Posts Tagged ‘medical bankruptcy’
Is America "Teachable"?
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
The recent Teachable Moment presented itself when the Cambridge, MA cop (Sgt. Crowley) arrested the Harvard professor (Henry Gates) in his own home and Pres. Obama dared to utter an empirical truth/fact about racial profiling because he knew the phenomenon well enough to speak spontaneously about it. The opportunity for the Moment passed once the media framed it as Obama’s overzealous conclusion about police stupidity without knowing “all the facts in the case.”
We’re doomed it seems to never learn, or worse, never be able to teach ourselves to learn. This happens for several reasons. (more…)
Tags: American Dream, American exceptionalism, Cambridge Police, Crowley, Gates, Lamberth, Lowell Police Academy, medical bankruptcy, Obama, racial profiling, teachable moments
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Workplace Bullying & Health Care for All
Friday, June 5th, 2009
62% of all US bankruptcies are due to unaffordable costs for medical care
Regardless of personal political leanings, it’s time to form an alliance between the US Workplace Bullying movement which represents 24% of the US workforce who lose jobs due to bullying (64% of the 37%, see the WBI-Zogby statistics) and the Single Payer Health Insurance movement.
The triple whammy: Employer exposes worker to abuse/Worker with declining health loses job for daring to complain/Unemployed, uninsured worker’s health declines further
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Tags: employee health, medical bankruptcy, single payer
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