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Some ‘Occupy Sacramento’ Protesters Lash Out At Questions

Organizer Anthony Bondi said he has what he referred to as a “message team” working on the primary goals of the local protests, which he admitted “was kind of vague.”

“That message team will reveal that tomorrow [Friday] morning,” Bondi said.

“So you guys are in the process of forming the reasons why you are here?” asked CBS13 reporter Tony Lopez. “Exactly correct,” Bondi said.
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Groups of demonstrators gathered around television cameras periodically and tried to shout down reporters with accusations of manipulating coverage of the protest. Other isolated protesters tried to convince attendees to avoid speaking with the media altogether.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/10/07/some-%E2%80%98occupy-sacramento%E2%80%99-protesters-lash-out-at-questions/

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Socialized medicine is a term used to describe a system for providing medical and hospital care for all at a nominal cost by means of government regulation of health services and subsidies derived from taxation.

That isnt Medicare, Medicaid or VA?

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Hunger crisis grips North Korea as food runs short


U.S. and South Korea won't resume aid unless communist regime meets certain conditions


HAEJU, North Korea — In a pediatric hospital in North Korea's most productive farming province, children lay two to a bed. All showed signs of severe malnutrition: skin infections, patchy hair, listless apathy.


"Their mothers have to bring them here on bicycles," said duty doctor Jang Kum Son in the Yellow Sea port city of Haeju. "We used to have an ambulance but it's completely broken down. One mother traveled 72 kilometers (45 miles). By the time they get here, it's often too late."

It's also getting late for North Korea to get the massive amount of food aid it claims to need before the harsh winter sets in. The country's dysfunctional food-distribution system, rising global commodities prices and sanctions imposed over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs had contributed to what appears to be a hunger crisis in the North, even before devastating summer floods and typhoons compounded the emergency.

The regime's appeals for massive food aid have gone mostly unanswered by a skeptical international community. Only 30 percent of a United Nations food aid target for North Korea has been met so far. The United States and South Korea, the two biggest donors before sanctions, have said they won't resume aid until they are satisfied the military-led communist regime won't divert the aid for its own uses and progress is made on disarmament talks.


Full article here

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ORIGINAL: xssve

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Socialized medicine is a term used to describe a system for providing medical and hospital care for all at a nominal cost by means of government regulation of health services and subsidies derived from taxation.

That isnt Medicare, Medicaid or VA?

In the case of the VA, the government does provide actual healthcare services, but then the military is a socialist institution from top to bottom, entirely supported by taxes. IHS is similar.

In Medicare and Medicaid the government acts as insurer, and in that capacity, does regulate services rendered just like a private insurance companies do, but he services themselves are provided by private health care providers.

It's public health insurance essentially, the providers are private doctors, PT's, dermatologists, pharmacists, hospitals, etc., who bill Medicare or Medicaid, just like they would bill any other insurer.