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The Politics of National Health Care Reform: Why no Popular Presidential Candidate can Solve Our Health Care Crisis (transcript)

7/3/2008 - (NaturalNews) The following is a transcript of Health Ranger Report #16, entitled The Politics of National Health Care Reform, which is available free of charge as an MP3 download at: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html Have you ever wondered...

Health Insurance Company Paid its Workers Bonuses to Cancel Patient Policies

5/28/2008 - (NaturalNews) Health insurance company Health Net Inc. rewarded employees for finding ways to drop customer policies and not pay for their medical expenses, according to an investigation by the California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC). Since...

McCain's Proposed Health Care Plan - Millions Will Lose Insurance Coverage

5/23/2008 - (NaturalNews) Americans need to be aware of what Senator John McCain’s health care plan entails. Under the guise of fighting health care inflation, he is targeting the employer-provided system that currently covers over 60 percent of the non-elderly population....

Illegal Immigrants Create Far Lower Health Care Cost Burden than Previously Assumed

5/23/2008 - (NaturalNews) Latinos residing in the United States illegally are 50 percent less likely to use emergency room facilities than Latinos with legal migration or citizenship status, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of California...

Minorities Are Not Satisfied With Their Health Care

4/10/2008 - (NaturalNews) Minority patients are more likely than white patients to rate their received health care as fair to poor. This is particularly true of Chinese-Americans, blacks born in Africa, and Vietnamese-American patients. Researchers at Harvard...

Hillary Clinton's Universal Health Care Plan: Buy Health Insurance or Else!

2/7/2008 - (NaturalNews) As candidates for U.S. President continue to battle for their respective parties' nominations, details are beginning to emerge about their (disastrous) health care plans. The New York Times is now reporting that Hillary Clinton's universal...

Chiropractic is Health Care, Not Disease Care

1/24/2008 - (NaturalNews) Chiropractors have, for the past 112 years, treated sickness and infirmity without the use of drugs and with the goal of avoiding surgical removal or repair of any of the body’s organs or structures. Chiropractic’s message is that the proactive...

The Coming Financial Collapse of America (and Why Today's Market Bloodbath is Only a Small Taste of Things to Come...)

1/22/2008 - (NaturalNews) Americans have always been fond of the idea of getting rich without effort by putting their money in things that produce no profits and then magically being able to ride those investments, milking them for spending cash that supports a drunken...

Will Doctors Shut Down In-Store Clinics or Let the Market Decide?

10/1/2007 - (NaturalNews) You want a cell phone. You do your research and find that you have several options. You can choose from Nextel, Sprint, Nokia, Cingular, AT&T, Helio, T-Mobile, and an ever expanding list of providers. Each company strives to increase quality...

California Group of Small Business Owners Proposes New Tax for Health Care

9/7/2007 - (NaturalNews) These days it seems that everybody wants to chime in on health care reform. Presidential candidates are unveiling ideas on health care like a group of Apple executives unveiling the next iPod. Two advocacy groups from California are joining...

The hoax of modern medicine: Seven facts you need to know

9/4/2007 - What happens when the Bush Administration negotiates drug prices with private industry using public money? To answer the question, just consider the situation with U.S. government "negotiations" over the prices of prescription drugs for Medicare: The...

This July 4th, declare your independence from America's failed health care system

7/7/2007 - Independence Day is a wonderful holiday. It's a time to remember the great success America's forefathers (and mothers) achieved in gaining freedom from tyrannical rule. This July 4th, whether you live in America or not, I encourage you to continue the...

Nurses launch national "Scrubs for SiCKO" campaign to endorse universal health care following Michael Moore's film

7/2/2007 - Starting June 29th, the launch day of the SiCKO documentary, nurses, doctors and other health care practitioners are launching a national campaign to urge support for a shift to a universal health care system. They'll be handing out flyers and recruiting...

Why Michael Moore's SiCKO is a health care documentary every American must see

6/19/2007 - America's disastrous health care system is heaving the country head-first into near-certain economic collapse. Just about everybody's either financially strained or going broke due to spiraling health care costs: the people, the employers, state governments...

U.S. health care reform? Status quo profits handsomely the way things are

3/18/2007 - (NaturalNews) A new study reveals how much doctors, drug companies, hospitals and insurance companies are profiting from the fact that the health-care system in the United States is the most expensive in the industrialized world. The study, conducted...

Health care spending in United States to double over 10 years as "sick care" industry bankrupts America

3/8/2007 - (NaturalNews) The amount of money people spend on health care in the United States is likely to double over the next 10 years - from $2.1 trillion to $4 trillion - according to a new report published in an online edition of Health Affairs. The report...

The quackery of modern medicine (opinion)

3/3/2007 - (NaturalNews) The closer you look at conventional medicine, the more you realize just how much it's based on quackery. From the exaggerated claims of drug advertisements (which imply that swallowing patented chemicals will solve your life problems) to...

The health care reform legislation that Congress should pass, but won't

2/15/2007 - All of a sudden, everyone's talking about health care reform in the United States. From corporations like Wal-Mart to the newly-elected Democratic majority in the House, it seems that everyone -- business, government and the public -- recognizes our...

Patients rarely discuss alternative medicine with doctors, study finds

2/12/2007 - (NaturalNews) A majority of Americans age 50 and older use alternative medicines, but don't tell their doctors. That's what a survey by the AARP and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine found. Health experts say that informing...

Companies turn to in-house health clinics to control skyrocketing health care costs

1/20/2007 - (NaturalNews) According to a recent study, the economic strain levied on employers in the U.S. from employee healthcare costs is growing exponentially, leaving many employers scrambling to find alternatives to their present healthcare models. The...

America's health care system suffers from an "Epidemic of Diagnoses," say cancer docs

1/15/2007 - (NaturalNews) The biggest threat to American's health is the U.S. health care system, according to an editorial by three cancer experts and campaigners against medical excess. Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, author of "Should I Be Tested for Cancer? Maybe Not...

Oregon Senator proposes universal health care for all Americans

12/22/2006 - (NaturalNews) The concept of universal health care that would cover every American citizen is again being proposed in the U.S. Senate, after a similar request was voted away over a decade ago. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., brought his vision for health care...

Integrative Medicine Comes of Age: An Interview with Dr. Kenneth Pelletier

12/11/2006 - (NaturalNews) Kenneth R. Pelletier, PhD, MD is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMMC) and the University of Arizona School of Medicine. At UMMC, he is Director of the Corporate Health Improvement Program...

HHS chief opposes Medicare drug price negotiation; a perpetuation of Big Pharma price fixing, says health advocate

11/17/2006 - (NaturalNews) On Monday, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said the government should not negotiate Medicare drug prices, instantly drawing fire from the incoming Democratic Congress and at least one health advocate. "The idea of the...

Democrats win, Big Pharma loses (opinion)

11/8/2006 - The election results are (mostly) in, and they show a sweeping change in Washington. Fed up with the war on Iraq, the corruption, scandals and incessant fear mongering of the Republican party, voters ushered in what soon-to-be Speaker of the House Nancy...

Medical tourism flourishing in Philippines while U.S. health care costs skyrocket

10/31/2006 - (NaturalNews) The Health Undersecretary of the Philippines -- Jade del Mundo -- recently stated that the bustling medical tourism program of the Philippines is allowing new doors to open in the nursing field, adding that the current multi-million dollar...

Health care costs are bankrupting employers, employees, surveys find

10/27/2006 - (NaturalNews) Americans are growing increasingly dissatisfied with the health insurance costs of the employer-sponsored health care system, according to the annual Health Confidence Survey. The survey found that overall dissatisfaction with health...

Two new studies show blacks continue to receive inferior health care compared to whites

10/25/2006 - (NaturalNews) In 2001, the Institute of Medicine challenged the U.S. health care system to make a change and provide equal care for people, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender or socioeconomic status, but two recent studies have found that this challenge...

Institute for Integrative Nutrition offers a new education path for health-minded adults; a conversation with founder Joshua Rosenthal

10/24/2006 - Mike: This is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, and today I am joined by Joshua Rosenthal, founder and director of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, talking about this unique school where students can learn to transform their health from the inside...

Two-fifths of US adults report experiencing unsafe, wasteful or poorly coordinated health care (press release)

10/11/2006 - Patients, who experience the health care system on a first-hand basis, find much that could be improved. According to a new survey from The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System, a surprisingly high proportion of Americans--42...

Nine million children left uninsured by America's health care system

9/29/2006 - (NaturalNews) A report by Families USA -- prepared for the Campaign for Children's Health Care -- found that most of the United States' 9 million children without health insurance live in two-parent families with at least one working parent. One parent...

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