Fight back against insurance industry lies about health care

If you’re not sure where you stand on the health care plans being debated in Congress, then watch this and ask yourself this: “what percentage of my insurance premiums do I want going to CEO bonuses and stock options?”

Then you might ask: “what percentage of my prescription medicine dollars should go to Big Pharma so they can advertise drugs to me?” Shouldn’t that be a decision made between you and your doctor?

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Location can weaken understanding need for healthcare reform

“Hey, hey … Peter Rast has a letter to the editor in today’s paper!” I blurted out across the breakfast table this morning, to Mr. Maven. We know Peter from our days as collegues in the Nevada Wing of the Civil Air Patrol.

Peter is a well known and highly respected consultant and expert witness specializing in forensic engineering, accident reconstruction, and causation analysis. I’ve worked with him in Search and Rescue enough to know that he’s really, really sharp. He and I are about as far apart as humanly possible on the political spectrum, but I was still surprised to see the following:

Regulations are driving up costs

“I recently ran an old, rusty nail into my hand and needed attention.

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