HealthCare Mad

If you are not reading this and passing it on, you are only a part of the problem.

Good Evening;
You all know by now that I have a back that is worth less than a bucket of poop. So when I cannot be physically busy, I am online and reading up everything I can with respect to this HealthCare bill. It is, (if you haven't figured out already), THAT important to me. 
I also feel it is that important to everyone that has 'health' (good, bad, or otherwise)...

I am not eloquent so bear with me.
Know that I write only what I have learned online.

• The radio is off.
  So while Rush Limbaugh was meritoriously citing Joe Wilson on his "Town~Hall~Mentality", he neatly forgot to include that Joe Wilson, (Yes, THAT Joe Wilson), Voted to Provide Taxpayer Money for Illegal Immigrants' Healthcare!

Wilson’s protest against the current HealthCare reform proposal giving coverage to illegal immigrants (which is false), is in direct contradiction to his 2003 vote.

• The TV is off.

• The dog is asleep at my feet.

Education.  Methinks we all need more of this.
Talk about an education with respect to all I have read... Kind of nice that, if one can really read and understand what they are reading. Free too.

I have been trying to get people to learn. Sometimes I feel that I am failing miserably, but if only one person "gets it" then my efforts are successful.


Most people haven't a clue why they are against the HealthCare reform!

• In my optomism I believe that if people can just SEE the facts, and understand the lawyer~speak, then we will have a bill that passes.

• The pessimist in me says that these people are unreachable and unteachable. They have made up their minds about this bill simply because someone or another told them to.

OR,

• simply because they want our President to fail. 
  
  • Do not deny that faction. The stinking hatred is everywhere

There are those that acknowledge that "something" needs to be done, but just don't want this particular bill.
Is there not a moral case for HealthCare?

Funny too, that those that are against it, can only cite these weird references of "I heard"... or "I don't like" or... 
Not even close to good enough!
I have seen very few ideas, or hardcore examples of a better bill. (Wait that's another blog)...

Cite me something REAL that I can sink my teeth and my brain into.

CITE ME THE BILL, (and not by picking and choosing a few words that "may be" well misinterpreted and not understood by the masses).

CITE ME THE PARAGRAPH you have a problem with. And perhaps that problem can be explained.

It has been brought to my attention that this is not a perfect bill.  I wholeheartedly agree.
But I must also add that if we (as a new nation) had waited for perfection, we would still be under English rule!

Wait for perfection? You're kidding, right?! (Of course, this goes back to telling me WHAT -exactly- you don't like in the 1st place).

"Whatever may be motivating these Democrats, they don’t seem able to explain their reasons in public.
what’s really going on is that relatively [conservative Americans] still cling to the old dream of becoming kingmakers, of recreating the bipartisan center that used to run America...  this fantasy can’t be allowed to stand in the way of giving America the health care reform it needs

This time, the alleged center must not hold."

Waiting for 'perfect' is not going to happen. This, because we, as a people, are not perfect. This, because we, as a nation are not perfect either. We are human, thus we are imperfect. And we always will be.
Get over yourself already!
It should go without saying anything that comes up, thought, written, done, or otherwise, will not be perfect.
Nor will it be one size fits all.

What I find awfully striking is that, to some, nothing will ever be good enough for them to be at peace with.

For those very few, I find you to be of a sad sort. And a terribly arrogant sort as well.

• Perhaps you have had good health all of your life.
• Perhaps you have always had a good job that provided you with insurance.
• Perhaps that same job enabled you to be "comfortable" enough.

Know that you are in a shrinking minority.
That same minority depletes itself daily. Not only in America, but around the world.

Know that my personal definition tells me that you are to be pitied if you cannot learn something constructive every day of your life.

Marie Corelli wrote:
"He who will not reason is a bigot,
He who cannot is a fool,
And he who dares not is a slave.
No slavery is more abject, and no slave is in a more terrible condition than he whose every single brain-cell is enchained to senseless, incomprehensible dogmas; and who makes no effort at all to free himself from this slavery, knowing consciously or unconsciously perhaps, the utter absurdity of the doctrines he professes to cherish as true."

I have learned that 45% (forty-five percent) of Americans went without needed care because of costs in 2007.

"The claim ... that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens ... is a lie, plain and simple." ~President Obama


As was pointed out on (a) previous blog(s), there is no 'death panel', although I am understanding why the thought of one may scare the bejeezus out of those who are idiotic enough to believe such a thing in the 1st place.
But what I don't understand is why people still see counseling wording as a death threat after having the truth in their face for months now.
Talk about dumb dogs. Wrong. My dog learns faster than that, only having the need to be told about 5 times before getting the hang of it.

If this is a test, way too many of us would flunk.

• There are Republicans.
• There are Democrats.
• There are many other common titles, misnomers.
  
  

 Funny, the only one I need is "American"...


If your insurance comes through United Health Care, you already have issue with their end of life clause.
(Or didn't you read the fine print there)?

If your insurer is Blue Cross and Blue Shield, they are using your premiums for elaborate parties.

When Private Insurers Claim They Can't Compete Against a Public Health Insurance Option, They Just Make Themselves Look Silly
www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/when-private-insurers-cla_b_220135.html
"Just conceptually, the notion that all these insurance companies who say they're giving consumers the best possible deal, if they can't compete against a public plan as one option, with consumers making the decision what's the best deal, that defies logic."

The Best Health Care Industry Lobbying Money Can Buy

Money talks and with multi-millions it bellows. The Center for Responsive Politics (CRP) keeps track of how loudly. It says that during the 2008 election cycle, health sector political contributions totaled over $167 million, and for the first time since 1992, Democrats got more than Republicans.

However, lobbying spending is far greater. With national attention on health care reform, corporate interests spent $126 million in 2009 Q 1, and topped it with "the most cash on federal-level lobbying efforts in" Q 2. "The health sector was the No. 1 sector, spending $133 million during the second quarter of 2009. And within the 100-plus industries that CRP tracks, the pharmaceutical/health products industry was again the top dog on K Street, spending roughly $68 million during the quarter."

The biggest contributors included the Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Amgen, and the American Hospital Association. These interests favor mandated insurance coverage but oppose a public option. Big Pharma also wants strong patent protection rights to delay the availability of cheaper generics and no change in the ability to charge high prices. Until health care issues are resolved, lobbying and political contributions will continue at a ferocious pace, and as always yield industry-friendly results at the expense of real change.

That's only possible with universal single-payer coverage, the one true fix off-the-table and not considered, so what's ahead is one of two options - leaving today's dysfunctional system in place or making it worse. Either way, US health care will keep costing more and delivering less. Financial solvency ahead will more than ever depend on staying well because illness for most Americans will be unaffordable. The best democracy money can buy assures it


"Covering the 50 million uninsured and upgrading coverage for the tens of millions who are underinsured will cost hundreds of billions each year. A single-payer reform would make this affordable through vast savings on bureaucracy and profits.

As we’ve shown, administration consumes 31 percent of health spending in the United States, nearly double what Canada spends. If we cut our bureaucratic costs to Canadian levels, we’d save nearly $400 billion annually — more than enough to cover the uninsured and to eliminate co~payments and deductibles for all Americans.

Altogether, U.S. hospitals could save about $120 billion annually on bureaucracy under a single payer system. And doctors in the U.S. could save about $95 billion each year, which they now waste fighting with insurance companies and filling out useless paperwork."


Hard Times And Health Insurance:
How Many Americans Will Be Uninsured By 2010?
Todd P. Gilmer and Richard G. Kronick
In earlier work we demonstrated that increases in the cost of health care accounted for the decline in insurance coverage from 1979 to 2002. Here we examine whether our model adequately accounts for observed changes in coverage though 2007, and we provide an estimate of the effects of the recession on the number of uninsured Americans through 2010. We project that the number will increase by at least 6.9 million.
The estimate does not directly take into account the additional effects of job losses, which are likely to add millions more to the number of uninsured Americans


So let's start and end here...

Here's the bill
www.edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf

Here's your reality check
www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/

Here's FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
*** Health insurance reform FAQs  
www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/faq


Here's to contact The White House
*** Contact the White House: 
www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/contact

For more information, visit HealthReform.gov 
Also includes link to Español 
www.whitehouse.gov/spanish/


Want to check the facts yourself?
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/

We need MORE congress people like Mr John Dingle
"Dingell is well known, and often feared"

United States House Energy Subcommittee on Health

*********AGAIN*********

Please just educate yourselves already!
That means taking the time to read the bill,
& past whatever seems convenient to your own suppositions.

Don't bother about quoting the trash that Sarah Palin is putting out there.
(A web search will quickly dispel almost ALL of her claims as FALSE).

THESE ARE NUMBERS OF USA DEATHS PER YEAR
BY CAUSE:

12,000 -- unnecessary surgery
7,000 -- medication errors in hospitals
20,000 -- other errors in hospitals
80,000 -- infections in hospitals
106,000 -- non-error, negative effects of drugs

These total to 225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes! These are IN ADDITION TO the 22,000 people that die every year because they do not have insurance

Using the figures above, that is 677 Americans every day.
28 people have died in the hour that it has taken me to put this out here for you.
Something has got to be done.

As I said, my back is a pile of poo, it is hard to sit for long. Having given up on my back, I am fortunate enough to have my brain functioning, ...most of the time.
My heart is in the right place as well.

As I began, so I will end.  If you are not spreading this around, then you are only and integral part of the problem.
I call that apathy at its finest.

XOXO
Me