Rational thought has gone to the dogs!
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I watched MSNBC Chris Matthews’ The Rise of the New Right yesterday. I learned almost nothing new about the Tea Party and the conservative movement, but Alex Jones’ quote, “We’re in deep tyranny. Deep, deep, deep…” keeps ringing through my head. This man is afraid and wants to make everyone else around him fearful. I [...]
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On the first of April, my health insurance company will start taking a 21.8% increase in premiums out of my butt. They have not increased services nor do I feel more comfortable that my coverage is any more secure. I know that I am one heart attack away from being dropped and two heart attacks [...]
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If you haven’t already seen the “one more moment” video between Lieberman and Franken, here it is. At first, I just laughed. Funny people, Senators. “Let him talk, he wasn’t saying anything anyway.” But then I got to thinking. If Joe Lieberman had to deal with real life the way we all out here in [...]
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I bolted straight up in bed last night and asked myself the most obvious question most folks in the media should be asking themselves about the health care reform debate. “Where is the bell-shaped curve in the GOP dissent?” Think about this. When was the last time you had forty supposedly independent-minded people agree on [...]
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Yesterday, the US Senate tabled the Nelson amendment which would have limited access to abortions for people who had insurance subsidized by the US government. As part of the compromise, Medicare will be opened up to people 55-64 who have trouble being covered by their employer. In addition, nobody is challenging the “right” of anyone [...]
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The photo above in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye this morning and sent me into a tizzy. For the record, I am a bit upset at the direction the health care reform bill is taking. It favors the preservation of the insurance company system by forcing us to buy the same crap that [...]
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While the politicians in Washington argue about how many uninsured people there really are, call each other liars and debate over eleventh-hour amendments, real people with real lives are not waiting around for some edict to determine their destiny. They get fed up, roll up their sleeves and get the job done themselves. And that [...]
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The argument for pulling the plug on someone who is brain dead and on life support is very easy and can be made in two sentences. For now, though, humor me with a short theory on some health insurance stuff. I think ultimately people buy health insurance in hopes of preventing their own death. Regardless [...]
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There was just so much stuff today that made this puppy’s head spin. Amazing how the news media can be given all the facts and come to the wrong conclusion simply by assuming the story HAS to be more complicated than the simplest explanation. Banking bonuses getting paid to incompetent employees Jim Cramer came on [...]
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One of the arguments that always comes back about the number of uninsured is that 64% or so of Americans have insurance and like it. (WaPo) But, what nobody is doing is actually looking at what the insurance really is. Here is a metaphor that I think might clear up what the insurance problem in [...]
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Yesterday, Keith Olbermann had a one-hour special comment about health insurance and health care in America. He has recently had a first-hand experience with his father. I don’t know how much it cost to produce one hour of Countdown nor do I know what the lost opportunity costs are from insurance ad revenue MSNBC will [...]
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Hi Mr. Boehner, I saw you on MSNBC’c Countdown saying you have not yet spoken to an American who wants the public option on health care. If you are free at any time tomorrow, you can call me and we can have a conversation about how I want the public option. You can even record [...]
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A water main starting leaking in front of my house. Last week, the City of Englewood sent a man out in a pickup truck who marked up the pavement with green and orange paint. This morning, the Socialist Englewood Water Department sent an entire crew of water department surgeons out with spare parts, heavy equipment [...]
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Barack Obama compared having health insurance to having car insurance in his speech last week. Today, I read an article in the WSJ that did the same thing. Over the course of a week, I have heard this being repeated again and again. The two are not at all analogous to each other. Driving is [...]
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The title of this post is taken from the lyrics of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and explains what the right is doing with the so-called public option of health care reform. Love or hate him, Robert Reich explains the public option clearly, at least to us who laugh at the notion of “competition” with [...]
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