Demand winter tenting for ALL #ows cold weather locations UPDATE: Ustream now...
There is snow in New York today. We really need to get in front of the problem of a winter occupation.I'm going to speak now of the City of New York, the government of Mayor Bloomberg, the city where I...
View ArticleFOIA request reveals Zuccotti Park owners Brookfield Properties heavily...
There's important new information turning up about Brookfield Properties, the owner of Zuccotti Park, thanks to a FOIA filing by a wonderful web site called Good Jobs New York.Who owns subsidized the...
View ArticleBlistering indictment of U.S. healthcare system from Dr. Oz explains why we...
There was a free health clinic recently held in Los Angeles. Dr Mehmet Oz was one of the volunteer doctors, and he's written a particularly scathing and brutal article in Time magazine about what he...
View ArticleALL HANDS: Health insurance catastrophe unfolding in New York, why we must...
Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield which is the largest insurer in New York State, (owned by Wellpoint) is effectively pulling out of the small group market, effective April 12, 2012.I have my small group...
View ArticleJack Abramoff is only half the story, the other half starts with the letter 'D'
Lefty Coaster has a terrific diary on political corruption a la Jack Abramoff. But that's only half the story.Jack Abramoff was on 60 Minutes last night talking about corruption in the halls of power....
View ArticleALL HANDS: If you live in NY, you need to go to Zuccotti Park now
This is going to be very short. Based on the text alert system established by OWS, thousands are expected to converge on Zuccotti Park within the next hour or two.Here's a copy of Judge Stallman's...
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Very disturbing videos of NYPD
On Wednesday evening, November 16th, I had an appointment to meet someone at the Starbucks next to Zuccotti Park.We spent several hours talking. After we finished it was probably around 8 or 8:30, I...
View ArticleI've been busy . . . We Are Unstoppable #OWS
Some holiday cheer.I've been busy running around New York with The Sign.That's me in the light green jacket.We're going to be taking The Sign all around the city, during the holiday season. If you...
View ArticleExtremely sick Americans overwhelming federal high risk insurance pools
Those Americans who have been denied insurance simply because they need it--because they are sick, are finally accessing care through the federal high risk pools created by the Affordable Care Act....
View ArticleA grieving mother places blame on our government for critically ill and...
Carol Anne Keltner posted on California One Care's Wall."My daughter is in ICU at this moment with no insurance (4th time with pneumonia in 1 1/2 years). She has a small chance of surviving and none of...
View ArticleAt long last, Death Panel identified, angel of death outted
There's an interesting, and I would argue, horrifying article on the front page of the New York Times today, about the historic upcoming arguments before the SCOTUS on the Affordable care Act. It's...
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Unaffordable co-pays and deductibles, death by a million cuts for insured...
If we had a functioning healthcare system, sick people would be able to access care and healthy people would not fear the financial consequences of illness.We're told by politicians from both...
View ArticleBest reporting I've seen on SCOTUS and ACA and an American pleads for healthcare
This will be a rather quick diary because both pieces I want to bring to your attention are far more eloquent than I could ever be on this, most consequential day.I simply want to say that though I...
View ArticleMaternity care out-the-window for millions of women if anti-choice SCOTUS...
I thought I knew as much as anyone about the barbaric state of the American healthcare system. Well this morning, I learned something even I didn't know.Right now in the United States of America, (87%)...
View ArticleLittle transparency in U.S. healthcare pricing: isn't a colonoscopy supposed...
There was an extraordinary diary the other day by Deep Harm on healthcare pricing.Today, the New York Times has a scathing look at how anesthesiologists bill for their services during routine...
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Things could not be any worse for those forced to buy individual health...
Remember when President Obama pledged that if you like your doctor, and if you like your insurance you can keep it? This is a link to a very brief video of him making this commitment in a weekly...
View ArticleJustice Ginsburg: "sharp disagreement rate will go up next week and the week...
If you start to read the tea leaves, particularly the tea leaves Justice Ruth Ginsburg dropped last night, I'm thinking SCOTUS is going to eviscerate if not destroy outright the ACA.“It is likely that...
View ArticleSomber words from Robert Reich, Marcia Angell MD, and others on life after...
The New York Times has an important cross section of opinion about what we might expect after the SCOTUS ruling.The analysis is critical reading for everyone wondering where this storm is headed.Within...
View ArticleMore expert information/speculation on SCOTUS and the ACA
What follows is some of the more interesting stuff I've been reading over the last several hours on how the SCOTUS decision on the ACA might play out, and when we might get this historic decision.And...
View ArticleReady, really ready for a fight . . . WITH UPDATE
UPDATE:Here's an excellent article by Jonathan Chait on what to expect from SCOTUS just posted on the New York Magazine website.Are you ready for a showdown?I am.It's intolerable and unacceptable to be...
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