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Entries Tagged as 'The Economy, Stupid'

Good Morning, Day 5

July 22nd, 2007 · Comments Off on Good Morning, Day 5 · Activism, HCC-DDT, Healthcare Crisis, Human Rights, News, Politics, The Economy, Stupid

Since I last updated this count, on Friday, about 100 more people have died in the United States because they couldn’t afford health care. That makes about 250 Americans who were allowed to die because they couldn’t pay for treatment, just since I started this count four days ago. About 50 more will die today.

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Good Morning, Day 3

July 20th, 2007 · Comments Off on Good Morning, Day 3 · Activism, HCC-DDT, Healthcare Crisis, News, Politics, The Economy, Stupid

Since I started this count two days ago, about 150 people have died here in the US because they couldn’t afford health care. That’s enough people to fill, what, three or four CTA buses? About 50 more will die today.

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Good Morning, Day 2

July 19th, 2007 · Comments Off on Good Morning, Day 2 · Activism, HCC-DDT, Healthcare Crisis, News, Politics, The Economy, Stupid

About 50 more people died yesterday, here in the United States of America, because they couldn’t afford health care. That means that about 100 Americans have died due to lack of affordable health care since I started this tally yesterday. About 50 more will die today.

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Good Morning

July 18th, 2007 · 5 Comments · HCC-DDT, Health, Healthcare Crisis, News, Politics, The Economy, Stupid

About 50 people died yesterday, here in America, because they couldn’t afford health care. About 50 more people will die today, for the same reason.

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Liking Norma Rae

July 10th, 2007 · Comments Off on Liking Norma Rae · Activism, Culture, Film, History, Labor, Media, News, Peoria, Politics, The Economy, Stupid

After reading this piece, which originally ran in The Nation, I bumped Norma Rae up on my Netflix queue and was very glad I did. I was really too young for it when it came out in 1979, and had somehow never gotten around to renting it in the years since. And seeing Norma Rae […]

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Weekend in Peoria, and a Sign of the Times

June 27th, 2007 · 10 Comments · Books, Culture, Food, Illinois, Journal, Labor, LGBT, Meta, New Wave, Peoria, Photos, Restaurants, The Economy, Stupid, Vegetarian & Vegan

You may have noticed things have been a little slow around the OcPot this week, because I spent the past weekend visiting my parents in scenic Peoria, Illinois. I’m now paying the usual price for taking a couple of days off, with everything I have to do piled up to twice its normal height. It’ll […]

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