stories touting the effectiveness of rahm emanual and jim messina in advising the president like these;
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/us/politics/16emanuel.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111904275.html
are laughable now….
i would like to suggest a think tank for these two…. for iran.
the health care reform bill with mandates to purchase policies from insurance weasels without public option is now officially dead as far as i am concerned. and if obama knows what’s good for him politically he will veto it. we need to pull the plug on this baucus p.o.s. and start over in 2012 with single payer and take no prisoners…….or better yet just cross out the part of medicare that says citizens over the age of 65 and simply replace it with citizens….
meanwhile to ease the pain and suffering of americans who are uninsured and under insured we need to pass a medical emergency bill instead that provides 50 billion over the next three years to community health centers for remedial health care to get us through until congress gets its collective head out of their asses and faces this problem head on instead of creating more shell games for us to figure out while they take bribes from the health insurers.
that is all. i am done backing this bill. in fact, unless a miracle happens in washington over the next few weeks, i intend to join all the opponents of health care reform this year. time to flush this turd.
i am over 50 years of age and too young for medicare and i have about given up on any meaningful reform coming out of obama’s health care efforts with the crap that senator max baucus is pulling .
looks like this is change none of us can believe in anymore.
here is the weasel bill crafted by the health insurance leeches that max baucus has wasted all our time on…. lazy, good for nothing, corporate stooge copies the insurance industry wish list to hand us this worthless P.O.S.
http://finance.senate.gov/sitepages/leg/LEG%202009/091609%20Americas_Healthy_Future_Act.pdf
at first glance- it looks like the mark-up will be a hoot! i mean eveyone is going to laugh at this thing. dave letterman should hand it to his comedy writers.
max actually takes a dire emergency like our crumbling health care system and manages to craft a bill which threatens to make it worse ….
Wendell Potter, the former Cigna executive-turned-whistleblower, told a small group of reporters Monday that the Baucus health care plan is an “absolute gift” to the industry.
“The Baucus framework is just an absolute joke,” said Potter, Cigna’s former head of corporate communications who has been speaking out against insurance industry practices. “It is an absolute gift to the industry. And if that is what we see in the legislation, (America’s Health Insurance Plans chief) Karen Ignagni will surely get a huge bonus.”
Potter said the proposal would not provide affordable coverage. It gives the industry too much latitude to charge higher premiums based on age and geographic location, fails to mandate employer coverage, and pushes consumers into plans with limited benefits, Potter said.
i have to get to what weight?????
after several x-rays and an MRI, the ortho-guy says i have to lose weight before he will even consider working on it. can’t blame him. sooooo….first i joined weight watchers and then joined the ymca…..must lose the entire weight of a slightly below average male human. the pain in the knee will be my constantly screaming life coach as i finally put the fork down and pick up some steel…along with some nice poolside water therapy. the insurance guys got off easy this time. meanwhile getting intimate with piroxicam, meloxicam and aleve. kind of anti-climactic. we’ll see how the leeches do with the bills that i did run up.
all i can say is…better than a lot of things that could have happened. losing weight is number one priority. maybe i can have a new knee by this time next year. must say i am impressed with st patrick’s so far- and the missoula ymca. that is a fine outfit over there, also. weight-watchers looks great so far too- really like the online program so far. even can be accessed with blackberry too. cause everyone knows a bear loves blackberries.
and let’s all remember to exercise our freedoms…..some countries don’t have it so good…..
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i5JqWL5r0d0hGc0IWqrZJojMDQCw
sure looks like this crowd only comes in one color. wonder if they are all related to some guy named johnson?
they are against government intrusion into health care. fine. but every one knows what they are really against don’t we?
the two most powerful warriors are patience and time. – leo tolstoy
eventually, ignorance gives way to knowledge; hatred to love; fear to courage… just know this. the face of change is always young.
you sit down at the counter at Ruby’s cafe in missoula montana and order a cup of coffee. the guy sitting next to you wears cowboy boots with duct tape on the tips. there is a mixture of pine chips and animal manure beneath them. you nod and sip your coffee while you read the front section of the missoulian newspaper. i work in a warehouse. i moved about 15 tons of stuff yesterday and it is about 7:00am after a hard day so i am dog tired. my right knee hurts from working the pallet jack and driving commercial truck all week. the guy next to me makes reference to the obama speech on health care last night….
“i sure don’t expect to get much out of that.” he says. i nod agreement. he continues…”they all just do whatever the drug companies and the insurance companies tell them to do.” i can’t argue with that either. but i am too sore about the way this whole health care reform has played out so far to join in much with my neighbor and the waitress in any jocular diatribes this morning.
do i have hopes anymore for a good outcome. somewhat, perhaps. but each day it gets harder to support this reform effort. it seems too contrived and meaningless without real universal health care. it seems to give us people in the middle class no benefits or good choices by forcing us to buy insurance from the same leeches who currently suck our blood for high premiums and then deny our claims. and that prospect just doesn’t sound too appealing. it would be nice to be more secure in the health insurance we currently have but those changes as it is written look like at least 5 years away. meanwhile, the insurers can still play their little profit making games of denying due to their interpretation of what is a pre-existing condition. which always seems to look like tryiing to weasel out of their obligations to their clients.
these days i don’t think anyone who works for a living trusts the government anymore. i know i sure don’t.
i don’t expect much either. meanwhile, i have gotten my very first MRI on the knee and i go in for my first consultation this afternoon on the prognosis and the treatment. will there be surgery? how much will my health insurance pay? how much will i have to pay? does the current system work well enough to enable a hard-working warehouseman to continue to work until retirement without excruciating pain each day? i guess i am about to find out. stay tuned while i relate the adventures of problembear’s knee and our status quo health care system.
goddamnindependents 