Tonight on GRITtv we take a look at healthcare in Canada, Germany and Taiwan with
Mary O’Brien, MD of
Physicians for a National Health Program, Katharina Janus, visiting Professor at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health, Michael S. Chen, Vice President and CFO of Taiwan’s Bureau of National Health Insurance, and
Adrian Campbell Montgomery from the film
SiCKO. Adrian’s been a patient in both the U.S. & Canadian Health Systems, and she can tell you there’s quite a difference.
We also take a look at a new blockbuster satire – War, Inc. — and sit down with director Joshua Seftel and co-screenwriter Jeremy Pikser. And in the same satirical vein, we’ve got a piece on New Orleans from 2-cent’s Brandan Odums and Nik Richard. And our weekly Got Docs? segment takes a look at a doc-in-progress about the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, Dr. Daniel Ellsberg – The Most Dangerous Man In America. It’s all right here on firedoglake.
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why dont we…cause FATCATS are getting RICH(CEO of United Helthcare got 1,500,000.00$$$$ payday)…simple thats where the money for healthcare is going..my family owned a medical lab for 47 years…a 20 panel test costs<5 bux to run..look what they charge$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
20 test panel(correction)
I want my, I want my, I want my GRITtv.
Thanks Laura.
I understood what you meant…. since I have paid that bill
Henry Kissinger — War Criminal
to quote Ariaana…pigs at the trough…we charged the docs 7 bux…what did you pay
whoops spellin atroooooooshus as usual
Um … not to rub it in, but y’all pay more in America and get less services than we do … Universal Health Care is better.
And as Tweety says, when you take into account the level of services, the French actually pay lower taxes than Americans, though you are led to believe otherwise …
… easy on the ‘happy juice’ … *g*
and they have MUCH better cheeeeeeeeeeeeese…imo
hahahahahha…need to go get some brb
brb?
… be right back …
((((( LS )))))
(((Petro)))
I thought brb was bourbon…woopsie…;>
Anyone still working in the Bush cabal and not speaking out/up: war criminal
Just gotta ride it out before they get pardons…and hope they don’t bomb Iran or us.
and then theres this
http://www.boston.com/news/loc…..e_kennedy/
For so long, brain cancer had been considered such a formidable foe that researchers shied away from it, preferring to concentrate their efforts on other cancers. Brain tumors are dauntingly complex growths, and the slightest errors in treatment can result in devastating complications. Moreover, a protective barrier between the brain and blood flowing through the rest of the body greatly complicates the delivery of drugs.
Economics comes into play, as well. Simply put, the market for brain cancer drugs pales compared with that for other malignancies, with only 9,000 people a year in the United States diagnosed with the kind of cancer that has beset Kennedy.
“Because the numbers are relatively small,” Wen said, “the incentive to develop drugs for brain tumors is less than for breast cancer or prostate cancer.”
if our money wasnt going to GREEDY BIG PHARMA…mebbe we could improve the outcome for Cancer patients
Abrams is going after Rove…he’s got Siegelman on I think.
And the Bush federal budget cut $100 million from cancer research ….. we are spending a Kazillion dollars in Iraq but cut cancer research money….
We have a guest upstairs
Howie Klein is here with the winner of Oregon’s Democratic primary for Senate, Jeff Merkley.
Come on up and say hello!
Do you have a list of the cuts that were made in his budget? I think what was cut overall would be more interesting than what is in the budget. Thanks
read this
http://www.dailykos.com/story/…..707/505753
I heard this today on Air America….. so do not have a place to site….
Thanks for the heads up, LS … I’m becoming a fan of Abrams …
David Iglesias live now on msnbc
Do we have a candidate in War, Inc as the Apocalypse Now! of the Irak war?
GRITtv is becoming my favorite evening entertainment!
Go, Laura!