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Fox News, the network which played an important part in the 2000 election conspiracy that in the end won George W. Bush the State of Florida, thus making him the President of the United States. We all remember what happened.

So why are they reporting on how easy it is to rig the Diebold electronic voting machines? If Fox were complicit in rigging one election, why would they expose how the next one might be rigged too? Or are they afraid of being upstaged by a machine?

Regardless, if this report showing how easy it is to manipulate the Diebold machines is accurate, and why wouldn’t it be, seeing as the head of the company making the machines, said he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president,” during the 2004 election.

With such a staunch supporter of Bush and the Republican party, and who also happens to make voting machines, it sure explains why and how John McCain won the nomination so fast for the Republican Party. He is after all, just like Bush!

But the question remains, just why exactly would the right leaning Fox News be reporting this story? Something just doesn’t seem right about it.

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A Report to be published Monday shows serious reasons why the Healthcare system in this country needs to be fixed. The study by researchers with the American Cancer Society determined that those that were underinsured, or covered by Medicaid were more likely to be diagnosed with cancer in the late stages of the disease, which of course diminished their chances of survival.

The study also found that blacks had a higher risk of late diagnosis because of their disproportionately high rates of being underinsured.

The study’s authors concluded that “individuals without private insurance are not receiving optimum care in terms of cancer screening or timely diagnosis and follow-up with health care providers.” Advanced-stage diagnosis, they wrote, “leads to increased morbidity, decreased quality of life and survival and, often, increased costs.”

Adequate healthcare for our brothers and sisters should not be based on the ability to pay for it or not. Cancer and other life threatening diseases don’t discriminate because of income, and neither should this country’s healthcare system.

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Taxes, healthcare and the economy seem to be the only subjects the Presidential nomination candidates are talking about. Sure they are important subjects, but nothing new for us to hear, as we hear the same old tired rhetoric all the time during election years. “Vote for me and I”ll fix the economy,” “Vote for me and I’ll lower your taxes,” etcetera etcetera.

How about some real substance to the campaign promises? How about restoring the Constitution from the skid marks left by the Bush Administration? Habeas Corpus, the Fourth Amendment, Civil Liberties, these are important issues which must be addressed, but never seem to come up in the campaign speeches. Anybody who addresses these issues as a high priority to be fixed when they are President will get my vote, but sadly the serious contenders so far have remained silent on these important issues. Why?

All one has to do is watch this video of a woman being strip searched and abused by deputies of the Stark County Sheriff’s Department to remind oneself that our civil liberties are quietly being taken away from us.

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Health reform, who needs it? Why pay for something that will never help you when you need it?

This is a case of life and death for a young woman. Her health insurance company doesn’t care about her “life”, because later this year her coverage will be canceled with the simple explanation that she has reached her “lifetime maximum benefits.”

She was only 15 years old, when she started chemotherapy for Ewing’s Sarcoma, a rare form of childhood cancer that attacks the bones. She lost her hair, had the cancerous bone in her pelvis removed, and then her lungs started to deteriorate.

She lived through her 16th year with an oxygen bottle her closest companion, as her lung function approached a mere 20% of normal capacity.

In May of 2007, she was only 17 years old, when she finally had a double lung transplant, to replace lungs killed by interstices lung disease, brought on by the chemotherapy which saved her from the bone cancer. Her name is Brittani.

If anybody thinks that the health care system in America does not need fixing, then they have been living in the dark for a long time. It’s an atrocity that profit margins of insurance companies come before an individual’s health and wellbeing in this country. The argument can be made that America has the best health care in the world, but only if you can afford it.

Brittani deserves better than this. We all deserve better than this.

Read Brittnai’s Story Here

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Health insurance, what is it good for when it plays God with you or your loved ones lives? Absolutely nothing.

17 year old Nataline Sarkisyan died last night because of the greed and power of a health insurance company. CIGNA Healthcare has blood on its hands because it would not pay for a liver transplant doctors at UCLA said she needed. Doctors sent a letter to CIGNA on Dec. 11, who denied payment. CIGNA said in an e-mail statement before she died that there was a lack of medical evidence showing the procedure would work in Nataline’s case.

Really? I guess she’ll never know will she?

The reason for people paying health insurance companies (if they can afford it) is to pay for medical care when they need it. Not to have some bean counting pencil pushing moron determine if a Doctor’s recommendation will work or not! Who is more trustworthy, a Doctor or insurance salesman?

Once the lawsuit has ended and taken a small chunk out of CIGNA’s profit margin, I would hope that every person in America that holds a CIGNA Healthcare insurance policy seriously starts looking for another provider.

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