I'm re-posting these comments of my sister in this blog because this is an important subject for discussion (has some dated references). The film in question is Michael Moore's " Sicko " I have always been very interested in health care issues and am wondering where the National proposals will go.. I found this movie helpful to see the testimonies in front of congress, Americans living abroad attitudes about health care in other places and other points about the system.. The new surgeon general mentioned some of these issues about access to health care this week... Thursday, July 16th, 2009 The Movie Channel, this evening, will be airing the Oscar-nominated documentary, "Sicko," Michael Moore's film about a villain known as the health insurance industry. With the debate raging in Washington, D.C. -- Republicans trying to scuttle it, the President trying to hang on to his public option, and nearly a hundred members of Congress pushing for a single-payer s...
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Speaker Bill O’Brien and the Tea Party legislature’s sneak attack on New Hampshire women must be stopped.
If you haven’t seen the news over the last few days, the legislature is attempting to repeal a long-standing and bipartisan law that guaranteed women would have access to contraception and basic health care in their personal insurance plans. And I need to emphasize that this law does not require any religious organization to pay for contraception.
The Concord Monitor reported that Speaker O’Brien quietly “attached this amendment to an unrelated bill that eliminates ‘obsolete or outdated’ provisions from various state laws.”