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( 3 / 13 )Dear Senator Feinstein,
I got your response to my previous message about single payer. You stated that many people want to keep their employer-based coverage and therefore you can't support single payer. The problem is that the employer-based system does not really allow people to keep the coverage they have. Their employer can change their insurance plan at any time and there's nothing the employee can do about it. Or they could lose their job, and they're completely out of luck. Preserving the employer-based system is not a benefit. I have my insurance through my employer and while there are some good things about it, I am confident that the government can do much better with a single payer system. Please do not dismiss single payer! Please, please, please, show leadership here and vote for the single-payer system that will truly solve our problems, not something considered politically safe by the corporate-controlled media and the lobbyists.
I'm counting on you to reconsider and do the right thing.
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( 3.3 / 12 )Why We Desperately Need Health Care for All - Now
Dear Friends,
More about why we desperately need health care for all:
This past weekend, I visited a festival at a church in a working class area of my district. These events are opportunities for people from the community to gather, to eat ethnic foods, listen to music and enjoy each other's company; before the brisk, brooding Cleveland winter begins to set in. When I walked through the doors, I felt as though I had stepped back in time, to when I was a child growing up in the inner city of Cleveland where I witnessed people struggling every day to make ends meet. From this early experience I have learned to recognize poverty, the clothes it wears and the physical appearance it presents.
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( 3.1 / 18 )We signed up for a solar photovoltaic system from REC Solar . When installed, our solar system will supply 100% of our yearly demand. We'll be grid connected, so we can use more than we produce in some months and produce more than we use in other months. We'll get one bill at the end of the year if we use more than we produce over the year.
The solar panels we chose are manufactured using renewable energy, and use an innovative manufacturing process to achieve an energy payback time of one year, meaning the panels will generate back all of the energy used to manufacture them in one year.
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( 2.5 / 13 )Kitten pictures galore , now posted on the gallery. Enjoy!
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( 3.1 / 16 )October 1, 2009 by Healthcare-NOW!
By Rose Ann DeMoro & Michael Moore -
Now we know why they’ve stopped calling this health care reform, and started calling it insurance reform. The current bills advancing in Congress look more like rearranging the deck chairs on the insurance Titanic than actually ending our long health care nightmare.
Some laudable elements are in various versions of the bills, especially expanding Medicaid, cutting the private insurance-padding waste of Medicare Advantage, and limiting the ability of the insurance giants to ban and dump people who have been or who ever will be sick.
But, overall, the leading bills and the President’s proposal are, like the dog that didn’t bark, more notable for what is missing.
Here are 13 problems with the current health care bills (partial list):
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( 2.8 / 25 )My email to Senators Baucus, Tom Carper, Kent Conrad, Blanche Lincoln, and Bill Nelson:
Shame on you for voting against the public option. You are a traitor to the American people. You do not represent us; you represent the insurance industry that lines your pockets. You do not deserve a seat in the Senate. I look forward to supporting your progressive challenger in the next election - I'm sure there will be one.
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( 2.8 / 17 )http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen- ... 01755.html
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( 3.1 / 29 )Thanks to Carl for passing this one along:
http://pol.moveon.org/insurance_execs/? ... Vx&t=2
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( 3 / 34 )In a unanimous vote, the AFL-CIO yesterday endorsed the Single Payer Medicare for All approach to healthcare reform as the "most cost-effective and equitable way to provide quality healthcare for all." The resolution caps a successful effort led by the Labor Campaign for Single Payer (LCSP), the Labor Caucus for HR 676 (a coalition of national unions) and the All Unions Committee for Single Payer Health Care to put the Federation on record rejecting private insurance and in support of a social insurance model for healthcare reform.
Over 70 resolutions were submitted to the Convention on this subject--more than on any other single issue in the history of the AFL-CIO. Submissions came from a diverse range of labor organizations including 5 national unions, 7 state labor federations and over 60 central labor councils. Yesterday's Convention actions came as a direct result of the mobilization efforts of hundreds of labor bodies, state federations, central labor councils and local unions.
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