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cschwab

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US Senate health care bill
« on: December 27, 2009, 07:54:12 AM »
I put up a couple of articles concerning the US Senate health care bill:

pro:  A Step Forward on Health Care Reform
http://dialysisethics2.org/index.php/Healthcare-Non-ESRD/senator-bernie-sanders-has-hope-for-senate-health-bill.html

con:  Pro-single-payer physicians call for defeat of Senate health bill
http://dialysisethics2.org/index.php/Healthcare-Non-ESRD/physicians-call-for-defeat-of-senate-health-bill.html
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Re: US Senate health care bill
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2009, 03:11:02 PM »
Oh this is great! I will share this with Sandman. He is on his way over today so I will show him once he gets here! Thank you for this! :)
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Re: US Senate health care bill
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2009, 10:09:37 AM »
You're welcome!  These are articles both from sources I have a lot of respect for.  It's nice to to see Senator Sanders hopeful, but I do worry about giving the private insurers more of a stranglehold than they already have - they are the source of a lot of our problems here.
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*2007 - Members of DialysisEthics worked for certification of hemodialysis
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