Hi Everybody, UHCAN-MN is getting a lot of calls for our mobile health screenings and we really need help from folks even if it's doing outreach tabling. This...
Here's a real life example of how our health care system does not function, much less make sense. I am prescribed methadone for control of pain caused by...
... thanks, joel ... Clinical Pharmacist, Health Economics Researcher Universal Health Care Action Network - MN Community/University Collaborative Research ...
sorry, bottom part got cut off. Hi Everyone, Next UHCAN-MN mtg, monday April 6, 7PM, Walker Church (gallery in basement), 3104 16th Ave S, Mpls (1 block from...
I expect to be there and Ill confirm with you at that time but I think you can put me down for the 17 th. I attended a Blue Cross meeting today for people...
Lisa - Do you mean to inform us that Medicare is not Medicare as it was established? Then why do "they" lead many of us believe that Medicare is a government...
Today, April 6, the first of the videos featuring Mike Farrell will be unveiled at the demonstration protesting singlepayer exclusion from the White House...
In addition to the agenda below, we will be doing a brief training, coordinating, on how to do cholesterol tests using the lancet finger stick method for...
The article below discusses the "public plan" option, which has received much attention in the current debate. One way of getting to Medicare for All is...
Hi Everybody, We are preparing for upcoming mobile community health screenings/ single-payer tabling at Festivals and Fairs this spring and summer. You are...
... We had a good training session at last week's UHCAN-MN mtg on how-to do cholesterol, diabetes, and BP screenings. ... 3.creative stuff: HC cheerleading (a...
Thanks, Joel, I printed the NY Times article and put it out for my dental patients to read. I have so little time these days, wish I could volunteer more but...
Hi everyone, I thought the UHCAN-MN health screening (cholesterol and blood sugar) at the Veit Company ( a construction company) in Rogers went very well. Dori...
Tim, I think there's been a big misunderstanding here. I'm not speaking in support of Part D, the HMOs, or AARP. The issue I'm taking is with the rhetoric. ...
Hi *THE REAL AMERICA * *DO WELL BY DOING GOOD * * * *The Real America produces dramatic shows about current affairs. Our goal is to entertain and inform...
Bill Benton
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Apr 22, 2009 7:19 pm
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... Just wanted to forward a comment i wrote in response to the posting of article (see full article below): The Public Option Con, Selling Out Single-Payer,...
thanks, Joel, for this clear statement of where we stand. Barbara...
Barbara Jensen
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Apr 27, 2009 4:29 am
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Finally we are moving forward in a forward direction. Up until now we have been moving forward in a backward direction. We need to confront the decision...
In the western suburbs, we currently have seven Community Forums. Those for April, mostly next Tuesday are listed below. Many use "Progressives" in their...
Comment on doctor shortage article posted below: In a private,corporate health care enterprise as the U.S., little to no prospective planning of primary v....
Jerry, Are you aware that Rahm Emanuel's brother is Ezekial Emanuel? Ezekiel J. Emanuel, M.D., Ph.D. Chair, Department of Bioethics The Clinical Center ...
The supply of primary care physicians is a matter of economics. A newly gradated physician has a large amount of debt so to discharge most of this debt, he or...
Professionals do *not* need to earn the spectacular amounts we can get paid in the current system, student loans or no. As in the movie Sicko, a tidy $80 a...
Barbara Jensen
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Hi Friends, I have a couple of additional thoughts to add to Barbara's two cents: In post WWII America there was a commitment to make Higher Education...
If we want to make progress on single payer, then we must leave the salary of specialists for another time. The specialists would fight us all the way and we...
... suggested things needed in advance or at mtg: -groups to endorse this demo -share your health care horror story of HMO denying coverage,care. -creative...
Barbra, Do you have a dime, instead of two cents? The problem isn't MONEY. It is what money MEANS. For a long time we have focused on many as the way to...