News You Can Use

• The Wall Street Journal reported that drug maker Cephalon on Monday completed a $443.9 million settlement with federal and state regulators related to allegations of improper sales and marketing practices.,

   

• The Associated Press reports that drugstore operator Walgreen paid $9.9 million to settle whistleblower allegations that it overcharged the Medicaid programs Minnesota, Michigan, Florida and Massachusetts. 

   

• The New York Times reports that more than 90% of U.S. nursing homes were cited for federal health and safety violations in 2007, according to an HHS Office of Inspector General report

   

More examples of the corruption and moral bankruptcy in our current health care system.

Action You Can Take

If you want the health care system to change then join us. This week your assignment is to call your member of Congress and ask them to support single payer health insurance, and your vote will be based on their answer. The November election is going to be close and every vote is important.

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What else would $700 billion buy?

• $100 billion would cover all of America's Uninsured:

   

• $35 billion would provide Universal preschool

   

• $100 billion would Rebuild New Orleans

   

• $50 billion would provide Free college education for everyone:

   

• $500 billion would give us total energy independence with a shift to renewables within the next ten years.

   

The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized country in the world that doesn't provide health care to all its citizens. Yet we spend more on health care, at 15% of GDP, for our inefficient, bureaucratic system than any other country. It is estimated that a universal, single-payer health care system would save the United States $1.1 trillion over ten years.

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