — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:05:56 +0000

I think that some of you are confusing credit and wealth. We didn’t have the money for the bailouts either, that is all borrowed money that will eventually be paid back with taxpayer dollars. That debt also carries a pretty hefty interest rate, so we will be paying it back for the rest of our existence as a nation!

The bottom line is that our economy has been devastated due to lack of banking regulation made possible by President Clinton and the Republican led Congress. Everyone thought the were wealthy, but what they didn’t realize was that it would eventually come home to roost. And here we are…