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Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 16:43:34 PM PDT
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Junk Health Insurance is another Republican boondoggle. It is the HDHP (High Deductible Health Plan) legislated into greater acceptance in 2003. Junk Insurance supposedly covers "catastrophic care", but people often find it covered nothing after the catastrophe. HDHP's and HSA's, are the healthcare darling of this regimeadministration. HSA's (Healthcare Spending Accounts) were supposed to restore better control to the health care consumer.
It's another lie that John McCain fully promotes.
Junk Insurance costs almost as much as the "Cadillac" plans. Junk Insurance has high deductibles and copays. Junk Insurance excludes and limits health care services. Employers decrease the coverage of their plans every year to stay within their budgets, which is pushing most of us from the comprehensive health insurance plans of 5 years ago into Junk Insurance today.
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Wed Jan 21, 2009 at 10:08:25 AM PST
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Woohoo! Yesterday -- Inauguration day in the United States -- brought the United States its 44th president, Barack Obama. This marked the culmination of the American people's efforts to heal old wounds and the beginning of a new era of restoring integrity and honor to America's actions at home and abroad. Yesterday, Americans collectively ushered in a new era spirit of hope, unity, faith in government and great potential to work together in non-divisive and creative ways. With that, here are two excerpts from the speeches given:
From Barack Obama's inauguration speech:
What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them - that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply.
The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works - whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified. Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end. And those of us who manage the public's dollars will be held to account - to spend wisely, reform bad habits, and do our business in the light of day - because only then can we restore the vital trust between a people and their government.
And from Reverend Lowery's benediction (a loving and powerful civil rights leader and co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Dr. Martin Luther King Junior):
With your hands of power and your heart of love, help us then, now, Lord, to work for that day when nations shall not lift up sword against nation, when tanks will be beaten into tractors, when every man and every woman shall sit under his or her own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid, when justice will roll down like waters and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get in back, when brown can stick around...
(LAUGHTER)
... when yellow will be mellow...
(LAUGHTER)
LOWERY: ... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. That all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen.
The inauguration ceremonies were beautiful, and attended by over 2 million Americans. Thankfully, President Obama, on his first day (inauguration day) did not lose sight of his power as President and already halted all pending new regulations that the Bush Administration put forth in its last days, and signed a 120 day suspension of prosecution of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Americans know that there is much healing to be done, in the United States and abroad. The work of rebuilding starts now.
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Mon Oct 13, 2008 at 18:23:58 PM PDT
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Have you seen a retail clinic yet? You can find them in CVS, WalMart and other stores like these. They are a solution for sore throats, upper respiratory infections, out of control flu and the run of the mill problems that seem to happen after the doctor's office is closed.
Retail clinics work. They are quick, have long hours and have reasonable quality as long as you don't have anything too exotic and the ARNP knows when they have an inappropriate patient. The only issue is that there's no long term patient/doctor relationship. Then again, there doesn't seem to be a patient/doctor relationship in traditional medical settings anymore either, but that's my point.
These clinics are here to stay
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Wed Jun 11, 2008 at 21:58:58 PM PDT
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This is not the first, nor will it be the last, of the many uses of video and internet technology to present health issues at stake in this US Presidential Election. But as always, we are so supremely peeing-in-our-pants excited that these technologies are being utilized among the campaigns to present the issues and what-if situations.
Check out these three videos from the infamous Brave New Films group. These videos and others are from The Real McCain website, put together by the folks at Brave New Films. What do you think? Effective? Interesting? Boring? Scary? Yawn? Share your thoughts.
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Mon Feb 04, 2008 at 00:49:03 AM PST
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We'll miss John Edwards' role in pushing Obama and Clinton towards more progressive ideals in their campaigns for President. As long as Edwards was in the running (which was until he suspended his campaign on January 31st), healthcare efforts and anti-poverty efforts were in the forefront:
Most important, the Edwards campaign was a reminder that any true change will not be easy. Some people snickered when he talked of an "epic battle" ahead and declared that he would confront Congress with a declaration of healthcare war ("If you don't pass universal healthcare by July of this year, July of 2009, I will use every power I have to take your healthcare coverage away from you"). Many pundits and politicians wrote off his speeches as too angry.
The more accurate assessment is that Edwards's anger - whether you believed it or not - may have just helped forge a more focused Democratic Party. Why else would Obama and Clinton play nice in the Los Angeles debate? They got the message that there is much more to lose that is greater than their individual campaigns.
Hopefully this injection of populism and the push towards more accountability to the public's interests will continue past Super Tuesday this week (the day when Americans in over 20 states will vote for a candidate in the Democratic and Republican national primaries). Hopefully...
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Thu Nov 01, 2007 at 00:14:17 AM PDT
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John Edwards seems to have taken the stage and even won over the mainstream media with his stellar performance at the Democratic primary debate. Here's a video that's being shared around the online world (note that he is NOT afraid to state that the insurance industry and the pharmaceutical industry are barriers to universal health care).
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