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• Children opposed to healthcare (Onion Video)

  So often with issues that face our society, we fail to ask: what about the children? Read More... Posted Aug 20 2008, 01:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with no comments Filed under: children, kids, youtube, health, news, hospitals, joke, video, society, funny, humor, studies, the onion, surveys, jokes, healthcare, Brett Singer, fake news

• Political Nanny: Elizabeth Edwards and Hillary, BFFs?

  Didn't Elizabeth Edwards famously dislike Hillary Clinton? Apparently, Edwards can separate the woman from the policy wonk. In terms of universal healthcare, the two couldn't be better BFFs.   Read More... Posted Apr 29 2008, 05:18 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: hillary clinton, barack obama, John Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, healthcare, Democrats, NYTimes, indiana primary, north carolina primary

• French Universal Healthcare Covers Les Femmes' Entire Personal Universe

  Mon Dieu!  The French are so, are so ... French? Did you read this in the New York Times, an expat American's dispatch about how, after giving birth, she got her vagina re-educated? A the state's expense. Like the thousands of other women giving birth there each year there. I didn't even know my vagina forgot the main themes, ideas and historical dates after I gave birth. Should it have studied more during pregnancy? Is vaginal re-education a part of the International Baccalaureate?  She explains, to my relief, re-education is more about ...   Read More... Posted Dec 16 2007, 02:01 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: post-partum, vaginaplasty, healthcare, vaginal reconstruction, vaginas, abs, France, perineum

• Bush Refuses Treatment for Wounded Healthcare System

  As promised, President Bush vetoed a children’s health insurance bill that passed in both the House and Senate and had unusual bi-partisan support. The bill would have expanded the number of children covered by State Children’s Health Insurance Program to 10 million, whereas now the same program covers 6.6 million. The president argued the bill moved Schip away from its initial purpose of paying to cover poor children and instead start providing for children from middle-class families. Which would be a crime? Does he know how a large part of the middle class lives nowadays? Read More... Posted Oct 03 2007, 04:33 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: bush administration, health insurance, health and kids, healthcare, schip

• Breastfeeding Sucks in Canada Too!

  O Canada. I'm confused. I thought everything was better up there, up north, Canada. What with your clean air and your bacon and your quaint, cooing vowels. You've got all the good bands, all the funny comedians, all those adorably feisty French-speaking separatists. And Canada, don’t make me bring up healthcare – the envy of North America. Free surgeries! Free consultations! Practically free cholesterol drugs! Can I be you, Canada? Then I read this, my understandably smug northern neighbor, and I am stunned. Read More... Posted Sep 25 2007, 02:33 PM by Madeline Holler with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: attachment parenting, breastfeeding, Canada, lactivism, bill maher, healthcare