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Support health care reform by making a contribution to the National Association of Free Clinics: From DCCC.org: Historic Health Insurance Reform Posted by Stephanie Grasmick "On Sunday, March 21st, 2010, the House achieved a historic victory for American families by passing the comprehensive health insurance reform. Throughout the legislative process, House Democrats fought tirelessly to bring real change to America by fixing our broken health care system...." • If you're a small business owner, you'll receive new tax credits that make it easier for you to provide coverage for employees if you choose to do so • If you have Medicare, the President's plan guarantees that your benefits will not be cut, and the Medicare Trust Fund will be extended for more than 9 years • If you're uninsured, you could receive a tax credit to help pay for coverage if needed — part of the largest middle class tax cut for health care in history • Even if you currently have health insurance, there will be new protections from insurance company abuses, and tax credits will make coverage more affordable • You will never again be hit with arbitrary health insurance premium hikes • Insurers can continue their massive and arbitrary premium rate increases — such as Anthem Blue Cross raising rates for customers in California by nearly 40%, and rates in Illinois going up by as much as 60% • As many as 275,000 people could die prematurely over the next 10 years because they don't have health insurance • The average family's health care costs will nearly double by 2020, from $13,000 to $24,000 The truth about health care reform. Paladin Law Group
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April 8, 2010. Health care reform explained:
Organizing for America | BarackObama.com | Benefits of Reform
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/benefitsofreform?state=CA&email=PaladinEsq%40AOL.com
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More information about health care reform:
countdowntohealthcare.com | A project of Congressman Anthony Weiner
http://countdowntohealthcare.com/
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Countdown with Keith Olbermann Countdown with Keith Olbermann
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/
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Rachel Maddow Show
Video links: "Something Terrible Is Happening," health care reform:
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Connection between autism and childrens' vaccines:
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3/1/10
"Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street, with no strings attached while leaving middle-class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance company profits instead of patients and lowering health costs. Gridlock, bickering and partisan games while unemployment is at a 25-year high. Enough is enough." -- Bill Halter announcement, March 1, 2010.
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3/21/10. Sunday night. House Of Representatives passed health care reform legislation by passing the Senate version of the bill.
March 21, 2010
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3/11/10
Tell your Congressional Representative to vote yes on health care reform.
From BarackObama.com:
3/11/10
Health care reform facts:
It's time to show the insurance lobbyists that no smear campaign can match the power of millions of regular citizens who are ready for change and committed to the truth. Congress must understand that if they pass reform, their constituents will know the truth about what we've finally achieved.
UNDER THE PRESIDENT'S PLAN FOR REFORM:
• If you have health insurance through your employer and you like your plan, you can keep it
THE PRESIDENT'S PLAN GUARANTEES THAT:
• You will never be denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions
IF WE DO NOT PASS REFORM:
• Up to 17 million more people will be uninsured by 2019
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The archive. July, 2007 comment:
An argument in favor of having National Health Insurance coverage in the United States. Time for a change.
It is time for the United States Congress to enact legislation for a National Health Insurance system which will be paid for by income tax. Are you surprised or shocked by such a suggestion? Maybe you should not be.
President Lyndon Johnson, who secured a favorable rating in domestic policy by signing the Voting Rights Act in the 1960's, supposedly said something to the effect that “Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.” At the present time (7/07), the idea of National Health Insurance coverage has not developed enough popular support to become law. The more powerful forces on this issue right now are the entrenched special interests of big health insurance companies which make billions of dollars in profits every year by selling health insurance coverage to individuals and then doing everything they can to not provide health insurance benefits.
There is an inherent conflict of interest in the for profit system of health coverage when companies sell coverage and try to maximize profits by denying claims for services which people need. People whose job it is to maximize profits for the insurance company should not have the authority to deny a request for needed medical treatment.
One idea to promote health care reform in the United States is for the government to establish a non-profit health insurance company to compete with the for profit health insurance companies which are taking improper advantage of policy holders.
According to Michael Moore’s movie “Sicko”, (released in June, 2007; MichaelMoore.com ), Canada, England and France have national health care systems which are paid for by tax dollars and which work well. Every citizen is eligible and does not have to pay very much, if anything, for services. According to the movie, the United States is the only Western industrialized country which does not have a national health care system.
The national health care system in England has existed since about 1948. Doctors in the countries whose plans were examined are well paid. They are encouraged to make sure their patients stay healthy. Bonuses are paid to doctors who improve patient health. Compare that to the system in the United States in which office workers and doctors are promoted for denying requests for medical treatment. Insurance companies seek to revoke coverage for any possible reason if a person becomes ill. The United States has a very conflicted and irrational heath care system.
Is a national health care system socialism if everyone is eligible and services are paid for by tax dollars? Of course not. Many services which the government provides are expected to be provided and are paid for by tax dollars. Schools, fire departments, police departments, Sheriffs, Courts, libraries, road construction, freeways, City Hall, Government offices, Social Security and many other services, including the military and national defense, are paid for with tax dollars. National Health Insurance should be added to that list of things which is paid for by the government with taxes. It is an idea whose time has come.
Health insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies which profit from selling insurance and medical products will be opposed to significant changes to the health care system, and they can be expected to spend a lot of money to convince you that National Health Insurance is a bad idea. However, for the average person, National Health Insurance would be very helpful, just like all of the other government services which people expect to receive.
Contact your United States Senators and Congressional Representatives and encourage them to pass a law to provide National Health Insurance.
John Paladin
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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Home Page
http://www.ahrq.gov/
DNA research project:
Your Genetic Journey - The Genographic Project - National Geographic
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June 9, 2010
This is not the foreign policy discussion page, but I thought I would add a comment about President Johsnon since he was mentioned in a prior posting about health care reform. Although he did a great deal to advance civil rights when his help was needed, he did a very poor job in foreign polciy in regard to the Vietnam war. He has to take a lot of blame for what went wrong in the Vietnam war because he significantly escalsated our involvement while he lied to the American public about his intentions.
Lyndon Johnson has to have been one of the worst presidents for foreign policy in modern American history, surpassed in that era only by the highly illegal and arrogant conduct of the Richard Nixon administration.
