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First Do No Harm - Connecting the Dots Between The Environment and Health Care Reform

Making the case for why environmentalism and health care are mutually supportive... more

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Lobbyists Wrote Health Care Script For Lawmakers

E-mail messages obtained by the New York Times show that statements by dozens of... more

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Lack of Health Care Kills More Vets Than War

According to a new study, the number of US veterans who died in 2008 because they... more

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US Constitution Being Replace With Bill Of Entitlements

Do we really want entitlements?

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Madison Leuchtmann: Girl Denied Insurance Coverage On Verge Of Losing Her Hearing (VIDEO)

As a result of being denied insurance coverage, a six-year-old child in Missouri may... more

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Fox Misleading its Viewers... Again

For the second time in just over a week Fox misrepresented the number of people who... more

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How the Senate Health Care Bill stacks up with the House Health Care Bill

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) unveiled his comprehensive health reform... more

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HOW MANY IN HAWAI`I FAVORED THE ILLEGAL OVERTHROW?

http://FreeHawaii.Info Of the 40,000 non Kingdom subjects in Hawai`i at the time of... more

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Criminalizing Health Care Freedom

This is insane. I can't believe our government is this blind, even if you do like the... more

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Beware Of Deceptive Health Care Bill

Article about what is and may be in the health care mess

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Senate Democrats make strides on Health Care Reform

Senate Democrats made a big step toward comprehensive health care reform Wednesday... more

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The Mammogram Media Blitz Tactic

Dan Pfeiffer writes, "One of the hallmark tactics from opponents of health insurance... more

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What's Behind The New Recommendations For Mammograms

Not Government Policy, says Kathleen Sebelius, but is it just an out for Health... more

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Would You Re-Elect President Obama One Year Later?

November 18, 2009 CNN (Briefly discusses the Mammogram Panel in the beginning).

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Tax the Rich to pay for healthcare? video

While some Americans believe that the way to pay for healthcare reform is to increase... more

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WOMEN Don't Need Mammograms Until Their 50's?

Fed Gov Task Force says women don't need to get mammograms until their 50's. The... more

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Prescription Drug Prices Up 9% in 2009

Reform on the way? Seems to be a lot of talk with the corporations in control.

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Uninsured Patients Twice As Likely To Die In The ER

Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot wounds, were almost twice as likely to die in the hospital as similarly injured patients with health insurance, according to a troubling new study.

The findings by Harvard University researchers surprised doctors and health experts who have believed emergency room care was equitable.

"This is another drop in a sea of evidence that the uninsured fare much worse in their health in the United States," said senior author Dr. Atul Gawande, a Harvard surgeon and medical journalist.

The study, appearing in the November issue of Archives of Surgery, comes as Congress is debating the expansion of health insurance coverage to millions more Americans. It could add fodder to that debate.

The researchers couldn't pin down the reasons behind the differences they found. The uninsured might experience more delays being transferred from hospital to hospital. Or they might get different care. Or they could have more trouble communicating with doctors.

The hospitals that treat them also could have fewer resources.

"Those hospitals tend to be financially strapped, not have the same level of staffing, not have the same level of surgeons and testing and equipment," Gawande said. "That also is likely a major contributor."

Gawande favors health care reform and has frequently written about the inequities of the current system.
The researchers took into account the severity of the injuries and the patients' race, gender and age. After those adjustments, they still found the uninsured were 80 percent more likely to die than those with insurance – even low-income patients insured by the government's Medicaid program.

"I'm really surprised," said Dr. Eric Lavonas of the American College of Emergency Physicians and a doctor at Denver Health Medical Center. "It's well known that people without health insurance don't get the same quality of health care in this country, but I would have thought that this group of patients would be the least vulnerable."Uninsured patients with traumatic injuries, such as car crashes, falls and gunshot... more