BANKRUPTCIES Every year one million Americans claim bankruptcy due to a major medical issue Senator Bernie Sanders, Thom Hartmann Show 8. 2009INSURANCE CAPS Once your cap is used say in a major medicalyou are virtually uninsurable afterwards.Representative Slaughter, Ron ReaganShow 9/1. 2009POST CLAIM UNDERWRITINGYou pay your premiums faithfully but when you have a major medical matter,the company drops you from your policy.Ex insuance broker, Stephanie Miller Show8/17. 2009CLAIM DENIALYou pay your premiums faithfully, something major happens. Your claim was denied. A bonus was paid to the employee for denying your claim. Caller to Stephanie Miller Show8/17. 2009LOSE YOUR JOB LOSE YOUR COVERAGE / PORTABILITYThen, if ill, this becomes a lapse in coverage and a possible pre existing condition.PRE EXISTING CONDITION There are disabled persons and others for whom will never be insurable. How could this happen in America? WORKMANS COMP/ MALPRACTICE CASES could be virtually be eliminated.COST INCREASES TIES UP COMMERCEThe average business can spend as much as 20% of their costs on health insurance making them unable to compete with companies from other countries that do have nationalized coverage. USA 18-22% GDP is health care while otherTHE COST OF NON INSURED The average insured can pay as much as 1000. Per year more to compensate for those who are uninsured and relegated to using the emergency room as a source of primary care for which a tooth abscess can become a 250,000 surgery.
Great work Mr. President and congress. Just a few scraps to the masses and we don't have to live like rats. Lets be sure though people do not party too much and begin having kids left and right- we need to maintain an ecological ethic bearing in mind foot print and quality of life in terms of having enough resources for everyone until we can take over another planet. Lord knows we could use a few more!
Good work on health care reform today! 500 billion over the next 10 years by just a small 1% tax on those over 350,000 and maybe 2% making did the congressman on Ed Schultz say one million...!?
Norman Solloman of War Made Easy said in an interview with Angie Coiro today that he saw a bumper sticker that said, "I love my country- but we've got to start seeing other people."
Q Why have a national health care plan?
Its a tool to discipline the health insurance companies.
Q How are you going to pay for it?
The health care dollars are already in the system and all that needs to be done is to re allocate those dollars elsewhere.
An option for you to choose that is not profit driven.
President makes great response to 'Won't a government run health care system put the private insurers out of business."
A If true as the private insurers say that government can't run anything, they won't have any competition.
Q How will we pay?
A We already pay
ps one trillion now, aren't we already paying two trillion? projected estimates are 4 million according to Organic Consumers Association see this link http://foodfascist.blogspot.com/2009/06/organic-alternative-recipe-for-survival.html
Ellen Ratner reported on Thom Hartmann today at the very end of the show that Diane Feinstein is on the take from the health care industry as well as Tom Daschle, whose wife is a pharmaceutical lobbyists like Chris Dodds wife.
I would love to be wrong, if I am, show me the proof.
Americans are getting pissed off enough to vote for Kuninich, I tell you.
Contact Governor Tim Pawlenty and Lt. Governor Carol Molnau, please write, phone, fax or e-mail.
Mailing Address:
Office of the Governor130 State Capitol75 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.St. Paul, MN 55155
Other ways to reach our office:
Telephone: (651) 296-3391Toll Free: (800) 657-3717Facsimile: (651) 296-2089E-mail: tim.pawlenty@state.mn.us
The Thom Hartmann thesis that President Obama’s Cairo Speech swayed Lebanese voters to vote pro American is brilliant and true. The World loves President Obama and this takes hate as a tool away from these bizarre creepy fear mongers; those that truly do not love what America is all about.
Arae you still not listening to Thom Hartmann?
Go here M-F between 9 and noon or find podcasts here: http://www.thomhartmann.com/
Want more? Twitter Cairo as the search term and see the good feedback the President is getting on his speech.
John Rothmann has the uncanny ability to take you back in time and bring you
up to date all in the same breath. As an author, lecturer, teacher, archivist, and political consultant, it's easy to see how he keeps up his end of the conversation. In fact, there's never a dull moment with John.
Using audio tools to convey important issues in a clear, interesting, and exciting way, John makes the radio come alive. The show might start with the day's headlines and then move on to revisit and capture a historical moment through original sounds. You name it, John can find the recording of it, and callers love to reminisce along with him. He inspires recollections you didn't even know you had! "The people that tune in to my show have strong opinions, are highly intelligent, and are very sophisticated - and that's the secret to why the show is so much fun!" says John.
A frequent lecturer on American politics and the Presidency, John has spoken at over 150 campuses throughout the United States, Canada, and Israel. He has been involved in many political campaigns on the national, state, and local levels, including Richard Nixon's in 1968. He has also published a wide range of articles on American political history, the Middle East, and education. John's personal love is his 15,000-volume library - one of the finest private libraries in the country - specializing in American political history and political biographies. All of these experiences, combined with his San Francisco heritage as a fourth generation native, make John a warm and captivating host for Bay Area listeners.
Click here: http://members.kgoradio.com/kgo_archives/60400.mp3
NOTE: There are about 10 minutes of news and advertizing that are at the top of the analysis that the station does not cut from the archive and so I am sorry that these simply must be waited through before you will actually hear John's voice.
John’s show is on weekends from 1AM to 5AM Friday and 1 AM – 6 AM Saturday mornings on the West Coast on various stations and also heard over the internet at http://www.kgoradio.com Archives are posted for one week so if you miss the show you can download the show during the day. Lately, he has been covering the M-F 10PM – 1AM slot as well.
BTW- in the case you would like to hear the full program..... here are all the links. The show happened to be all about WWII, with the Obama Cairo Address interwoven to reflect also the dedication of the day of honoring WWII veterans.
Click here:
http://members.kgoradio.com/kgo_archives/60200.mp3 1- 2AM * Edward Murrow recording
http://members.kgoradio.com/kgo_archives/61500.mp3 2- 3AM
http://members.kgoradio.com/kgo_archives/60400.mp3 3 – 4AM * Analysis of President Obama’s Cairo
http://members.kgoradio.com/kgo_archives/60500.mp3 4 – 5AM
Reported on progressive radio today was that not only did Eric Holder let Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens off the criminal charges against him due to some 'technicality' but that now Holder let James Tobin off. Tobin jammed the phones so that persons trying to find which polls to go to to vote Democrat, during the last elections for which resulted in Sununu to win the New Hampshire election.
What the hell kind of change is this?
Americans' lives depend on whether we pass the right kind of health care reform. So why is NBC News airing an infomercial that will spread dangerous misinformation?
President Obama is committed to health care reform*, but some Democrats in Congress are already wavering on an extremely important provision - basically, without a public option, the health insurance industry gets to keep getting richer while Americans languish without the care they need.
We need to tell the truth about health care. But NBC is preparing to put lies on the air this Sunday.
To sign a peition to stop this click here at this link:
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/nbc_healthcare/?r=3736&id=4251-1079485-zClfYax
Kennedy Kids Capture War Criminal : [The Darkth Neighbor] with Cookies!
More bizarre Cheney This is a true story per audicast.
The Dark Force itself was confronted by the White Light of ebullient girls in bathing suits visiting Grandmother Kennedy for Mother’s Day. As told per the May 16th weekly broadcast of Ring of Fire Radio, apparently the Cheney’s purchased a home in Mrs. Kennedy’s neighborhood. Though Grandma has not exactly rolled out the welcome wagon, the bright new generation of gals boldly went where few have gone before to the door to the depths of the Cheney dungeon itself with …a plate of cookies.
Assumedly, a security guard answered the door but did not ask the girls to test taste them…..whereupon The Great Darth Vader himself appeared in all his crotchety bleakness to grumble “Where you kids from?”
The girls gleaned [to pick up after the reaper] –“over there”
“Oh- his back curled- “The Kennedy House” – [Dark Vaudeville Music sounds]
The cookies were kept.
The next day, so Mrs. Kennedy reported, several of the Cheney grandchildren brought forth from the depths of hell – a cake.
Listen yourself here: http://a1135.g.akamai.net/f/1135/18227/1h/cchannel.download.akamai.com/18227/podcast/SANFRANCISCO-CA/KKGN-AM/Ring%20Of%20Fire%20051609%20hr%201.mp3?CPROG=PCAST&MARKET=SANFRANCISCO-CA&NG_FORMAT=progressivetalk&SITE_ID=5257&STATION_ID=KKGN-AM&PCAST_AUTHOR=Green_960_/_Air_America&PCAST_CAT=Politics&PCAST_TITLE=Ring_of_Fire
Cheney is making himself more and more despicable. What a pathetic delusional crazy. We are going to have to, each one of us get out there and explain what happened during the last 8 years and educate.
Some of the best ways to do this are to encourage persons to listen to progressive radio. If you have no such access= click and listen on the internet to: http://www.green960.com/main.html
Or- purchase an XM or internet radio- check these out at best buy or ccrane radios http://www.ccrane.com/
