Health Care
Bernie Sanders Advocates a Free Market in AIDS Drugs (Truthout)
May 7, 2012
By Dean Baker Drugs are cheap. Patent monopolies are expensive. These are simple facts that everyone should know, but for some reason few do. The point here is simple; the vast majority of drugs are cheap to produce. Chain drug stores sell hundreds of generic drugs for $5-$7 per prescription. They can do this profitably [...]
Hundreds turn out for May Day rally in Vt. (WPTZ)
May 2, 2012
MONTPELIER, Vt. – Hundreds of demonstrators paraded through Vermont’s capital city on May Day calling for health care for all, fair wages and an end to corporate greed. Activists beat drums and chanted: “We are the 99 percent.” They urged lawmakers to “put people first.” Participants at the demonstration included members of the Occupy movements [...]
Vt. lawmakers confer on key bills; end in sight (Boston Globe)
May 1, 2012
By Dave Gram MONTPELIER, Vt.—With hundreds of people clamoring outside for Vermont’s governor to “put people first,” lawmakers inside the Statehouse rejected the latest attempt at overhauling campaign finance laws and prepared for a final round of votes on whether to continue allowing parents to opt out of having their children vaccinated as a requirement [...]
Rally in state capital targets ‘war on women’ (Burlington Free Press)
April 29, 2012
By Tim Johnson MONTPELIER — Madeleine Kunin said she never dreamed that in the year 2012 she would find herself speaking out in defense of contraception and giving credit to Rush Limbaugh. But there she was on the Statehouse steps Saturday, exhorting a crowd of about two hundred people to stand up for hard-won women’s [...]
Senate FDA bill advances; House’s version stalls (Politico)
April 25, 2012
By Brett Norman A bipartisan Senate FDA user fee bill passed out of committee easily Wednesday — but in the House, work on a companion bill came to an abrupt halt. With overwhelming bipartisan backing, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted Wednesday to send its FDA user fee bill to the full [...]
Senate panel advances must-pass FDA bill (The Hill’s Healthwatch Blog)
By Sam Baker The Senate Health Committee approved a must-pass bill Wednesday to reauthorize funding for the Food and Drug Administration and change the agency’s regulatory processes. Congress must send the FDA bill to President Obama by Oct. 1, and lawmakers are trying to avoid the type of eleventh-hour debate that entangled the last reauthorization. [...]
Down in the mouth (Brattleboro Reformer)
April 11, 2012
By Richard Davis Teeth and gums may be the most neglected parts of our bodies. If you don’t have hundreds and/or thousands of dollars to spend on routine maintenance and repairs, you are out of luck. Dental insurance may be a partial help to some, but it is a stand-alone product that leaves a lot [...]
U.S. Dental Crisis: Sen. Sanders on the Fight for Coverage (PBS News Hour)
April 10, 2012
By Victoria Fleischer Laura Ashton hasn’t regularly seen a dentist in almost 14 years. She has gingivitis, a broken tooth, a cracked tooth, and little chance of relief — few area dentists accept her disability and Medicare coverage. Out of options, she dialed her senator. “I’m sure at some point I will be losing most [...]
Is dental coverage being brushed aside? (WCAX)
March 10, 2012
By Kyle Midura According to the government… Fifty million Americans lack health insurance. It’s a staggering figure, but one that’s dwarfed by the number of those without dental coverage: 130 million. Sen. Bernie Sanders comments, ”This is an issue that is of huge consequence but doesn’t get really the kind of attention that it deserves.” In [...]
Sen. Sanders: dental ‘crisis’ affecting millions (WPTZ)
March 9, 2012
By Jack Thurston SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. – Heather Getty of East Fairfield, Vt. can barely make it through her work day free of pain. “I have a regular toothache probably a few times a week, every week,” she said. “And I just take ibuprofen.” For more than a decade, the family center case worker and [...]
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