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Read this, Senators: Taiwan's universal health care system provides full coverage for $21 a month - why can't we?

9/30/2009 - (NaturalNews) When people ask why I oppose Obama's health care reform proposals, I point out what a consumer (and employer) rip-off the current system of pharmaceutical medicine really is. Americans are victims in a monopoly medical scam that's enforced...

Americans threatened with jail time, huge fines for refusing to buy health insurance (update 1)

9/29/2009 - (NaturalNews) There's a popular video circulating on the 'net right now about how to escape handcuffs without using a key. Americans are watching the video to bone up on essential skills that will soon be needed for health care reform, it seems, since...

Study Finds Illness, Medical Bills Root Cause of Majority Of U.S. Bankruptcies

9/2/2009 - (NaturalNews) Unemployment is high and retirement accounts have virtually disappeared for many folks in the wake of the current recession. Housing prices have plummeted, too. So it comes as no surprise that data just released by the Administrative Office...

Miserable Health Care System in U.S. Traps People in Lousy Jobs

8/18/2009 - (NaturalNews) As many as half of workers in the United States may be trapped in jobs that they would like to leave, out of fear of losing their health insurance. Experts say that this phenomenon, known as "job lock," is not only making people unhappier,...

Study Finds Illness, Medical Bills Cause Majority of U.S. Bankruptcies

7/23/2009 - (NaturalNews) Unemployment is high and retirement accounts have virtually disappeared for many folks in the wake of the current recession. Housing prices have plummeted, too. So it comes as no surprise that data just released by the Administrative Office...

Ten Tips: When You Lose Your Health Insurance

3/6/2009 - (NaturalNews) Economic times are tough and many are facing layoffs. Even more are being told that their employer will be eliminating or reducing health benefits. As a result many people are losing their health insurance coverage. Legislation is currently...

Sweeping New Health Insurance System Proposed for U.S. Residents

2/21/2009 - (NaturalNews) The Commonwealth Fund, a health policy research group that represents the interests of health insurance companies, has proposed a sweeping new program that -- surprise! -- would require all Americans to buy health insurance. The new...

Minnesota Lobbyists and Senators Face Off over Health Bill

2/12/2009 - (NaturalNews) If passed, the Minnesota Health Care Act would eliminate insurance companies and for-profit administrators from the state`s health care system. It would also be the first truly universal no-strings-attached health care system in the United...

Senate Passes Health Insurance Bill for Children

2/3/2009 - (NaturalNews) The Senate has approved legislation to provide health insurance to 11 million low-income children. For the first time ever, this bill will spend federal money to insure children and pregnant women who are legal immigrants. The House approved...

House Approves Affordable Health Insurance for Unemployed

2/2/2009 - (NaturalNews) The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act authorizes approximately $544 billion in new spending and $275 billion in tax cuts. The purpose of this legislation is to stimulate the economy by preserving and creating jobs, helping the unemployed...

It's Official: Health Insurance will Fund Maggot Therapy

11/27/2008 - (NaturalNews) Maggot therapy for helping wounds to heal is increasingly finding a role in modern medical procedures thanks in part to mankind's all-too-clever profit-centered approach to health care, which has created monstrous new bacterial villains...

Can Obama's Win Lead to Meaningful Health Care Reform? 13 Urgent Suggestions for a Healthy USA

11/5/2008 - (NaturalNews) In an astonishing turn of events for a nation that seemed headed for certain economic destruction just weeks ago, Americans overwhelmingly chose Democratic candidates in yesterday's elections, selecting Obama as the next U.S. President...

Heart Attack Victim Hounded for $5 Health Insurance Co-Pay While Laying on Gurney

9/14/2008 - (NaturalNews) A New York woman who had suffered a heart attack and was being transported to an ambulance on a gurney was stopped by a receptionist who demanded that she pay her $5 co-pay before heading out the door. "You can't even get a book of stamps...

The Politics of National Health Care Reform: Why no Popular Presidential Candidate can Solve Our Health Care Crisis (transcript)

7/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) The following is a transcript of Health Ranger Report #16, entitled The Politics of National Health Care Reform, which is available free of charge as an MP3 download at: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html Have you ever wondered...

Health Insurance Company Paid its Workers Bonuses to Cancel Patient Policies

5/28/2008 - (NaturalNews) Health insurance company Health Net Inc. rewarded employees for finding ways to drop customer policies and not pay for their medical expenses, according to an investigation by the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC). Since...

Hillary Clinton's Universal Health Care Plan: Buy Health Insurance or Else!

2/7/2008 - (NaturalNews) As candidates for U.S. President continue to battle for their respective parties' nominations, details are beginning to emerge about their (disastrous) health care plans. The New York Times is now reporting that Hillary Clinton's universal...

Why Michael Moore's SiCKO is a health care documentary every American must see

6/19/2007 - America's disastrous health care system is heaving the country head-first into near-certain economic collapse. Just about everybody's either financially strained or going broke due to spiraling health care costs: the people, the employers, state governments...

The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't

2/15/2007 - All of a sudden, everyone's talking about health care reform in the United States. From corporations like Wal-Mart to the newly-elected Democratic majority in the House, it seems that everyone -- business, government and the public -- recognizes our...

Oregon Senator proposes universal health care for all Americans

12/22/2006 - (NaturalNews) The concept of universal health care that would cover every American citizen is again being proposed in the U.S. Senate, after a similar request was voted away over a decade ago. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., brought his vision for health care...

Most Americans agree smokers should pay more for health insurance

11/16/2006 - (NaturalNews) A new survey published this week indicates that most Americans believe smokers and the obese should pay more for health insurance. However, those surveyed were unsure how to assist the millions of citizens who currently have no health insurance. More...

Health care costs are bankrupting employers, employees, surveys find

10/27/2006 - (NaturalNews) Americans are growing increasingly dissatisfied with the health insurance costs of the employer-sponsored health care system, according to the annual Health Confidence Survey. The survey found that overall dissatisfaction with health...

Two-fifths of US adults report experiencing unsafe, wasteful or poorly coordinated health care (press release)

10/11/2006 - Patients, who experience the health care system on a first-hand basis, find much that could be improved. According to a new survey from The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, a surprisingly high proportion of Americans--42...

Nine million children left uninsured by America's health care system

9/29/2006 - (NaturalNews) A report by Families USA -- prepared for the Campaign for Children's Health Care -- found that most of the United States' 9 million children without health insurance live in two-parent families with at least one working parent. One parent...

46.6 million Americans now have no health insurance: Uninsured gap widens

8/30/2006 - (NaturalNews) New census data shows that although the average American household earned more money last year, an additional 1.3 million citizens became uninsured, pushing the total number of Americans without health insurance to 46.6 million. The percentage...

Medical tourism adopted by businesses; employees sent offshore for cost-saving surgical procedures

8/1/2006 - (NaturalNews) As medical costs in the United States continue to rise, more and more employers are sending employees in need of costly surgeries overseas to receive treatment. A number of U.S. employers that fund their own health insurance plans have...

Whistleblowers wanted: Truth Publishing seeks insiders to speak out about drug companies, health insurance and conventional medicine

5/24/2006 - If you work for a drug company, federal regulator, health insurance company, hospital, junk food manufacturer or any other organization related to health, a new opportunity has surfaced for you to make a lasting difference. Truth Publishing is now connected...

Where's the health in health reform?

7/1/2005 - On the heels of frightening statistics about how diseased the U.S. population has become in the last three decades, there's a lot of talk these days about health care reform. The uninsured need coverage. Senior citizens on fixed incomes need to be able...

Rising popularity of medical tourism reveals deterioration of U.S. healthcare system

4/21/2005 - Defenders of organized medicine are fond of saying that the United States has the best healthcare in the world, but I challenge that. I don't think we have the best healthcare in the world, I think we have the most expensive healthcare in the world....

Why we should bar smokers from taxpayer-funded health care coverage

3/6/2005 - Is it time to ban cigarettes yet? In this essay, I'm going to give you three different perspectives on the issue. From one perspective, the public health view that says cigarettes are a deadly product that causes untold pain, suffering and death in the...

The health insurance problem is not an insurance problem, it is a health problem

2/2/2005 - When people start talking about health insurance reform and how to bring health insurance to the American people, they inevitably end up in a ridiculous discussion about how to negotiate the cost of drugs, how to provide drug discounts to senior citizens,...

Workplace health enhanced by offering spirulina supplements to employees; larger studies could show reduction in health insurance costs for employers

10/25/2004 - Mike: What do you see as the big trends as far as the market penetration of spirulina and recognition around the globe -- what are the big issues here? Gerry: Well, surprisingly, spirulina is a mature product in the health food area, and the market...

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