The politics of healthcare reform
Bill Moyers’ discussion with two expert analysts of health care, Trudy Lieberman, director of the health and medical reporting program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and Marcia Angell, senior lecturer in social medicine at Harvard Medical School and former editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine.
By: orthogonality
Here’s a thought. I don’t know if this would be effective, but hear me out. The Republicans in Congress are doing there best to block health care reform, and calling or writing them — though we should — isn’t going to do much good. But for every Republican Congressman “representing” you, you have a state senator, a state assemblyman/delegate/representative, county commisioners, members of the school board, etc. What if you called up any Republican office holder who represents you, and let him know this: “if my Republican Congressman/Senator doesn’t work to support real health care reform, I’ll vote against you, I’ll work to defeat you. Because he’s only representing the monied interests that profit from denying me care, I’m going to vote against anyone in his Party — and that includes you. You can win back my support — but only if you publicly call for health care reform and repudiate your Party and its representatives in Congress.” Call up your Republican school board members, your county commissioners, your state delegates, and let them you that if health care reform doesn’t pass, you’ll hold it against them and their Republican Party for years to come. Maybe with that we can shake loose a few votes.
My Wedding Coin
A few months ago, I came across a beautiful pair of 20 Crown coins from Turks and Caicos (proof and UNC). These coins are large…slightly larger than our Silver Eagles and containing 1.15oz of silver. Knowing nothing about these at the time, but enamored with their beauty, I bought the two for a… [...]
By: bowline
There’s another motivator in all this that I don’t hear mentioned very often. I’m an employer, and one of the hardest parts of my job is finding and keeping good people. (Less so right now, but usually). If I was the source of their main health insurance, that would give me a lot more power to keep them working for me, especially if they had a pre-existing condition that would make it hard for them to get coverage somewhere else. (I can live without this.) As a result one of the biggest changes that a American government health insurance plan would bring is the transfer power from employers to employees.
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By: hippybear
I’m certain flabdablet is meaning to make this point… but isn’t the more fair way to say this: “ours was eleven thousand billion, but Obama’s is two hundred and thirty billion”?
