By Padmini Arhant
Last night the health care legislation passed by the House of Congress is a major step towards recognizing the American people’s plight in the most stressful economic times. The House members confirmed that their consolidated efforts and commitment to the American electorate could produce the desirable results in the economic, social and environmental cause.Health care is relevant to all and no longer an individual matter.
I had recently fallen ill from women’s related health issue in the months of September and October 2009. Accordingly, I was scheduled for a major surgery on November 4, 2009 - ironically on the anniversary of the historic Presidential election date and around the special elections.
In order to deal with the health crisis, I had to suspend some activities and focus on the immediate recovery plan. It was a temporary action and not meant to avoid communication at any level. Now, I’m able to resume direct contact with the responsible authorities.
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Thank you.
The Congress is engaged in the Medicare payments to doctors as part of the broader aspect of the health care legislation. Despite the opposition’s insinuations against the government run successful Medicare program, it’s imperative for the lawmakers to sustain the viability of the Medicare and the Medicaid by honoring the providers’ legitimate request for payments increase that would substantially reduce the health care costs currently incurred by the taxpayers through payments to private insurers.
As stated earlier, the conservative and the moderate Democrats’ unwillingness to support the public option is contributing to the stalemate in the health care legislation. Even though, the recent Washington Post/ABC Poll confirmed that an impressive 57 percent of the American population is overwhelmingly in favor of the ‘public option’ plan, some Democratic legislators’ reluctance to join the majority on this issue is disappointing and deserve a valid explanation for their position that is detrimental to the national interest.
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Fellow Progressive Democrats, why is it I send my money, contributions to OFA and it ends up being spent by the DNC. Can we trust the DNC to be “Progressive?” I am not sure about this. What do you think? The Blue Dogs are part of the DNC. Will the DNC put pressure on the Blue Dogs? Is anyone at the DNC loyal to OFA members? I should not have to question this but due to the poor performance of our Senate politicians, I must ask this of you? The Senate leadership does not appear to be carrying ¼ the load that the Speaker of the House carries. I think we need to see a list of what democrat politicians are members of OFA. When did they become members of OFA? We elected President Barack Obama and in some cases, without support from certain democrats. I know Hillary worked hard for us after the primaries. Who can we trust? Who can we trust? If you are not happy over this summers progress, tired of delays, wondering why we are constantly asked to man phone banks? It kind of sound like we are rushing around the city putting out fires yet we care less whom the arsonist is? If this is the case, you are thinking like me. If I am off course, please explain it to me.
For those senators who voted to remove the amendments to E-Verify, these senators should not be voted out of office but impeached for incompetence. This measure, in effect, supports illegal immigration, which is against the law, and it has been proven time and again, amnesty only brings more illegals to our country.
I have a serious question for these senators: What's your big pay-off? Again, you have turned your backs on your unemployed constituents and all Americans everywhere. If you think these actions go unnoticed, you are wrong. I can think of no more hypocritial action that what you have pulled here. There is a payback. The American people will not sit idly by while you pillage and plunder the job market with people who should not be here in the first place, and leave the door at the border crying for all takers to come on in.
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Hon. President Bill Clinton. New York
Dear Mr. President,
Thank you for your letter. It’s truly an honor to receive your request.
I share your thoughts and concerns about the 2010 elections outcome. Needless to say, that you have experience with the opposition majority during your presidency and the challenges you faced in the legislative process with the “Government Shut Down” led by the former speaker Newt Gingrich and the republican allies. Although, I agree that the Senators competing for their first term or re-election require the grassroots/base support, the general public perception from the health care debate is - the conservative and the moderate democrats forget their promise to the electorate that initially support them to get where they are now.
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The decision by the Maine Senator, Olympia Snowe to get on board in the health care reform is a welcome change and provides hope for the bipartisanship even with a singular vote now.
It would have been a cause for celebration if the bill did not marginalize the purpose of this health care reform i.e. the public option that is no longer an option but a necessity for millions of people and small businesses worst hit in the national crisis.
The misplaced objective of this bill from the start has been to impress the ‘so-called’ fiscal conservatives squandering the national wealth on warfare resulting in massive casualties while being miserly on matter related to saving life.
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In order for all Americans to be covered with accessible and affordable health insurance, the public option is the only way to go. A co-op will leave too many Americans without insurance coverage, and forcing companies to furnish their workers with health insurance will leave American workers enslaved in bad jobs because if they quit they will lose thier health care, not only for themsleves but for the entire family.
The public option will keep the insurance companies more honest, and workers will not be enslaved to bad jobs where there is mobbing and bullying, which, by the way, leads to serious physical and mental injury, not to mention an unacceptable workplace.
The public option is the only way to go if we are going to really look to the betterment of all Americans.
In order to assist other progressive activists in moving health care reform -- including a public option -- forward, I have prepared a report entitled Healthy, Wealthy, & Wise: The Public Option as the Best Insurance of Health Care Coverage and Cost Control. As indicated by its Executive Summary (below), this report includes comprehensive (searchable) content, commentary, and hyperlinked references. You may download it in Microsoft Word format here ...
http://douglasdrenkow.com/docs/healthy.doc
If you have trouble downloading the file, I can e-mail it to you as an attachment (less than 1 MB in size).
I hope that by virtue of its thorough and comprehensive examination of the medical, economic, and political dimensions of our health care problems and proposed solutions, the information in this report will lead any reasonable person to conclude that of all the plans being considered by Congress with significant public support as well as any realistic chance of being passed, the public option is the best means of insuring health care coverage and cost control.
Mother Nature has never been more vulnerable than now with the human power in industries and government targeting every available land on planet earth for profits. With the active space exploration for possible inhabitation on Mars and the Moon, earth’s natural resources depleted to the ultimate under the guise of ‘Clean Energy Act,’ by the yet another indomitable force in the corporate world, the ‘Energy Cartel.’
Should they trail behind in the Herculean contest of crushing democracy and the people it represents?
‘Profit’ revered more than the “Prophet” spares none in its sinister cannibalism revealed in the legislative matters concerning health, housing, finance, wars and even the planet they exist. It is no longer the Darwinian ‘survival of the fittest’ with a subtle hope for efforts to survive if not thrive in the sharks-infested waters.
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In regard to American Health Care Reform, if there is no Public Option, there is no real reform in American Health Care Reform. It will be business as usual, as indicates all the dollars lobbyists and the health industry have spent on the Senate.
The bottom line is this: without the public option, there will be plenty of good reason for airing out Senate seats in the next elections.
According to the latest report from the Associated Press:
Health care bill advances without bipartisan deal -
“After months of bipartisan negotiations, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., chairman of the Finance Committee, told associates during the day he intends to unveil a detailed outline of legislation on Wednesday and convene the panel next week to vote on it.
Baucus’ proposal is certain to shun the liberals’ call for the government to sell insurance, and rely instead on co-ops to offer coverage in competition with private industry. His approach includes a requirement for individuals to buy insurance, with financial penalties for those who don’t. Rather than a mandate for larger businesses to provide coverage for employees, they would be required to defray the cost of any government subsidies their employees would qualify for.”
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The President’s address, September 9, 2009 on the Health Care Reform laid out the components to clarify the doubts and confusions surrounding the bill. Despite the vehement opposition from some quarters in their loyalty to the sponsors, the ‘Special Interests’ representing the Health Insurance and the Health Care industry, the President reached out to them to be his ally rather than the adversary.
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What many people don't consider is that whatever they have today IS their option. But that option is an illusion. With every tick of the clock it changes... for the worse. Costs are rising. So if you have insurance through your employer the costs will soon be passed on to you at a faster rate. It is getting so that employers can barely pay their part of the premiums now.
The smaller the company you work for the faster this will happen. If you work for a midsize or small company the cost of someone getting sick can cause your costs to rise too. I heard of a case where one employee got cancer and everone's premiums went up. If you are the person who gets sick, this cannot help but make you feel bad.
The insurance companies hate that they have to cover someone's family every time someone gets a new job. They don't know if anyone has pre-existing conditions but they have to accept the whole family anyway. More than anything they would like for employers NOT to cover people as an employee benefit.
The last proposal I saw from the republicans would take away the tax incentive for companies to cover employees. This means that companies would no longer have the tax break and this would give companies a reason to drop their employee insurance (one of their largest costs). That means that every single individual or family would have to qualify on their own. If you or anyone in your family has a pre-existing condition you could never get coverage, unless you agreed to drop anyone who had the pre-existing excluded from the coverage.
The really bad thing about buying single or single family coverage is that you will be dropped when you get sick. You can pay premiums for 10, 20 or more years and you will still be dropped. First, the insurance companies know the odds are in their favor. The chances that you can afford to sue are small and if you do they can virtually always find a clause that excludes you from coverage. For instance, one clause (in one of America's largest companies) states that if you move to another state, even if you pay all your premiums if you get sick your insurance is dropped. You must pay extra to be able to move. It costs more so most people don't buy it, or they don't know it's in the policy.
During the 2008 campaign McCain's insurance plan was to make it easier for your employer not to cover you. The plan was to benefit insurance companies, not you or your family. The very same republicans are in the Senate that were there when George Bush almost collapsed the economy. John McCain is still a Senator. Why would we ever let these people decide where we get our insurance?
Since we have been having town hall meetings, republicans have bussed people around the country to scream, yell and disrupt every meeting until nothing gets said. At first Democrats were showing up at these meetings. But as people started showing up at the meetings with guns, more and more Democrats became frightened and just didnt' go.
How did America get to a place where we are not allowed to have a civil discourse? Why are huge insurance corporations determined to bus their employees around to cause such chaos? Why does the media love to cover this? It is much more interesting than quiet discussion. There might actually be republican citizens who would like to discuss their health insurance too, but they are not going to get the chance.
And there is one government plan that insurance companies love. It is medicare. They love it because it covers the people they don't want... the elderly. They don't want them because they are most likely to be or get sick. The don't want the elderly but they have no problem scaring them about dying. My mother raised two daughters on her own. She worked every day until she died, after work, at age 72. She chose to buy food instead of medicine but we did not find this out until after she died. She would have been too ashamed to tell us she needed help. What the republicans are saying would have frightened her so badly. I think she would still be alive today if President Obama would have been there earlier.
And I hear that young people are not buying single policies, usually because they can't afford them. They have to find a way. Something as simple as a bicycle accident could cause you to be denied coverage forever. This puts you at far greater risk for bankruptcy during your lifetime.
And if you leave or lose your job, you should take Cobra but immediately start looking for something permanent. If you get sick while you are on Cobra, you will not qualify for new insurance.
You have a choice. Right now you have a right to have a say in your insurance. Do not let anyone take that away from you. This is America where we get a say, we do not get manipulated by fear. If you give up the right to choose a choice will be made for you. Eventually the republicans will find a way to make it easier for your employer to drop your insurance. This will lower company costs and greatly increase insurance companies profits. They have already stated in at least one plan, McCain's, that it is what they want to do.
The moment has arrived for the nation to acknowledge the final departure of their tireless and long serving representative, Senator Ted Kennedy, the youngest son of America’s beloved family.
Senator Kennedy, the brave survivor of many family tragedies was a true warrior in various aspects. The Senator zealously battled for the large segments of the society on significant issues and health care was the top priority among them. Senator Kennedy delivered the health care speech with sincere emotion and great concern for the neglected groups in our society.
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They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency."
Looks like the EFF is looking into this.http://www.eff.org/press/mentions
Any politician that votes for, or is in support of, this bill (or any resemblance of this bill) will lose my vote and should lose every vote. DO NOT MAKE THIS MISTAKE Washington. I will personally go door to door and convience any and all voters that all supporters of this idea should be fired. I know I will not get them all, but I have a feeling no one can afford the votes. What good is health care without liberty (on or off the net)?
CNET SOURCE:http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html
Ever since the health care debate started, the main objective among the visible opponents has been to fictionalize the various contents of the bill. The health care bill principles – costs, quality and affordability extensively discussed per blogpost ‘Health Care Reform’ July 11, 2009 on this website.
Several testimonials by citizens from all walks of life through various mediums confirmed the urgency for health care reform. The partisan politics continues to disparage the millions of people deprived of proper health care during the public discourse.
A sensitive national matter turned into a controversial subject by the special interests’ agents. The health care bill described as voluminous, inadequate and far-fetched in reference to the government plan or public option. On the other hand, the noise amazingly disappeared with the White House statement on the possible elimination of the government plan from the competition.
Hence, the overview of the health care funding and the actual role of government plan in the health care legislation vital for true perspective.
How is the government health care funded?
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