Now even though the Supreme Court has just ruled that 'Obama Care' can be considered legal in the US, our Drone in Chief has yet to explain what subsidies he has put into place for the low income portion of the population to be able to purchase his Obama Care Insurance Policy? He has further failed to explain just how he plans to punish low income people who are unable to purchase his policy? Will he make us all go lie in a public park at night and get arrested for vagrancy, or what? Drone Man has simply failed to give any of us even the slightest clue to what it is all about, this new muddled, mucked up legislation of his? And will a new president simply scrap the unwieldy mess? Who can really say?
Tag: Health care reform
How to tweak a headline, right wing style.
Without being called an extremist, or if anybody does you can call him a paranoid or otherwise mentally ill "conspiracy theorist". From The Atlanta Examiner: "AARP members bash Obamacare". This mirrors a similar "Shocking" headline Fox did last year when about 1% of the AARP membership left the organization in a huff and on a TeaBag high-horse because AARP endorsed Health Care Reform.<=The proper name. But, with the term "AARP members" and not specifying how many, what percentage of the overall membership, or noting that AARP has members from every political party in America including Anarchists, you could get any two AARP members to say they don't like Health Care and would prefer the alternative, a murderous system of killing elderly, disabled and poor AMERICANS through organized, explicit and consistent Denial of Health Care by the so-called "free" market. And with those two voices you can get "AARP members bash Obamacare". Get 10 to say they want to keep the old Murderous system and you get "A group of seniors say they don't want to have Health Care". Have them organize and you get "Senior Advocacy Group says they'd rather be taken out and abandoned on an ice floe, while their tribe rows
National “burn the confederate flag” day, 9/12
Because the Hatemongers and Deathmongers have gotten increasingly abusive in their rallies to drum up support of Killing People. While they say they're not Racist about it in any way, they do fly the Confederate Battle Flag, the "Southern Cross" and sometimes bear signs saying "Not Hate, Heritage" and the Hate Flag. It's a heritage of hatred. Of forcing Americans to surrender their liberties before birth based on THEIR heritage and the color of their skins. Their Hate Heritage, and mine, killed about 300,000 AMERICANS who opposed their Slavery and another 180,000 of their own comrades. Fighting for nothing more, from their sick point of view, than Hatred of other human beings that is so fierce even today that they feel it was right to keep them in bondage. 19631
Daily KOS says: you support, we decide
Fuck Markos Moulitsas and the Miniature Lipizzaner he rode in on. KOS calls for deposing Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich because he won't hang with the corporatist Dems on the health insurance mandate reform/bailout. The Daily KOS plays centrist whip, but this pronouncement is beyond tinpottiness. Hopefully Markos will be shown what a Public Option can mean on a blog. 15410
Healthcare reformist TR Reid visits COS to say universal coverage not possible
COLORADO SPRINGS-- [UPDATED] My question to TR Reid, who speaks tonight at CC's Palmer Hall, is how can voices for health care rights get past the corporate media editors? As Washington Post Denver bureau chief and NPR reporter, Reid's answer will reveal his earnestness, because most clearly his editors have kept the upper hand. The Independent, which is sponsoring tonight's event, has invited two respondents to offer rebuttals, but both represent the health care status quo, there is no one advocating for socialized medicine, automatically framing Reid's centrism as the people's best hope. 15207
Why does Glenn Beck “Hate” the 9/11 families who ask questions?
Certainly can't be that they're "Conspiracy Theorists". His buffoonery about the Health Care Reform being "Government Death Panels" and the Rockefeller Plaza Secret Bolshevik Symbols rants, that kind of set him in a class by himself vis-a-vis Really Lunatic Conspiracy Theories. 14792
US health industry tells Vic to snuff it
Vic Chesnutt took his own life on Christmas Day. By coincidence, he'd just given an upbeat interview to NPR's Fresh Air in spite of an ongoing battle with his health care providers. The segment seemed to pierce the celebrity veil we imagine insulates our talent castes from the worries of everyman. When he died, I reflected on the interview. I was reluctant to mar a eulogy with the villainy of the US medical system -- but then NPR re-aired the piece, en memoriam, minus the damning testimony. They added in its place a remembrance by three colleagues who concluded: "To say poor health care killed Vic Chesnutt would be very reductive." 13225
A bird in the hand is worth health care and a climate consensus in the bush
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. It's better than nothing. We're getting it from all direction now, from Copenhagen to the health care bill. The message is delivered by experienced elder statesmen whose benevolence we do not question because they are retired and have no horse in the race -yet they have access to the halls of power where real stakeholders are denied? Silver hair and silver tongues pitch: "Those who say a bad deal is better than no deal are dead wrong." You're kidding me Grandpa. 13049
Tailgunner Joe: health care not for you
Should a television cameraman get photo credit for a studio image? Can NBC copyright what represents a national address in a neo-public forum? I think not. Joe Lieberman reminds me of dogged namesake un-American. What more proof do our fellow citizens need that their US House of Lords/Senators mocks a representative democracy? 12757
Sen Udall oks metaphorical health care
The only medicine our senators want their constituents to take is the hard-to-swallow metaphorical variety. Senator Mark Udall's monthly email explains his part in the Senate health care holdup. Two things: Udall and ten fellow freshmen set a roadblock to improve the HCR bill with cost containment, approved, Udall adds proudly, by industry experts. Next, he's crossed the aisle to join a bipartisan fiscal task force to limit congressional spending with an eye to reducing the federal deficit. That ol' deficit doesn't come up when the issues are war, tax cuts for the rich, or "bailouts" for banks and industry. Apparently health care is the last straw we cannot afford. That's the: "It will be hard to swallow, but it is medicine we need to take." 12567
Does your elected representative need to hear from you?
The emails are flowing in furiously. Senator So & So needs to hear from you; we need your donation to run this ad; our voices must be louder than the interests arrayed against reform. I ask you. On the issue of health reform, climate change, or ending the US wars, does your elected representative still need to hear from you? What sort of amnesia is there in DC, that the party given a mandate in 2008 suddenly lacks for moraL conviction? 12033
HR-3962 a travesty of mockery of sham
While a number of Democrats implicated themselves by joining all but one Republican to vote against the Affordable Health Care for America Act, let's make a distinction for Representative Dennis Kucinich who had reasons the other congressmen are not prepared to articulate. For example, Colorado District 4 house rep Betsy Markey rejected HR-3962 for the usual GOP tea party bugaboos, asserting it would hurt the deficit and didn't include tort reform. Below is the statement Kucinich released Nov 7. Chew on this, as Dems pat themselves on the back. 11452
Colo. Dem reps only half Blue Bounders
Neither of Colorado's Blue Canis Familiaris Democrats acted the heel enough to merit tar and feathers on yesterday's HCR vote. But these Dems need to go. 64 Democrats voted to load an anti-abortion provision unto the House healthcare bill, among them District 3's John Salazar. The Stupak-Pitts amendment passed, but 23 of the blackguards later voted against the bill, meaning they had acted to try to sink health care reform. Here are their names, via sharedferret/dkos: 11225
The face of the health insurance lobby
Nurse Ratched, to my imagination, was the most despised movie villainess of all time. She didn't murder anyone, but by the sheer frigidity of her indifference, Nurse Ratched caused debilitating anxiety and heart-break. She's my nominee for the face of the US health insurance lobby. 10734
Health reform nuclear option is HR3200
Health insurance, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing --say it again. President Obama spoke of insurers as nice people who perform a valuable service, but where did the flattery get him? Industry death panels have redoubled their determination to kill the insured and uninsured alike. And facing reforms, they don't want a "public option," even if the deal is sweetened with a windfall of mandated insurance premiums. Isn't it time to cut the greedy murderers from the till? H.R. 3200 proposes Medicare be expanded to cover everyone. Period. The extra coverage will be paid from current insurance company profit margins.
The Democratic Party’s sham Health Care offensive
There is so much hullabaloo about the proposed not much CHANGE 'Health Care' legislation that it is all too easy to be taken in by it all. But what's really going on in this wrestling match between the donkeys and elephants? Here is Glen Ford's take on it... 10357
we need Lisners of the PEOPLE NOT Dictators of the PEOPLE! USA! ROCKS!
Television cameras today gravitated toward Doug Lamborn supporters. Thank goodness this flag-waver showed up with a sign to confirm visually the nagging suspicion that his crowd was illiterate. 10277
D. Lamborn don’t want to hear from U
Tomorrow brings another last chance to will America some health care. Representative Lamborn is back in town on Monday, asking his constituents to come let him know how to vote on health care reform, as if he were not already fully in every corporate pocket. Come on out, although Doug Lamborn cannot fail but deliver the TV coverage his backers expect. No doubt Lamborn was commissioned to gather his fellow teabaggers, to give the networks more grassroots backdrop for the so-called populist opposition to health reform. Come anyway. Shooting fish in a barrel is underrated. Mostly teabags know only the barest of talking points. They show up to show what good fan club members they are, for their favorite Fox, disinfotainment clowns. 10246
Big Insurance greed? COS is Sick Of It!
KRDO's Eric Singer called today's health care reform rally "very one sided," so much so, seeing it, "you might have done a double-take." Because it wasn't our backwater's customary Teabag Pity Party where agitated ignorants throw their own hopes for adequate health care into the drink; but KRDO doesn't report those anti-rallies as one-sided. Of course, KRDO's advertisers are the medical system conglomerates, pharmaceuticals, and big insurance! Greed. We are sick of it! The Gazette repeated their usual mantra that health care reform is unaffordable, but offered a refreshingly frank representation of Pattie's nuanced address to the energized crowd. 10024
Not Health Insurance, Health CARE
NOT HEALTH INSURANCE, HEALTH CARE. Local Dems are being rallied again by the SEIU and other corporate handlers to ask for Health Insurance Reform. These are the same gate keepers who squelch calls for Universal Health Care, and who stand back from Democrats like Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) when he labeled his Republican health reform adversaries as callous obstructionists. 9532
US Senate represents Insurance, Israel
Are you represented by a US senator? I doubt it. Today the Senate Finance Committee rejected Public Option amendments to the health care reform legislation; continued to vilify ACORN based on fraudulent accusations hyped the MSM; and thirty two senators signed a letter drafted by AIPAC, to urge Secretary of State Clinton to block further investigation of Israel for its crimes in Gaza based on the findings of the Goldstone Report. Abolish the Senate! Does America have any use for a House of Lords? 9460
Is NPR blocking health care reform?
If the corporation from which you get your news is NOT TELLING YOU that the US could give its citizens Universal Health Care for less than the cost of today's system, and could do so tomorrow by expanding Medicare offering free medical care to all like every other developed nation, then they are lying to you. How can you expect any reform if the status quo defends itself with the complicity of the corporate media. That includes the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, all the more duplicitous for pretending to serve the "public." The CPB's underwriters are big oil, big agra, big pharma, the banks and the insurance villains. Listen closely and you can still hear NPR News pronounce the question mark after "Global Warming." 9252
Health [Insurance] Reform rally pics
Health Reform march from Printers Home to Senator Udall's Office. 8777
Colorado Springs Union Printers Labor Day event a dead ended march by SEIU to a locked up Democratic Party office building!
Good grief what a pathetic event I just attended at today's Labor Day rally to try to build support for Obama's health insurance reform' project! It had all the usual local area Democratic Party tied people out there, and they marched us, after an insipid talk-to rally attended by about 50 people, straight down Union to the abandoned and deserted offices of Mark Udall, in a locked up building fronted by an utterly empty parking lot. The staff for this guy didn't even have the energy to open up the building for us upon the rally's arrival! 8684
COS Health Care Reform Rally Sept 7
Your next chance in Colorado Springs to voice support for health care reform is Monday, Sept 7, from 2-3pm. The Printers Home will host a rally, followed by a march across the street to Senator Mark Udall's office. (Because the historic Printers Home is a patriotic UNION facility, the beautiful grounds will be off limits to health care deniers!) 8585