Which HealthCare Bill Should You Support?

Yes we need affordable healthcare for all Americans...but...let's not go throwing the baby out with the bathwater...read the bills being offered up. Ask questions if you don't understand them and talk with your representatives and friends. We may only have this one shot to get it right...so let's get it right.

HR3200 (click for more information or full text)

From Dennis Kucinich: Yesterday HR 3200 "America's Affordable Health Choices Act," a 1000 page bill was delivered to members. The title of the bill raises a question: "Affordable" for whom?. Of $2.4 trillion spent annually for health care in America, fully $800 billion goes for the activities of the for-profit insurer-based system. This means one of every three health care dollars is siphoned off for corporate profits, stock options, executive salaries, advertising, marketing and the cost of paper work, (which can be anywhere between 15 - 35% in the private sector as compared to Medicare, the single payer plan which has only 3% administrative costs).

HR676 (click for more information or full text)
From www.hr676.org: Basically, House Resolution (H.R.) 676, the “New Expanded Medicare” bill now in the House of Representatives simply creates a new and far more functional “single payer” method of collecting and distributing payments for medical services while leaving the medical system itself completely alone and intact. This will eliminate the hundreds of complicated and redundant payment plans currently imposed on the system by private “for profit” health insurance companies and save literally BILLIONS of dollars every year by eliminating such wasteful duplication. This will allow your doctors offices and hospitals to function much more efficiently and serve your needs much more effectively as well. Just imagine what a huge benefit this will be!

Wednesday's Whipets

NOW HEAR THIS: "He [Rahm Emanuel] is working for a way out without a bloody fight. The problem is he doesn't mind taking that fight to the left. And what I worry could happen is the left will just quit." -

Hmmm so Rahm will take the fight to us but not the healthcare lobbyist? Well I’ve got news for him…As a card-carrying member of .the left, I WON”T QUIT! I will find another way even if that means abandoning Democrats like Rahm who can’t seem to understand the basic human necessity of healthcare.

FINALLY A GOOD WORD:
Senator Al Franken

OH SO WEIRD:
Sigh, wish the media would report on those things that affect Americans more like the war, economy, healthcare and international issues,,,,half as much as they do on Michael Jackson….sigh…

OH SO WEIRD AND WONDERFUL:
You really have to go that extra step to beat Michael Jackson off the media…Governor Palin managed to do that. One of my favorite TV shows is ‘Trailer Boys’ but even it can’t compare to Palin’s insanity. I look forward to her next adventures in political trashland.

Franken Prevails

Congratulations to Senator Al Franken. Once again the courts upheld the Minnesota election/recount process and cited Al Franken as the winner. Now let's put him to work for Minnesotans in WA.DC as soon as possible.

PS Coleman, don't let the door hit you on the way out...sigh...again

More Than Lipstick Is Going On In Iran!

It’s hard to know exactly what is going on in Iran given the media sellout/buyoff and political gamesmanship including our own special ops/CIA involvement... but we do know for sure that women are the first to suffer during political unrest and war…



And now by many accounts, Iranian women are now running the resistance.... As the Toronto Star points out “today we are seeing what is historically the first national movement with a leadership that is predominately female.”

And to Martha at ABC…NO! This is more than a ‘Lipstick Revolution!’ That degrades women’s role in wanting basic human rights and reduces their struggle to merely a matter of cosmetics. This is another example from media that shows a complete lack of understanding of women in Iran along with their culture. At election rallies, female supporters often chanted the name of Mousavi's wife, Zahra Rahnavard (a powerful political figure in her own right) as she promised that under Mousavi there would be more women in the cabinet and a reform of policies that strip women of their rights in marriage. Oh and have I mentioned the stoning of women?

Under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, women are discouraged from working and from seeking higher education, while he suggested that true freedom for women lay in not having all the "legal responsibility of men."

With half of the human population are women... so they should have full and equal participation and voice in the political, culture and economic arena…something the U.S. could also learn from and improve as well as Iran. Screw the lipstick...women are finding their voices.

Waiting for the Fat Lady to Sing

It’s been six months…that’s long enough. Minnesotan’s need both their senatorial seats filled and a ruling should come any time now.

Let's hope Mr. Sore Loserman Coleman stops obstructing once the Minnesota Supreme Court issues their ruling…Seems like 'all about state's rights' Pawlenty should also certify...but then doing the 'right thing' in Minnesotan's interests don't seem to motive either of these guys!