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What if there were a health Care option that cost less, covered more, and provided quicker access to doctors? What if your health care provider offered 24/7 video chat and instant messaging for mental health counseling? What if there were no co-pay, if prescriptions could be renewed online or via phone? what if you had access to the best medical specialists in the world? what if emergency room waits were reduced to minutes as opposed to hours? Guess what. That option exists. Our servicemembers have it. They wouldn’t trade it for your BCBS plan for anything. It’s a Government managed program. Your legislators, the Republican ones who insiste you don’twant a plan like that have and use it.

So. Either it’s good enough for our Soldiers and Legislators who, could always afford a private plan if they wanted to, or we are shorting our Soldiers and legislators. Pick One.

Let’s keep a few points in mind while this debate rages.

1. Every one will still have the option of a private plan if they prefer one. CHances are good that the private plans will actually become cheaper and more competitive in the face of actualy competition.
2. No one’s gonna kill Grandma. BUT they will offer grandma counseling to help her decide where she wants to live out the last of her life. I for one know that if I know for a fact that I will be dying soon, with no reasonable options to prolong my life with any quality of life, I would love for my health care provider to provide a way for me to spend those last days in my own home surrounded by my own family and not be limited to seeing them during hospital visiting hours. THAT is what the living will portion of the bill addresses.
3. Illegal Immigrants won’t suddenly get free health care. As a matter of fact, under a Government option, Illegal Immigrants won’t be eligible for care.

Try to read just a little, learn just a touch, avoid the hyperbole, avoid the hype, avoid the drama, learn the truth, develop your OWN opinion, don’t just adopt someone else’s just because they speak louder than the next person. and don’t mention “Nazi Programs” to a Jewish legislator. (Shot out to Rep Barney Frank for putting ignorance to bed)

Special to Americasblood.com, from my mother, Julie:

I grew up and lived in Germany until the age of 26 and “suffered” through the perils of government-run healthcare, so let me share of of my terrible experience:
Imagine…..I could go to any doctor, anywhere, any time and never had the privilege of pulling out my wallet, not even for a co pay. If I needed a Specialist, he or she had the audacity of just referring me to one.
I never anxiously waited for the mail to get a stack of bills and explanations of benefits, when I had to be hospitalized, finances were never discussed, my pay continued, my job waited for me and there was no disease bad enough to just drop me. My parents have never had the privilege of exhausting all their savings and/or foreclose on their house to care for us. My co-pay for ANY medicine was $0.50 and I remember when my Mom had stress-related symptoms, she got sent to a health Spa, she was there for four weeks, all covered with a daily spending allowance.
btw, Dentists, Orthodontists and Optometrist were covered the same, we didn’t even get to pay them.
I spoke to my sister in Germany a couple of days ago and since we have a brand-new Grandbaby she asked me the silly question if our new Moms get to stay at home for three years as well, with pay, healthcare and job security, until the child starts Kindergarten, apparently they entertain the crazy notion that it is better for a society as a whole when Moms can afford to raise their own babies and apparently Kindergarten starts at age three which is free as well.
When I married my husband, who was in the Army, we all suffered a similar fate, free doctor visits for us and the kids, free hospitalization and free medicine.
How you might ask? Simple, no profits, everybody got paid, the doctors still drove Mercedes’ and BMW’s and the drug companies still operated and made a profit.
So, GOVERNMENT, PLEASE TAKE OVER MY HEALTHCARE!
Julie

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So.. Sarah Palin has decidewd that being halfway into her first term as Governor makes her a "Lame Duck" and she feels it’s best to "Pass The Ball". Apparently being Governor is interfering with her Book Deal and Tour Schedule. Only a Republican would have the gall to stand there and announce that this is purely a selfless act. geez is that the kind of dedication that wants to be our next President? Really? I have a sneaky feeling that this will let some of her buried bones in Alaska walk forth in the light of day in ways not seen since "Thriller"

There’s been much thrashing about by the Republican Right in regards to Judge Sotomayor’s supposedly reverse-racist comments in 2001. Let’s look at those comments for a moment..

 

"I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,"

I’m sorry. I don’t get it. She compared someone with experience in a matter, with someone without experience in that same matter. Is it racist now to say that you have experience in something you are supposed to be adjudicating? Remembering of course, that the detractors fail to mention that she was specifically referencing race and gender discrimination rulings before the courts..

Perhaps she meant this statement in the same tone that John Yoo, Bush-Era White House lawyer used when speaking about Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas in October of 2007.

"This is a black man with a much greater range of personal experience than most of the upper-class liberals who take potshots at him."

 But that aside, let’s look at Sotomayor’s comments in context.

 

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, a possibility I abhor less or discount less than my colleague Judge Cedarbaum, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. Justice O’Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am not so sure Justice O’Connor is the author of that line since Professor Resnik attributes that line to Supreme Court Justice Coyle. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement. First, as Professor Martha Minnow has noted, there can never be a universal definition of wise. Second, I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.

Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society. Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case. I, like Professor Carter, believe that we should not be so myopic as to believe that others of different experiences or backgrounds are incapable of understanding the values and needs of people from a different group. Many are so capable. As Judge Cedarbaum pointed out to me, nine white men on the Supreme Court in the past have done so on many occasions and on many issues including Brown.

However, to understand takes time and effort, something that not all people are willing to give. For others, their experiences limit their ability to understand the experiences of others. Other simply do not care. Hence, one must accept the proposition that a difference there will be by the presence of women and people of color on the bench. Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

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One of the great civilizations of the world, the egyptian civilization took a funny turn aboout halfway through. It changed from a predominately black leadership to a predominately white leadership, with the actual population base staying by far mostly black throughout. it’s history makes me wonder if we are ar the cusp of te same thing here in America. The current state of our nation is poor. Any one who denies that lives rather seriously in denial. Is there a chance that America is ready and willing to enter it’s second age? a series of “new” dynasties? let’s hope so, because the “old” dynasty is well and done.

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I had no intention of calling things till the results were all in but…. The projections for PA are in, and Barack looks like he has it. That has to be a hell of a hurt for McCain.

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It’s Done Barack Obama has won. My son has a different, better future,a different and real hope and reality. I’m satisfied. My children will live in the real America.