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Health care reform vs health “insurance” reform

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Friends:  These days we are being bombarded with propaganda on this matter.  Alas, most of it reflects primarily the views and desires of the insurance industry, and has little if any informative value.  This piece by long-time Philadelphia-area writer Dave Lindorff is clear and sensible.  We can’t hope to make good decisions without being able to envision them and take them seriously.

” … the simplest way to solve America’s health care crisis would be to just start a gradual expansion of Medicare, say by lowering the age of coverage to 55, and then 45, and then 35, until everyone was covered and the insurance industry was pushed out of the health sector.” Continue reading →

Delaware Nurses Association “Nurses Healing Our Planet” Presents 2010 Lecture Series

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Thursday March 18, 2010
“Hazardous Chemicals in Health Care, A Snapshot
of Chemicals in Doctors and Nurses”

The CDC’s National Biomonitoring Program, the National Report
on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, and Physicians
for Social Responsibility’s biomonitoring study, will be discussed.

Speaker: Holly Carpenter, BSN, RN, is a Senior Staff Specialist
for the American Nurses Association’s Center for Occupational and
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“Statement of Evidence–Particulate Emissions and Health” by Professor Vyvyan Howard (38 pages).

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This is not light reading, but neither is the subject.  Anyone wanting to know more about air pollution and health will find it worthwhile to plow through these 38 pages.

Vyvyan Howard is also a key person behind the longer report The Health Effects of Waste Incinerators from the British Society for Ecological Medicine

Alert 659: Protect our children’s health: Don’t let incinerator pollution back into Delaware

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Greendel Alert 659:  Protect our children’s health:  Don’t let incinerator pollution back into Delaware

Update on Ciba’s attempt to bring back incineration
Meeting to promote incinerator being held Thurs. May 28th in Newport, 7:00 pm

“I’m going to oppose any change. If you can’t breathe, nothing else matters”
–Sen Dave McBride

“nothing less is at stake than our health and the health of our children.”
–Alan Muller, Green Delaware

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Governor: new ideas and real change needed for Delaware

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From Dr. James Prescott

In his “State of the State” address, Gov. Jack Markell, like President Obama and many other governors, is faced with a financial and economic crisis that has not been experienced since the Great Depression: “Our state government also faces a challenge: the largest budget shortfall in our state’s history, almost $780 million and growing. Together, we must balance our budget; we must live within our means. We must keep our government’s core commitments, such as protecting the health and safety of our families, fostering the growth of our economy and protecting the quality of our air and water. We must give every child an opportunity to succeed and assist our senior citizens and those with disabilities.

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Held Hostage by the Health System

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by Dr. Marcia Angell

The Senate Finance Committee’s hearings on health reform earlier this month did not include testimony from any advocate for single-payer insurance. Physicians for a National Health Program, which represents 16,000 doctors, asked the committee to invite me to testify, but it chose not to. If I had been invited, this is what I would have said:

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