A video lecture by Roger D. Seheult, MD – Pulmonology Doctor in Banning, CA. This video illustrates how viruses can cause pneumonia or widespread lung inflammation resulting in ARDS. Includes evidenced-based ARDS treatment breakthrough strategies: Low tidal volume ventilation, paralysis, and prone positioning. Also a snapshot of Korea’s effective approach to Covid-19 containment.
HEALTH & MEDICINE
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ERIC ZUESSE—Pete Buttigieg is one of the candidates who proposes a public option, such as Barack Obama did but promptly abandoned it as soon as he won the election in November 2008. Obama knew that offering a public option wouldn’t be corrupt enough to suit his preferences (or his major funders), so he just dropped it stone-cold on election-day, and assigned to the conservative Max Baucus in the U.S. Senate the design of what would become Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act.
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CNN’s Attempted Hit Job on Sanders and Warren
12 minutes readPAUL STREET—Sanders offered a simple four-word comment after the ridiculous stooge John Delaney intoned that “I’m the only one on this stage who actually has experience in the health care business. And with all due respect, I don’t think my colleagues understand the business.”
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—For well over a century now the savage capitalist way of life—make that “the American Way of Life”— has dominated and grotesquely misruled healthcare in the United States, its abuses by now legendary. Big Pharma, a key component of the notorious triad comprising doctors, hospitals and the pharmaceutical industry, has long exploited its de facto and virtually unchallenged monopolistic position to extract superprofits from a disorganised and profoundly misinformed public, a public with no real representation in Congress, nor in most state legislatures.
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Time to ban the profit motive from the healthcare system
28 minutes readPATRICE GREANVILLE—Stealth defunding of Medicare and social security, (the latter wounded at inception by a scandalously low arbitrary tax cap on earnings, as noted earlier) is aimed at creating an operational crisis, giving ammo to those in favor of Wall Street formulas to pulverise the socialist aspects of both systems, an old heatfelt desire of the insatiable US plutocracy.