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Analysis of the private for-profit insurance companies' contracts would be a good idea. We could publicly expose in the media what legal clauses the various insurance company boards and panels use to deny choice of doctor, deny choice of medical facility, deny or ration medicines, deny payment of necessary tests ordered by your doctor, deny life saving procedures, etc., then we can see the details of how maintaining profits trump health care.
Howard Dean is making an album for the Kennedy family - please add your condolences to the Kennedy Family here http://tedkennedy.org/page/invite/legacy?stg_signup_id=1156883
I was wondering if someone could analyze the legal contract language in all the private for profit insurance company contracts we have to sign in order to get health care coverage to publicly expose the clauses their company boards and panels use to deny us choice of doctor, deny choice of medical facility, deny or ration medicines, deny life saving treatments, deny payment for necessary tests, etc.?
S. Nigra Elderberry has been well-researched as a helpful remedy for Flu symptoms that reduces days of illness. I wouldn't use it instead of getting a flu shot, but I would have it on hand in case you get the flu before the shot, or for other versions of the flu. Be sure to use the right elderberries from a reputable source because other elderberries are highly toxic.
If you want to buy a reputable elderberry remedy, here is a link to a Nature's Way product. I've seen much better pricing but this is the stuff that's been studied in most research.
http://www.peoplesrx.com/shop/product_view.asp?id=155208&StoreID=5AB7215...
I agree Food. But listen, I've got a problem. My French isn't to good but I'm fairly confident that touche' has no t at the end. The French people have suffered enough without attacking their language. MERDE! Pardon...I'm a little sensitive.
I still am a fan of Food. I agree with you about our government. Why is it that the cons keep putting down the very organization which they seek membership in?
Touchet' Thom! IN fact...that can be your new moniker after that last caller!
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Preamble to the Constitution…’We the People’ ….to promote the general welfare…
IF someone hates the US government, they must hate the founders and America itself. We the People are the Government.
DDay,
If you just want to irritate Bachmann, ask her if she is still ashamed of her son joining the Teach for America program:
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olb...)
Or, you could ask her whether God has asked her to run for President yet:
(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olb...)
Join our group Name the Public Option after Senator Ted Kennedy http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=127487911782
Thanks for taking that BS group on Thom!
For-profit healthcare insurance should be illegal! Could you interview TR Reid about his latest book ---Heaing of America---? He was on Fresh Air recently. But be sure to mention his mistake in comparing Germany's non-profit insurance to our own. That's a big mistake.
But his ideas regarding US problems stemming partly from having so many different kinds of insurance seem right on. It's becoming clear that many systems would work. We just need to choose one: Medicare like Canada (Which is where we got the idea for ours according to Reid,) non-profit insurance, or National Health care owned and run by we the people. We just need one! take a card, any card.
That doctor absolutely would not answer Thom's big question because he couldn't - and really seemed like he was reading from the wing nuts play book.
In the end he's either delusional or a good foot soldier.
When conservatives want to talk about Gov. rationing why don't we point out that the private enterprise, (insurance companies) version of rationing is that 50 million get NO RATIONS? Call it rationing for the rich or something like that. We need to find the proper wording and strategies. Remember "Cracking the Code"? The jerks like the one on the air continually demon-ize our Government in hopes of taking our eyes off the real demons.
Thanks Loretta, Quark, yes it is an interesting opportunity. As to whether Michele still feels she's being Palinized...I'm not sure right now but I hope so after tomorrow! Some local activists here plan to arrive with bibles in hand. They may seek to engage her in a biblical debate. I think that is a big mistake. I have posted my opinions on the mixing of religion and politics overtly in public forums. Public policy is the responsible content of public policy forums. It provides plenty of rich targets. I'm still looking for that clever trap of a question. I have my own ideas but you'all are smarter than the average bears. Besides, Michele is such a hungry ideologue that she will likely snap first and sense the smell and taste of feces after it is too late. The feces offered just needs the right packaging and bow.
Food Fascist, That's a beautiful, comforting thought. We have to make it so. It's up to us, now, to take reform across the finish line. Go and get your tennis shoes.
I am feeling so sad, too. Can't you hear his wonderful animated voice? I grew up watching my mom's complete adoration of Ted Kennedy. So much passion, intelligence, humor, a role model forever.
Ted Kennedy Health Care Reform for All Bill
I have a penchant lately, that when giants die- it is of their own choosing .....in some respects, they may be taking on another form, another frequency...for which will be more beneficial to the causes they worked to advance in physical form but for which a spiritual one would be more necessary. Something tells me Senator Edward Kennedy is all around us- invigorating us to stand and march to as Thomas Jefferson wrote -We the People..... to promote the general welfare.
Gd Speed - Ted Kennedy
Hi Dday,
If the NASCAR T-shirt doesn't work you could slip on a "If you are pregnant call.... for your choices." Most of those places are right to lifer's I think. That might get you called on too.
This question isn't that well-crafted yet, and I'm sure there is a better one but here is my biggest resentment. "Why do you feel that the Americans who elect you don't deserve to have the same choices for healthcare coverage that you, yourself enjoy?" They have a public option, don't they?
Blessed Passage Ted Kennedy. Peace and comfort to your family. Grand production here today Thom Hartmann Show. I learned of this just before retiring last evening peaking at the Huffington Post wondering if I had missed anything during the day. OF course, I saw the giant photo and knew instantly, it was hard to sleep and no one had any dedicated program prepared and so were discussing other topics.
I was looking forward to your program today hoping to be with others healing in group. Bobby Kennedy JR lectured our class reunion just this spring. Electric. Even a handshake means so much to us peasants out here.
Everyone should have read or please do read The Captains and the Kings-
Christine Grahame: Al-Megrahi is home. And he is innocent
The release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber was long overdue, for the case against him was politically driven
He is not a saint, of course – he had a history with Libyan intelligence – but his hands are clean over Lockerbie. For you should recall that five months before the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 on that dark, wild December night just before Christmas in 1988, an American military cruiser, the Vincennes, shot down an Iranian passenger plane carrying 290 pilgrims. No one has been charged, let alone prosecuted, over that, even though it was all captured on film...
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/christine-grahame-alme...
Thanks Quark, I already have, but I'm glad you did too. This guy is a silverspoon medical corporatist. 65% of his contributions are from PACS. Most of his larger individual contributors are execs. of Drug companies etc. He is a smug and safe elitist. Michele is more complex and goofy. Check out the web site Dumpbachmann.com for a thorough story. Thanks for your interest. I'll be awaiting yours and others suggestions about questions to pose. I respect the gang that hangs around this blog. For the most part. Rasta is sadly very sick.
In 2002, after a life changing illness, and after the death of Paul Wellstone, I closed my business,retired, and joined my local Democratic Party. Ever since I have been in the trenches raising HELL here not only for RepubliCONs but with entrenched powers in the DFL, (our state Dems.), who had grown lazy, weak, and too fond of their turf. My efforts have even earned the wrath and disdain of our Democratic State Party Chair. he brooks no dissent. My first name is dissent.
The reason I've indulged in this short Bio is acknowledge and thank Thom for his frequent exhortations to his listeners to join their local parties, get in there, and make the changes needed to help build a better world. I couldn't agree more. I started living this before I ever knew who Thom was. At times it's very frustrating and you wonder if you are doing anything lasting. At times you wonder if anyone notices or cares other than your adversaries. That is why your encouragement Thom is so important to me and I'm sure many others. People need to get off their fannies and pitch in. That is especially true of Thom's many listeners because they have the added advantage of being well informed. What is the quote about a well informed public? Was it Madison? Like Thom now inscribes his books...Tag you're it! Get off your butts all you sideliners and sunshine patriots.
Ted Kennedy's passing is tragic for the common people of this country, but it will be even more tragic if the Democrats do not pass a strong health care reform bill, which was cause Kennedy was most passionate about.
DDay,
'Looks like neither one has clean hands. Look at campaign contributions to Burgess:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00025219&cycle=2010
How can voters expect that either politician will vote for the AMERICAN PEOPLE and not the CORPORATIONS?
DDay,
Re: Michele Bachmann health care industry campaign contributions:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00027493&cycle=2010
DDay,
Wow --- what an opportunity! Does Burgess have any financial interest in the health care "industry?" (That is, does he own any testing services, equipment, etc., from which he will continue to personally benefit if the status quo is upheld?
What health industry campaign contributions does Bachmann get, if any?
(These are pretty standard lines of inquiry. Maybe someone else on the blog can come up with a "zinger!")
Does Michele still think she is being "Sarah Palined?"
Quark,
I am a strong supporter of medicare for all. But I know that right now that would be tough to pass. Thom's idea about openning medicare as the public option should have enough policital will to easily pass the Senate, which is our major obstacle for health care reform.
Ben