tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73709410696515409432011-07-31T00:17:04.375-04:00We need Medicare for All (HR676)Girl on fire! (That's me!) I was inspired to create a website so that I could point people who want to learn about single payer and HR676 to one website to access all the sites that I have found useful. Blogging seemed the easiest way to do that. And then I thought, I do want to actually blog too! I've been really active on this issue, and I want to share my experiences and thoughts and information that I find fitting as I find it. You can email me at kimberish@yahoo.comKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.comBlogger6811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-62823139835920634862010-04-18T15:19:00.000-04:002010-04-18T15:19:16.973-04:00Not much updatingYeah, I've not been updating much lately. Since the bill passed, not so much urgent stuff to be aware of. I'll update here and there, rarely, as especially interesting things on the health care/single payer topic come up.
Cheers.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-38054347532785667642010-04-15T01:14:00.000-04:002010-04-15T01:14:31.686-04:00Victory for Single Payers: Charges Dropped Doctors Paris and FlowersKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-52723556919560196452010-04-15T00:43:00.001-04:002010-04-15T00:45:16.244-04:00the prices of care, not the amount of care delivered, are the primary difference between the United States and other countries "Lower prices for medical care are the major explanation for the much lower medical costs of all the other rich democracies relative to the United States (37). Competing explanations—that the U.S. population is particularly unhealthy or that Americans use many more medical services—are largely false. In a detailed examination of health care spending patterns, the McKinsey Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-44546085741226431732010-04-03T11:09:00.000-04:002010-04-03T11:09:25.090-04:00Medical Malpractice Payments Continue to Fall, PublicMalpractice suits are not the reason medical costs are skyrocketing.
The data contradict claims by some that medical malpractice litigation is to blame for rising health care costs. Changing the liability system to the detriment of patients will not curb health care costs....
Between 2000 and 2009, health care spending rose 83 percent while medical malpractice payments fell 8 percent.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-4575200437419431772010-03-31T09:25:00.000-04:002010-03-31T09:25:09.335-04:00A great interview with Dr. Steffie WoolhandlerThis cure leaves the disease untreatedKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-20382920892067143132010-03-31T09:07:00.000-04:002010-03-31T09:07:23.240-04:00Dr. Margaret Flowers interviewed on the radio. Listen here.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-87964182118307203992010-03-29T20:01:00.003-04:002010-04-02T15:24:36.345-04:00Baucus thank Liz Fowler, former Wellpoint VP, for writing the healthcare billGeesh!
Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-87434084970426373892010-03-28T21:39:00.000-04:002010-03-28T21:39:43.489-04:00Health Care: What Did We Get? Where Are We? And, Where Do We Go From Here?I met the author, Kevin Zeese, of this article at the Healthcare-Now national meeting in St. Louis. Great article, Kevin.
Go and read the article and remember: "Those who recognize the need for real reform should not get stuck within the framework of the status quo. Now that the Democrats have further enshrined the insurance industry, some will urge that we work within that framework to Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-11467741407191878912010-03-26T19:00:00.000-04:002010-03-26T19:00:38.263-04:00These health insurance reform loopholes will steadily be making their way to daylight.Here's the exposed loophole for today: "The new health care reform bill bans retroactive decisions by insurers in policies sold to individuals, except in cases of fraud. However, as it stands the ban would not apply to group policies, such as the one held by the Galeotti family, which cover some 150 million Americans."
The other day it was the fact that children aren't really protected from the Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-91682208104327826152010-03-26T01:42:00.000-04:002010-03-26T01:42:11.223-04:00Ezra Klein on how the individual mandate worksEzra says there is no penalty for not buying health insurance and not paying the fine (at least for now). And he also admits that for most people (who don't get their insurance through employment), it will make more sense to forgo health insurance when they are well, and then purchase it when they realize they are seriously sick (even if they DO pay the fine for non-insurance).
So long as legalKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-68046708819344658142010-03-25T15:33:00.002-04:002010-03-25T15:33:02.505-04:00The debate over the reform from the progressive viewpoint More at The Real News Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-77083348738900006652010-03-25T01:10:00.002-04:002010-03-25T01:56:26.145-04:00Dr. Margaret Flowers on the Health Insurance BillKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-20574597805815398412010-03-24T23:36:00.000-04:002010-03-24T23:36:36.963-04:00A Conservative Health Care Bill Touted as the Greatest Victory for ProgressivesI've been saying this for a little while now on Facebook. I think Obama is extremely dangerous. We've passed far more conservative legislation under him than we would have allowed under a Republican President.
By: Jane Hamsher Tuesday March 23, 2010 4:58 pm
If Bush had tried to pass this bill the entire progressive movement
(such as it is) would have squealed like stuck pigs, with the volume
Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-7891717984348671682010-03-24T15:27:00.000-04:002010-03-24T15:27:03.210-04:00Kucinich: What President Obama Didn't SayRead it here.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-6945258676099717002010-03-22T22:54:00.002-04:002010-03-22T22:54:33.700-04:00Don't confuse health insurance with health carePlease don't confuse health insurance with health care. They are definitely not the same thing. I'm happy to pay taxes for everyone to have health care - I'm not happy to be forced to buy a faulty product to make sure everyone else can have that faulty product too.
KimberKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-53373951086076884652010-03-22T22:07:00.000-04:002010-03-22T22:07:11.986-04:00An attack on health care in the guise of reformRead it!Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-69963304230291408972010-03-22T16:35:00.001-04:002010-03-22T17:06:54.424-04:00Drain to safety-net hospitalsThe bill will drain about $40 billion from Medicare payments to safety-net hospitals, threatening the care of the tens of millions who will remain uninsured.
That means that those who will remain without health insurance will be worse off after the bill passes if they are unlucky enough to get seriously ill or injured. Sanders' money towards wellness centers is all fine and good, but it does Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-86153518960684511762010-03-22T01:45:00.004-04:002010-03-22T01:46:19.538-04:00Obama is the same ol' same old - surround yourself with those who agree with youRALPH NADER: You know, President Obama is like President Bush in this regard: he doesn’t receive dissenting groups in the White House. He froze out the single-payer advocates, including his longtime friend, Dr. Quentin Young, in Chicago, Illinois. And he’s freezing out dissenters, dissenting groups from meeting with him in the White House. They can’t get a meeting with him. He’s surrounded by Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-36448321747311081632010-03-22T01:45:00.003-04:002010-03-22T01:45:52.705-04:00Margaret Flowers on Kucinich and the social movementI understand the disappointment with Kucinich. One man cannot bear the burden of this cause. Everybody else had jumped ship and the reality is that not only was single payer off the table from the start, but the public option was too. If you want to place blame - look to the President and his advisors who sold out the American people to the industry and used a flawed approach to health reform.
Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-38557986013267523672010-03-18T14:32:00.001-04:002010-03-18T14:54:46.661-04:00Rahm's strategy to ignore the progressives on the ground that they would fall into line at the end no matter whatRahm was right.
As usual Glenn was right on in his analysis.
For almost a full year, scores of progressive House members vowed -- publicly and unequivocally -- that they would never support a health care bill without a robust public option. They collectively accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars based on this pledge. Up until a few weeks ago, many progressive opinion leaders -- such as Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-28236907247504730602010-03-18T10:13:00.001-04:002010-03-18T10:15:28.644-04:00The Good Wife puts the Insurance Industry on trialRipped from the news storyline - exposing the insurance industry. Watch the 3/16/10 episode of The Good Wife.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-25863883328092434692010-03-18T02:49:00.003-04:002010-03-18T02:52:00.074-04:00Republican Congressman John Shadegg Slips and Says He Would Support Single Payer Health CareI don't believe the sincerity of this guy for a moment, but I like that he's making progressive points!
Read a little bit about it here - he backs down to public option. But so interesting that he is making progressive points! As Ezra Klein said, Shadegg and Kucinich should be working on this together.
(You can see a longer video here if you like.)Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-62118280320503173802010-03-18T02:18:00.000-04:002010-03-18T02:18:16.526-04:00It‘s Not That the Health Care Bill Does Too Little Good, It’s That It Does Too Much HarmThe greatest problem with the Senate health care bill is not that it does “too little” to help people. The problem is that the bill does too many terrible things to help all the bad actors.
The Senate bill further entrenches the private health insurance system. It continues the terrible pattern of privatizing our social safety net in such a way that business skims 20% off the top. It makes sureKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-16011325537682381582010-03-18T00:08:00.003-04:002010-03-18T03:03:06.590-04:00Single Payer Activists Rip Howard Dean, John ConyersIt's a bit hard to hear in this viceo, so you can go to this web address and read much of what was said. It's pretty powerful!
Comments from Kevin Zeese's (second speaker) Facebook Wall:
Russell (1st speaker) was able to get out before the police arrived. So, he did not have the hassle of arrest. Of course we all coordinated this effort. Russell spoke first and we were going to take next Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-10645632739134464732010-03-17T16:47:00.002-04:002010-03-17T16:47:17.520-04:00Kucinich press conference - now supports for-profit insurance
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-54396846314614885892010-03-17T00:39:00.003-04:002010-03-17T00:41:48.465-04:00Thom Hartmann: Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class RepublicanHow Liberals screwed up the country
Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-15043656824683658982010-03-16T23:50:00.001-04:002010-03-17T00:08:26.876-04:00States Single Payer - ERISA - Kucinich and Sanders Ammendments"The ERISA waiver will not change the fact that states will be prohibited from creating single payer plans until at least 2017, will not guarantee that a state will get the ERISA waiver and will not give the state the other waivers which are more important - such as having access to federal health dollars, be exempt from the exchange and being able to negotiate for fees with providers, etc."
Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-77349363260545200912010-03-16T23:27:00.000-04:002010-03-16T23:27:29.433-04:00Democrats Who Once Railed Against Medicare Part D Now Insist Members Must Vote for Strikingly Similar Senate Health Care BillBy: Jon Walker Monday March 15, 2010
One thing that has been eating away at me throughout this whole health care debate is the incredible hypocrisy and role reversal of both political parties compared to the Medicare Part D debate. The basic, highly corrupt design of the Senate health care bill is the same as the highly corrupt design as the Medicare Part D program.
Just think about the Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-7353265966827308672010-03-16T13:06:00.003-04:002010-03-16T13:11:31.827-04:00Nick Skala The Single Payer Action Interview June 12, 2009 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingWow, I never heard any of this story!
Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-77576778036477789262010-03-16T00:20:00.002-04:002010-03-16T00:20:39.627-04:00Thank you, Dennis KucinichLet's face it, politicians can be exasperating. Politicians who run for President get a level of exposure that would make most of us run for cover.
But Dennis Kucinich is taking a drubbing for doing what more progressives should be doing: standing up for a public option as part of the health reform bill, and demanding an ERISA amendment.
This is not a simple matter of getting the health reform Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-57787482817375697382010-03-15T23:18:00.003-04:002010-03-15T23:20:06.658-04:00How Health Care Discourages AbortionT.R. Reid
(AP) — Special to The Washington Post
Countless arguments have been advanced for and against the pending bills to increase health-care coverage. Both sides have valid concerns, which makes the battle tight. But one prominent argument is illogical. The contention that opponents of abortion should oppose the current proposals to expand coverage simply doesn't make sense.
Increasing Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-32852234909085943252010-03-15T14:46:00.004-04:002010-03-15T15:53:09.038-04:00Grayson Introduces Public Option ActIt's a buy in to Medicare. While it sounds like everything we'd hope for, it's not the utopia we'd hope. Read why.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-90615854499396930722010-03-15T11:32:00.001-04:002010-03-15T15:53:47.580-04:00All those same sob stories will exist after the bill passesKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-87362479701075379082010-03-14T23:18:00.000-04:002010-03-14T23:18:04.652-04:00Wear the term liberal as a badge of honorKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-13545033988561749472010-03-14T22:37:00.000-04:002010-03-14T22:37:14.879-04:00I'm Down With DennisLet me get this straight. The Senate will pass a public option if the House will. And the House will, because it already did. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won’t allow it. So the mortal enemy of public-option backers is . . . Dennis Kucinich.
Why? Because when Congressman Kucinich said he'd stand for a public option he stupidly thought he was supposed to mean it.
Let's review a brief history Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-42025373680185221222010-03-14T17:47:00.000-04:002010-03-14T17:47:00.399-04:00The Coffee Party - Hope and Change Part 2I have a few friends who are REALLY excited about the Coffee Party movement, to which I've shown anything but excitement. And boy, this piece nails it. DO read! You might want to follow this conversation as well (where I found the link above.) I think it's a really right on conversation.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-1063625417127653172010-03-14T12:27:00.000-04:002010-03-14T12:27:41.223-04:00Kucinich: Latest health care reform bill leaves Americans vulnerable to insurance companiesDennis Kucinich / U.S. Representative
President Barack Obama is in northern Ohio on Monday to campaign for his health care plan, and I will be here to welcome him. I have met with the president three times to discuss how we can work together to address the serious deficiencies in our health care system. Even at this late date, I am hopeful that the White House will be able to reinstate key Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-31868332126624786962010-03-14T12:17:00.000-04:002010-03-14T12:17:58.267-04:00Calling all RebelsBy Chris Hedges
The power structure and its liberal apologists dismiss the rebel as impractical and see the rebel’s outsider stance as counterproductive. They condemn the rebel for expressing anger at injustice. The elites and their apologists call for calm and patience. They use the hypocritical language of spirituality, compromise, generosity and compassion to argue that the only alternative Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-74496529317339315212010-03-14T12:01:00.000-04:002010-03-14T12:01:41.882-04:00Why health care reform is not a "huge progressive victory"This is not an argument about whether Obama “pushed hard enough” on this or that, or whether Harry Reid sold out such-and-such. The obsession with this kind of short-term thinking is the whole reason why we’re in this mess. It’s quite possible Obama couldn’t have gotten elected if he'd proposed anything more ambitious than the “Demo-plan.” And once in office he may not have been able to get his Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-6117518329147027742010-03-13T19:38:00.003-05:002010-03-13T19:44:50.751-05:00fiscal conservatism - another great reason conservatives should be a fan of universal health careGo to this chart and compare our budget deficit in the future to what it would be if we adopted the health care system of other countries. Notice that when you choose Switzerland, it's line is much higher than other countries - Switzerland provides universal health care through private health insurance. While Switzerland pays just over half per person what we (the US) pay per person for health Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-1923577496190465712010-03-13T19:11:00.002-05:002010-03-13T19:11:47.592-05:00Glenn Greenwald - The Democrat's ScamThese articles were posted before, but I'm going to post them again, and this time in the same blog. So, so true!
The Democratic Party's deceitful game
The Democrats' scam becomes more transparentKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-78712868900008123982010-03-13T16:53:00.002-05:002010-03-13T17:03:31.570-05:00Kucinich - just go read the whole article!Kucinich:
We need to keep the discussion going about alternatives, because every discussion about alternatives puts the pressure in the direction of trying to come up with a better bill. And even at this late date, it would be a huge mistake to just look at the bill and call it a day. No, no no. We have to fight for the best bill we can get all the way down the line and if, despite our best Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-37463205951708011512010-03-13T15:58:00.000-05:002010-03-13T15:58:21.696-05:00Health Care's Last Holdout - KucinichAs House leaders prepare for a final vote, Rep. Dennis Kucinich talks to Benjamin Sarlin about being the lone liberal "no" vote and Obama’s 11th-hour campaign to win him over.
As House leaders rally the troops for a final attempt to pass health-care reform next week, Dennis Kucinich is coming under intense scrutiny among Democrats for his opposition to President Barack Obama’s plan.
Kucinich Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-82134674428543868912010-03-13T15:22:00.000-05:002010-03-13T15:22:06.734-05:00Rep. Dennis Kucinich draws fire from the left over health care reformMarch 12, 2010, 4:40PM
Cleveland Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich is being pressured by the left to drop his opposition to a health care reform plan that his party's leaders are having difficulty pushing through the House of Representatives.
Today, an Ohio senior citizens group made up of union retirees called on Kucinich to support the bill because it would extend the life of the Medicare trustKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-39396341389707500792010-03-13T00:16:00.003-05:002010-03-14T14:19:20.809-04:00Bill Maher on CountdownKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-3351975538009730072010-03-12T18:38:00.000-05:002010-03-12T18:38:39.666-05:00Glenn Greenwald speaks to the hypcocrisy of the Democrats once againNot that I don't have VERY serious concerns about the public option (adverse selection), but the Democrats prove over and over again they are willing to give lip service to progressive causes, as long as they don't have to back it up with action.
The Democrats' scam becomes more transparentKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-24354217511479239222010-03-12T08:21:00.000-05:002010-03-12T08:21:14.340-05:00On the individual mandateI wanted repost a few older articles from Firedoglake on the individual mandate.
This is Nothing Like The Netherlands; That Is Why Individual Mandate Is Unacceptable
and
Without A Public Option, The Individual Mandate Is Unacceptable For Moral, Political, And Policy Reasons (we need something stronger than the marginal public option for mandates to be acceptable. The original public option Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-24282903900901976602010-03-11T21:48:00.001-05:002010-03-11T21:53:54.159-05:00No Insurance Company Left BehindI was at the protest in DC that Katie is talking about. What she says is true. Nearly everyone at that rally failed to see the disconnect between their chants (rhetoric) and what they were really asking for.
By Katie Robbins –
On Tuesday, the Health Care for America Now (HCAN) coalition performed a “citizen’s arrest” of the insurance industry at a meeting of Americas Health Insurance Plans, Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-32539402123157065652010-03-11T21:16:00.000-05:002010-03-11T21:16:29.701-05:00How the Republicans can shred the health insurance reform (if it passes) once they get the majorityRepublicans deny facts on uninsured, but don’t care anyway
...The proposed private insurance subsidies are already so modest that RAND predicts that 25 million people will remain uninsured. When Republicans take control, under the proposed model of reform they wouldn’t even have to repeal the program. All they would have to do is slash the premium subsidies to wipe out the effectiveness of this Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-17340808190191740952010-03-11T20:34:00.001-05:002010-03-11T20:40:02.168-05:00Rep. Dennis Kucinich Takes on Democratic Leaders With Insistence on Public Option, Call for Afghan WithdrawalYou can watch the Democracy Now video here.
Sanders' single payer state option amendment provides for federal money to be used in states for a single payer system starting in 2017, but it doesn't provide legal protection to those states from being sued by insurance companies.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-82126486707113850742010-03-11T20:03:00.000-05:002010-03-11T20:03:53.181-05:00Sanders: Obama Has Tragically Lost the Youth, Antagonized UnionsBy Sam Stein
A trio of the Senate's leading progressives expressed concern on Wednesday that President Obama has squandered the transformational political coalition that propelled him into office, concluding that he will pay a price for it...
Speaking at a progressive media summit, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called it a "tragic mistake" that the White House fruitlessly chased Republican votes Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-70244357155580161472010-03-11T14:16:00.001-05:002010-03-11T20:01:06.644-05:00The White House LiesI got this email from the White House today. I'll let you read it unedited, so you can figure out for yourself the most infuriating lie before I point it out to you at the end of the blog.
Good morning,
625 -- that's the number of people who lost their health insurance every hour in 2009.1
A statistic like that tells a frightening story -- losing insurance can happen to anyone. How many Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-80033275170973927052010-03-11T08:26:00.001-05:002010-03-11T09:00:11.900-05:00AHIP, the lobbying arm of the insurance industry, met in DCMonday and Tuesday AHIP had a national meeting at the ritzy Ritz Carlton in DC. At their extremely expensive hotel they decided to put $1 million towards combatting the negative press the health insurance industry is getting for raising premium rates at alarming levels.
I went to DC on a free Change that Works bus to protest the insurance industry and their abuses.
So, it looks like look a Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-67543762880650010312010-03-10T14:08:00.000-05:002010-03-10T14:08:41.415-05:00What Patients Deserve to Know: Even Casinos Post The Oddsby Donna Smith
Since millions of American patients face medical debt they didn't know they'd have - and many if not most of them purchased insurance to protect against that debt - it seems logical to me that patients should be fully informed up front of the financial risks they are taking on when they seek medical care. Doctors and others providers should publish and post in their offices their Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-21459564240057622612010-03-10T14:04:00.001-05:002010-03-10T14:04:42.846-05:00More Kucinich - no to this aweful health insurance trapKucinich: “It will not keep a control on premiums, forcing people to buy private health insurance,” Kucinich said. “We have seen five years of double-digit premium increases; I’m sorry, but I do not see that this bill is a solution."...
“You are building a foundation on sand; the insurance companies are the problem,” Kucinich said. “They are nothing to build on; if we build our hopes on the Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-40735948729022660312010-03-10T14:01:00.002-05:002010-03-10T14:01:46.473-05:00Drs. Andy Coates and Margaret Flowers at the Labor Campaign for Single Payer ConferenceKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-15831269926615329122010-03-10T08:25:00.002-05:002010-03-10T15:43:51.928-05:00Glenn Greenwald speaks on Principles vs. PragmatismKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-85828088429943324722010-03-10T08:10:00.004-05:002010-03-10T17:00:56.476-05:00Kucinich says building health care reform on private insurance is like building a house on sandVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
You can view another interview here.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-53159039234988051002010-03-10T05:59:00.000-05:002010-03-10T05:59:23.693-05:00Will Health Bill Allow States to Do Better?For OpEdNews: David Swanson - Writer
The health insurance bill currently under consideration in Congress would forbid states from providing their residents with healthcare. An amendment correcting that problem was passed in committee last July and then quietly removed. A new campaign is asking the Democrats who voted for that amendment to withhold their votes on the bill until it is reinstated.
Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-55170015162174555892010-03-09T06:56:00.000-05:002010-03-09T06:56:30.624-05:00About uninsurance and the ERBy Dr. Aaron Carroll:
An eagle eyed reader pointed me to this study:
PurposeUninsured children face health-related disparities in screening, treatment, and outcomes. To ensure payer status would not influence the decision to provide emergency care, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) was passed in 1986, which states patients cannot be refused treatment or transferred Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-36628660271118629482010-03-09T00:25:00.004-05:002010-03-09T00:31:08.489-05:00Why are we the only stupid industrialized country in the world?The postal service this week announced it would be cutting as many as 30,000 jobs through attrition - using hiring freezes as workers retire or quit. According to American Postal Workers Union president William Burrus, cutting the U.S. Postal Service delivery to five days a week would be the beginning of the demise of the Post office. Burrus says it's not true that the postal service has to Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-72632861293172893832010-03-07T21:10:00.000-05:002010-03-07T21:10:58.265-05:00Lessons at Indian Hospital About Births (and health care)You can read the whole article here.
Dr. Kathleen Harner, an obstetrician in Tuba City, said: “Midwives are better at being there for labor than doctors are. Midwives are trained for it. It’s what they want to do.”
Dr. Amanda Leib, the director of obstetrics and gynecology at Tuba City, said: “I think the midwives tend to be patient. They know the patients well, and they don’t have to leave atKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-21319992117020151532010-03-07T13:18:00.000-05:002010-03-07T13:18:58.591-05:00What Cynicism Costs UsWhen America elected Barack Obama, cynicism seemed in retreat, beaten back by a wave of ordinary people staking their time, money, and spirit on the prospect of significant change. We seemed to have reached a major historical turning point, offering the chance finally to address our country's root crises. Now, cynicism and despair have bounced back on steroids, as if to mock any new hope that we Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-33679423210735124132010-03-06T21:47:00.001-05:002010-03-06T21:47:56.697-05:00Stupak's abortion argument: Still more about class than choiceVery interesting perspective!
Matt Miller hits on one of the most important points in the abortion and health-care debate. The practical effect of Bart Stupak's position is not that the federal government will not subsidize abortion by subsidizing health-care insurance. It is that it will not subsidize abortion by subsidizing health-care insurance for poor women. We already spend much more Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-87740725332452999912010-03-06T21:42:00.000-05:002010-03-06T21:42:39.003-05:00What is real insurance?Health insurance, if you think about it, is a redistribution scheme. It transfers money from the winners (people who don’t need much medical care) to the losers (people who do). It differs from other redistribution schemes because, unlike programs that redistribute from rich to poor, the winners and losers can’t be sure in advance which category they’ll be in. That’s why people enter into it Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-37283167894760203212010-03-06T21:26:00.002-05:002010-03-06T21:26:38.876-05:00Why Is Barack Obama Writing GOP Talking Points?By John Nichols
The Nation, The Beat Blog
03/05/2010
If you want to know where conservatives in Congress get all their ridiculous talking points about how dysfunctional the federal government is, how incapable the public sector is when it comes to doing anything right and, above all, how worthless federal employees are, we've tracked down the source.
It's not Rush Limbaugh.
It's not Michael Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-3232298657610370842010-03-06T18:53:00.002-05:002010-03-06T18:53:17.348-05:00Souder - wah, wah, wahKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-39574090986798082192010-03-05T02:09:00.000-05:002010-03-05T02:09:14.312-05:00Kucinich Rips Obama, Backs Single PayerIn a letter to the Congress yesterday, President Obama wrote this:
“We all believe that reform must be built around our existing private health insurance system.”
No we don’t.
Take Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio).
Kucinich doesn’t agree that reform must be built around private health insurance corporations.
Kucinich took to the C-Span airwaves this morning to make the point this morningKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-5636194729557951542010-03-04T22:13:00.000-05:002010-03-04T22:13:30.500-05:00Obama’s Reprehensible Rhetoric Against Single-Payerby Matthew Rothschild
When Barack Obama gave his “this is it” speech on health care reform on March 3, he once again swerved out of his way to hit advocates of a single-payer system.
He said: “On one end of the spectrum, there are some who have suggested scrapping our system of private insurance and replacing it with government-run health care. Though many other countries have such a system, inKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-68401605645553594202010-03-04T22:07:00.000-05:002010-03-04T22:07:03.620-05:00Obama puts health insurance companies first - consumers secondby Donna Smith
Even the staging of the hand-picked doctors in starched white coats could not keep the truth of the healthcare reform process from oozing out of President Obama during Wednesday's press event. Not just...
"Everything there is to say about healthcare has been said and just about everyone has said it," Obama said. "So now is the time to make a decision about how to finally reform Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-52224502492066256372010-03-03T20:54:00.002-05:002010-03-03T20:55:48.981-05:00Colbert on the Bipartisan Health Care Summit - health care baby
The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
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Do the Democrats really want a health care baby? I think they just want a doll.
Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-16234734334612204412010-03-03T19:48:00.000-05:002010-03-03T19:48:04.558-05:00Reconciliation, Here We ComeThe word is that Senate Dems have agreed to go ahead with reconciliation to pass health care reform.
Read the very short piece here.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-72716097350496922842010-03-03T19:27:00.000-05:002010-03-03T19:27:02.017-05:00A great article on IncrementalismTo understand that incremental reforms have not worked, all you have to do is look at the increasing numbers of uninsured, the greater numbers with inadequate insurance, the steep increases in health care prices, the perversities of the private insurers, and the administrative waste and other dysfunctions of our multi-payer and non-payer system. Everyone agrees that incrementalism has failed us, Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-23365946796461431912010-03-02T18:35:00.001-05:002010-03-02T18:35:42.770-05:00Weiner addresses media lies on Fox NewsKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-80640757471108885172010-03-02T11:21:00.000-05:002010-03-02T11:21:42.330-05:00Insurance Nightmare: Why We Need a Better SystemLate last year, I learned two things at about the same time: My cancer was coming back, and I had gotten a new insurance plan. Since then, I've learned something else: It's far easier to deal with my disease than with my new insurers...
A good piece on how much of a nightmare our current system is. Read the whole thing here. Medicare-for-All would fix these problems.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-17548027924669736732010-03-02T11:10:00.001-05:002010-03-02T11:18:13.671-05:00Single Payer Polls higher than Obama's health care planGlenn Greenwald wrote a few days ago about how the Democrats are for popular legislation when they can call it legislatively unviable, but then back down when it becomes a real possibility. Now he's speaking about it on Democracy Now. Amy Goodman then brings him to the topic of single payer. Greenwald points out that single payer polls "infinitely better" than Obama's plan (you can see a listKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-69115300367070744802010-03-02T09:40:00.000-05:002010-03-02T09:40:09.336-05:00high risk insurance pools - Second-Class Insurance for Second-Class People?The Republican grand soultion for pre-existing conditions.
You’d have to be pretty cold-hearted to think somebody should go without insurance just because she has a kid with asthma, was born with diabetes, or survived a bout of breast cancer--just three of the conditions that today would render an individual “un-insurable” in the eyes of the insurance industry.
To fix this problem, President Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-33731344411112582552010-03-02T09:26:00.000-05:002010-03-02T09:26:13.017-05:00Barack Obama's plan "includes essential elements of reform." -NOTA doctor's view: getting to real health care reform
By Peter Mahr
The Oregonian
February 26, 2010
The Oregonian's recent editorial on the president's health care proposal is off base. The editorial board states that Barack Obama's plan "includes essential elements of reform." But there is no discussion of what elements are indeed essential when analyzing health care reform.
T.R. Reid, a Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-42821709094206162982010-03-02T09:05:00.003-05:002010-03-02T22:02:47.602-05:00Glenn Greenwald on Morning JoeGlenn starts the clip with common sense on bipartisanship and ends the clip on the danger of passing a bad bill (unfortunately it seems he think passing Congress's bill with reconciliation will be a good bill).
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Here Glenn writes on bipartisanship and here on the Democrat's Deceitful Game.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-46573051790118016692010-03-02T09:03:00.000-05:002010-03-02T09:03:43.953-05:00Angela Braly at Wellpoint speaks to the affordability of healt insurance for a 40 year old woman (and I have a bridge to sell you)What do we need health insurers for anyway?
By Michael Hiltzik
Los Angeles Times
February 28, 2010
Angela Braly can't kid me.
When the chief executive of gargantuan health insurer WellPoint (parent of Blue Cross of California) went before a congressional subcommittee the other day, she displayed all the smile-through-the-tears pluck of Annie looking to a sunny tomorrow or Scarlett swearing to Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-46791240839419281642010-03-02T00:09:00.000-05:002010-03-02T00:09:25.522-05:00The Death and Life of American JournalismWith media controlled by big money, we, the American people, have an even more difficult time getting the things we need, such as sensible health care.
Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-7328905094941961372010-03-01T10:08:00.000-05:002010-03-01T10:08:23.326-05:00Media Conservatives Ridicule the UninsuredKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-64755858198982845182010-02-28T14:22:00.001-05:002010-02-28T14:26:17.678-05:00more quotes from the bipartisan health care summit at the Blair house“The health insurance industry is the shark that swims just below the water and you don’t feel that shark until you feel the teeth of that shark.” — Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V.
So well put. Consumers think their health insurance is all fine, hunky dory until they need it for something expensive, and then they get the bite! Further compounding the problem they think that because they have Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-3975277964627533892010-02-28T13:23:00.000-05:002010-02-28T13:23:05.707-05:00"adding more people to a broken system"“If all we’re doing is adding more people to a broken system then costs will continue to skyrocket, and eventually somebody is going to be bankrupt, whether it’s the federal government, state governments, businesses or individual families." — President Obama- Bipartisan Health Care Summit at the Blair House
So true! So why does he want to add more people to this broken system where our health Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-5779844332880493652010-02-28T12:21:00.000-05:002010-02-28T12:21:43.506-05:00You Do Not Have Health InsuranceThe Baseline Scenario
Right now, it appears that the biggest barrier to health care reform is people who think that it will hurt them. According to a New York Times poll, “69 percent of respondents in the poll said they were concerned that the quality of their own care would decline if the government created a program that covers everyone.” Since most Americans currently have health insurance, Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-4262009970401000932010-02-27T23:54:00.000-05:002010-02-27T23:54:55.939-05:00You’re So VainGreat blog entry! Here's the heart of it:
It goes like this: Person A says “Black is white” — perhaps out of ignorance, although more often out of a deliberate effort to obfuscate. Person B says, “No, black isn’t white — here are the facts.”
And Person B is considered to have lost the exchange — you see, he came across as arrogant and condescending.
Geesh! I'm so tired of trying to combat Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-76316530484067786472010-02-27T12:21:00.001-05:002010-02-27T12:23:07.014-05:00other health insurers have stunned some small businesses with hikes that in some cases exceed 75 percent.You can read the article here.
The system is broken.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-53797570606641872032010-02-27T12:07:00.002-05:002010-02-27T12:07:43.350-05:00Rachel Maddows - sharply pointing out hypocrisyVisit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economyKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-20204324999633284932010-02-26T23:48:00.001-05:002010-02-26T23:48:54.102-05:00John Boehner Moveon.org commercialKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-74074904357857554942010-02-26T23:32:00.001-05:002010-02-26T23:32:01.108-05:00Tort Reform is not the magic bulletKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-65991333743799684612010-02-26T22:53:00.001-05:002010-02-26T22:53:35.264-05:00Sidewalk Summit in Kentucky got TV coverageKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-83835177807292951882010-02-26T22:48:00.001-05:002010-02-26T22:48:14.479-05:00Dr. Margaret Flowers and Kevin ZeeseAn older, but still good video:
Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-59742033337674787082010-02-26T22:14:00.002-05:002010-02-26T22:23:16.991-05:00The view is clear from across the water - bipartisanship as a cover and feigning support when you know a bill won't passYou really should read the whole piece. But I am going to pull out a few gems here.
Substantively, the Democrats' bipartisan strategy was problematic from the start. On the stimulus, Obama started with a low bid and further watered it down for a couple of Republican votes, resulting in a package that – despite saving millions of jobs – fell short. On healthcare, Obama started off by Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-36390496016826612272010-02-26T21:59:00.002-05:002010-02-26T21:59:28.911-05:00Commentary on the Feb 25 health care summitKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-3644794056748974912010-02-26T21:09:00.002-05:002010-02-26T21:09:41.464-05:00Senator Durbin asks Senators to give up their Federal Health Insurance plan if they fear socialismLet's go one better. Medicare-for-all. (Health care better than those politicians have.)
Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-14011223876287550422010-02-26T20:57:00.000-05:002010-02-26T20:57:42.737-05:00Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona makes a progressive case (on individual mandate)Wow, this Republican is siding with the progressives at least on the individual mandate issue.
Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-82834723001818857082010-02-26T19:47:00.003-05:002010-02-26T19:49:39.753-05:00Dr. Margaret Flowers on Democracy NowI can't embed this video, so go to watch the video here.
Margaret comes on at about minute 21.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-84614676860855494142010-02-26T19:32:00.000-05:002010-02-26T19:32:43.743-05:00The Missing Voices at the Healthcare Summitby John Nichols
...Why not consider not just Republican alternatives to President Obama's proposal but the fix that Obama, himself, once suggested (as a 2004 U.S. Senate candidate) was the essential point of beginning for a just and equitable health-care system in a developed nation? Why not let the dozens of House and Senate members who support a Medicare-for-All, single-payer system into the Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-88752398375288135882010-02-26T19:15:00.002-05:002010-02-26T19:26:49.849-05:00Nurse Donna Smith on the REAL news
Notice how Donna stays quiet and doesn't even nod her head when Dr. Cown speaks defending Obama's health care plan.Kimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370941069651540943.post-4976087786801923362010-02-26T16:34:00.001-05:002010-02-26T16:34:53.185-05:00Nice turn of phrase in my latest change.org emailChange.org is still pushing to pass this dreadful legislation in Congress. But I liked the start of their latest email to me (right up until they asked me to call my Representatives to tell them to pass this dreadful legislation).
No American should have to choose between their life savings and saving their life.
But that is exactly the choice millions of people with serious medical conditionsKimberishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08080142634300365231noreply@blogger.com0