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Health costs crisis

November 8, 2002 By Phil E. Benjamin

The winners of this week’s Congressional elections will be representing a population increasingly angry over health care costs. For the fourth consecutive year, health care costs will be increasing, and this will be the highest level...

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Labor benefit funds & national health

October 3, 2002 By Phil E. Benjamin

Recently, a major new constituency may have enlisted in the struggle for national health legislation. This group is a large, powerful group that is supposed to be totally cynical and ready to fight against, not for,...

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Bush axes kids health plan

September 27, 2002 By Phil E. Benjamin

The Bush administration is poised to launch an attack on children’s health care. Crying the blues of “fiscal prudence,” the president is withdrawing one-fourth of the federal financing of children’s health insurance coverage, exposing millions of...

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Obesity: Crisis for developed countries

September 20, 2002 By Phil E. Benjamin

In the United States obesity in children of all races has increased two to three times over the past 25 years. In England, the rates for the same period are over two times.

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Obesity: Crisis for developed countries

September 20, 2002 By Phil E. Benjamin

In the United States obesity in children of all races has increased two to three times over the past 25 years. In England, the rates for the same period are over two times.

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World demands sustainable development

September 13, 2002 By Phil E. Benjamin

At the 1992 United Nations summit meeting in Rio de Janeiro, the assembled peoples declared, “Human beings are the center of concerns for sustainable development. They are entitled to a healthy and productive life in harmony...

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Bush kills Rx benefit for seniors

August 30, 2002 By Phil E. Benjamin

Responding to the demands of the drug monopolies, the Bush Administration killed the demand to give seniors on Medicare an affordable prescription drug benefit. A recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund and...

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Bush has gone too far

August 22, 2002 By Phil E. Benjamin

When President George W. Bush recently rejected a U.S. Senate financing bill to protect the rescuers and victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 disaster, he repeated a mistake made by previous Republican administrations. They showed their...

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