Comments on: Upcoming Recess Events

By: joanneleon

joanneleon — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:53:05 +0000

On short notice:
Joe Sestak just announced that he will be a guest at a health care town hall in Philadelphia at the Broad Street Ministry.

Broad Street Ministry
Philly.com Article

I entered the event in the FDL event tool.

WHEN: Wednesday, August 12th, 6:30 - 7:30 pm

WHERE: Broad Street Ministry
315 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA
(between Spruce and Pine, across from UArts and Kimmel Center)

This event is free and open to the public.

(Broad Street is between 13th and 15th, in other words it’s actually 14th Street).

By: egregious

egregious — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:17:36 +0000

Moran event corrected, thanks.

By: letsgetitdone

letsgetitdone — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:49:40 +0000

There’s a problem in the chart. It gives the location of Jim Moran’s event w/ Howard Dean as Alhambra, CA, rather than Reston, VA.

By: PJEvans

PJEvans — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:33:22 +0000

Waxman’s only listed meeting in his district is on global warming, not health care.

I’ve written him to say that if it’s going to be the ~~Senate’s~~ Baucus’s bill, I want him to vote against it, because even the current (broken) system would be better.

By: radhika

radhika — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:21:45 +0000

Correction to table is needed. The Jim Moran/Howard Dean event has ‘Alhambra, CA’ as the location. Click on details, and you’ll see it’s in Virginia.

By: Mauimom

Mauimom — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:00:20 +0000

flying monkeys might kidnap my dog today…

Video at 11, I hope.

I received an e-mail from the Obamabots [OFA] [don’t they read those nasty responses I send them to all their pleas for $$$ and letter-writing?] alerting me that Sen. Inouye [whom I wish flying monkeys would kidnap] is having “office hours” in his office here on Maui — although I doubt he’ll actually be here.

They had a kinda neat little widget that allowed me to make an “appointment” and they have their “talking points,” none of which includes either single payer [duh] or even a strong public option.

Needless to say I’ll be going [Friday], but I think I’ll have a few stronger points than Obama’s weak tea. [Their stuff is really bad.]

And I represent 4 “constituents” — self, spouse, + two college students. We all vote.

By: clymela

clymela — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:24:08 +0000

Well living here in the San Francisco East Bay I am represented by Barbara Lee and George Miller. They have been interested in reform, single payer and/or the public option all along. Perhaps I can help out at Pete Stark’s meeting over in Alameda,CA.

By: Blub

Blub — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:10:19 +0000

54% waste is.. well, positively Nigerian.

By: jayt

jayt — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:40:21 +0000

Eddie Bernice Johnson.

had to Wiki that one for a gender check.

By: fatster

fatster — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:28:39 +0000

Wonderful article all the way ’round! Needs to be shared widely.

Health care’s big money wasters
More than $1.2 trillion spent on health care each year is a waste of money. Members of the medical community identify the leading causes.
By Parija B. Kavilanz, CNNMoney.com senior writer
Last Updated: August 10, 2009: 9:37 AM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Down the drain: $1.2 trillion.
“That’s half of the $2.2 trillion the United States spends on health care each year, according to the most recent data from accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Research Institute.

“What counts as waste? The report identified 16 different areas in which health care dollars are squandered. But in talking to doctors, nurses, hospital groups and patient advocacy groups, six areas totaling nearly $500 billion stood out as issues to be dealt with in the health care reform debate.”

Link.