Comments on: Showing That California Isn’t TOTALLY Messed Up

By: PaulaT

PaulaT — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:53:33 +0000

I hear ya and if I can help you take care of your Grassley problem, I will. I don’t like being lied to, but I really hate people who act like I’m too stupid to figure out I’m being inartfully lied to.

I live in CA. I know what it feels like to have to keep asserting that you are astute and not insane, contrary to what comes out of your politicians. I actually live in an area that was one of the most McCain/Palin of the state, all evangelicals and Mormons. How people I know are good people with brains can be so stupid and so heartless when it comes to certain issues, I can’t explain. It depresses me no end.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:48:57 +0000

Obama hired her.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:22:19 +0000

Got evidence? I’ve yet to see any.

By: argo0

argo0 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:47:27 +0000

Thanks much for the explanation.

By: JClausen

JClausen — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:18:24 +0000

Oh, and I have had one personal conversation with the Senator, one personal handwritten note in answer to a town hall question, have called his office hundreds of times over the last 9 years, and received no less than 200 letters from his office specifically disagreeing with much of what I believe.

Does that make me one of those idiots he is used to talking to? Pretty damn broad brush you swung with.

By: JClausen

JClausen — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:10:55 +0000

We Iowa Progressives are sick of Grassley, and are actively working to take him down. Many of my Rethug friends are former supporters disgusted with the craziness over Death Panels,Glenn beck’s Book, and “Defeating Obamacare”.

Ya Right, he’s still negotiating in “good faith”

I predict this may be Assley’s Macaca moment. His approval was in the high 70’s. Watch it tank.

Oh. and we are very astute citizens despite popular mischaracterization.*g*

By: PaulaT

PaulaT — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:08:35 +0000

Not a dumb question. It isn’t a coop like the Blue Dogs are talking about. It has the force of the govt behind it so it gets employer contributions and participation of clinics and hospitals at prices that can make a difference. California has some pretty good safeguards for poor people to get emergency care with the counties picking up the tab. Funneling people into primary and preventive care instead of ER care makes a big difference to cash-strapped local entities, so they are invested in making it work. A big issue is how well it is working even without individual mandates. I think more people buy into the need for preventive and primary medicine than the national discussion would have you believe. They will, for the most part, pay premiums and copays to get it as long as it is financially feasible. Even where they do nothing until the last minute, when they show up in the ER, they are signed up for the program and assigned a primary care clinic right there so they can be diverted from there to a more sane system for dealing with their health issues if it is not a true emergency or once the emergency has stabilized.

By: marymccurnin

marymccurnin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:05:33 +0000

No one is working against it in S.F. And the medical community is on board.

By: PaulaT

PaulaT — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:59:49 +0000

Grassley is a Republican. He is used to talking to people who are, more and more, idiots. It’s not his fault that he thinks we’re all suckers who can’t remember for five minutes what he has said and done in the past. It’s his training. Meanwhile, I almost lost my TV to watching Hardball just now. His discussion of health care reform is bad enough. Get David Gregory on there to mutually massage egos and reinforce complete lack of what accessible and AFFORDABLE health care means and it’s absolutely maddening.

By: marymccurnin

marymccurnin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:57:46 +0000

DR. Durston almost beat Lungren. This is my district. I want Lungren out. What can we do?