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24/08/2022

High Cost of Medical Services Puts Immigrants’ Health at Risk in the U.S.

Human Wrongs Watch

SAN SALVADOR, Aug 23 2022 (IPS)* – Getting sick is one of the worst fears facing Jorge, a Salvadoran living in the United States, because without access to health insurance or public health programs, he knows he will not be able to afford the high cost of hospital care. | En español
Millions of immigrants in the United States benefited from the program known as Obamacare, but Medicaid, for low-income people, reduced benefits only to migrants with legal status in the country. CREDIT: Telesur TV

Millions of immigrants in the United States benefited from the program known as Obamacare, but Medicaid, for low-income people, reduced benefits only to migrants with legal status in the country. CREDIT: Telesur TV

“It scares me to think about what would happen if I got sick, the medical services here are very expensive,” Jorge told IPS by video call.

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24/08/2022

New Polls Show almost No One Trusts Our Media Anymore

Human Wrongs Watch

By Lee Camp | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service*

15 Aug 2022 – Gone are the days when the CIA secretly infiltrated American newsrooms, craftily tricking people into believing U.S. government propaganda was the real news. When they started the Vietnam War based on storm clouds in the Gulf of Tonkin, the CIA officer was in the corner of the copy room whispering, “Say the storm clouds were heavily armed. Say the lightning looked like Charlie! Do it!”

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Putting the CIA in every newsroom was a clandestine project called Operation Mockingbird, and it paid mighty dividends.

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