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Categories: Peace & Social Justice, Economic Fairness & Security, Affordable Healthcare, Consumer and Worker Protection, Corporate Accountability / Workers' Rights, Budget Priorities
CheneyCare -- We taxpayers pay 70% of guaranteed coverage for VP Dick Cheney and 2 million federal legislators and employees.
Link: Bill Moyers' Journal 5/9/08 -- California Nurses' campaign for "CheneyCare" for all. Read transcript or view program: http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/05092008/transcript1.html
Video "Who the Health Cares?" gets straight to the point: Presidential candidates will not determine health care reform -- the ball is in the court of Congress. http://www.moblogic.tv/video/2008/04/30/who-the-health-cares/
For-Profit Health Insurance and Pharmaceutical Industries -- scary statistics
1) Melody Peterson's book "Our Daily Meds" reveals that the benefit of medicines marketed by pharmaceutical companies "has become secondary to how much it will bring shareholders in profit"...due to constant pressure by Wall Street for drug companies to exceed profits made the year before; Big Pharma employs 2 lobbyists for every Congress member.
2) Tests show that placebos often work as well as the drugs being marketed to the public.
3) 100,000 Americans die annually from taking prescribed drugs as prescribed (FDA reports).
4) U.S. experiences 75,000-100,000 preventable deaths annually, ranking 19 out of 19 nations. (Recent study, Ellen Nolte & Martin McKee, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
