Can you believe the bill that came out of the Senate Finance Committee which is chaired by Senator Max Baucus. Our senator Olympia Snowe was part of the "gang of six" who supposedly negotiated the terms of the bill. Whatever were they thinking? This is just a gift to the health insurance industry. It does nothing to help the people of this country. Baucus is owned by the health care industry as they have given him over 3 million dollars.
Wendell Potter, who used to be the Vice President of Communications for Cigna, testified before the House Steering and Policy Committee this past Tuesday and made this statement. He warned that if Congress "fails to create a public insurance option to compete with private insurers, the bill it sends to the president might as well be called the Insurance Industry Profit Protection and Enhancement Act."
I hope that you will go to the following link to read more of Potter's testimony at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/15/wendell-potter-public-opt_n_287733.html
I called both Senators Collins and Snowe's offices today and told them that it is time to stop pandering to the lobbyists and the health care industry and begin thinking about the people they represent.
There is story after story about people having their policies canceled after being diagnosed with a life threatening disease. Just recently the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision to award 10 million to a man who policy was canceled, when he was a teenager, after being diagnosed with HIV. It is reported that bonuses were paid to health insurance workers based on the number of policies they canceled. Now this is criminal and unethical.
I am sure that I will be writing more on this subject as I am so disgusted with our elected leaders in the Congress who think more about reelection and campaign funds than they do about the people they represent.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
What Is Going On In This Country????
It has been a while since I have posted to my blog. The reason being is that I have no idea how to respond to the lies, hatred and the lack of concern for the people of this nation. It seems as though every politician, Republican or Democrat, including our own Senators Collins and Snowe, is owned by lobbyists representing some company whether it be Health Insurance or businesses who oppose Consumer Protection or who oppose climate control.
Take the State of Maine where the Department of Education is suggesting furlough days for school systems to save money. How can they even suggest such a thing when our children are already in school fewer days than many states. As it is education has become so watered down that our children hardly get the basics. We need education in order to improve the economy and to develop future leaders. This suggestion is insane and if the legislature and the Governor go along with it I question their sanity and their commitment to the children of this state.
Then there is the racism that is bubbling up to the surface all over the country. What are people so afraid of? In this day and age it is absolutely abominable that such hatred exists and that it is promoted by so called journalists on FOX News and CNN. Those folks are inciting people to carry weapons and to spread hatred. They should be banned from the airways. Former President Jimmy Carter expressed this sentiment so well in his interview with Brian Williams.
The news media hypes up entertainers who don't know enough to keep their mouths shut, they give murderers more air time than they deserve, they give the right wing nuts more publicity than they deserve making it look like it is a bigger movement than it really is and then they forget about the millions of people who are fighting for health care reform, trying to find jobs and begging the Congress and the President to listen to them.
Is it any wonder that people are discouraged and feel they have no voice? It seems to me that when 72% of the people want choice in health care, the Congress better listen to them or they can kiss the next election goodbye.
So my friends, let's raise our voices AGAIN and call our senators and representatives and voice our opinions.
Take the State of Maine where the Department of Education is suggesting furlough days for school systems to save money. How can they even suggest such a thing when our children are already in school fewer days than many states. As it is education has become so watered down that our children hardly get the basics. We need education in order to improve the economy and to develop future leaders. This suggestion is insane and if the legislature and the Governor go along with it I question their sanity and their commitment to the children of this state.
Then there is the racism that is bubbling up to the surface all over the country. What are people so afraid of? In this day and age it is absolutely abominable that such hatred exists and that it is promoted by so called journalists on FOX News and CNN. Those folks are inciting people to carry weapons and to spread hatred. They should be banned from the airways. Former President Jimmy Carter expressed this sentiment so well in his interview with Brian Williams.
The news media hypes up entertainers who don't know enough to keep their mouths shut, they give murderers more air time than they deserve, they give the right wing nuts more publicity than they deserve making it look like it is a bigger movement than it really is and then they forget about the millions of people who are fighting for health care reform, trying to find jobs and begging the Congress and the President to listen to them.
Is it any wonder that people are discouraged and feel they have no voice? It seems to me that when 72% of the people want choice in health care, the Congress better listen to them or they can kiss the next election goodbye.
So my friends, let's raise our voices AGAIN and call our senators and representatives and voice our opinions.
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