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  • Bush's war on women's bodies

    As the sun finally begins to rise and banish the darkness of the Bush years, we continue to witness an alarming chain of eleventh-hour regulations emanating from the White House. The latest of those offenses against decency was published today: The Bush administration yesterday granted sweeping new protections to health workers who refuse to ...
    Posted to Russ McBee (Weblog) by RussMcBee on December 18, 2008
  • House prevents Bush from sticking it to the poor (again)

    By a lopsided vote of 349-62, the House of Representatives voted today to impose a moratorium on seven regulations promulgated by the Bush White House which would have eliminated $13 billion in Medicaid funding for health care for the poor. Every House Democrat and two-thirds of House Republicans voted to stop the enactment of the regulations, ...
    Posted to Russ McBee (Weblog) by RussMcBee on April 23, 2008
  • A couple of notes on poverty

    One of the flashpoint issues of the 1965 Watts riot was the lack of a hospital in that inner-city LA district. As a result of the riots, Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital was built. Its recent failures of care and performance have made headlines; to make the headlines go away, the hospital has been shut down rather than being fixed. Now, ...
    Posted to Russ McBee (Weblog) by RussMcBee on August 16, 2007
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