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www.pbs.org Meet Wendell Potter. Bill Moyers interviews former health insurance industry executive Wendell Potter, who left the field after almost 20 years to become a health reform advocate. Check out Potters personal story here and tune in to Bill Moyers Journal, Friday, July 10, 2009 at 9PM on PBS (check local listings www.pbs.org ) for his experiences inside the health insurance industry, their work fighting a public option, and the insurance companies close ties to Washington. The entire interview will be available after broadcast at www.pbs.org/moyers www.pbs.org


(NaturalNews) Mrs. Bouchard seemed upset. “I can’t afford health care as yet.” The new health reform bill Made her sickly and ill “But I’d rather have cancer than debt!” What’s really in Obama’s health care reform bill? Almost no one knows, and here’s why: It’s 1017 pages long and written in an alien form of bureaucratic English that can barely be decoded by earthlings. And yet, astonishingly, a US Army translator has been found who speaks “Washington Doublespeak” and he was kind enough to decode the bill and post his plain-language findings over at FreeRepublic.com (www.freerepublic.com Below, we reprint what he found in the health care reform bill. As you read this, keep in mind that some of these translations are a bit loose with the interpretations, but I’ve personally spot-checked these points, and they are indeed all contained in the bill in one form or another (shrouded in Doublespeak language, of course). Editor’s note: I don’t personally agree with every interpretation listed here, and some of the bill’s provisions are actually good ideas (like banning doctors from owning stock in health care companies). But overall, this interpretation points out many alarming provisions in the proposed health care reform bill… From CMS at FreeRepublic.com: • Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the government option! • Page


FINANCE BILL WILL NOT PREVENT CRISIS PT3. Bill Black: Many Bush regulators still in place To watch a multi-part interview, click the link Below: www.therealnews.com


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Gerald Epstein: Support the bill, but it’s only one small step towards real financial reform


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www.pbs.org With almost 20 years inside the health insurance industry, Wendell Potter saw for-profit insurers hijack our health care system and put profits before patients. Now, he speaks with Bill Moyers about how those companies are standing in the way of health care reform. Bill Moyers Journal airs Friday nights at 9pm on PBS. Check your local listings. www.pbs.org


Over the past 4 years, the Canadian people have paid $137.4 billion in interest on money borrowed from private banks whereas the Bank of Canada could legally print the public’s money into existence rather than borrowing it at interest. “They’ve paid out this huge sum because our government has failed to abide by the law.” Abram, a retired high school teacher and activist on Vancouver Island, BC, explicates the trick of fractional reserve banking (part 1 of a series; snowshoefilms yoryevrah


An update of his ongoing short reports on the cost of the war. Visit thePBS archives to see the complete show and more of Bill Moyers. www.pbs.org See ioUSAthemovie, visit the YouTube site www.youtube.com “Where Does the Money Go?” National Debt, Bill Moyers www.youtube.com See more of Bill Moyers and Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com See also American Doctor Saves Millions of Lives Around the World www.youtube.com Desmond Tutu Discusses Apartheid, Perpatrators, Forgiveness www.youtube.com Health care reform, a look at successful systems of Taiwan and Switzerland, probably acceptable to US, and similar to some existing US models. www.youtube.com Moyers: Earmarks, Washington Contributions, Corruption pt1 www.youtube.com Free Lunch, Corp Welfare, Bill Moyers and David Cay Johnston www.youtube.com Moyers and John C. Bogel, Capitalism and Democracy Pt 1 www.youtube.com Benjamin Barber with Bill Moyers, Terrorism, Liberty www.pbs.org 60 Minutes segment on working poor requiring charity healthcare www.cbsnews.com Visit the PBS archives to see the complete show and more of Bill Moyers. www.pbs.org