Word: sicklied
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Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won't bite one another. To prevent him from getting sick in such close quarters, he is dosed with antibiotics. The waste produced by the pig and his thousands of pen mates on the factory farm where they live goes into manure lagoons that blanket neighboring communities with air pollution and a stomach-churning stench. He's fed on American corn that was grown with the help of government subsidies...
...other arguments for reform are perfectly good ones. It's a disgrace that 46 million Americans have no coverage. It's an outrage that insurance companies get away with the shenanigans they pull to deny claims when their enrollees get sick. It's true that real reform would enhance the economic security of working Americans. But let's face it: there are lots of ways to try to enhance the economic security of working Americans. You do health care first because the status quo is unsustainable. The most pressing health-care crisis is that we're spending way more than...
...skyrocketing health costs that are on track to bankrupt the country. At other times he has emphasized the promise of universal coverage. Lately he has shifted to the plight of the insured, who still face exorbitant out-of-pocket expenses and can lose their coverage if they get sick. But he has also tried to assure Americans that they'll be able to keep their existing insurance if they like...
...motorbike for the hour's ride to the nearest hospital, where she was given "pills" and sent away. The girl died two days later. "Diarrhea has killed three of my children," she says. "I have been very unlucky." Now, she says, when one of her children gets sick she heads straight to the village pharmacy and buys a course of zinc tablets. Though several of the five womens' children have been sick in the past year, none has died. (See pictures of the fight against the Guinea Worm...
...coverage." She worried that a national plan might cut into his coverage. Obama assured her, "If your son currently qualifies for Medicaid, he could continue on Medicaid ... Our [existing] system is not a health-care system - it's a disease-care system, because we wait until someone gets very sick." For example, he said, a diabetic should be counseled on health and helped long before reaching the point of having a foot amputated...