mediamatters.org - 3/6/2009
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A January 3, 1935, New York Times article (purchase required), "Doctors in Debate on Social Medicine," reported that during a "discussion on the socialization of medicine," the editor of The Journal of the American Medical Association , Dr. Morris Fishbein, "attacked the general proposal of ...
theadvocates.org - 3/9/2009
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theadvocates.org —
The Canadian public health system is often put
forward as an ideal for Americans to emulate. It...
provides all Canadians with free basic health care: free doctors' visits, free hospital ward care, free surgery, free drugs and medicine while in the ...
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Socialized Medicine: The Canadian Experience
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The Battle Over Health Care Reform Is Joined-- Corporate Greed Vs American Working Families
DownWithTyranny! —
... and a "privilege." Corporate media is ready for their role as well. Today MediaMatters released an analysis of a 75-year-old right-wing smear of what they call “socialized medicine” and how the media has worked hand-in-glove with the right to sabotage reform, from Roosevelt's attempt to include health reform in Social Security to Hillary Clinton's 1993-4 initiative. ...
Center Right Nation, My Ass: Health Care Edition
Oliver Willis —
... percent of those questioned in recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey say they favor increasing the federal government’s influence over the country’s health care system in an attempt to lower costs and provide health care coverage to more Americans, with 27 percent opposing such a move. Other recent polls show six in 10 think the government should provide health insurance or take responsibility for providing health care to all Americans.
>> Limbaugh conservatives continue 75-year-old “socialized medicine” smear
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