Courtesy of www.farleftside.com
October 5, 2009
October 4, 2009
Wendell Potter Comes Clean
A lot of people have been citing various studies in the discussion of health care. The studies all show that Nationalized Health Care is bad for America.
And they were all manufactured by Wendell Potter. Bill Moyers interviewed Potter, who comes clean about his complicity. Wendell was head of corporate communications for Cigna, one of the largest private health insurers in the country.
He finally had an epiphany when he was visiting family, and attended a "health care fair" in rural Virginia. Instead of providers handing out literature, he found people lining up in the rain to receive treatments in animal stalls at the local fairgrounds. They had come from as far as Georgia.
He discusses his part in the highly publicized case of Nataline Sarkisyan, a young woman whose liver transplant was denied, resulting in her death days later.
He also details how he cherry-picked from all sorts of studies to make it appear that countries with national health systems didn't perform as well as our system. He created the term "socialized medicine" in order to cast a negative image of what are actually superior health care systems.
He made sure that everything you know about government run health care is false.
And they were all manufactured by Wendell Potter. Bill Moyers interviewed Potter, who comes clean about his complicity. Wendell was head of corporate communications for Cigna, one of the largest private health insurers in the country.
He finally had an epiphany when he was visiting family, and attended a "health care fair" in rural Virginia. Instead of providers handing out literature, he found people lining up in the rain to receive treatments in animal stalls at the local fairgrounds. They had come from as far as Georgia.
He discusses his part in the highly publicized case of Nataline Sarkisyan, a young woman whose liver transplant was denied, resulting in her death days later.
He also details how he cherry-picked from all sorts of studies to make it appear that countries with national health systems didn't perform as well as our system. He created the term "socialized medicine" in order to cast a negative image of what are actually superior health care systems.
He made sure that everything you know about government run health care is false.
October 1, 2009
Another Link.
The hominid line has been pushed back to some 4 million years.According to CNN:
Ardipithecus ramidus, nicknamed "Ardi," is a hominid species that lived 4.4 million years ago in what is now Aramis, Ethiopia. That makes Ardi more than a million years older than the celebrated Lucy, the partial ape-human skeleton found in Africa in 1974.One of the findings that surprised me is that she was less of a tree climber than chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans, and was more of a true omnivore.
Many scientists hypothesize that humans took a different evolutionaryThat should make the Inherit the Wind crowd happy. Of course, no one ever really claimed that humans evolved from chimpanzees. The story all along has been only that we shared a common ancestor. But it's not Ardi; at 4.4 million years old, she's little more than halfway back to the 8 million year old divide between us and apes.
trajectory from those of chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas. Ardi's
findings help challenge earlier beliefs that humans evolved from
chimpanzees, their closest genetic relatives, scientists say.
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