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PROMOTING AWARENESS, ARTS, CULTURE AND EDUCATION IN NORTH-CENTRAL PA
If you have health insurance—or used to have it before it got too expensive—you’re familiar with the annual letter telling you how much your premiums are going up next year. Not only that, but your co-pays are doubling, or tripling. Plus, your new, more costly plan has even less coverage than the old one....
If the mention of El Salvador conjures up any images at all in your mind, I’m guessing they involve civil war, massacres, and people “being disappeared.” But two years ago, in democratic elections (after a Peace Accord in 1992 and then gradual gains through elections as the guerrilla force transformed itself into a political...
Recently, Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney did a little rhetorical dance around health reform, arguing that his Massachusetts plan was good, but the federal law signed by President Obama was an evil “government takeover of health care.” The language echoed the Republican mantra of 2010 promulgated by GOP strategist and Fox News “analyst” Frank...
A couple of years ago, my friend Ellen died primarily because bureaucrats prevented her from seeing the doctors she needed to see. If you believe all the hype about government-run health care, you’ll probably jump to the conclusion that these were government bureaucrats. They weren’t. They were insurance company paper pushers trying to make...