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Gleevec: A Cancer “Wonder Drug” with a Wonderous Price Tag

by Admin 09.15.2009

Here’s another post from Pat’s CaringBridge journal: One of the things I truly enjoy in my professional life is helping people understand the power of the Internet. Today, I tapped into some of that power myself. From the comfort of my home, I attended a presentation titled CML: What Every Newly Diagnosed Patient Needs to [...]

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Read the Bill 101

by Karoli 07.26.2009

After spending my weekend tamping down fires around HR 3200 which were purely the result of a lack of understanding about how legislation is constructed, I thought it might be helpful to put together some pointers on how to read it, along with some key terms. Format The bill is written in outline form. Because [...]

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Healthcare debate: 100 years later, still the same

by Karoli 06.26.2009

Look at this amazing Google timeline of the national debate about health care reform over the past 100 years. At a glance, it’s clear that the anti-reformers have won the debate by throwing lots of money and hysterical arguments at the issue, leaving us where we are today. There’s only one lesson to learn from [...]

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Add Your Name: Speak for the Public Option

by Karoli 06.25.2009

Just go to WeWantThePublicOption.com and sign the petition. Then pass the word. Let’s show the lobbyists and the lobbied that when 76% of the country wants something, they should get it. Now, not ten years from now. Here’s the problem: We’ve got a bunch of scaredy-cat Democrats who are equivocating on true reform in the [...]

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