CITV December 09 Episode – part 1
Here are two brief segments from the group Illinois Media Progressives. They were on the scene during some recent Chicago protests against the health insurance giant Cigna.
Chicago Independent TV
CITV December 09 Episode part 1
http://chicago.indymedia.org
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At the intersection of Mulberry and College in Fort Collins, Colorado dueling health care street protests faced off. They shared their thoughts and signs on the purposed National health care plan. One corner had the pro Obama health care folks and the other 3 cornes had people against the plan. A lady at the event went around to each corner and counted the people supporting each side. She came up with an estimated count of 350 people there against the plan and around 120 people there for the health care plan.
http://www.intheory.tv/2009/07/dueling-health-care-plan-protests-in-fort-collins-on-july-29-2009/
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Four people were arrested, this morning during a sit-in in front of Senator Joseph Lieberman’s office in Hartford. The arrestees were among 30 demonstrators who sought a public meeting with the Senator to confront him on his stance on healthcare reform while at the same time accepting donations from the health insurance industry. Since 1989 the Senator has accepted over 2 million dollars in contributions from the health care industry, which demonstrators say has unduly influenced his stance on reform.
After repeated requests for the Senator to meet with his constituents either in person or over the phone were declined, Jason Ortiz, along with Paul Blasenheim, Lauren Serven, and James Romer, sat down on the sidewalk in front of the entrance to the office building and refused to move until their demands to meet with the Senator were met. Demonstrators not sitting marched on the sidewalk chanting Lieberman profits, people die, health care for all! The four were quickly arrested and taken to Hartford Police Headquarters for processing.
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Watch the full program: http://thefilmarchived.blogspot.com/2010/08/christopher-hitchens-and-peter-hitchens_01.html
Comparison of the health care systems in Canada and the United States are often made by government, public health and public policy analysts. The two countries had similar health care systems before Canada reformed its system in the 1960s and 1970s. The United States spends much more money on health care than Canada, on both a per-capita basis and as a percentage of GDP. In 2006, per-capita spending for health care in Canada was US$3,678; in the U.S., US$6,714. The U.S. spent 15.3% of GDP on health care in that year; Canada spent 10.0%. In 2006, 70% of health care spending in Canada was financed by government, versus 46% in the United States. Total government spending per capita in the U.S. on health care was 23% higher than Canadian government spending, and U.S. government expenditure on health care was just under 83% of total Canadian spending (public and private).
Studies have come to different conclusions about the result of this disparity in spending. A 2007 review of all studies comparing health outcomes in Canada and the US in a Canadian peer-reviewed medical journal found that “health outcomes may be superior in patients cared for in Canada versus the United States, but differences are not consistent.” Life expectancy is longer in Canada, and its infant mortality rate is lower than that of the U.S., but there is debate about the underlying causes of these differences. One commonly-cited comparison, the 2000 World Health Organization’s ratings of “overall health service performance”, which used a “composite measure of achievement in the level of health, the distribution of health, the level of responsiveness and fairness of financial contribution”, ranked Canada 30th and the U.S. 37th among 191 member nations. This study rated the US “responsiveness”, or quality of service for individuals receiving treatment, as 1st, compared with 7th for Canada. However, the average life expectancy for Canadians was 80.34 years compared with 78.6 years for residents of the U.S.
The WHO’s study methods were criticized by some analyses. Some argue that Canada has had higher mortality rates for some conditions, such as heart disease, owing to the use of particular medications. Although there is a measure of consensus that life-expectancy and infant mortality mark the most reliable ways to compare nation-wide health care, a recent report by the Congressional Research Service carefully summarizes some recent data and notes the “difficult research issues” facing international comparisons.
The health care system in Canada is funded by a mix of public (70%) and private (30%) funding, with most services delivered by private (both for-profit and not-for-profit) providers.
Through all entities in its public-private system, the U.S. spends more per capita than any other nation in the world, but is the only wealthy industrialized country in the world that lacks some form of universal health care. In March of 2010, the US Congress passed regulatory reform of the American health insurance system. However since this legislation is not fundamental health care reform, it is unclear what its effect will be and as the new legislation is implemented in stages, with the last provision in effect in 2018, it will be some years before any empirical evaluation of the full effects on the comparison could be determined.
Health care costs in both countries are rising faster than inflation. As both countries consider changes to their systems, there is debate over whether resources should be added to the public or private sector. Although Canadians and Americans have each looked to the other for ways to improve their respective health care systems, there exists a substantial amount of conflicting information regarding the relative merits of the two systems. In Canada, the United States is used as a model and as a warning against increasing private sector involvement in financing health care. In the U.S., meanwhile, Canada’s mostly monopsonistic health system is seen by different sides of the ideological spectrum as either a model to be followed or avoided.
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A crowd of 30-40 activists, organizers and average citizens gathered before the national health insurance giant to advocate universal care. Special guest cameo by Rush Limbaugh.
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Sheila Dvorak, Documentary FIlmmaker and Organizer with the Mobilization for Healthcare for All, brings you the story of Matt Hendrickson, ER Doctor, and the Cigna Seven, who demand the insurance giant CIGNA agree to immediately cease all spending on lobbying, political ads, and campaign contributions and use that money to pay for all doctor-requested treatment for member patients with life-threatening illnesses. Grigor Sarkisyan, father of Nataline Sarkisyan, joined the protest and demanded that Cigna explain why they denied coverage to his daughter when she needed a Liver transplant, which caused her death at the age of 17.
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http://www.news8.net/news/stories/1009/668931.html
WASHINGTON – Protesters chanted, “People not profits — Medicare for all,” while picketing WellPoint Insurance Company Thursday. The demonstration was part of a nine-city protest coordinated by the group “Mobilization for Health Care for All.”
WellPoint locked the lobby doors and police stood on guard. The protest was peaceful but pointed — with participants blaming the insurance companies for current problems and accusing the president of breaking his campaign promise to bring real reform.
And as Congress continues to work toward reform, the demonstrators feel their dream of a single-payer system is slipping further and further away. …
Not slipping away at
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Mobilize4HealthCarehttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/mobilize4healthcareNonprofitsingle, payer, singlepayer, obama, healthcare, health, care, HR, 676, HMO, insurance, private, must, go, protest, rally, action, new, york, city, public, optionAetna “Patients Not Profit” Sit-In 9/29/09
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June 19, 2008, Americans across the nation demonstrated in favor of guaranteed healthcare and in protest of AHIP — America’s Health Insurance Plans — the insurance industry lobbyists who profit from pain. Their annual convention was met today by thousands of protestors onsite in San Francisco and simultaneously in cities across the nation. Watch the video and share it with others.
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On March 16, 2010, Tea Partiers from around the country gathered (in disappointing numbers) in front of the Capitol building for their final protest against health care reform. Also in town, appropriately, was Barnum & Bailey’s actual circus. The protestors voiced their usual conspiratorial concerns about healthcare reform: that it was a government takeover and more government, of course, equals less freedom; that it would euthanize seniors too expensive to treat; and that the bill would sink the nation into irrecoverable debt, despite its actually reducing the deficit by more than $100-billion over the next ten years. Averse to facts, no one interviewed was able to cite evidence for their false beliefs about the reform proposal, and instead suggested we seek the “truth” from Glenn Beck and Fox News.
THE PROPOSAL
The healthcare reform proposal being advanced in congress, while imperfect, would bring long overdue changes to a broken system. Far from being rushed, the proposals that make up this reform have been debated for years, and this congress has been working on a bill for many months. It’s time for an up or down vote on reform.
The proposal will expand healthcare access to over 30-million uninsured Americans, make healthcare more affordable for everyone, hold insurance companies more accountable, end discrimination against Americans with pre-existing conditions, and help stabilize our budget and economy by reducing the deficit by over $100-billion in the next ten years.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting/proposal
This NEW LEFT MEDIA film was produced and edited by Chase Whiteside (interviewer) and Erick Stoll (camera operator) with additional camera work from Zac Sleeth.
YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE:
You can make a difference in the health care debate without leaving your bedroom. So stop typing that narcissistic Facebook status, pause your Mafia Wars game, and actually do something in reality to advance the cause you support by calling your representative. This is so easy. Many people are timid about making phone calls, but a phone call to your representative now could save you a series of phone calls to an uncooperative insurance company in the future. Too lazy to look up your representative’s number? This website makes it even easier–it will find the number, call it for you, and then call your cell phone to connect you. Tell your representative’s office that you support comprehensive health care reform, and urge them to support the public option.
Your Representative needs to hear from you NOW – call them now and tell them to vote YES!
http://tools.advomatic.com/8/housevote2
REFORM IS A “GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER”:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/opinion/12krugman.html
DEATH PANELS AND RATIONING:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/11/denial_of_care
HEALTHCARE REFORM AND THE CONSTITUTION:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/denise-dennis/to-promote-the-general-we_b_253593.html
WHY TORT REFORM ISN’T A REAL SOLUTION:
http://washingtonindependent.com/55535/tort-reform-unlikely-to-cut-health-care-costs
WHERE THESE LIES COME FROM:
Glenn Beck, Fox News, etc.
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