Guaranteed Healthcare

Today we learn that Rudy’s hooked on OxyContin money…Krugman finishes off the myth about waiting times in nations with guaranteed healthcare...and TX nurses are on the rise!

Rudy Giuliani was paid by Pfizer to help improve the image of OxyContin and steer prosecutions to street criminals instead of white-collar pushers.  All this while he emerges as probably the single candidate most hostile to healthcare reform and guaranteed healthcare.  That's pretty sick.

Key quote from the article: "This is one of Giuliani's Achilles' heels," said Baruch College public affairs professor Doug Muzzio. "He was directly and intimately involved with a company that was in violation of law and morals and ethics. There are ways to frame the issue that resonate, that Rudy Giuliani is sacrificing the public weal for his own personal benefit."

*Meanwhile, Paul Krugman (reg. req’d.) points out that, “…The opponents of universal healthcare appear to have run out of honest arguments,” as he debunks the myth about waiting times in Canada and Europe.

*The eyes of Texas are upon their nurses, who are responding to the NNOC’s advocacy for safe staffing, guaranteed healthcare, and fair contracts with a surge of interest in unionization.  Nurse power!

*Winners of the “not so good on the details” prize are three legislators from Alaska who used the premier of SiCKO to push for a bill requiring…mandatory insurance for all Alaskans.  That’s right, requiring people to become customers of the same insurance corporations unmasked in the movie.

*Activist doctors call for Medicare 2.0.

*And finally, the Arkansas Times is not amused that Republican presidential candidate, and Arkansas Governor, Mike Huckabee blames Michael Moore—and other fat people—for our health care crisis.