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Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness
America has the worst health statistics in the industrialized world because it is the most unequal society in the industrialized world. Social inequality affects the health of populations even more than access to medical care.
Continue reading...Medical Rationing in the US and Canada
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Both the U.S. and Canada ration medical services. In the US, rationing is based on ability to pay. Canada rations by under-funding the medical system, bringing inequality through the back door.
Continue reading...RN to RN: A Conversation of Global Concern
Friday, April 17, 2009
"I’m struck by our similar concerns, even though we care for different kinds of patients in three different countries with different health-care systems."
Continue reading...Wanted: Health Care not Disease Care
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Capitalism cannot deliver genuine health care. A real health-care system would oppose profitable practices like hazardous work, adulterated food, industrial pollution and wars of acquisition. Putting health first requires a fundamentally different social system.
Continue reading...Profit Parasite Attacks Medical System
Saturday, March 3, 2007
In any sane society, there would be no profit in medicine. There would be no profit in any human activity.
Continue reading...Caring for Profit in Canada’s Medical System
Monday, February 1, 1999
In Caring for Profit, Colleen Fuller exposes the corporate players and their allies in medicine and government who are opening Canada’s health-care system to market forces.
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- Kaiser Health Workers Take Back Their Union – Vote NUHW
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- Support NUHW!
- WE are the union – UHW fights SEIU takeover
- Israeli Soldiers Refuse to Serve in Gaza
- Norwegian Doctor Condemns Israel’s War on Gaza
- New York City protest against Israeli War – December 28, 2008
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
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