Comments on: Health Care Action in the States (8/6 edition)

By: sporkovat

sporkovat — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:14:29 +0000

why do you avoid the beauty that is mandated enrollment in plans of the for-profit industries choosing?

you left that out for some reason . . . not a big selling point, is it?

public option - probably won’t make it, 10 million or so people as currently constituted, it is only a fig leaf on an atrocious sellout.

pre- existing conditions ban - I wonder if the lobbyists who are writing the bills have included any loopholes for their clients?

the rest is ad hominem, look it up if you have to.

By: jorogo

jorogo — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:11:47 +0000

I am hoping everyone from Wisconsin is aware that the listings in the August Health Care Event Calendar for Senator Russ Feingold on Saturday, August 8 are bogus.

Senator Feingold already held these sessions on August 1, and his office made it clear that he will not be in LaCrosse nor Chaseburg again on the 8th.

These events are still listed with Free Republic and Teapartypatriots.org, so if you want a laugh you could show up with a camera to catch the freepers and teabaggers’ disappointment at not getting a shot at shouting down America’s #1 progressive voice.

But if you are interested in helping the cause for universal health care, call the main Feingold office in Middleton 608-828-1200 to confirm before you waste your time and effort going last week’s session.

By: Chrisfs

Chrisfs — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:04:42 +0000

Got a better idea,
make it happen.
sounds like spending the last 8 years being hopeless about Bush has soured you on what change means. You can rant about how it’s not single payer and sound like some 9/11 fantic complaining how no one takes him seriously or you can get out and do something.
The Screamers sure aren’t sitting at home gripping about how unhappy they are. If they get their way, you won’t have public option, you won’t have a ban on excluding pre existing conditions, you won’t have anything, except the assurance that you were angry and did nothing. Bravo!

By: Mason

Mason — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:37:40 +0000

Police and organizers shut down a town hall meeting disrupted by a large Rethuglican rent-a-mob in Tampa tonight. Couple of fights broke out. Fortunately, looks like no serious injuries. Don’t know about arrests.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....53518.html

By: posaune

posaune — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:35:00 +0000

me too. I donated to FDL’s Public Option Fund.

I’m going to all the VA and MD events.

By: sporkovat

sporkovat — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:30:49 +0000

As the health reform fight shifts this month from a vacationing Washington to congressional districts and local airwaves around the country, much more of the battle than most people realize is already over. The likely victors are insurance giants such as UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Aetna (AET), and WellPoint (WLP). The carriers have succeeded in redefining the terms of the reform debate to such a degree that no matter what specifics emerge in the voluminous bill Congress may send to President Obama this fall, the insurance industry will emerge more profitable. Health reform could come with a $1 trillion price tag over the next decade, and it may complicate matters for some large employers. But insurance CEOs ought to be smiling.

http://www.businessweek.com/ma.....op+stories

let the teabaggers have at sellout Democrats - they deserve each other.

By: dude

dude — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:28:40 +0000

I have donated money to aid the lobbying by Firedoglake. I am not close to any scheduled public meetings. But I honestly think what it will take is a literal march on Washington when it convenes and I recommend a “whisper campaign”. Can you visualize a swarm of Americans walking the halls of Congress whispering in unison “Single Payer” over and over again?

Hear our prayer. Single payer.

By: Twain

Twain — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:09:09 +0000

Anthony Woods is running for Tauscher’s seat and is apparently doing very well. I got a call from his campaign yesterday and they now have 3 headquarters open. Fingers crossed for him.

By: sporkovat

sporkovat — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:01:06 +0000

What are you doing to draw a line in the sand and demand a ~~public health insurance option?~~single payer plan

a line in the sand to demand a watered down joke, smilingly accepting mandated enrollment in crappy profit-driven insurance policies?

recent plans have a ‘public option’ enrolling around 10 million people in 2013!

that, friends, is a bad joke, and the kind of thing a Republican administration could never pass.