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Schwarzenegger Prescription Drug Proposal Puts Drug Firms in Control
Schwarzenegger Prescription Drug Proposal Puts Drug Firms in Control, Leaves Seniors Without Protection, Says Consumer Group...
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2005 11:18pm PST
THE DANCE OF DEATH TO LONG-TERM SKILLED NURSING FACILITY CARE IN SAN FRANCISCO
A Tsunami Sized Death-Dance Change To Laguna Honda Hospital’s Mission
Overturning Prop A Promises to Voters in the 1999 Election...
Posted: Sun, Jan 2, 2005 3:09pm PST
Bush administration targets medical care for the poor
The federal government has dispatched auditors to state capitals around the country in an effort to rein in the cost of Medicaid, the program designed to provide medical coverage for the poor. The program also pays for about 70 percent of the nation’s nursing home patients....
Posted: Sat, Jan 1, 2005 9:27am PST
Hunger Banquet on Dec. 29
I encourage everybody to go to the Hunger Banquet on Wednesday, December 29, at the UUS of Sacramento....
Posted: Tue, Dec 28, 2004 3:27pm PST
Bay Area Media Blitz To Save Social Security!
Save Social Security!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 25, 2004 7:10pm PST
Hope and Disappointment
We are saved but in hope. The hope that one sees is not hope since one cannot hope for what one sees.. Hope is as vital as the air we breathe.. Hope even if it is only as weak as a straw keeps laive our longing for freedom....
Posted: Sat, Dec 25, 2004 8:20am PST
Update: Seduced and Abandoned
MAYOR NEWSOM AND MITCH KATZ, PUBLIC HEALTH DIRECTOR, CONTINUE TO OVERRIDE SAN FRANCISCO VOTE TO FUND LAGUNA HONDA HOSPITAL FOR THE FRAIL ELDERLY
Elderly Female Patients Forced Out of County for Skilled Nursing Facility Care...
Posted: Sat, Dec 25, 2004 2:16am PST
Mumbai, Inidia - 6,000 shanties detroyed in a day leaving thousands homeless...
Over 39,000 shanties have been destroyed the past 18 days in what is the largest 'makeover' Mumbai has seen. Once again, the working class poor are targeted again; vendors, cab drivers, builders and others have been the target of this effort to make one of India's richest cities look well off by pulling the rug from underneath those that make their profiting a reality......
Posted: Fri, Dec 24, 2004 2:46pm PST
JUSTICE FOR TRINITY PLAZA TENANTS: Chris Daly, Defender of the Disenfranchised
The Coalition to Save Rent Control members worked diligently since 09/02/2004 when right-wing, Republican Judge James Warren slashed Prop M, the Housing Preservation Initiative, from the November ballot....
Posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2004 8:00pm PST
Coaliton on Homelessness Office Closure
temporary closure of offices for COH...
Posted: Thu, Dec 23, 2004 4:55pm PST
American Coll. of Rheumatology Offers Guidance for Assessing Arthritis Pain Medication Use
American College of Rheumatology Offers Guidance for Assessing Arthritis Pain Medication Usage...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 11:11pm PST
American Coll. of Rheumatology Offers Guidance for Assessing Arthritis Pain Medication Use
American College of Rheumatology Offers Guidance for Assessing Arthritis Pain Medication Usage...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 10:02pm PST
NCPA: HHS Importation Report Focuses on Costs, Ignores Savings
NCPA: HHS Importation Report Focuses on Costs, Ignores Savings; NCPA Expert Says Shopping for Drugs Makes Importation Unnecessary...
Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 9:58pm PST
"Quality of Life" Enforcement in San Francisco - A History of Failure
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Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 1:10pm PST
Newsom delivers his State of the Homeless address while he de-funds crucial homeless servi
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Posted: Wed, Dec 22, 2004 12:50pm PST
CA Mass Protest Of Injured&Disabled Workers Called
The San Francisco Labor Council and other injured workers and health and safety groups have called for a mass protest on Workers Memorial Day April 28, 2005 in Sacramento to protest the attack on injured and disabled workers and to demand single payer healthcare....
Posted: Mon, Dec 20, 2004 2:42am PST
Canada
What is interesting is that there have only been 65 teenage cases since 1983 in Canada...
Posted: Sun, Dec 19, 2004 8:02pm PST
Another homeless brother dies under a freeway
On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 Anthony Lucero died in a fire under the I-80 Central Ave overpass in Richmond, CA....
Posted: Sun, Dec 19, 2004 6:20pm PST