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Fighting Corporations and a Death Sentence

Staff / Truthdig Oct 29, 2011 Four years after a health insurance company decided her life wasn’t worth saving, 18-year-old Miran Istina, who suffers from myelogenous leukemia, has dedicated her struggle to the global fight against the corporate control of politics. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Florida Lawmakers Put Medicaid Under Budget Knife

Staff / Truthdig Apr 28, 2011 Citing budgetary constraints, Florida's Republican-led Legislature is prepared to push the state's Medicaid payment system off the public dole and into private pockets. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

A Healthy Start … With Loopholes

Bill Boyarsky / Truthdig Mar 25, 2010 Now that President Barack Obama has signed health reform into law, insurance industry lobbyists will turn their attention to trying to cripple it This will be done under the pretense of improving the reform proposal -- or, as they say in the lobbying business, loving the law to death. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Baucus’ Raucous Caucus

Amy Goodman / Truthdig May 13, 2009 Single-payer advocates have been protesting in Senate Finance Committee hearings, chaired by Democratic Montana Sen. Max Baucus. Last week, at a committee hearing with 15 industry speakers, not one represented the single-payer perspective. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Moore’s Cuban Tour

Staff / Truthdig Apr 16, 2007 For his next documentary, "Sicko," provocateur Michael Moore apparently invited a group of 9/11 responders to accompany him to Cuba and sample the country's socialized healthcare system. Harmful stunt or good medicine? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Michael Moore: Going Beyond ‘HMO’s Suck’

Staff / Truthdig Jul 12, 2006 The guerrilla documentary filmmaker's next movie, "Sicko," will be "a comedy about 45 million people with no health care in the richest country on earth." But it's not just "a movie that tells you that HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies suck. Everybody knows that. I'd like to show you some things you don't know." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )