March 1, 2015
Rick Scott, And Amassing Personal Wealth In Health Care
Should someone, let’s say for example, Florida Governor Rick Scott, be able to amass great personal wealth working in the field of health care?
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September 20, 2013
Prison-Industrial Complex Watch: Prison Bed Quotas Give Lawmakers No Incentive To Reform Sentencing
As if the very existence of for-profit prisons wasn’t bad enough, we now learn that these companies have negotiated prison bed quotas. These quotas require 60%, and sometimes as high as 100% of beds to be filled, otherwise the state pays prisons for the unused beds.
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September 16, 2013
Prison-Industrial Complex Watch: Judge Says Corrections Corporation of America In Contempt Of Court
This is what happens when we allow prisons to become a for-profit enterprise.
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May 19, 2013
Quote: Lewis Black: Health Care Should Not Be A Profit Institution
“I’m not sure that health is uh, uh, a profit institution. I’m not sure. Because, because, it’s what stands between you AND FUCKING DROPPING DEAD.” – Lewis Black
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August 16, 2012
We Can’t Have Medicare-for-All Because Conservatives Need a Bogeyman
Health care costs keep rising rapidly, and even when the Affordable Care Act fully kicks in (2014), the expectation is that cost increases, while tempered, will still be unsustainable. There are many ideas, solutions and hybrid solutions to tackle rising health care costs, but at its most fundamental level there are two approaches, and only one makes sense in the long run.
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April 6, 2012
Health Care Is Rationed By Private For-Profit Insurance Companies. Is That Really What We Want?
We are told by conservatives that we don’t want government-run universal health care because it would mean rationing care. During the health care debate in the summer and fall of 2009 we heard talk of ‘death panels’ and ‘killing grandma’. Of course all of this was nonsense meant to scare people into thinking and voting a certain way, and it was quite effective, particularly on the Republican side of the aisle. The truth is we already ration health care in the United States. 50 million people are uninsured. How is that not rationed care? Health care costs are higher than they need to be (due to insurance company profits and waste) which means in some cases people forego treatment because they can’t afford it (even if they have insurance). How is that not rationed care?
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August 21, 2011
Unfounded Health Care Opposition
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