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Medical Professionals to Rally Against Government-Run Health Care Saturday

November 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This Saturday at noon, I plan to attend the St. Louis version of the Million Med March set to take place in the courtyard (a.k.a., “Memorial Park”) just south of the St. Louis County Government Building in Clayton, Mo.  There, I plan to interview doctors, nurses and other health care professionals in an effort to [...]

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Single-Payer Advocate ‘Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments

“Number one on my list continues to be the insurance companies, the for-profit insurance companies,” said Dr. Quentin Young early in his speech during the opening session of the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis. The first of six ultra-liberal panel members to speak during the session, the founder leader of [...]

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‘Too Big to Fail’ Logic Examined

March 4th, 2009 · No Comments

Some six months after AIG was declared “too big to fail” and received billions of bailout dollars, the free-spending administration of President Barack Obama poured another $30 billion into insurance giant this week.  That took place, according to a recent DC Examiner report, after administration officials were encouraged by the company’s loss of nearly $62 [...]

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Owner-Operators Forming New Organization

April 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Dan Little, the Carrollton, Mo.-based trucker generally credited with organizing the nationwide shutdown of independent owner-operators April 1, called me yesterday to let me know he’s at it again, this time working with a small cadre of truckers from around the country to launch a new truck drivers organization, tentatively called Owner-Operators United. The owner [...]

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