The plan, reported by several English-language Chinese media outlets, has raised concern among those who are working to guard the United States from outside influences that could be threats.
According to the Global Times English-language edition, the national flag of the communist People's Republic of China on Sept. 20 will be raised for the first time on the White House's south lawn – a secured area seldom available for public events – in recognition of the Chinese anniversary.
"The ceremony has gotten official approval," Xiao Shuigen, secretary of the Union of Chinese American Professional Organizations, told the Times.
First of all, I'd be curious to hear your take on what both of your Democratic colleagues here on the panel are saying. But also, the 2003 Medicare prescription drug benefit bill, which President Bush signed, had a trigger in it, a trigger that's never been pulled.
If President Obama now supports a trigger, you know, that would give private insurance companies, let's say, four years to provide an affordable insurance policy, would that be more acceptable to Republicans?
GINGRICH: I don't think so. I mean, the 2003 bill had a trigger which said specifically only non-governmental entities could be developed.
It did not have a trigger that led to government, because if you say to the government bureaucracy, 'As long as you find it has failed, you get to build a brand-new bureaucracy,' you have a guarantee the trigger's going to go into effect. I mean, you — you're only delaying for four years what will become a 100-year problem. But let me just make a — and I agree with Senator Alexander from this standpoint. Mrs. Clinton came to see us in 1993, and we gave her our best advice, which is don't do a comprehensive bill. I said to her at the time, 'Do one bill a year for"
Thousands of women are being denied better osteoporosis drugs because of unnecessarily restrictive Government guidelines, a doctor said last night.
Professor David Reid, an expert on brittle bones, said the rules are so stringent that GPs are often prevented from giving alternative treatments to those suffering side-effects from their pills.
A once-a-year jab that could save thousands from the misery of broken bones is also not going to be assessed for use on the NHS in England and Wales for at least three years, despite being available in Scotland
Frail: There are 230,000 people in the UK who break weakened bones each year
It means that sufferers are being denied drugs that could have a major impact on their health and their quality of life. The news will reignite the debate about the evaluation system used by drugs rationing body the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
NICE has previously been criticised for banning or restricting breakthrough medicines for conditions such as breast cancer and Alzheimer's.
Hoffa said that he was only interested in what was “doable” and that they need to “get something done… and declare a victory.”
Now let’s take a look at these quotes from Mr. Hoffa, shall we? What does it mean if we aren’t seeing obliged union support without integrity for Obama’s healthcare coming from Hoffa’s Teamsters? Hoffa is saying that he doesn’t care at all what healthcare “reform” will look like as long as they can get it done with and “declare a victory.”
This is unprincipled support of Obama’s healthcare purely for political reasons. What would Hoffa and the unions get from such unprincipled support of Obama’s socialist take over of one sixth of our nation’s economy? Why is Hoffa so disinterested in the actual outcome of the healthcare debate as long as they win it? What will Hoffa get out of this?
It’s all a gambit leading to what the unions really want: the Employee Free Choice Act."
Unions are being politically and financially taken care of in the health care plans. They are NOT helping Ameicans, only their pension funds and own interests. This is Chicago politics 101.
The New Media Journal | New Healthcare Infrastructure Would Subjugate Americans by Diane M. Grassi: "“This is just one sliver of it, one aspect of it,” President Barack Obama quipped, upon word on August 16, 2009, that his administration is supposedly revisiting the Public Option of its proposed healthcare legislation. Indeed. For virtually missing from the nationwide dialogue on President Barack Obama’s call to reform healthcare as we know it, is any detailed discussion as to how it would essentially operate and be structured; slivers and all.
Perhaps such details have wisely remained absent, as the proposed infrastructure, as laid out primarily in the House of Representatives’ H.R. 3200, known as America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, would not only change healthcare for every American, but would reconstitute its delivery system both for the private sector as well as federal agencies, some of which have yet to be formed.
Inducing Americans into believing that of which fairy tales are made is at worse deceitful and at best disingenuous:
“But what we’ll do is, we’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies. And so"
Obama, in Campaign Mode, Vows Action on Health - WSJ.com: "CINCINNATI -- President Barack Obama shifted into campaign mode Monday, declaring that the time for debate on health care is over and vowing to move fast to enact a sweeping overhaul of the system this year.
Speaking at a boisterous Labor Day rally of AFL-CIO members, Mr. Obama led the first 'fired up, ready to go' chant of his presidency, reaching back to a hallmark of his presidential campaign. He recounted a low moment from his quest for the White House to try to seize control of a health-care debate that strayed from his grasp this summer."
Remember Obama is constructing his OWN health care now. So it will be a thousand pages, thrown to congress and they will be told to vote, no reading the bill, no time, must be done now or else some major catastrophe will befall us. See fascists don't like debates or people actually reading their laws, they just want compliance.
Here is video of a combative and arrogant President Obama today speaking to the AFL-CIO where he declared the time for debating Health Care is "over." "It's time to act."
Obama said in a rather condescending voice, "The debate has been good." But he went on to make his statement that Americans have debated this enough.
Obama then called "lies" concerns by anti-ObamaCare opponents about the impact of Government-run Care on the seriously ill and other matters. He then said opponents have no plan of their own, which is absolutely not true, and he knows it.
I don't think President Obama gets to decide when something has been debated enough. Remember, Obama never wanted this debate. He intended to ram Health Care through in less than two weeks' time prior to the end of July. But the outcry - including from "Blue Dog" Democrats - kept him from doing so. Obama's speech today makes it clear he is wounded and angry, and he is going to try and ram something through Congress. His combative tone appears to signal how the Democrats will return from their month of listening to Americans. I don't think the Democrats and the President intend to heed what they have heard.
Do you think it is coincidental that Obama has signed an executive order that all federal construction MUST be Union workers now?
New Fee on Health Insurance Companies Is Proposed to Help Expand Coverage - NYTimes.com: "WASHINGTON — In a last effort to give the Senate a bipartisan health care bill, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee circulated a comprehensive proposal on Sunday to overhaul the health care system and proposed a new fee on insurance companies to help pay for coverage of the uninsured."
The proposal is the culmination of more than a year of work by the chairman, Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana. A similar fee was proposed by several liberal Democrats in July. In making it part of his proposal, Mr. Baucus may help cover the costs of the bill but also risks alienating Republicans whom he is trying to win over. Mr. Baucus is struggling to forge a bipartisan consensus among 6 of the 23 senators on his committee before President Obama puts new pressure on lawmakers in an address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday evening.
THIS is why medical insurance is so high. Liberals tax everything which gets passed onto the consumer. Don't complain that insurance is so expensive and then tax it more. naturally the taxes have to be paid by the consumer (US) one way or another.
The first question we should be asking in the healthcare debate is: Why should anyone think that politicians would do a better job redesigning our healthcare than the free market?
After all, politicians have helped create the problems (healthcare costs increasing at an unsustainable rate and a growing number of uninsured) that politicians now are in a hurry to try to fix. For example:
Tax subsidies for employer-purchased insurance have encouraged the overconsumption of healthcare (because many employers have purchased insurance tantamount to prepaid healthcare), limited employees' choice of insurance plans to whatever the employer offers, and required employees to switch plans (and sometimes lose coverage) when changing jobs.
The medical liability system has encouraged healthcare providers to practice defensive medicine (i.e., order procedures and make referrals primarily to avoid liability for malpractice rather than to benefit patients) amounting to an estimated 8-15% of total healthcare expenditures (an estimated $201-$376 billion in 2009).
The government has been mismanaging the trillions of dollars held in trust for current and future Medicare beneficiaries. The trust funds will be exhausted in 2017. Medicare fraud costs up to $80 billion a year (15-20% of Medicare spending).
Because Medicare and Medicaid don't fully reimburse the costs of physicians and hospitals to provide services, purchasers of private insurance pay a hidden tax of almost $90 billion each year to make up the difference.
Benefits that the government mandates insurers cover increase the cost of basic health insurance by 20-50%.
Now that politicians are putting their minds to "comprehensive" reform, it's fair to ask whether proposed reforms will improve healthcare. For example:
Unions across the country are campaigning hard for Obamacare over Labor Day weekend. The AFL-CIO has made creating a government run “public plan” their top priority. Yet polls show that most Americans strongly oppose this. So why have the self-proclaimed advocates for America’s workers made government-run health care their top priority?
Union leaders say they are fighting to win “win secure, high-quality health care for all” against greedy and self-interested corporate defenders of the status quo. Many union activists sincerely believe this. But altruism does not explain why the labor movement is spending tens of millions of dollars on this campaign.
Organized labor is campaigning for government-run health care for the same reason that the private insurance industry is campaigning against it -- it is very much in their self interest. The union movement will gain billions of dollars if Obamacare passes.
The most obvious payout is the taxpayer bailout for union health plans. Many union-negotiated retiree health plans cannot pay their scheduled benefits. Rather than reducing benefits, the bill passes those costs onto taxpayers to the tune of $10 billion. But that is small potatoes compared to what the bill will do for union membership.
Unbelievable! Barack Obama's wacky communist-Truther Green Czar who hated Bush, whitey and capitalism also spent some time in the music studio. While he was director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights Van Jones cut a vile CD against whites, the government, Israel, The Man, oil companies, and everything else American. Van Jones was even featured in the recording!
**Verum Serum discovered this and has much more on Van Jones the record producer:
Here are a few of the lines from hate-filled anti-white, anti-American, anti-Israeli recording by Van Jones and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights:
Various Singers-Poets: The American way, manufactuered by these white folks in office. By these rich men here to mock us. The United States is a stolen land led by right-wing, war hungry, oil thirsty. And when it's all said and done they still can't clean their own place because they got people of color playing servant to do that sh*t for them... The true terrorists are made in the US, in this police state... The US is a crack-fiend for oil. And they're ready to rape, kill, assault, rob anybody and everybody...
Bombing babies in the night. Two wrongs don't make a right... The US needs to exit its colonies in Iraq, in the region and finally in Israel.
Van Jones: At this point. The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We have to be here. No American would put up with an Israeli-style occupation of their hometown for 53 days let alone 54 years. US tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the US borders and outside the US borders.
Van Jones sounds like fellow Jew-haters Bill Ayers, Rashid Khalidi, and Jeremiah Wright. What a shock.
It's worth pointing out that Ben Smith at Politico has spoken to two signatories of that petition, Rabbi Michael Lerner and historian Howard Zinn, who say they were misled about what they were signing. And the conservative website Little Green Footballs points out that Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of “Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It' has posted on her website, the American Center for Democracy: 'PLEASE NOTE: Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld is not a signatory of the 911Truth.org. She has asked several times to have her named removed from the list, but the organization failed to comply.'
On Friday, another link between Jones and the Truther movement seemed to have emerged Friday, though a source close to Jones denied it."
The Provocateur: The Chicago Way Won't Work in D.C.: "A lot of folks have tried to hyper analyze the influences on President Obama. One influence that largely goes unnoticed outside of the city of Chicago is the influence of Mayor Richard Daley. President Obama made his initial political base in the Hyde Park area of Chicago. No one gets any political power in the city of Chicago without the seal of approval of the mayor himself. Yet, the link between the two is often overlooked. Only John Kass of the Chicago Tribune has done a very good job of making the link.
It's amusing to watch the Washington political establishment feign shock, now that President Barack Obama's reform administration has used a clay foot to vigorously kick one inspector general and boot another out the door.One inspector general foolishly investigated a friend of the president. Another inspector general audited those juicy bonuses given to AIG executives as part of $700 billion federal bailout of the financial industry.
It's a decent man-bites-dog story, at least until North Korea tries lobbing a few missiles toward Hawaii. But until that happens, the political talk shows will buzz about Neil Barofsky, the inspector general overseeing the financial bailout.
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But our president is from Chicago. Obama's Media Merlin David Axelrod and chief of staff Rahm Emanue"
Because, at the moment, doing nothing creates a lot less trouble for Pelosi than doing anything, current and former House aides tell POLITICO.
Stripping the Harlem Democrat of his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee would force Pelosi to make a series of unpalatable decisions about Rangel’s successor that would create a ruckus in the Democratic caucus.
It would also infuriate the Congressional Black Caucus, which is still sore over Pelosi’s decision to strip committees from former Louisiana Rep. Bill Jefferson – even after Jefferson had been found with a wad of tainted cash in his kitchen.
“Unless they find $90,000 in his freezer, like they did with Jefferson, we’re going to wait [for the outcome of a House ethics probe],” said a Democratic aide familiar with Pelosi’s thinking on the matter.
Staffers say the speaker has been so focused on the health care battle that she simply hasn’t devoted much time to Rangel’s recent troubles – and there’s no push among House Democrats to heed the fire-Rangel cries of Republicans, the New York Times, Washington Post and Buffalo News.
In our ongoing battle against the radicals in the Obama administration, the forced resignation of Van Jones is a small victory.
I encourage you to savor the moment. WorldnetDaily covered the story from the beginning. Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity gave the story immense outlets.
Here at Expose Obama we were activated from the beginning. Our fax campaign on the White House Czars prominently featured Van Jones, and we were instrumental in encouraging members of Congress to call for his resignation.
In his resignation statement Van Jones said, "On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me. They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."
Let us be clear. It is not a smear to speak the truth. Van Jones is not a victim of our campaign, he is the victim of his own misguided leftwing ideology.
Our so-called smear campaign existed of telling people the truth about Van Jones. Expose Obama is proud of our small part in this effort.
Thank you for participating. Enjoy the holiday weekend and savor the victory. On Tuesday, we go back to work. Expose Obama will not cease its campaign until Barack Obama himself is gone.
We spoke to the author of “The Language Police,” education historian Diane Ravitch, who said textbook publishers censor images or words they deem to be controversial in children’s textbooks. She told us that publishers pander to special interest groups, and assemble bias and sensitivity review committees. These committees decide what words to ban or redefine, and even what images are deemed offensive.
And we examined some college textbooks both in print and in digital forms. We found a glaring mistake in an expensive history book written by Alan Brinkley, Provost at New York’s Columbia University.
And in Fairfax County Virginia, questions remain about what textbooks are used in the private Islamic Saudi Academy. The ISA teaches about 1000 students each year pre-K — 12. Questions have been raised about its textbooks at least since 2006."
Van Jones Resigns. Glenn Beck, Free Republic, Fox News Embarrass Media - Associated Content: "Van Jones, green jobs czar, resigns. Van Jones said that opponents of reform have forced him to resign. Van Jones has been revealed as a 'truther', someone who believes that President Bush and others mounted the 9/11 attack on New York City. Most Americans did not know who Van Jones was, much less what he believes, until Glenn Beck brought him out into the sunlight for all to see.
Glenn Beck feels like Americans should know who is running things in the White House. Who are they? What do they stand for? What do they believe in? Starting last week Glenn Beck started introducing the czars of the White House to the American people. He went in to great detail and used their own words via video and written works that showed us all who these czars are. It was both revealing and shocking."
Well its finally happened, Goofball Sportscaster turned full time goofball Keith Olbermannn finally had an explosion in his shrinking cranium. Personally I thought he had totally lost it when he started calling the comparing Bin Laden's driver's legal battle an example of urinating on the constitution:
So, besides urinating on the Constitution and the rights and freedoms every American soldier has ever fought to win and protect, the Bush administration has now decided that when its victims have actually served their sentences, doled out under its own medieval, quote, "justice," unquote, system, it still might not choose to set them free, thereby giving that Constitution and our country a second pass on the way out.
Or last year on 9/11 when the political campaigns both vowed to be non political (no political appearances, no attack ads) this festering boil on the backside of TVs, claimed that John McCain hijacked 9/11 turning it into a political commodity (and trust me-he meant to use the word HIJACKED). He placed the entire blame of 9/11 on the criminal negligence of George Bush and Rudy Giuliani (as if Bill Clinton never existed). Then he went on to say that the Republican party was wrong for remembering 9/11 during its convention.
Major Fail: Hate Talker Van Jones « RBO: "You knew it was coming, the post mortem for failed “communist” (small c) “green jobs” czar (small c) Van Jones. (If you need to catch up, see RBO’s The Van Jones Reader.)
In case you missed it, Michelle Malkin linked to RBO yesterday for Trevor Loudon’s first article on April 6 which outted Jones’ radical past. RBO’s article was topped with links to RBO’s three articles about STORM, the radical Marxist-Leninst-Maoist training organization in California that credited itself as the parent to an endless stream of like-minded radical groups in the Bay area. Malkin also linked to Aaron Klein’s April 12 WND article, Will a ‘red’ help blacks go green? White House appoints ‘radical communist’ who sees environment as racial issue. Malkin used these articles to prove to one and all that the Jones’ story had come to light months before Fox News Channel’s Glenn Beck came on-board — and as proof that the Jones issue was not, as Leftists want everyone to believe, a recent one cooked up by Beck in retaliation for the attack on him by ColorOfChange.org, a group founded by Jones. Cudos to all of us!
Other voices have joined the “they should have known” category."
It is becoming painfully obvious that Obama really believes his own press releases about his awesomeness. He can't seem to stop putting himself in the spotlight. He will have another primetime speech this week, although it will likely be outdrawn by the Golf Channel's repeat of "Bermuda or Bentgrass?". He is even going to be the first US President to ever chair the UN Security Council. I guess he figgered he could apologize to a bunch of countries all at once and save some travel time. What a narcissistic wanker, he thinks everything is better with some Obama. Well sorry buddy, but you are not bacon, or cowbell for that matter.The only upside is that his complete overexposure is showing just how much of a teleprompter Jesus, empty suit he is. Not much there, there is there?
Mark Lloyd, Barack Obama and the Media Justice Movement « RBO: "Drawing inspiration from the environmental justice movement, media justice proponents are developing race-, class- and gender-conscious visions for changing media content and structure.
That’s what Makani Themba-Nixon and Nan Rubin wrote in the November 17, 2003, issue of the Institute for Policy Studies-affiliated The Nation. The authors continue (Emphasis added throughout this article.):
Using media as an organizing tool is certainly not new. For more than fifty years, America has nurtured a vibrant, alternative, overtly political media voice. But in the past few years, in response to glaring news failures like the 2000 presidential election and the “homeland security” journalism in the wake of 9/11, a broad convergence of activists launched a coordinated drive to reform media and use it to advance their broader agendas."
The Los Angeles Times writes today that 'voters losing faith in the president are the ones he had worked hardest to attract.'
Among white Democrats, Obama’s job approval rating has dropped 11 points since his 100-days mark in April, according to surveys by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. It has dropped by 9 points among white independents and whites over 50, and by 12 points among white women — all groups that will be targeted by both parties in next year's midterm elections.
'While Obama has a lock on African Americans, his support among white voters seems to be almost in a free fall,' said veteran Republican pollster Neil Newhouse.
Obama is fast losing white voters' support -- latimes.com: "Reporting from Washington - After a summer of healthcare battles and sliding approval ratings for President Obama, the White House is facing a troubling new trend: The voters losing faith in the president are the ones he had worked hardest to attract.
New surveys show steep declines in Obama's approval ratings among whites -- including Democrats and independents -- who were crucial elements of the diverse coalition that helped elect the country's first black president.
Among white Democrats, Obama’s job approval rating has dropped 11 points since his 100-days mark in April, according to surveys by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. It has dropped by 9 points among white independents and whites over 50, and by 12 points among white women -- all groups that will be targeted by both parties in next year's midterm elections."
This is a video of an old man (the likes of which actually built this country) at a town hall meeting in New Hampshire. From what I understand, the old guy asked if the people in front of him were even from NH- he implied the congresswoman packed the small venue with supporters/friends. He is then dragged away by guys in black- what uniforms are the officers wearing?
While the number of jobs lost in August was down – a sign pointed to as evidence the recession is turning around – there was an increase in the number of people claiming unemployment. That figure jumped to 9.7 percent for all workers, up .3 percent from July and the highest level recorded in more than two decades.
The August bump was driven by increases in the jobless rates for adult men, Whites and Hispanics, but unemployment rates for African-Americans grew faster than those for the subgroups of adult men and Whites. The increase for Hispanics, seasonally adjusted, climbed 0.7 percent, to 13 percent for August.
The overall unemployment rate for African-Americans increased 0.6 percent from July to 15.1 percent. The rate for adult Black males increased 1.2 percent to 17 percent and the rate for adult Black females increased only 0.2 percent to 11.9 percent.
More than 2.3 million Americans have lost their jobs since the stimulus went into effect, and that’s a big chunk of the 6.9 million jobs that have been lost since the recession started last year.
Many economists believe unemployment is a lagging indicator during a recession and is often the last part of the economy to recover.
Vice President Joe Biden said last week the stimulus is working better than the administration had hoped, and federal money is being filtered down to states for construction and other projects and while things haven’t improved fully, the economy is improving.
Biden said in a speech at the Brookings Institution, Sept. 3."
Van Jones, the Obama green jobs czar who resigned shortly after midnight Sunday, did not fill out the exhaustive questionnaire White House officials required of every Cabinet-level secretary and deputy-secretary position.
An administration official said special advisers to the president, or czars, are not required to fill out the questionnaire that runs 7 pages and contains 63 questions.
The entire questionnaire, the official said, is reserved for appointees who must win Senate confirmation.
Among the varied topics covered in the questionnaire: history as a lobbyist or other 'legislative agent', tax liens, bankruptcies, spousal employment, potential conflicts of interest, domestic help, internet 'handles' and Facebook pages, and traffic fines in excess of $50.
They didn't have to vet his ideas because as top Obama aide Valerie Jarrett said, they knew all about him and what he believed in. (see video here, scroll down bellow the fold)
A former Bush administration official doesn't quite buy that story.
During the Bush Administration any White House staffer with policymaking or public responsibilities would have undergone substantial vetting. At a minimum, the potential hire would have been asked the"
Van Jones, the Obama green jobs czar who resigned shortly after midnight Sunday, did not fill out the exhaustive questionnaire White House officials required of every Cabinet-level secretary and deputy-secretary position.
An administration official said special advisers to the president, or czars, are not required to fill out the questionnaire that runs 7 pages and contains 63 questions.
The entire questionnaire, the official said, is reserved for appointees who must win Senate confirmation.
Among the varied topics covered in the questionnaire: history as a lobbyist or other "legislative agent", tax liens, bankruptcies, spousal employment, potential conflicts of interest, domestic help, internet "handles" and Facebook pages, and traffic fines in excess of $50.
Question 61 reads as follows: "Have you had any association with any person, group or business venture that could be used - even unfairly - to impugn or attack your character and qualifications for government service?"
That question might have raised a flag since Jones signed a 2004 petition calling for an investigation into potential government complicity in the 9/11 attrocities that left nearly 3,000 civilians dead in coordinated hijacked airplane attacks in New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania.
The petition was collected by 911Truth.org. It can be read here:
Now CNN blames this on Race ... what have they not reported? CNN is as big a joke as MSNBC at this point. No credibility at all.
Here are some of the worst things about Van Jones that are not being reported broadly, even now. All of this links to the original sources are listed with links below
After arrested during the Rodney King riots in LA...“Jones had planned to move to Washington, DC, and had already landed a job and an apartment there. But in jail, he said, "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.'" Although he already had a plane ticket, he decided to stay in San Francisco. "I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary." In the months that followed, he let go of any lingering thoughts that he might fit in with the status quo. "I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist." In 1994, the young activists formed a socialist collective, Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, [co-founded with a member of the weather underground] which held study groups on the theories of Marx and Lenin and dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia.” http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/PrintFriendly?oid=290098 November 2, 2005
Van Jones named his one year old son after African Communist AMILCAR CABRAL. You can read a tribute to this man on the website of The South African Communist Party here: http://www.sacp.org.za/docs/history/dadoo-19.html
See a PDF of STORM’s [Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, [co-founded with a member of the weather underground] own document speaking of its history and actions published in 2004. Van Jones was a founding member and leader of this group in Berkley/Oakland. Note the following: Page 24 – In referring to STORM’s “ new constitution,” “The new structure created a Marxist-committed Core within a broadly revolutionary General Membership. We did this to maintain the centrality and leadership of revolutionary Marxism while making space for revolutionaries of all stripes to join and participate in STORM’s General Membership.” “Our new Points of Unity represented an unorthodox and somewhat eclectic form of Marxism. We drew on the strengths of the communist tradition while challenging it to place a greater priority on gender, race, democracy, and mass organizing. Specifically, we upheld revolutionary democracy, revolutionary feminism, revolutionary internationalism, the central role of the working class, urban Marxism and Third World Communism. Page 25 – “we decided to initiate four working groups” including “Workers Organized to Rid us of Capitalism” and “Revolutionary Youth Movement (Rym, pronounced Rhyme). http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/stormsummation.pdf
[NOTE, this is the day after 911 attack. The report is on the 13th of September 2001] “A recurring theme of the speakers was the brutal violence committed by or supported by the United States government on a daily basis.” "The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City," said Van Jones, director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights….” http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGJkZWQ4NWI3NWJlZTljOWI5OTRhMDI3OGM1NjU0MjE=
See the excerpts from an album Van Jones produced, including rants against Israel, produced by Van Jones organization the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. The "host" speaking the voice over is Mumia Abu-Jamal who is a convicted cop-killer sitting on death row in California.
Including... Various Singers-Poets: The American way, manufactured by these white folks in office. By these rich men here to mock us. The United States is a stolen land led by right-wing, war hungry, oil thirsty. And when it's all said and done they still can't clean their own place because they got people of color playing servant to do that sh*t for them... The true terrorists are made in the US, in this police state... The US is a crack-fiend for oil. And they're ready to rape, kill, assault, rob anybody and everybody...
Bombing babies in the night. Two wrongs don't make a right... The US needs to exit its colonies in Iraq, in the region and finally in Israel.
Van Jones: At this point. The end of the occupation. The right of return of the Palestinian people. These are critical dividing lines in human rights. We have to be here. No American would put up with an Israeli-style occupation of their hometown for 53 days let alone 54 years. US tax dollars are funding violence against people of color inside the US borders and outside the US borders. http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/unreal-van-jones-even-released-war.html
Van Jones Calls Marxists, Anarchists & ‘Spiritual People’ to ‘Convergence’ Activism http://www.breitbart.tv/the-movie-van-jones-calls-marxists-anarchists-spiritual-people-to-convergence-activism/
Van Jones audio from "Uprising Radio" where he states that the green movement will be used to "go beyond systems of exploitation and oppression all together." "So the green economy will start off as a small subset, and we're going to push it and push it and push it, until it becomes the engine for transforming the whole society." http://maroonedinmarin.blogspot.com/2009/09/obamas-green-jobs-czar-goal-of-green.html
Van Jones: Only ‘Suburban White Kids’ Shoot Up Schools http://www.breitbart.tv/van-jones-only-suburbal-white-kids-shoot-up-schools/
Then, after all this, you must watch this video. This lady is Obama's right hand he brought with him from Chicago. In the video she clearly states they were watching him and his ideas for years before they pulled him into the white house.
Obama the Weak: "There are three President Obamas. There's the Obama who defers, the one who dithers, and the one who's out of touch. The Obama presidencies have one thing in common. They're all weak.
Obama is a great talker. He's also what used to be called a 'press hound.' That's a politician who can't go a single day without lavish attention from the media. But talking and availability aren't the same as leading. Nearly eight months into his presidency, Obama has yet to offer strong leadership, on anything.
What's more, Obama is a liberal who's surrounded himself with liberals. His weakness makes his liberal domestic policies more vulnerable than they otherwise would be. For a moment after Obama's inauguration, Republicans were fearful of him. They quickly found that opposing him is safe and fruitful.
But presidential weakness is dangerous in foreign affairs. Obama has been deferential to adversaries and tough on allies. He's pretended problems with Russia are as much America's fault as Russia's, taken human rights off the table with China, begged Iran to talk with him. This hasn't been productive. He's come down hard on Israel and Honduras. That hasn't been productive either."
“Van Jones Is A Mainstream Liberal” — Alan Colmes « NewsReal Blog: "If you didn’t believe it when I said it, here’s authentification from Alan Colmes who, after ignoring all the evidence about who Van Jones actually is and what he believes, and pretending that it’s all a Glenn Beck-World Net Daily-Horowitz plot, concludes “Van Jones is a mainstream liberal.” That’s exactly right Alan. And that’s exactly the problem.s"
Bottom line on public insurance plan gets blurry - Yahoo! News: "WASHINGTON – The Obama administration's bottom line on a government health insurance option blurred Sunday as White House officials stressed support but stopped short of calling it a must-have part of an overhaul.
As President Barack Obama prepares for a Wednesday night speech to Congress in a risky bid to salvage his top domestic priority, no other issue is so highly charged. Obama's liberal supporters consider the proposal for a public plan to compete with private insurers do-or-die. Republicans say it's unacceptable. It's doubtful the public plan can pass the Senate.
White House political adviser David Axelrod said Obama is 'not walking away' from a public plan. But asked if the president would veto a bill that came to him without the option, Axelrod declined to answer.
The president 'believes it should be in the plan, and he expects to be in the plan, and that's our position,' Axelrod told The Associated Press.
Asked if that means a public plan has to be in the bill for Obama to sign it, Axelrod responded: 'I'm not going to deal in hypotheticals. ... He believes it's important.'"
Health Care Debate Revives Immigration Battle - NYTimes.com: "The Obama administration took an overhaul of the country’s immigration laws off its legislative agenda this year, but the prickly issue of public benefits for illegal immigrants has resurfaced in the health care debate."
During the summer recess, members of Congress faced persistent questions from constituents worried that health care changes could leave taxpayers footing medical bills for illegal immigrants. President Obama has not been able to extinguish the doubts despite giving repeated assurances that illegal immigrants would be excluded from any subsidized benefits under proposals before Congress.
The so-called 'trigger' has been floated by Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, a member of the 'gang of six' Senate negotiators who are trying to broker a bipartisan compromise. Under such an option, if agreed-upon goals are not met by the insurance industry, then that would pull the trigger on government-run insurance.
It's unclear whether President Obama will address the idea when he delivers a high-stakes health care address to Congress Wednesday night. But even as the White House signals it's open to considering alternatives to a hard-and-fast 'public option,' administration officials and congressional negotiators are hard-pressed to find an alternative that could win more votes than it loses."
Sections 123 and 2251 of H.R. 3200, the version of Obamacare being pushed by House Democratic leaders, are of particular concern, according to NRTWC, because they could put union-backed appointees on new government committees that recommend mandatory health insurance benefits provided by private insurers, and personnel policies the bill describes as necessary 'to ensure quality and adequacy' of the nation's health care workers.
Such provisions could put labor officials in positions to influence health care policies across the country, said Greg Mourad, director of legislation for the NRTWC, and to mandate that health care workers join unions."
A new talking point of the Left: older Americans against Obamacare are hypocrites: "According to the Left, older Americans are hypocrites to protest Obamacare because they use Medicare. Many opinion articles have been written about this hypocrisy of the elderly. There was the Newsweek article titled, Health Care Hypocrisy, where Daniel Gross wrote:
After the stock-research scandals of the 1990s, analysts were required to disclose whether they or their families owned stock in the companies they were talking about. That has since emerged as a key gauge of credibility. I'd like to see something similar for the health care debate. Before they weigh in on the prospects for health care reform, interview subjects—pundits, talking heads, policy wonks, editors, members of Congress—would have to disclose whether they or their family members rely on taxpayer-funded health insurance."
Meet Urban Czar Adolfo Carrión, Jr. He’s one of my Culture of Corruption Dirty Dozen collectibles. In conjunction with the book launch tomorrow, my friend Tennyson Hayes (whose terrificgraphic art has been featured here since last spring) and I cooked up 12 trading cards featuring some of Team Obama’s most interest-conflicted, ethics-compromised, crony officials chronicled in the book. You’ll read more here about The Dirty Dozen throughout the week. But as you’ll see after you dive into Culture of Corruption (officially out tomorrow, but readers tell me they’re seeing it in stores this weekend), those 12 are just the tip of the iceberg. I’ve got enough profiles of Team Obama corruption and cronyism to fill an entire 54-card set.
Below is my special piece for the New York Post today on Carrión and my other nominees for Obama’s worst czars. Auto czar Steve Rattner, entangled in an SEC investigation of his former company, Quandrangle, topped that list until he stepped down earlier this month amid the darkening ethics cloud. And I’ve already reported extensively on transparency-undermining energy czar Carol Browner. So I chose three of the shady czars who haven’t been on the public’s radar screen — and should be: health care czar Nancy DeParle, Carrión, and technology czar Vivek Kundra.
ABC and NBC in particular seem afraid of a simple 30-second advertisement. Both networks have refused to run an ad proposed for national telecast by the League of American Voters, a nonprofit group with 15,000 members. The supposedly offensive ad makes the simple claim that the proposed government-run health care program would ration medical care.
ABC won't run the ad because it says it is 'partisan.' NBC won't run it because that network says it questions the ad's facts. So what does the script of this horribly troublesome ad say? Here it is:"
In announcing the resignation of Obama Adviser Van Jones, CNN relays Jones' contention that he is a "victim of health-care reform opponents." They center the controversy on the 9/11 petition he signed, rather than his whole life of radical statements and actions.
MSNBC, after not running a single print or video report regarding the entire Jones controversy, simply ran an AP report announcing the resignation. Here is part of the CNN report:
The White House issued a statement late Saturday saying that Jones was giving up his post at the Council on Environmental Quality, where he helped coordinate government agencies focused on delivering millions of green jobs to the ailing U.S. economy.
Jones, who denied agreeing with the petition and issued an apology last week, said he was a victim of health-care reform opponents.
"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones said in the statement. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."
"But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future," Jones said.
The Jones controversy centers on a 2004 petition he signed on a Web site that said: "A call for immediate inquiry into evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11 attacks to occur."
An administration source told CNN that Jones did not carefully review the language on the petition. . . . . MORE
Australia has a health care system which is similar in some aspects to what the Democrats are proposing. There is a public plan which covers about 70% of the country and private insurance which covers the rest. In a short time (the system was set up in 1983) the country became divided into one group that gets good medical care (private insurance) and the group whose insurance is not as good.For example those in the public system have to wait longer for surgery.
There are also extensive waiting times for non emergency surgeries at public hospitals. Although waiting lists for the most urgent elective surgery for heart disease and cancer are almost nonexistent, there are long waiting lists for orthopedic surgery (median wait for total hip replacement is 88 days; 10% of patients waited over 345 days in 1999 to 2000), and cataract surgery (median is 73 days; 10% waited more than 316 days). One of the attractions of private health insurance is the ability to bypass public hospital waiting lists.
One of the reason for the long waits is a shortage of Doctors. In fact Doctors in one Australian State are worried that they are working so hard, their exhaustion is causing them to make errors and lose patients:
Guess who's not pleased about Van Jones middle-of-the-night-on-a-holiday-weekend resignation? Perhaps you never would have seen this one coming, but no other MSNBC "Countdown" host and provocateur Keith Olbermann himself.
Bitter and seeing red? Perhaps. In a post on the Daily Kos dated Sept. 6, Olbermann urged the half-crazed liberal Kos readers to go digging for dirt on Fox News host Glenn Beck, Beck's radio producer Stu Burguiere and Fox News president Roger Ailes. (h/t Morgen of Verum Serum)
"I don't know why I've got this phrasing in my head, but: Find everything you can about Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and Roger Ailes," Olbermann wrote. "No, even now, I refuse to go all caps. No, sending me links to the last two Countdowns with my own de-constructions of his biblical vision quality Communist/Fascist/Socialist/Zimbalist art at Rockefeller Center (where, curiously, he works, Comrade) doesn't count. Nor does sending me links to specious inappropriate point-underscoring prove-you're-innocent made-up rumors."
Obama's left wing media outlet is not happy that Glen Beck did his job and reported a communist in the white house.
President Obama and the US Secretary of State fuelled a fierce American backlash against Britain, claiming Abdelbaset Al Megrahi should have been forced to serve out his jail sentence in Scotland – but a senior Whitehall aide said their reaction was ‘disingenuous’.
British officials claim Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton were kept informed at all stages of discussions concerning Megrahi’s return."
I am certainly not against anyone being treated for an illness. In fact in the United States No one can be refused emergency service for inability to pay. That includes millions of illegal aliens who seek medical attention every year. The cost of this is one of the many factors that are driving the cost of insurance through the roof. The system is broken indeed. But the major cause of the broken system is our representatives creating the problem by allowing litigation that is frivolous. Actually encouraging it. Also the state and federal government take a large percentage of tax on every piece of medical work done and then pass that cost onto the insurance company. They in turn must pass that cost onto the policy holders.
Government care is NOT the answer. It is part of the problem. Attached are many links that prove that government care does not work. The solution is simple.
Tort reform- cut back on frivolous lawsuits. This enables insurance companies to insure doctors for less money since they pay less in law suits that really should not be there to begin with.
Allow Insurance companies to compete across the United States. By having open competition the United States residents can select a very wide variety of plans at different costs and different options. Naturally companies will continue to offer better and more services at less cost to attract policy holders.
Sounds simple enough doesn’t it? It is, but our representatives don’t want to be part of that because there is nothing in it for them.
Lets look at some epic failures when the government is involved in health care. ~~~~ The Munz
Mass. Pushes Rationing to Control Universal Healthcare Costs Written by Thomas R. Eddlem Sunday, 19 July 2009 14:00 - A 10-member Massachusetts state healthcare advisory board unanimously recommended that the state begin rationing healthcare to keep the state’s marquee universal health care program afloat financially.
by Michael F. Cannon Michael F. Cannon is director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute and co-author of Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It. Added to cato.org on August 28, 2009 This article appeared in Detroit News on August 27, 2009. If you are curious about how President Barack Obama's health plan would affect your health care, look no farther than Massachusetts. In 2006, the Bay State enacted a slate of reforms that almost perfectly mirror the plan of Obama and congressional Democrats.
Those reforms reveal that the Obama plan would mean higher health insurance premiums for millions, would reduce choice by eliminating both low-cost and comprehensive health plans, would encourage insurers to avoid the sick and would reduce the quality of care.
NHS blunders allowed cannibal Peter Bryan to kill two A catalogue of systemic failings and blunders allowed a schizophrenic killer, Peter Bryan, to murder two more people, including eating parts of the brain of one, two inquiries have found.
Bryan, 39, killed Brian Cherry in 2004 after being allowed out of a psychiatric ward before cooking and eating part of his flesh and brain.
Following that killing he was sent to Broadmoor secure hospital but within 10 days of his arrival there he attacked fellow patient Richard Loudwell, who later died from his injuries. Two separate inquiries in to the killings both found failings in his care and supervision.
First there were angry senior citizens at town hall meetings, literally fearing for their lives. They're worried that under the President's proposed health care plan they'll be denied critical life-saving services because of their age. There's good reason for their concern. And what's come to light since then won't make them sleep any easier.
The Obama administration now seems to have our nation's veterans in the crosshairs. Perhaps you've heard about the booklet Your Life Your Choices-also known as the Death Book for Veterans. This book is particularly alarming, so I want to share some detail you may not have heard.
ObamaCare would shrink the economy, drive up health-care costs and inflation, and increase the deficit, notes David Kopel, a “lifelong Democrat.” Kopel provides “Economic projections of the consequences of Obamacare” drawn from a study “from the Independent Institute” on “the national and Colorado consequences of Obama care, based on” its “one trillion dollar increase in health care subsidies over the next decade. These consequences include:
Overall, total federal expenditures will be 5.6 percent higher than otherwise by 2019, adding $285.6 billion to the federal deficit in 2019.
An increase in national health care expenditures by an additional 8.9 percent by 2019.
Earlier this month, we used DirigoChoice in Maine as an example of the disaster a public-plan health-care reform can generate. Cato Institute looks a little farther down the coast to Massachusetts, where the state began its own health-care reform complete with individual mandates and a government plan. Cato calls it an “almost perfect” mirror of ObamaCare, complete with promises of reducing cost and extending care — that failed in both respects:
Massachusetts reduced its uninsured population by two-thirds — yet the cost would be considered staggering, had state officials not done such a good job of hiding it. Finally, Massachusetts shows where “ObamaCare” would ultimately lead: Officials are already laying the groundwork for government rationing.
The most sweeping provision in the Massachusetts reforms — and the legislation before Congress — is an “individual mandate” that makes health insurance compulsory. Massachusetts shows that such a mandate would oust millions from their low-cost health plans and force them to pay higher premiums. …
Patients with terminal illnesses are being made to die prematurely under an NHS scheme to help end their lives, leading doctors have warned.
Under the guidelines the decision to diagnose that a patient is close to death is made by the entire medical team treating them, including a senior doctor
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.
Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Some terminally ill patients in Oregon who turned to their state for health care were denied treatment and offered doctor-assisted suicide instead, a proposal some experts have called a "chilling" corruption of medical ethics.
Since the spread of his prostate cancer, 53-year-old Randy Stroup of Dexter, Ore., has been in a fight for his life. Uninsured and unable to pay for expensive chemotherapy, he applied to Oregon's state-run health plan for help.
Lane Individual Practice Association (LIPA), which administers the Oregon Health Plan in Lane County, responded to Stroup's request with a letter saying the state would not cover Stroup's pricey treatment, but would pay for the cost of physician-assisted suicide.
"It dropped my chin to the floor," Stroup told FOX News. "[How could they] not pay for medication that would help my life, and yet offer to pay to end my life?"
Thousands of women are having to give birth outside maternity wards because of a lack of midwives and hospital beds.
The lives of mothers and babies are being put at risk as births in locations ranging from lifts to toilets - even a caravan - went up 15 per cent last year to almost 4,000.
Health chiefs admit a lack of maternity beds is partly to blame for the crisis, with hundreds of women in labour being turned away from hospitals because they are full.
Latest figures show that over the past two years there were at least:
63 births in ambulances and 608 in transit to hospitals;
117 births in A&E departments, four in minor injury units and two in medical assessment areas;
115 births on other hospital wards and 36 in other unspecified areas including corridors;
399 in parts of maternity units other than labour beds, including postnatal and antenatal wards and reception areas.
For folks increasingly leery of President Obama’s plan to radically overhaul America’s health-care system, or 17 percent of the nation’s economy, all this could hardly have come at a better time — that is, fiscal troubles aplenty within Repubican Mitt Romney’s brainchild, Massachusetts’ “grand experiment” in “universal” health care.
Initiated on Mr. Romney’s gubernatorial watch in 2006, this “experiment” has fallen on hard times, and predictably so. Even though the Bay State commenced its program with a far smaller percentage of uninsured residents than exists nationwide, “RomneyCare” is threatening to bankrupt the state. Budgeted for Fiscal Year 2010 at $880 million, or 7.3 percent more than a year ago, this plan, aimed at providing low- or no-cost health coverage to roughly 165,000 residents, has caused Massachusetts’ overall expenditures on all health-related programs to jump an astounding 42 percent since 2006.
Patients were allegedly left screaming in pain and drinking from flower vases on a nightmare hospital ward. Between 400 and 1,200 more people died than would have been expected at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust over three years, a damning Healthcare Commission report said. The watchdog's investigation found inadequately trained staff who were too few in number, junior doctors left alone in charge at night and patients left without food, drink or medication as their operations were repeatedly cancelled. Patients were left in pain or forced to sit in soiled bedding for hours at a time and were not given their regular medication, the Commission heard. Receptionists with no medical training were expected to assess patients coming in to A&E, some of whom needed urgent care. Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, said there had been a "gross and terrible breach" of patients' trust and a "complete failure of leadership".
Health Service paramedics have been told not to resuscitate terminally-ill patients who register on a controversial new database to say they want to die.
It has been set up by the ambulance service in London for hundreds of people who have only a few months to live so that they may register their 'death wishes' in advance.
It is believed to be the first in the country, but other trusts around the country are expected to follow suit to comply with Government guidelines which state that patients' wishes should be taken into account, even at the point of death.
When Governor Mitt Romney instituted a universal healthcare plan for Massachusetts in 2006 he proclaimed it a conservative idea. “It’s a conservative idea insisting that individuals have responsibility for their own health care,” he said. “I think it appeals to people on both sides of the aisle: insurance for everyone without a tax increase.” The plan passed and was put into practice. But has it worked? Has it been successful?
For a time, many thought it might but cracks in the system are already being seen. These cracks are instructive as a lesson on how Obamacare will crash and burn just like Romneycare is now in the process of doing.
One of the early claims that helped push Romneycare through to law was the insistence by its supporters that Emergency Room visits would fall as more and more citizens became covered under healthcare insurance. Since ER care is far more expensive than a doctor’s care, it was thought that more people with insurance would ease the overcrowding of ERs as well as lower the overall costs of healthcare.
Ambulance chiefs have warned that lives are being put at risk "on a daily basis" by long delays allowing patients into Accident and Emergency units.
Delays to patients arriving to A&E by ambulance are increasing in many parts of the country as hospitals struggle to cope with a massive increase in the number of emergency hospital admissions An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has found that thousands of 999 patients are being left to wait in ambulances in car parks and holding bays, or in hospital corridors – in some cases for more than five hours – before they can even join the queue for urgent treatment.
Experts warn that hospitals are deliberately delaying when they accept patients – or are diverting them to different sites – in order to meet Government targets to treat people within fours hours of admitting them.
Thousands of patients with terminal cancer were dealt a blow last night after a decision was made to deny them life prolonging drugs.
The Government's rationing body said two drugs for advanced breast cancer and a rare form of stomach cancer were too expensive for the NHS.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence is expected to confirm guidance in the next few weeks that will effectively ban their use.
The move comes despite a pledge by Nice to be more flexible in giving life-extending drugs to terminally-ill cancer patients after a public outcry last year over 'death sentence' decisions
WAITING times for cancer treatment need to be cut, the Scottish Government was told yesterday.
The Scotland Against Cancer conference in Glasgow heard Nicola Sturgeon, the health secretary, setting out what was being done to improve cancer care for Scottish patients.
But one cancer survivor, who spoke at the Cancer Research UK event, challenged
ministers to be more ambitious in reducing the time patients have to wait before starting treatment. Cancer experts later said that patients elsewhere in Europe would be "outraged" by having to wait two months to start treatment, with most being seen within two weeks.
After 12 years cleaning care homes and private houses, Tereza Tosbell has a keen eye for a dirty room.
But the last place she expected to need her skills was in hospital - where she was a patient.
The sick 48-year-old was so disgusted at the conditions after three days on a 'filthy' ward that she grabbed the antibacterial fluid dispenser at the end of her bed and some hand towels from the bathroom.
A three-year-old girl awaiting heart surgery has had her operation cancelled three times this month because of a shortage of beds.
Ella Cotterell was due to have aorta-widening surgery on Monday at the Children’s Hospital, Bristol. But 48 hours beforehand, the operation was cancelled for the third time as all 15 beds in the intensive care unit were occupied, her parents said.
A hospital spokesman said that procedures would be reviewed, but the case highlights a growing problem of cancelled operations in the NHS.
More than 57,000 surgeries were postponed for non-clinical reasons, including a lack of beds, last year – 10 per cent more than the previous year.
Make no mistake about it, all Obama wants is to get something so that he can start his path to a single payer and put us in this position. They have said so up front, pay attention. We must not allow this to happen here in the United States
Certainly we have heard about all the uninsured people. But lets look at a film about the uninsured.
This has never been about Health Care … it is and has been about another take over of a private sector by the government for more control over our lives. ~~~~ The Munz
Bay State health insurance premiums highest in country - The Boston Globe: "Massachusetts has the most expensive family health insurance premiums in the country, according to a new analysis that highlights the state’s challenge in trying to rein in medical costs after passage of a landmark 2006 law that mandated coverage for nearly everyone."
The report by the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit health care foundation, showed that the average family premium for plans offered by employers in Massachusetts was $13,788 in 2008, 40 percent higher than in 2003. Over the same period, premiums nationwide rose an average of 33 percent.
There is government health care .. most expensive in the nation
Guess who's not pleased about Van Jones middle-of-the-night-on-a-holiday-weekend resignation? Perhaps you never would have seen this one coming, but no other MSNBC "Countdown" host and provocateur Keith Olbermann himself.
