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Heather Waldron and John Hawley are losing their four-bedroom house in the hills above Blacksburg, Va. A teenage daughter, one of their five children, sold her clothes for spending money. They worried about paying the electric bill. Financial disaster, they say, contributed to their divorce, finalized in April. Their money problems began when the University of Virginia Health System pursued the couple with a lawsuit and a lien on their home to recoup $164,000 in charges for Waldron’s emergency surgery in 2017. The family has lots of company: Over six years ending in June 2018, the health system and its...

Attorney general announces legal action in UPMC-Highmark dispute PITTSBURGH - Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a petition to stop UPMC and Highmark from a complete separation – which was set to happen this summer. #BREAKING: Shapiro says court order would ensure that UPMC abides by its charitable contribution obligations to Pennsylvania “Given the effect this dispute between UPMC and Highmark is having on Pennsylvanians, and the imminent expiration of the existing consent decree, we are asking the court to take action,” said Shapiro. “These changes are absolutely necessary to prevent UPMC from inflicting further harm on the public by...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14 Religion Forum threads labeled "Prayer" are closed to debate of any kind.

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14

....Trump is a "political phenomenon" who is effectively shaking up both the Republican and Democratic parties - and it's not necessarily a bad thing, according to the Rev. Franklin Graham. ...."Do you believe protesters are blocking the road to his rally to stop people from getting there today? There are those who passionately support him and others who are adamantly against him. He's a political phenomenon like our country hasn't seen before. I don't think America has ever had a presidential candidate opposed by both establishments, Republican and Democratic, as well as the sitting president."

**SNIP** “It is not the right time for Vermont” to pass a single-payer system, Shumlin acknowledged in a public statement ending his signature initiative. He concluded the 11.5 percent payroll assessments on businesses and sliding premiums up to 9.5 percent of individuals’ income “might hurt our economy.” Vermont’s outcome is a “small speed bump,” said New York Assembly member Richard Gottfried, who’s been pushing single-payer bills for more than 20 years. But opponents says it’s the end of the road. “If cobalt blue Vermont couldn’t find a way to make single-payer happen, then it’s very unlikely that any other state...

Since winning the governor’s seat in 2010, Peter Shumlin has pledged to make Vermont the first state in the country with a single-payer health care system. But a key legislative ally now says the proposal might not be as politically viable as Shumlin seems to believe. And Senate President John Campbell says it’s time to start putting together a contingency plan. Shumlin has backed off on his promise to deliver a publicly funded plan by January of 2017. But while the timeline may have moved back, Shumlin says he’ll still reach the goal. Campbell, however, isn’t so sure. And he...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid isn’t the only high-profile Democrat who has suggested the United States will eventually transition to a single payer health care system. The Nevada lawmaker generated headlines Friday for predicting that President Obama’s health care law is the first step to phasing out insurance-based health care. In 2007, while governor of Kansas, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stated flatly in a speech at Harvard: “I’m all for a single payer system eventually.”

Hospitals are denying patients the latest life-extending cancer drugs, a report reveals. Dozens of trusts are failing to hand out treatments for bowel, ovarian, lung and brain cancer that have been approved by the NHS watchdog NICE. Some of these drugs have been shown to boost survival rates by a quarter while others have extended the lives of terminally-ill patients by over a year.

Vermont could be first in line for single payerBy JOANNE KENEN | 9/17/12 4:28 AM EDT **SNIP** Shumlin can’t get there by 2014. He may not get there by 2017, when states get more flexibility under the health law to design their own health care systems. He may not get there at all. But he believes that even small states must aim big. **SNIP** The rest of the United States has no interest in single payer, of course, not now nor in the near future. Not only did the 2010 health law reject single payer or a public option, its...

Vermont's Single Payer System: Coming to a State Near You?Nona Willis Aronowitz - East Coast associate editor June 1, 2011 • 5:00 am PDT Liberals finally have the health care system they’ve been hoping for—in one state at least. Last week, Vermont’s governor Peter Shumlin signed a law that puts the state on the path to providing single-payer health care. The plan will first create a statewide exchange where residents can pick from private or state insurance plans, but eventually there will just be one state-operated system called Green Mountain Care. Before you pack your bags, though, be advised: the...

Rep. Dennis Kucinich said Wednesday that he will continue to work toward a single-payer program, despite his decision to reverse course and support President Obama's health care plan. "This was a detour," the Ohio Democrat told CNN's "Larry King Live." "I'll work with the president in getting this bill passed and the president has committed to working with me to seeing further health care reforms after this bill is out of the way."

SEQUIM -- Health care reform will take center stage in a public meeting Tuesday as a group of Oregon physicians calling themselves "Mad As Hell Doctors" will promote universal health care and discuss the current proposals for reform. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. at the Sequim High School Auditorium, 601 N. Sequim Ave. "We have, for the first time, a group of physicians that is stepping forward in this moment of total confusion and fear that's been fomented on the health care issue," said Bill Kildall, coordinator of Reform Health Care Now, which is sponsoring the event. "These doctors...

Verum Serum has another of its video series on ObamaCare and the Trojan horse of the public option. Think of this as Trojan Horse’s Greatest Hits — a couple of big hits, plus a couple of tracks you may not have seen before now. For instance, I don’t believe I’ve seen Barney quite as Frank as he is in two clips from the last few weeks on his goals for the public plan: EXCERPT Video at hotair

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Health Care: A little piece of news out of Connecticut shows us that the resistance to universal coverage needs to be ratcheted higher. Free access to medical care for everyone is an economy-killer. Like unthinking politicians from Washington, D.C., to Washington state, lawmakers in Connecticut are considering legislation that would set up a Medicare-type system for everyone in the state under 65. But there's a little matter of cost. The Connecticut legislature's Office of Fiscal Analysis, a nonpartisan professional agency, has estimated that providing health care to the state's 2.95 million residents who are not covered by Medicare would run...

I was looking for this video in the FR search files. I could not find it. Apologies if it is too old and already hashed out here. It just struck me as something that we can all look forward to if we allow the Democrats any more inroads in this country. http://www.onthefencefilms.com/video/brainsurgery.html

Coalition Educates on PSM While PSM Obfuscates By Andrew L. Jaffee, November 7, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms A broad coalition of conscientious, peace-loving individuals and organizations has done great work in exposing the Palestine Solidarity Movement (PSM) and International Solidarity Movements (ISM) for what they are: racist, hateful terrorism supporters and enablers. Yesterday, Representative Dixie Allen (Democrat - Dayton), Rabbi Hillel Fox of Congregation Beth Jacob, Dayton, and myself, publisher of netWMD.com, LLC, held a press conference at Ohio's State House at 4 PM, trying to draw public attention to the PSM conference at OSU. We then presented a petition with...

Anti-Semitism in Solidarity Movement Conference at Ohio State By Diana Appelbaum, Guest Columnist, October 27, 2003 Home   Search   Forum   Terms A plan to eliminate a population of five million Jews, by murdering some and, presumably, so terrifying the rest that they flee in fear of their lives, is properly called anti-Semitic.   But what if a Jew proposes such a plan?  And not an apostate Jew.  What if a professing Jew proposes such a plan?  Is it still anti-Semitic?   This is neither an historical nor a hypothetical question.    The International Solidarity Movement, its American, student affiliate the Palestinian Solidarity Movement,...

Please read text below and TAKE ACTION: Take direct action opposing the conference (http://netwmd.com/anti-ism/). Ohio residents: sign petition opposing the conference (http://www.petitiononline.com/amcha803/petition.html). OSU alumni: sign petition opposing the conference (http://www.petitiononline.com/stopISM/petition.html). Download and distribute press release providing extensive info on opposing the conference (http://netwmd.com/anti-ism/press/netWMD_PressRelease.doc). View press coverage regarding conference (http://netwmd.com/anti-ism/press/). This November 7th - 9th, OSU will permit a conference to be held by the Palestinian Solidarity Movement (PSM), the American student arm of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). PSM/ISM claims to be a peace activist organization in support of the Palestinian people, but it has a record of voicing hate-speech,...