My disappointment soon extended to Rep. Anthony Weiner, not to mention Speaker Pelosi: NEWS: REP. WEINER WITHDRAWS SINGLE PAYER AMENDMENT FROM CURRENT HEALTH CARE DEBATE
Despite the clear superiority of the single-payer system, single-payer was taken off the table by the White House, ignored or maligned by the corporate media, silenced by Congressional leadership, and now, surrendered by its erstwhile champions in the Congress. The American people have been betrayed by all of our elected officials. We're on our own. We'll be okay as long as we never get sick. Cross your fingers.
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( 3 / 22 )See my post on the Repower America wall, and add your own!
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( 3.1 / 21 )November 3, 2009, Congressman Dennis Kucinich addresses H.RES. 867 on the House Floor. H.RES. 867 condemns the UN Goldstone Gaza Fact Finding Mission Report.
Congressman Kucinich stated:
"Today we journey from Operation Cast Lead to Operation Cast Doubt. Almost as serious as committing war crimes is covering up war crimes, pretending that war crimes were never committed and did not exist."
"Because behind every such deception is the nullification of humanity, the destruction of human dignity, the annihilation of the human spirit, the triumph of Orwellian thinking, the eternal prison of the dark heart of the totalitarian."
"The resolution before us today, which would reject all attempts of the Goldstone Report to fix responsibility of all parties to war crimes, including both Hamas and Israel, may as well be called the "Down is Up, Night is Day, Wrong is Right: resolution."
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( 2.6 / 9 )Interesting blog post:
http://healthcare.change.org/blog/view/ ... eform_bill
My message to House leadership:
The American people deserve a vote on the Weiner Amendment. We were promised a debate on single payer, and we are still waiting. What's more, it is absolutely critical that the Kucinich amendment is included in H.R. 3962. States must have the right to enact state single payer systems. The single payer system in Canada was developed one province at a time, and one state at a time may be the best way to get a single payer system here. Single payer is the only true solution to our health care crisis. California has already passed single payer legislation, only to have it vetoed. National health reform legislation must not block our way to try again.
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( 2.8 / 9 )http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax5QzDrS ... r_embedded
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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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