Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Watch This: Arguing With a Dining Room Table
Congressman Barney Frank gets off a good one. Puts an idiot Republican idiot in her place.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Of course, I expect anyone reading this blog to have at least left support for the public option on the White House Web site. You can also leave a message of support at Health and Human Services, but there is no actual place to comment, only an indication of support by leaving name, address, etc. But here's a sneaky way of getting the message across. Where it says name, type in PUBLIC OPTION. Where it says address type in PUBLIC OPTION, etc. etc.
Remember it was Kathleen Sebelius who suggested the public option was no big deal and could be taken out with the trash. So go on over to: < http://www.healthreform.gov/support.html> and leave your comments. I finished by leaving my actual phone number and email address. Pass this on.
We're having a huge effect on the debate. We have to keep it up.
One more thing. The Senate Finance Committee is still in the 19th Century. No email address. Their phone number is (202) 224-4515
HOWEVER, you can leave messages for individual members whose links are on the Senate Finance Committee Web site. It's a bit of a chore, but you have go Google their positions on the public option so you can properly tailor your message. For example Grassley is a stuck-in-concrete Mr. No. He needs a strong message of support for the public option, not that it will move his sorry ass. Rockefeller is a big supporter of the public option. Thank him.
Remember it was Kathleen Sebelius who suggested the public option was no big deal and could be taken out with the trash. So go on over to: < http://www.healthreform.gov/support.html> and leave your comments. I finished by leaving my actual phone number and email address. Pass this on.
We're having a huge effect on the debate. We have to keep it up.
One more thing. The Senate Finance Committee is still in the 19th Century. No email address. Their phone number is (202) 224-4515
HOWEVER, you can leave messages for individual members whose links are on the Senate Finance Committee Web site. It's a bit of a chore, but you have go Google their positions on the public option so you can properly tailor your message. For example Grassley is a stuck-in-concrete Mr. No. He needs a strong message of support for the public option, not that it will move his sorry ass. Rockefeller is a big supporter of the public option. Thank him.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
How do Conservatives Ignore the Truth?
We are puzzled. We are truly scratching our heads. Liberals can't figure conservatives out. Today on the radio, one of those right wing talkers actually said, "America has the best health care system in the world."
This is what we can't figure out. It is clear that America does NOT have the best health care system in the world for a variety of reasons. It is easy to demonstrate that America has a lousy, very bad health care system.
• Seven out of ten bankruptcies in this country happen because of catastrophic health care costs. And millions of people are going bankrupt and losing their homes because health care costs zero out their resources.
• Insurance companies are screwing us to the tune of billions of dollars. They make their profits denying health care. Their CEOs take home millions in compensation. That is because their CEOs are psychopaths willing to let people die in order to post huge profits. Health insurance companies are not in the business of health. They are in the business of making money and satisfying their shareholders. And that is a conflict of interest. This fact is obvious, but conservatives can't see it. Why?
• Fifty million Americans have no health insurance. This means they have no access to "the best health care system in the world," unless they go to an emergency room, the most expensive public option there is. And emergency rooms don't treat for chronic illnesses like heart disease or cancer. Millions of adults and children have little or no regular health care.
• Right now in Inglewood, California, near LAX, a volunteer health care organization, Remote Area Medical is providing thousands and thousands of people free health care. RAM has transformed the Forum into the largest free clinic in the world. These people are desperate for health care in the country that has "the best health care system in the world."
Why can't conservatives see what is so obvious? Our health care system is broken. It doesn't work.
When a conservative's car stops running and smoke is coming out from under the hood, do conservatives think it is going to take them to work anyway? Do they sit behind the wheel and go "vroooom vrooom" and work their turn signals?
And now it appears that the loudest and angriest of these people have forced the administration to scale back health care reform. It's insane.
I would like to hear from any conservative who can explain to me his or her disconnect. That ought to be fun.
This is what we can't figure out. It is clear that America does NOT have the best health care system in the world for a variety of reasons. It is easy to demonstrate that America has a lousy, very bad health care system.
• Seven out of ten bankruptcies in this country happen because of catastrophic health care costs. And millions of people are going bankrupt and losing their homes because health care costs zero out their resources.
• Insurance companies are screwing us to the tune of billions of dollars. They make their profits denying health care. Their CEOs take home millions in compensation. That is because their CEOs are psychopaths willing to let people die in order to post huge profits. Health insurance companies are not in the business of health. They are in the business of making money and satisfying their shareholders. And that is a conflict of interest. This fact is obvious, but conservatives can't see it. Why?
• Fifty million Americans have no health insurance. This means they have no access to "the best health care system in the world," unless they go to an emergency room, the most expensive public option there is. And emergency rooms don't treat for chronic illnesses like heart disease or cancer. Millions of adults and children have little or no regular health care.
• Right now in Inglewood, California, near LAX, a volunteer health care organization, Remote Area Medical is providing thousands and thousands of people free health care. RAM has transformed the Forum into the largest free clinic in the world. These people are desperate for health care in the country that has "the best health care system in the world."
Why can't conservatives see what is so obvious? Our health care system is broken. It doesn't work.
When a conservative's car stops running and smoke is coming out from under the hood, do conservatives think it is going to take them to work anyway? Do they sit behind the wheel and go "vroooom vrooom" and work their turn signals?
And now it appears that the loudest and angriest of these people have forced the administration to scale back health care reform. It's insane.
I would like to hear from any conservative who can explain to me his or her disconnect. That ought to be fun.
Friday, August 14, 2009
I am Done with Whole Foods
This is a response I left on the Whole Foods Market Forum in response to WFM CEO John Mackey's Wall Street Journal attack on the Obama Health Care Plan.
As a regular customer of Whole Foods (aka Whole Paycheck) after reading John Mackeys attack on President Obama's health care proposal, I am done with Whole Foods. I used to go to our local Pasadena WF market as often as I could afford it. But no more. It will be a long, long time before I ever set foot in a WF market ever again and I will be urging my friends to consider doing the same.
Mackey opens his attack with a quote from Margaret Thatcher (Ronnie Reagan's good buddy) "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." In other words, Mackey begins by equating good health care reform with socialism, and his piece goes downhill from there. He advocates weak sister reforms like health savings accounts and tax reform, tort reform and making health costs transparent. That last one is a laugh, as if knowing more about costs will allow me to shop around for the best price on an appendectomy or heart transplant.
Mackey may be a good CEO for a store chain, but he is a lousy public policy analyst. He is just one more right-winger in love with unfettered free market theory. And that has worked well for Wall Street, not so much for the rest of us.
It is clear that the big health insurance companies make billions in profits simply by denying their policy holders health care. It is clear that people in other civilized countries enjoy far better health care than we do in the U.S. For proof of that, check the U.N. World Health Organization.
Someone should tie Mackey to a chair and make him watch Michael Moore's Sicko. He might learn something. In the meantime, bye bye Whole Foods. I'll do my shopping elsewhere
As a regular customer of Whole Foods (aka Whole Paycheck) after reading John Mackeys attack on President Obama's health care proposal, I am done with Whole Foods. I used to go to our local Pasadena WF market as often as I could afford it. But no more. It will be a long, long time before I ever set foot in a WF market ever again and I will be urging my friends to consider doing the same.
Mackey opens his attack with a quote from Margaret Thatcher (Ronnie Reagan's good buddy) "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." In other words, Mackey begins by equating good health care reform with socialism, and his piece goes downhill from there. He advocates weak sister reforms like health savings accounts and tax reform, tort reform and making health costs transparent. That last one is a laugh, as if knowing more about costs will allow me to shop around for the best price on an appendectomy or heart transplant.
Mackey may be a good CEO for a store chain, but he is a lousy public policy analyst. He is just one more right-winger in love with unfettered free market theory. And that has worked well for Wall Street, not so much for the rest of us.
It is clear that the big health insurance companies make billions in profits simply by denying their policy holders health care. It is clear that people in other civilized countries enjoy far better health care than we do in the U.S. For proof of that, check the U.N. World Health Organization.
Someone should tie Mackey to a chair and make him watch Michael Moore's Sicko. He might learn something. In the meantime, bye bye Whole Foods. I'll do my shopping elsewhere
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
What's in the Obama Health Care Plan
• Gramma is toast. Bye Bye Gramma. • Your Medicare will be cancelled, and Obama will charge you for that.
• After going before the Peoples Glorious Collective Death Panel, Sarah Palin's new baby will be ground up and fed to zoo animals.
• The new health care plan will be administered by a Health Czar Ivan Boris Walkitov, who served as The People's Glorious Commissar of Health in the Soviet Union. Here he will have the title, First Secretary of the Peoples Glorious Central Committee on Health Care which will tell your doctor whether you should live or die.
• If you have leprosy or any of a hundred other nasty diseases, they will send you to a Peoples Medical Concentration Camp in Utah.
• You will be required to have a picture of Karl Marx tattooed on your forehead
• The government will install chips in your head to listen to everything you say.
• The government will install chips in your doctor's head.
• You will be required to go to Peoples Re-education Meetings once a month to familiarize you with the new health plan.
• The government will send you to whatever doctor they like, even if it is 200 miles from your house. This is designed to control costs.
• If you have a medical emergency, get in line. You may have to wait a couple of weeks for that nasty head injury or ruptured appendix.
• Wealthy people will be paying more taxes, so they will be way ahead of you in line.
• At your doctor's office you will have to wear a hospital gown decorated with red hammers and sickles.
• In the waiting room you will be required to read old copies of Soviet Life, and you will hear piped in MUZAK featuring the Internationale, over and over and over and over.
• You will not get your country back. A black man born in Kenya will still be president.
Ignorance is Abundant
I would be ashamed to be seen with a poster like this in public. I would be embarrassed. What is this man thinking? Does he think at all? Where do these people come from? What is going on in their lives, that they think it is appropriate and right to stand out in the street with a poster like this?
I am totally mystified. As far as I can figure, this guy with the baseball cap and the Hitler reference is from another planet. So are his friends. I would bet he thinks God created people and the world 6,000 years ago.
Is it possible that some folks are further evolved than others, that this guy is still operating with a lizard brain not far removed from the alligators?
What happens to the country when the knuckle draggers dominate the democracy? Wait, we already know. Eight years of George W. Bush.
The photo is from Huffington Post.
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