Thursday, August 27
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I like this video…it’s about 5 minutes and it explains what is so freaking obvious to me but apparently is not so freaking obvious to certain people who love death panels.
YouTube – Why We Need Government-Run Universal Socialized Health Insurance.
Help spread the word…
I know this seems redundant, but this one has it’s own webpage and I spent like 30 minutes working on this video so I figured it deserved a second posting 
Please repost the link: http://www.itcouldbethatsimple.com
My simple 2-minute how-to video on how to solve the health care crisis in America. Feel free to forward this to your representatives and tell them you think they’ve been working too hard.
It’s all about health care reform Diggz, Michelle, and Ryan talk to Ryan’s friend Dan, and Diggz friend Dave for a two-hour, non-stop, wacky, zany, exciting in-depth discussion about health care. Hold on to your sides folks, this is a rib splitter.
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I’ve been spending a lot of time criticizing the critics of health care insurance reform lately and even dismissed a long time friend over his callous attitude towards a very sensitive topic.
Last night I found myself actually saying things like “I’m not really this liberal.” And I’m not…fiscally I’ve typically sided much more with conservatives than democrats (it’s the religious right I tend to disagree with most). I donate to the CATO institute. I’ve read everything Ayn Rand’s ever written, and even met my (now ex) wife at an Ayn Rand conference.
I welcome debate, when it’s debate…informed, reasoned…even passionate. But when debate gets drowned out by noise, lies, fear mongering and screams, I have no tolerance. I hear Palin scream “death panels” and I feel obligated to point as big of a digital finger as I can at her and scream back, “MORON!”.
But there are reasonable arguments against the proposed health care reform. Personally I’d like to see a system that greatly reduces the financial incentives for insurance and drug companies to prey on sick people. I’d like a system that can’t exclude anyone and doesn’t drop you in the event a serious illness. Basically I want a system like our roads, our fire departments, or our public parks: safe, efficient, affordable and always there. Unfortunately it doesn’t sound like that’s what we’re getting.
According to Bob Herbert, “With the public pretty well confused about what is going on, we’re headed — at best — toward changes that will result in a lot more people getting covered, but that will not control exploding health care costs and will leave industry leaders feeling like they’vehit the jackpot.”
Read his whole not-so-happy column here: Op-Ed Columnist – This Is Reform? – NYTimes.com.
RT from my friend Dave @Grobleski …
For the second day in a row, thousands of people lined up for free dental, medical and vision services in South Los Angeles courtesy of a nonprofit group that provides mobile health care for the rural poor.
Remote Area Medical set up for eight days of care at the Forum in L.A. The enormous response to the free care was a stark contrast to recent videos of Glenn Beck-watching Tea Baggers screaming at town hall meetings in opposition to proposed health insurance reform.
Thousands Line Up for Promise of Free Health Care – NYTimes.com.
I had a little scare today. Last night I was feeling a little run down after work. I had trouble sleeping but when I finally did fall asleep I woke up and couldn’t breathe. This wasn’t the first time, after my bout with bronchitis earlier this year the doc at the walk-in clinic told me I might have asthma and he referred me to a specialist.
Problem is, I don’t have health insurance.
So what do you do when you wake up and can’t breathe? I headed to the emergency room, with a quick side trip to the ATM to get out some cash. I pulled out $600, my daily max.
There are 4000 asthma-related deaths every year in the United States, many of them uninsured (or under-insured) children. Asthma is the most common chronic disease among children. Asthma is treatable, but the most common treatment (inhaled corticosteroids) costs over $100 per month, which is way beyond what many families can afford.
4000 preventable deaths a year…more than all the people who died on September 11th. EVERY YEAR.
Except they aren’t being killed by foreign terrorists, it’s something much more sinister. Our own failed health care system is just letting them die.
This is why I support health insurance reform. Not because I think it’s going fix everything that’s wrong, but we have to do something. Because I know that there’s not always an extra $600 in my account. What if the bill was $4000? or $40,000? Is that when I just become another death statistic?
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, right?
PEOPLE….IT’S THE FIRST ONE!!!!!!
http://www.whitehouse.gov/health-insurance-consumer-protections/
It’s getting increasingly difficult for me to have any respect for anyone who doesn’t support universal health care for all. We are the richest country in the history of the world, and yet we do not take care of our own sick citizens.
The United States is the only developed nation that does not have a comprehensive national health care plan for all its citizens.
Who are these people that hate health care? Why do they hate America so much? Why do they want to continue in a system that gives financial incentives to KEEP PEOPLE SICK?
Sarah Palin said (in a Facebook posting) that Obama’s proposed health plan “is evil” and would create a “death panel” that would deny care to the neediest Americans. She’s like a character out of a Oliver Stone movie.
Rush Limbagh recently said the proposed health care logo was similar to a Nazi symbol. Nice one, you bloated pill popping prick.
The web site “Tea Party Patriots” circulated instructions to anti-health fanatics to attend Obama Town hall meetings and “Yell out and challenge the Rep’s statements early. Get him off his prepared script and agenda,” the memo continued. “Stand up and shout and sit right back down.”
The sad part is that Fox is reporting all of this like it is news. If you watch Fox regularly as a source for your news, you need to get your head checked out.
But then again, I don’t think any health insurance plan covers ignorance.
Now I’ll go back to tea-bagging your mom.
NYT: Health debate turns hostile at meetings – The New York Times- msnbc.com.
