Health Care

Long time Green Party leader Howie Hawkins announced today he is seeking the Green Party nomination for US Senate. Hawkins said his campaign would focus on three leading policies: 1. Out Now - End the War - Bring the Troops Home; 2. National Health Insurance (Medicare for All); 3. Clean Energy to Stop Global Warming - A Global Public Works Program to Rewire the Planet with Renewable Energy in 10 Years

Universal health care advocates said today that New York should followed the lead of the State of Massachusetts in taking action to provide quality, affordable health care coverage to all its residents. The groups however said that the Massachusetts program is seriously flawed, focusing more on increasing payments to hospitals and insurance companies rather than on ensuring universal access to quality, affordable health care. The groups called on NYS to join half a dozen other states in creating a Commission on Health Care Coverage to do independent cost-benefit analysis of the various ways NY could provide health care to all New Yorkers.

Soma is a documentary about a group therapy in Brazil which incorporates capoeira, Wilhelm Reich, and anarchism. I will be travelling between May and August around the US and Canada, screening the DVD and conducting a workshop. I am looking for help in setting up screenings nickcooper-at-indymedia.org

More than fifty anti-poverty advocates braved stormy weather today at the State Capitol to urge action on skyrocketing heating bills, lack of access to affordable quality health care, and high housing costs. The only way to provide universal coverage in a simple, efficient, and cost-effective manner is to institute in New York State an expanded system of Medicare for All.

A batch of apparently unheard-of articles demystify and debunk addiction hysteria (i.e. drug addiction). With the 'crystal meth' hysteria hurdling virtually unchallenged in many alternative communities of late, these should prove crucial!

Unable to reach an agreement which protects the wages and benefits of workers, talks between the University of Rochester and SEIU adjourned Friday. As a result, workers will be picketing outside Strong Hospital at 12 noon on Friday, October 21. Worker's will be demonstrating for fair wages and the protection of their family's health care.

Over and over, I have heard that America has the greatest health care system in the world. Politicians and pundits have repeatedly bragged about the high quality of medical care and medicine in our nation. I always believed the statements without question until recent years. Facts got in the way.

I went looking for the numbers behind the real situation. My grandfather Crockett often said, "Numbers never lies but liars use numbers." The real story told by the numbers is very disturbing.

A scientist accused of covering up research, showing a link between fluoride in tap water and osteosarcoma, must be removed from the ongoing NIH study.

And in the end we can look back on our lives and remember all the great shows we watched on television; the great virtual escape from alienation.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anheuser-Busch Cos., the nation's No. 1 buyer of rice as well as its largest brewer, says it won't buy rice from Missouri if genetically-modified medicinal crops are allowed to be grown in the state.