It's Not Going Well for the Insurance Industry and Their GOP Spokespersons in Congress

Jerry Brown Subpoenas Documents From Health Insurers

ROBIN HINDERY | 02/25/10 11:02 PM | AP
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/25/jerry-brown-subpoenas-doc_n_477502.html

ANTHONY WEINER FOR PRESIDENT

“What if you decide to classify hospital infections as terrorists?”

John Stewart-The Daily Show
Do you know anyone who got an infection at a hospital? I have a feeling nearly everyone in the USA does.

We lost Congressman John Murtha most likely because someone forgot to wash their hands or properly disinfect instruments.

When I flew in a Cessna 172 at a small airport in Virginia our pilot used a checklist strapped to his leg. He was a retired USAF Colonel that flew supersonic fighter jets. Pilots use a checklist before every takeoff. They did not use checklists until Boeing instituted them for the WWII B-17 bomber.

It’s time that Doctors and Nurses use a checklist.

Safe Patient Project-End secrecy, save lives.

The Dirty Truth: Spread the Word, not the Germ:

http://www.safepatientproject.org/2010/02/post_1.html

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Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Health Care Crisis

Puppet Lieberman

It’s not the real Joe Lieberman, the puppet of the Connecticut insurance industry. it’s a puppet with the hand inside kind:

Why not admit that insuring health is inherently evil

Why not admit that insuring health and the health insurance industry is inherently evil and abolish the health insurance industry. Do the right thing; adopt a system like Canada’s.

The New York Times
Congress Is Split on Effort to Tax Costly Health Plans
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN and ROBERT PEAR
Published: October 12, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/health/policy/13plans.html?_r=1&hp

4 month old baby denied health nsurance because of "pre existing condition"

When the “death panel” insurance underwriters go to work even babies are not spared:

"This is Cracking Heads Time"

The Senate is now closed to nearly all but the Insurance Industry and Drug Industry. There is a trickle of pressure getting in from ordinary citizens (voters). This could show the Senate for what it is and back them against the wall:

Health Insurance industry's business plan is EXTORTION

You pay us or we won’t pay to let you live. It’s an offer only the very wealthy can refuse.

Op-Ed Columnist
Let Congress Go Without Insurance
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: October 7, 2009

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/opinion/08kristof.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1255010477-r8PduiNnTQ/ITQ80pfJK7w

More from my hero Rep. Alan Grayson

My father said the Republican Party is the rich man’s Party. He was of course correct but at the time the Republicans more or less left the middle class alone. They blamed the poor for poverty but threw them a bone. Now the Republicans are the party of the wealthy and the wealthy CEO’s Party. And the sworn enemy of the middle class and poor.
The facts are that the Republicans could care less how many people die for lack of health care. They do care very deeply about the profits of insurance companies. The Republicans are one hundred percent behind anything the medical insurance companies want; the public be damned.
Rep. Alan Grayson:

"Don't Get Sick! And if You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly!"'

I was wondering what that paper the Republicans waved at President Obama at the joint session of Congress. I was under the impression that the NRA was hooked up to the Republican Health Care plan and that is a bullet to the head was the Republican treatment plan for cancer patients:

Net Neutrality

The net service companies that impose limits on their customers for a quick profit are shooting themselves in the foot. Anything that puts limitations on the internet, with the exception of criminal activity, hurts the economy of the country (USA) that they operate in.

We are well behind many developed countries in health care and alternative energy. Our ineffective and costly approach to health care is a drag on every corporation that operates in the USA. Innovation often comes from small business and our current health care solution makes operating a small business in the United States nearly impossible. Our reliance on fossil fuel sets us up for gas rationing lines and a very big financial hit when the next foreign oil crisis happens.

Net Neutrality is an easy and inexpensive way to catch up to other countries. It will help us from eating more of their economic dust.

From the Washington Post
Post IT-a User’s Guide to the 21st Century
Senators Plan Bill To Advance Net Neutrality
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2009/09/senators_plan_bill_to_advance.html?wpisrc=newsletter

We need Health Care for small companies

I have excellent health care. I am in a an excellent government run system called Medicare. My children are stuck with needing to choose whatever their employers can get.

I had worked as a dental technologist. It is a very small field and every dental laboratory is a small company there are a handful of dental laboratories with 100 employees. Most are dental laboratory companies have 3 or less employees. The work requires extensive training. The major expense of dental laboratories is health care.

Every company now competes in the world market. I believe that our lack of a unified health care system in the USA is a severe drag on our economy and keeps US companies non-competitive in the world market.

The fall of the Republican Party

The anti-immigration nut cases are trying to make a case that immigration to the USA will increase if we have health care for all in the USA. They actually have a good point. An average non-billionaire Canadian or European citizen would be nuts to trade living in his own country to live in a country where just getting sick means you loose everything that you own and worked for. Foreign residents who are being educated and trained in the USA might have a reason to take up permanent residence in the USA if our health care rises to an adequate level.

Everyone of us knows someone who picked up an infection in a hospital. Right now US hospitals are a place to go to die. You could go into a hospital for routine surgery and come out in a hearse because you died from an infection picked up in the hospital. The hospitals are forced to cut costs. Lack of adequate staff and properly trained staff means that sometimes infections ride on equipment and sometimes on gloves. Your insurance company could care less what happens to you. Your insurance companies customers are not you or your employer. Their customers are their stockholders

The anti-medical care for all Americans fight is being led by convicted felon Rick Scott. Scott is a former hospital company chief executive forced to resign as C.E.O. after his company defrauded the government through overbilling. But that is just the TV advertising of the medical insurance industry. The real battlefield of the insurance company’s war against US citizens is in the halls of Congress.

I understand that some Democrats are in the pockets of medical insurance and drug company lobbyists. But let’s get something straight. If the Republican's prostitutes on Capitol Hill and their insurance and drug company johns prevent US citizens from getting adequate medical care the Republican Party is finished. It may not be immediate. It may take a few election cycles but the Republican Party will be history.

Nationwide Rally and Lobby Day for Quality Affordable Health Care for All

WE ARE FORMING A CAR POOL FROM COATESVILLE TO THE READING BUS

Email:
Phila_Back@verizon.net or call 610-334-5563 to ride THE READING BUS.

June 25th
The Mall
Washington, DC

Free buses leave from locations all over Pennsylvania

Schedule

11:00am Buses arrive and crowd starts to assemble for Rally

11:30am-12:30pm Rally on the Mall

1:30 pm-4:00pm Lobby Visits & Town Hall Meetings
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PA State Town Halls for 800 people near the Capitol. Senator Specter, Representative Sestak and other members of Congress are expected to attend

-Issue Town Halls (Small business, Doctors/Nurses, Equities)

-Small Group Lobby Visits for members of the PA delegation to see members of Congress who cannot come to the town hall.

4:30pm-5:30pm Debrief & Report Back

6pm Buses Leave

A flyer about the event is here:
http://www.box.net/shared/o7xj2x0u9p