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  • johnpi 2:26 pm on February 27, 2010 Permalink
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    Lucky you…’Brighton Tea Party’: Tea Party movement spreads to Britain.

    Apparently some character named Daniel Hannan is involved:

    In addition to being anti-tax and a vocal Eurospectic, Hannan is also well known for his outspoken criticism of publicly funded health care. Last summer he appeared on Fox News to bash proposals to fix the US health care system as well as rail against Britain’s health services.

    ‘Eurospectic’ – Did they mean ‘Eurocentric’?

    Who knew Brits were pining for a US-style health system…

     

    • Dan 2:43 pm on February 27, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Daniel Hannan isn’t anti-Muslim and he is a sensible lad IMO. He’s far different than the normal teabaggers here in the states.

    • Willow 3:08 pm on February 27, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I think they meant Euroskeptic. Ie, skeptical of the EU model of government, and of the Euro as a viable currency.

    • thabet 3:53 pm on February 27, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Daniel Hannan is a fool.

      • null 7:59 pm on February 27, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        Can you please expand thabet? I’d be interested how he comes across to actual Britons.

        I’ve only read some of his articles at the Telegraph, and watched a handful of his youtube videos and – bar his opposition to universal healthcare – he seems exactly like my kind of conservative.

        • thabet 5:47 am on February 28, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          I used to think he was at least principled, even if I wasn’t going to agree with him. When he repeatedly criticised Labour over the BAE Systems scandal I thought good on him for bringing this up. But when the Tories rushed to defend new plans by Labour to limit investigation into these sorts of corruption cases (i.e. Tories recognising a new law would be good for them when they get back into power), he remained quiet..

          And there’s a lot more about Hannan I dislike, but mostly I just find it hard to take ‘libertarians’ too seriously. Sorry.

        • thabet 12:05 am on March 11, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          Here’s some more evidence of Hannan’s foolishness and ignorance.

  • aziz 8:21 am on February 23, 2010 Permalink
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    Seems that the public really, really want health care reform.

     

  • johnpi 10:08 pm on December 25, 2009 Permalink
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    State of Mississippi partners with Republic of Iran for healthcare program.

    The healthcare situation in the US state of Mississippi has become so desperate that it rivals third world conditions, and so state planners are looking to a model developed in Iran to save lives where community ‘health houses’ are established.

    [Dr Aaron] Shirley and [James] Miller visited Iran in May and were astonished to be welcomed with open arms. When they went to remote villages to see the health houses, the Iranians were equally amazed.

    “They told us this is a miracle,” said Miller. “Not only were Americans coming here, but also they were learning from us rather than telling us what to do.”

    One villager exclaimed: “We always knew rain fell down but never knew it could fall up.”

    They signed an agreement with Shiraz University to form the Mississippi/Islamic Republic of Iran rural health project and applied to the US Treasury for a special licence for “Iranian transactions”.
    ….

    “The Iranians are a proud people with 5,000 years of history and huge contributions to science and medicine,” said a State Department official.

    “A project like the Mississippi one is incredibly powerful as it appeals to that Iranian concept of history. It’s a great way to keep the door open between the two countries.”

    (via)

     

  • johnpi 11:26 pm on December 14, 2009 Permalink
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    The HPV vaccine mandate for immigrant women has been eliminated.

    This week the reproductive justice movement is celebrating a significant victory. Effective December 14, immigrant women and girls will no longer be forced to get Gardasil, a vaccine developed by Merck and Company to prevent transmission of the strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) linked to cervical cancer. This marks the reversal of a harmful and discriminatory rule originally put in place in July 2008 by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that took away the ability of immigrant women and girls to make informed choices of whether or not to get the Gardasil injection.

    The regimen of shots for HPV, which is sexually transmitted, costs $360, creating additional financial and legal barriers for green card applicants. Also,

    …progressive groups acknowledged that the mandatory use of a medical procedure on a targeted population when it is not required of the general population is discriminatory. Like their U.S. citizen counterparts, all prospective immigrant women should have the opportunity to make an informed decision about their use of the HPV vaccine, weighing both the potential costs and health benefits of using the vaccine.

    The vaccine is recommended but not required for the general population.

     

    • Bryan Jenkins 7:32 pm on April 28, 2010 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      I have a friend who got cervical cancer because of HPV. right now she is under going chemotherapy and some anti-cancer drugs. . ‘

  • johnpi 8:25 pm on December 14, 2009 Permalink
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    No public option, no Medicare buy-in…progressives are nearly completely defeated on health care reform in the United States.

    ‘This deal’s getting worse all the time…‘

     

    • shams 1:55 am on December 15, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      The fat lady hasn’t sung yet.
      And….this is a process. Once the camels nose is in the tent health care reform can proceed….it needn’t be done all at once.
      Obama is a gamer…..public option was always a sacrifice play I think.

  • johnpi 9:26 pm on October 26, 2009 Permalink
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    Tropical disease: Neglected tropical ills extract steep toll in Islamic world, a journal article says.

    Muslim nations shoulder a “devastating burden” of the world’s neglected tropical diseases, according to an article published Monday in the Public Library of Science Neglected Tropical Diseases journal.

    The article, a combination of analysis and editorial written by the journal’s editor, Peter J. Hotez, shows that the member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference account for 40 percent of the world’s infestations with intestinal worms.

    Worm infestations, which are most common in children, can stunt their growth and make them too tired to stay awake in school. They can cause dangerous anemia in pregnant women and disabling pain in farmers.

    Member countries also have 20 percent of leprosy cases and 21 percent of blinding trachoma.

    At the same time, the article said, there is no school of tropical medicine anywhere in the Islamic world, even though several Persian Gulf nations are building top-tier universities.

     

  • Shams al-Nahar 8:46 am on October 5, 2009 Permalink
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    Niccolo Obama makes another move in his n-dimensional chess game.
    I wonder how the teabaggers will like Single Payer Federalism? ;)

    This is so totally brilliant….the South is the area with the lowest healthcare grades and the highest proportion of uninsured in the nation.
    Let’s see Perry demagogue this!
    hahahaha

     

  • johnpi 6:38 am on October 2, 2009 Permalink
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    Republican senator tells former Canadian public health minister that her country has a ‘parasitic relationship’ with the US.

    Bob Corker, a Republican senator from Tennessee, insulted a former Canadian Public Health Minister by telling her that her country, which has universal health care, has a “parasitic relationship” with the United States because of its supposedly inferior health care technology:

    During a hearing of the Special Committee on Aging, the Tennessee Republican told Canada’s former Public Health Minister, Dr. Carolyn Bennett, that her country is “living off of us” because they set lower prices for health care and “all the innovation, all the technology breakthroughs just about take place in our country and we have to pay for it.”

    “It is not really our country so much is the problem, it’s sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us,” Corker said. “…You benefit from us, and we pay for that. And I resent that, and I want to figure out a way to solve that.”

    Think Progress blogger Zaid Jilani notes:

    Although attacking the Canadian and European health care systems is a common tactic for conservatives, the fact remains that these countries have been leading health care innovators time and time again.

    Canada brought the world insulin, developed bone marrow transplantation, and conducts more lung transplant surgeries than the United States. Meanwhile, of the twenty most profitable pharmaceutical manufacturers, only nine are from the United States — the rest are from western Europe, Japan, and Israel, all of which have universal health care systems that Corker so is opposed to.

     

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