Outsourcing America’s Health Care
“Ola, Amigo! Pack your bags; we’re going to Mexico!” bubbled Dr. Franklin Peterson Comstock III, faux physician and money-maker. “Yeah, I could use a decent vacation,” I replied, figuring he’d…
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The Bride of Old Frankenstein
Capitalism’s Wedded Bliss of Profit and Exploitation Two years ago, at the age of 77, my mother had totally unnecessary knee replacement surgery. Until the time mom called me…
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Old Frankenstein
(A Daughter’s Guide to Dealing with our Monstrous Elder Care System) My dad has Alzheimer’s. Although I don’t really know what that means. Clinically, I’m told Alzheimer’s is the strangling…
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We are all Adara Scarlet
I met the pretty, petite, 27-year old from Colorado, Adara Scarlett, three days before she stood in front of a Washington, DC hotel as part of the October, 2011 Occupation…
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Sticker Shock: How Nonprofit Hospitals Bankrupt the Sick
According to Monmouth Medical Center’s required annual informational return Form 990 (find it on www.guidestar.org), in 2008, the Saint Barnabas Hospital System (Monmouth Medical is one of seven operating hospitals) paid over $3.5 million to its chief executive officer. You’ve gotta empty a lot of underprivileged people’s pockets to get that kind of payload.
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Now We Are All Vermonters
I have to admit that I’m puzzled. The biggest event in America’s health care crisis since the adoption of Medicare happened this past month to a seemingly near blackout
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A Tale of Two Countries
With no insurance and no primary care physician, Debbie found herself in a hospital emergency room a few days before Christmas.
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Thoughts on Watching Newt Gingrich on Meet the Press
Oh, I’m terribly sorry. You say you are a veteran. You served your country in Vietnam, were wounded but came home unlike many of your companions. Then your only child was sent to Libya, blinded by a roadside bomb and later died in a traffic accident.
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