Community | August 24, 2009 | 38 comments

THIS ISN'T REFORM, IT'S ROBBERY !

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EShduFUKZi4&feature=related

WhiteNoise
Percentage change since 2002 in average premiums paid to large US health-insurance companies: +87% +87% +87% +87% +87% +87% +87% +87% +87% +87% +87%

GET IT ?

Percentage change in the profits of the top ten insurance companies:
+428% +428% +428% +428% +428% +428% +428% +428% +428% +428% +428%

UNDERSTAND THIS ?

Chances that an American bankrupted by medical bills has health insurance:
7 in 10, 7 in 10, 7 in 10,7 in 10, 7 in 10, 7 in 10, 7 in 10

FEEL PROUD ?

- Harper’s Index, September 2009

They hold sick children hostage as they force parents to bankrupt themselves in the desperate scramble to pay for medical care.

The sick do not have a choice. Medical care is not a consumable good. We can choose to buy a used car or a new car, shop at a boutique or a thrift store, but there is no choice between illness and health. And any debate about health care must acknowledge that the for-profit health care industry is the problem and must be destroyed.

This is an industry that hires doctors and analysts to deny care to patients in order to increase profits. It is an industry that causes half of all bankruptcies.

And the 20,000 Americans who died last year because they did not receive adequate care condemn these corporations as complicit in murder.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090823_this_isnt_reform_its_robbery/

Hint : http://www.singlepayeraction.org/

ALERT

Now it's Let's Make a Deal with hospital lobbyists.

First, the President was caught with his principles down, cutting a scuzzy back-room deal with pharmaceutical lobbyist Billy Tauzin to limit drug price savings to just 2% over 10 years (see attached, "Obama on Drugs: 98% Cheney?"), the New York Times today reports that another deal was sealed by lobbyist Chip Kahn of the American Hospital Association.

Here are the numbers they don't want you to see: Hospitals will be allowed to hike their prices and revenues by six trillion dollars ($5,853 billion) over the next ten years, only $155 billion less than they had projected before the Obama "reform."

In all, the Obama back-room deal will "reduce" our $26 trillion total hospital bill over the next decade by one-half of one percent.

Once again, the lobbyists got the gold mine, the public got the shaft.

Say it ain't so, Mr. President.
http://www.gregpalast.com/obama-on-drugs-98-cheney/

RE-Hint : http://www.singlepayeraction.org/

"The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent" - Gore Vidal

Between 40 and 62 percent of the American people, including 80 percent of registered Democrats, want universal, single-payer not-for-profit health care for all Americans. The ability of the corporations to discredit and silence voices that represent at least half of the population is another sad testament to the power of our corporate state. - Chris Hedges
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  • WhiteNoise
  • WhiteNoise
    • 0
      WhiteNoise  

    • MoveOn & R.E.M. Video: We Can't Afford to Wait

      MEAN...really 'MEAN'WHILE ;)

      Wall Street Is Gambling on How Soon Old People Will Die
      By Mark Ames, AlterNet. Posted September 10, 2009.

      It sounds too gruesome to be true, but the bankers have already shaken the silver out of everything that had value in America -- except for the elderly.

      Now we know why America's oligarchs are fighting to keep the rest of us stuck in the world's worst health care system: the more we die, the more billions Wall Street will earn. A recent article in The New York Times exposed how Wall Street is licking its lips over a new scheme to make hundreds of billions in profits by creating financial instruments that will profit off of millions of terminally-ill Americans' agony, desperation, and death. The only thing standing in the way of this massive new Wall Street scheme is the kind of health care reform that might allow Americans to live longer lives. Yep, this is what we spent trillions of dollars bailing out Wall Street for: so that they can kill us for profit.
      http://www.alternet.org/story/142531/wall_street_is_gambling_on_how_soon_old_peo...

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  
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    • TAIBBI IS STEPPING TO BAT WITH MOUNTING AUTHORITY BY SHEAR BRAINS & BALLS !
      wink wink, nudge nudge, President O ;)

      SICK & WRONG !
      How Washington is Screwing Up Health Care Reform – and Why It May Take a Revolt to Fix It

      By Matt Taibbi
      Let's start with the obvious: America has not only the worst but the dumbest health care system in the developed world. It's become a black leprosy eating away at the American experiment - a bureaucracy so insipid and mean and illogical that even our darkest criminal minds wouldn't be equal to dreaming it up on purpose.

      The system doesn't work for anyone. It cheats patients and leaves them to die, denies insurance to 47 million Americans, forces hospitals to spend billions haggling over claims, and systematically bleeds and harasses doctors with the specter of catastrophic litigation. Even as a mechanism for delivering bonuses to insurance-company fat cats, it's a miserable failure: Greedy insurance bosses who spent a generation denying preventive care to patients now see their profits sapped by millions of customers who enter the system only when they're sick with incurably expensive illnesses.

      The cost of all of this to society, in illness and death and lost productivity and a soaring federal deficit and plain old anxiety and anger, is incalculable - and that's the good news. The bad news is our failed health care system won't get fixed, because it exists entirely within the confines of yet another failed system: the political entity known as the United States of America.

      Just as we have a medical system that is not really designed to care for the sick, we have a government that is not equipped to fix actual crises. What our government is good at is something else entirely: effecting the appearance of action, while leaving the actual reform behind in a diabolical labyrinth of ingenious legislative maneuvers.

      Over the course of this summer, those two failed systems have collided in a spectacular crossroads moment in American history. We have an urgent national emergency on the one hand, and on the other, a comfortable majority of ostensibly simpatico Democrats who were elected by an angry population, in large part, specifically to reform health care. When they all sat down in Washington to tackle the problem, it amounted to a referendum on whether or not we actually have a functioning government. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29988909/sick_and_wrong/print

      SICK & WRONG +
      http://taibbi.rssoundingboard.com/health-care-reform-sick-and-wrong

      OLD SLUGGERS AGREE TOO !

      Bill Moyers: Mr. President, We Need a Fighter to Take on the Deranged Right-Wing
      http://www.alternet.org/story/142461/bill_moyers:_mr._president,_we_need_a_fight...

      "And on the most exalted throne in the world sits nothing but a man's arse." – Montaigne

    • 2 years ago
  • ampersand
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      ampersand  
    • WhiteNoise:

      Great post. Realizing the extent of the train wreck in our looted government and toxic "health care" system is a good first step. The next logical one is realizing it won't get fixed (if ever) in a time frame useful to us personally.
      I still vote here, but that's why I go abroad for health care.

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • WE NEED TO HEAR MORE FROM FRANKEN !

      About a dozen tea party activists had staked out Sen. Al Franken’s booth at the Minnesota State Fair and confronted him loudly when he arrived. But within minutes, he’d turned an unruly crowd into a productive conversation on health care. The discussion went from insurance reform, to the public option, to veterans benefits, to cap and trade. He made a few laugh and even told a touching story that moved a few to tears. A whole lot of common ground was found.

    • 2 years ago
  • desertcat
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      desertcat  

    • Barbard3rd. I agree there are alot of us baby boomers out there rock and rolling but there are alot of us that are barely surviving due to illness. One day I was climbing mountains the next could not walk. Shit happens and when it does the medical industry eats up what ever you have before you can say Jack Robinson. Meds alone in my house if we had to pay full price would be over a thousand a month. We won't get health care because the majority of Americans are idiots who watch Fox Noise and listen to the horror stories put out by the repuglican party. I hope you stay healthy.

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • Obama won’t insist on public option, aides say
      http://current.com/items/90845412_obama-won-t-insist-on-public-option-aides-say....

      I once saw Obama say that Michelle always had the last word in a discussion…

      Can someone please talk to our First Funky Lady ;)

      http://www.dyingwhileblack.org/

      Essential reading for understanding how racial bias taints the delivery of health care in the United States. Professor Randall's cogent analysis provides hope for correcting this injustice.

      Stephanie M. Wildman
      Professor of Law and Director,
      Center for Social Justice and Public Service
      Santa Clara University School of Law
      www.scu.edu/law/socialjustice

      Dying While Black is a singular achievement. Professor Randall produces the "smoking gun" connection between white privilege, racism, slavery and Black health outcomes. This book combines careful documentation of the past and a plethora of data with deft, compelling storytelling. The result is a nuanced, forward looking narrative that not only provides evidence of what's wrong and why, but offers a concrete proposal for what we can to do now to make a difference. This book is mandatory reading if we are to ever get beyond blaming the victim and setting our sights on the systemic change we so desperately need.

      Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive Director
      The Praxis Project/PATH
      Author Making Policy Making Change
      http://www.thepraxisproject.org/

    • 2 years ago
  • wayseeker
  • artemis6
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • On the importance of ignorance and the abuse of what can only be tagged as a growing nation of village idiots by the GOP.

      The exploitation of fundamentalism & obscurantism strictly for partisanship is so blatant it hurts.

      Latino KKK, peacenik Zionists, cultural civil war, false flag opinions, crack/meth skidzoids, reptilian masters… Now what... Obama wants to kill us all !!!

      Americans are used, abused & oh so confused by their oligarchy that it is pathetic and embarrassing to watch & go down...
      http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#3265041

      "A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side" - Aristotle

      "The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is; All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just keep your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions. Tax the FUCK out of the churches !" - Frank Zappa

      “One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous“ - Carl Sagan

    • 2 years ago
  • remanns
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      remanns  

    • I think this nation is experiencing a SELF IMPOSED decline.

      "If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT. Stupidity has a certain charm, ignorance does not". - Frank Zappa ( with thanx to WhiteNoise )

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
  • SeaJade
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      SeaJade  

    • Hmmm.... as the late Senator Edward Kennedy states more or less, "our politicians have the best health care in the nation". Why would they bother to think the rest of us, who apparently vote them in and pay their wages would want it too!?

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
  • samthesixth
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      samthesixth  

    • WhiteNoise.

      I am with you on the need for health care reform now. I think where we differ is in our belief that the government is capable of doing it correctly.

      I offered you three examples of government health care that are dysfunctional at best. Is there an example of an American government administered health program that works and serves the people it is supposed to? If not, perhaps we need to look at something besides "government run" as a solution to the problem.

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • LOL...OK then WTF can I say to that..
      This is self defense 101 !!!!.

      How long can one continue to respect a battered entity that keeps on coming back to its abuser for some more bitch slappin' !!!!???

      Education system + big media makes uncle Sam a very dull boy indeed ;)

      As stated before, the alternative to the status quo remains a tad less glam...

      “It’s here that the American dream decided it liked the taste of the vomit it was chocking on. Just rolled over on its back and screamed for more drugs. it didn't die.“ - Warren Ellis

      ...and the worst assessment would prove to be spot on...

      "Americans do not have the intellectual capacity to revolt. All you need to keep them pacified is to give them a dozen donuts & a gun !" - Max Keiser

      Call me disingenuous but the american psyche might not the sharpest knife in humanity's tool box but this is ridiculous !

      LIFE INC 1 American Psyche 0

      If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT. Stupidity has a certain charm, ignorance does not. - Frank Zappa

    • 2 years ago
  • samthesixth
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      samthesixth  

    • Okay. But the fact that others can do it does not lend itself to the notion that we can. Medicare, Medicaid and Tricare all have serious flaws in the administration of the programs.

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
  • samthesixth
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      samthesixth  

    • Even if one agrees with everything you post WhiteNoise, what makes you think the government will actually be able to administer ANY health care program successfully?

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  
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    • Meanwhile in the greatest country on earth ;)
      He's looking at you uncle Sam !
      Growing Poverty and Despair in America
      http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14910

      Hunger in America

      On its web site, Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest) said in "the land of plenty," one in eight Americans (meaning millions) face growing hunger problems, and not just the poor and unemployed. They're "often hard-working adults, children and seniors who simply cannot make ends meet" and have to forego meals at times, even for days.

      Hunger and Poverty Facts

      -- in (pre-crisis) 2007, 37.5 million people were impoverished; they comprised:

      -- 12.5% of the population and 9.8% of families;

      -- 20.3 million or 10.9% of people aged 18 - 64;

      -- 13.3 million or 18% of children under age 18; and

      -- 3.7 million or 9.7% of seniors aged 65 or older who benefit from Social Security and Medicare.

      In addition:

      -- 36.2 million Americans are food insecure, including 12.4 million children;

      -- they comprise 13 million or 11.1% of households;

      -- 4.7 million households experience "very low food security" meaning hunger is a persistent problem;

      -- households with children have double the food insecurity as ones with none;

      -- single women-headed households are worst off with 30.2% of them insecure; and

      -- 53.9% of food-insecure households rely on one or more of the following federal programs - food stamps, the National School Lunch Program, and the Special Supplement Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC); in addition, Feeding America (in 2007) provided emergency food aid to about 25 million low-income people, 8% more than in 2001.

      On August 6, the US Department of Agriculture reported a record 34.4 million Americans (one in nine) receiving food stamps in May as unemployment keeps surging. It was the sixth consecutive monthly record, and every state showed an increase as economic conditions worsen.

      On September 10, the Commerce Department will release 2008 census data expected to show around another 1.5 million people added to the poverty rolls over 2007 figures - a total of nearly 39 million representing 12.7% of Americans. According to Rebecca Blank, Economic Affairs Undersecretary, final numbers aren't yet in and may be worse than expected because of how bad things are for growing numbers in the country. She believes if (U-3) unemployment hits 10% (up from 9.4% now), poverty could reach 14.8% this year and rising because of jobs and homes lost, savings exhausted, and the sharpest ever decline in personal wealth between mid-2007 and December 2008.

      Worst of all, conditions for most people are deteriorating as businesses, states, and local governments shed workers and cut budgets at the worst possible time. It promises harder times ahead and potentially millions more impoverished.

      "I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have: three meals a day for their bodies, - education and culture for their minds - and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits" Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • Mandate + No Public Option = Political Malpractice

      Anybody who thinks that kind of "reform" will be popular with anyone outside the insurance industry needs to get their head examined.
      http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/142234/mandate_%2B_no_public_option_%3D_polit...

      Fear & Greed Corp reigns under the guise of Mindfuck Inc. !

      “Look what the Republican Party stands for: opposition to American working men and women, the channeling of trillions of dollars to the richest Americans, hatred of gays, hatred of immigrants, continued smoldering racism, opposition to desperately needed health care reforms, opposition to all environmental protections, spitting hatred for science, hatred for public schools, hatred of all those who are not fundamentalist Christians, support for torture, support for rendition, and support for the fantastically corrupt Bush-Cheney regime. The conservative cancer is the perpetuation of all the worst features of American life–intolerance, fear, prejudice, and tribalism.”

      “Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth” – Publius Cornelius Tacitus

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
  • desertcat
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      desertcat  

    • We are never going to get health care, Social Security will be dead before I am. The baby boomers are all dying off and the YUPPIE generation think their high powered, high paying jobs will last forever and let them live in luxury when they get old. America is becoming a third world nation with a dead car industry, factories operating overseas, half the country owned by foreigners. Even right now most of South America has a lower infant mortality rate than we do. Our concerns are making sure their is prayer in school, a nativity scene in every city park, gun in every hand and what color panties Paris Hilton is wearing. And don't forget soon all those soldiers will be returning from the Middle East and they sure in the hell do care to see you give them a parade and then tell them their medical coverage is limited, gi bill is broke and what in the hell is post combat syndrome.

    • 2 years ago
  • barbara3d
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      barbara3d  
    • desertcat:

      Do your research on the Baby Boomers. Most are alive and well and even working in this rough economy.There was a piece on ABC News about it. Who knew Charlie himself is 66 y/o. We are fit, eat well, and keep our minds active . We don't sit in rocking chairs like the previous generation did. You are right about the youngest generation coming up. Spoiled rotten, given whatever they want. Little girls want to be "Princess" this and that. The role of parents is to love, not spoil, and BE A PARENT! They don't need you for a friend. Give them boundaries . Give them the true "role models" to follow. Real Heroes , not imaginary.

    • 2 years ago
  • chasingame
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      chasingame  

    • When are these politicians going to stop letting the lobbyist and and big businesses run this country and start doing the job we elected them to do?

    • 2 years ago
  • stopnoise
  • privateibber
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      privateibber  

    • Remember the old adage: The only time you will get a stop sign on an accident heavy corner, is to have a politician's family member hit by a car at that corner.
      The same holds true here. Nobody in this money laden echelon knows what it means not to get the ultimate in care.
      Since they will never know that feeling, it will never happen. They may have known in the humble roots that some of them claim. They do not know now.
      Sad. Very sad.

    • 2 years ago
  • Eleganza
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      Eleganza  

    • How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been 200 years at it. It's superb." - Gore Vida

      The above quote is perfect...it succinctly describes what will take America down in flames.

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • It's called artistic licence ;)

      ...and maybe the fact that 18% of Americans still believe the sun revolves around the earth and that numerous 'officials' think the earth & man where 'literally" created in 6 days some 6000 years ago has 'something' to do with it also...

      Call me disingenuous but the american psyche is not the sharpest knife in humanity's tool box !

      Maybe this has something to do with that...

      "So leading industrialists funded public schools—at once gifts to the working class and powerful tools for growing a more docile labor force. They hired education reformers, like Stanford’s Ellwood P. Cubberley, to design a public school system based on a Prussian method that sought to produce what he called “mediocre intellects . . . and ensure docile citizens.” Cubberley modeled our public schools after “factories, in which the raw product [the children] are to be shaped and fashioned . . . according to the specifications laid down.”
      http://rushkoff.com/books/life-incorporated/life-inc-chapter-one/

      or maybe this...

      A social & conversational disorder
      Sam Harris & Bill Maher about religions & the concept of God.
      The greatest intellectual fraud in history.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVES4a9Zq4M&feature=related

      but I digress ;)
      Anywho...

      "Kid's heads are filled with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read, they can't write, they can't think. Talk about child abuse. The school system as a whole qualifies. Go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts... " - Frank Zappa

      "How to get people to vote against their interests and to really think against their interests is very clever. It's the cleverest ruling class that I have ever come across in history. It's been 200 years at it. It's superb." - Gore Vidal

    • 2 years ago
  • bombastinator
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      bombastinator  

    • What's with repeating the number 8 times and then demanding in all caPs that We "get it"? Saying something multiple times doesn't make it more true. Nader originally built his reputation on sensationalist and extremely questionable statistics. I'm not saying he is wrong necessarily, but these days I wait for independant confirmation of anything he has to say.

    • 2 years ago
  • artemis6
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  

    • I always wanted to retire on a Caribbean island with a great healthcare plan, someplace where the weather is nice too. Someplace like Cuba.

    • 2 years ago
  • ampersand
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      ampersand  
    • pjacobs51:

      PJ:
      I recommend Thailand. Great, super affordable medical care and friendly, efficient well-educated staff.
      The Thai have universal access to excellent health care throughout the country. All the doctors and staff speak English (better than than any heard in US shopping malls today) and every doctor I met studied and did there internships in the U.S. (It may have helped that the current King (Rama VI) was born in Boston when his father attended Harvard Medical School.) The major hospitals seem like five star hotels;
      marble lobbies, fantastic equipment, instant check-in, instant service, and run by the Swiss. (Another favorite country of the Royal Family.)
      One can fly round trip to Thailand for less than $800. With the amount of money saved for any check-up or procedure, one can shop, have a great two week vacation with fantastic Thai food and return home better in personal and financial health than when one left.

    • 2 years ago
  • pjacobs51
  • barbara3d
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      barbara3d  
    • pjacobs51:

      Wow, since losing my COBRA @ $400/mo and doing a "conversion" as they like to call it which they must do by law....my insurance went up to $800/mo!!! It was that or a plethera of other insurance companies who "might consider me" IF they could examine my entire medical history since birth and fill out about 30 pages of medical questions. As a nurse I know how they "judge' you to be "high risk". They only want "healthy, non-pregnant, people" and stick it to the rest of us!

      "too young for Medicare, too old to work full time with my health problems. I would LOVE to move to Thailand. If I can convince my kids and grand kids to go. I am sure they have other problems though.

    • 2 years ago
  • ampersand
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      ampersand  
    • pjacobs51:

      It's an oft expressed wish. So many of my California friends want to move to Thailand, it's ridiculous.
      I, myself, go every winter.
      It's tragically true the U.S. is collapsing on several fronts after a long siege of viral greed and malignant ignorance. But, I'd still hate to fully abandon my sustainable redoubt here permanently after all the work to create it.
      I have bought good farm land in northern Thailand, just in case. I do love fresh papaya and mango every day there, when the days get short here. I even occasionally stock up on quality fitted clothing for the year, so, it's always tempting.
      As an architect, perhaps when it reaches critical mass here, I'll help create a sanctuary there for a few of the more literate "Exiles from Main St." encountered in my life and on Current.
      Sawadee, all.

    • 2 years ago
  • stopnoise
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      stopnoise  

    • The insurance companies is what is the problem. The Government practically designed the economic system and they will stand behind protecting their own design, the corporations. This is not a government for the people. It is for the Corporations. So as far as the Obama and his administration will go is to regulate the insurance companies and in turn the insurance companies can lobby back and take over at any time they wish when the public weaken and disperse. This will be the future yo-yo game of death. In the mean time 22,000 people die in the US every year from lack of healthcare. Who Cares? So what is to understand in the whole issue? Well actually it is simpple. People should understand that a human being it is not a product to be sold for profit. What the insurance companies does is to make you a product for profit. Until you wake up and understand that you are not a product to be sold for profit, we will go in this ride of death where no one cares about anything and a small group of people gets rich while the whole population gets Fk...!

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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      WhiteNoise  

    • There has rarely been a more auspicious time for a transforming Presidential leadership. Disgraced corporate capitalism has shattered the economy. The living conditions of millions of workers and pensioners whose taxes were taken to bail out these Wall Street crooks and gamblers are dismal.

      Rather than expressing remorse, the arrogant corporate lobbyists are working over Congress with ferocious demands, fueled by cash-register politics and paid Astroturf rallies back in the Congressional Districts.

      The giant corporations and their trade lobbies want no real health insurance reform that will reduce their monopolies and profiteering. They want no renewable and energy efficient standards interfering with their massive waste, pollution and inefficiency. They want no reductions in the bloated military budget surrounded by the waste, fraud and abuse of what President Eisenhower called the “military-industrial complex” in his farewell warning to the American people.

      The corporate supremacists want no changes in the deliberately complex and obscure tax laws favoring the corporate evaders and avoiders and the tax havens for the super-wealthy.
      In short, the global corporations want Washington, D.C.; to continue being their massive deregulator and cash cow perpetuating the abandoning of American workers, the pillaging of the American taxpayer and the defrauding of the American consumer.

      Between the Rhetoric and the Reality
      http://nader.org/index.php?/archives/2135-Between-the-Rhetoric-and-the-Reality.html

      I once saw Obama say that Michelle always had the last word in a discussion…
      Can someone please talk to our First Funky Lady ;)

    • 2 years ago
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