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The New York Times reports on a situation that either we have all experienced or we know someone who has:
The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot afford their own share of medical costs.
Many of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance are struggling to meet medical expenses that are much higher than they used to be — often because of some combination of higher premiums, less extensive coverage, and bigger out-of-pocket deductibles and co-payments.
Danny
Communications Director
Just a quick good morning, and Howard Dean is first.
I've tried to pull up the blog a dozen times, and it doesn't happen. The little circle on the top of my screen just spins and spins.
Harry Reid talked about the Senate yesterday on NPR or the day before. He pointed out that the Republicans really are right wing, that Spector and Lugar never vote with the Democrats unless it's pretty much meaningless. He was quite direct in his assessment that the Republicans in the Senate do not represent the Republicans in our country.
Not much news, just waiting to see what the American people will do. I read an old American Studies excerpt from Thomas Wolfe on the American Dream and a Richard Reeves editorial. Resilience, the freedom that lets us be who we are, the ability to pursue those goals we must believe in were the characteristics they both talked about. The energy and optmism was startling. It felt like a very long time ago.
Have a lovely Sunday, folks.
- sorry, I thought Spector was wrong; though maybe not, Specter
By Pat in Colorado on May 4, 2008 1:43 PM EDThttp://www.healthcareforall.org/
- 70% of Californians want a single payer health insurance system to fix our health care crisis.
By Susan Rowe on May 4, 2008 1:53 PM EDT
- About: California's SB 840 Universal Single-payer Healthcare
By Susan Rowe on May 4, 2008 1:56 PM EDTthanks for the videos, susan. single payer is the only real solution. using private plans to fix the tattered health care net is like handing pairs of sharp scissors to the menders. two examples--medicare and schip.
i could not have said it more starkly......"The crazy logic is that Congress created these private plans in Medicare [medicare modernization act of 2003] to save money, and now we're paying them more. BUT THIS IS NOT A FISCAL BATTLE. THIS IS AN IDEOLOGICAL BATTLE OVER THE FUTURE OF MEDICARE [emphasis mine]."-- medicare historian jonathan oberlander, assoc prof at univ of north carolina, chapel hill.
this is PRIVATIZATION BY STEALTH, folks.......courtesy of rethugs and spineless democrats.
another example, from florida's schip program, demonstrates the price sensitivity among poor and low income families. the u of florida study findings show that an increase of just $5 pushed low income families out of schip in 2003. it reduced the amount of time the poorest schip families [$18,000-27,000 per year income] stayed in the program by 61%! here's the longer lasting effect: when the policy was rescinded, the families did not return to the schip program.
and how do our presidential candidates address health care for families struggling to make ends meet? mccain pushes a health savings account...........and hillary wants a mandated universal health care system. a reality check--the median income for a family of four is ~$45,000.
as a subpopulation, children are the cheapest to insure, and the 'return on investment' is very high. by contrast, seniors require many more health care dollars. in the mid-1960s, when the choice was between insuring children or seniors--the vulnerables--congress decided on the latter. guess who votes.
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some thoughts on enterovirus71 [EV71] now causing great concern in china..... enteroviruses--called 'gut bugs'--are very common; virtually all of us have contracted one or more. polio--remember that?--is one of the three kinds of enteroviruses. people seem to recover or die, but little is known about those disabled by enteroviruses. in an age of global travel and global warming, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases like enteroviruses might be at our doorstep.
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Statement from Hillary Clinton on Today’s Results in Guam
Today, the people of Guam made their voices heard and turned out in historic numbers to help pick our next President. I am grateful to the many people of Guam who voted for me and worked so hard to make today a success. I want to congratulate Senator Obama for running a vigorous campaign in Guam and look forward to our next contests in Indiana and North Carolina.
Whoops, there goes that enter problem with the subject line. A TAB should be required, not an Enter.
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Statement from Hillary Clinton on Today’s Results in Guam
Today, the people of Guam made their voices heard and turned out in historic numbers to help pick our next President. I am grateful to the many people of Guam who voted for me and worked so hard to make today a success. I want to congratulate Senator Obama for running a vigorous campaign in Guam and look forward to our next contests in Indiana and North Carolina.
Does that sound like a concession statement or a winner's statement. The woman has no class or pride. The rest of the statement is no better but if you care to read:
http://hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=7489
Obama gets four Sunday paper endorsements, two from Indiana, one from NC and one from a Louisville paper which also has many readers from So. Indiana.
He also gets a Guam super delegate endorsement.
So far, a nice beginning for next week.
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Tim Russert's interview on MTP this morning would have been just OK if he had not spent the entire first fifteen minutes talking about the Rev. You -Know_Who. Although Obama addressed it all perfectly, this subject is getting old and tiring.
Going into the November election however, it will not be possible for McCain or his 527's to bring up this subject again without widely opening the door for a serious Hagee discussion.
I'm impressed that you were working on a Sunday morning and took the time to reply when I sent you the note about the error message I kept getting from the blog.
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I did want to comment on the Clinton one hour infomercial on ABC, that I had never before seen a pushpoll type question used to such effect as the lawyer asking the third question,lumping McCain and Obama as saying jobs weren't coming back. of course neither George or Hillary refuted it because it was a set-up
very insidious, subliminal stuff
get a transcript if you want to see rovian work taken to a higher level
Stance Against Gas Tax Holiday Defines Obama as a Realist: Group
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Months after it's early choice, John Edwards, dropped out of the race, the Friends of Earth Action has endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president this weekend.
The tipping point for the endorsement came, in part, because of the recent debate over a summer gas tax holiday. Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain both endorsed the idea of suspending federal gas taxes during the season when Americans typically drive most. Obama rejected it, as most if not all economists, nonpartisan policy groups and newspaper editorials have, as a bit of election year pandering that would neither save U.S. residents significant money at the pump nor help in the larger goal of reducing dependence on oil.
“We endorse Senator Obama because we believe he is the best candidate for the environment,” said Friends of the Earth Action President Brent Blackwelder. “The 'gas tax holiday' debate is a defining moment in the presidential race. The two other candidates responded with sham solutions that won’t ease pain at the pump, but Senator Obama refused to play that typical Washington game. Instead, Obama called for real solutions that would make transportation more affordable and curb global warming. He showed the courage and candor we expect from a president.”
Don't let Linda NM know about this endorsement. She'll be disillusioned to find out that environmentalists aren't actually supporting Clinton.
the media over-playing Rev. Wright means Hillary gets no credit if she does win Indiana, the media does, so in that sense Obama has not been that badly hurt
just another adjustment to the tally of delegates that includes Joe Andrews, Guam, and North Carolina
where was he a month ago where is he now?
I sensed frustration by Danny in the way the new blog is behaving like the old broken one.
he is not alone
I finally get on just when I have to head out and move the break wire for the herd. hate to leave when I am finally here posting, but leave I must.
Hillary Clinton is a smart,polished, candidate that says a lot of the right things, and it is a great show of strength by Obama that we have had dozens of contests and he has a commanding lead over a very good opponent.
McCain will be a piece of cake.
Anyway, I've been busy putting together yet another post for KOS about the Air Force. Tried to keep this one shorter since there were complaints about length the other day.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/4/133428/2693/633/508894
While the spouse has a thing about all tha Naval guys in the Presidency, I'm more concerned with the out-of-touch Air Force sending its operatives into other agencies.
And, to be honest, I'm not a little perturbed that our Congresswoman in our discussions about the Air Force tried to throw me off track by bringing up the Africa Command and never mentioned that she was angling to get the Cyber Command headquarters here in New Hampshire. The Air Force claim that the Pentagon is being "attacked" three million times a day is just preposterous. And when people make preposterous claims, their whole argument needs to be discounted. Besides, I don't think it's constitutional for the Air Force to be conducting warfare in our domestic cyber space.
I understand that there's great enthusiasm for electronic everything, but I don't think we should put all our eggs in that basket. We still need paper records and not just for voting.
Chariman Dean out doing good work for the party as always, today with Chris Wallace, as the Hufffington Post <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/04/howard-dean-on-fox-news-s_n_100023.html">reports.</a> Dean responds to this question from Wallace:
WALLACE: Looking back, do you think it was a mistake for the Democratic Party to boycott Fox debates and all the other programs during the last year and thereby boycott getting your message out to the millions of people who watch?
DEAN: No, I think it was the right thing to do, because there are some things in the news department that have really been shockingly biased and I think that's wrong and I just say so right up front.
are likely to vote for Democrats? Or even vote? Some people are just into being spectators.
I think a lot of people watch Faux. I watch especially on the weekends some b/c it is more entertaining and CNN is mostly canned on the weekends. Also, they are hoping to get those independents and swinging Republicans. I think it is a good move -- didn't watch o'Reilly but Obama last Sunday was quite good and the snippets of Howard today was great. I used to enjoy that 6 PM Saturday night panel with Jane Hall, Juan Williams, et al but they canned the liberal and the fair moderator recently and the show is a shadow of its former self.
My link attempts are futile. The new blog sucks.
Start with the < and then add a href (stands for hypelink reference) then quotation marks and the URL starting with http ; at the end of the URL you close with quotes and the reverse > then you insert a word like LINK and close everything off with those lesser and greater signs around an a preceded by a slash. If you have a tool bar just do as before. paste in the address you want to turn into a link, highlight it, click on the link, paste the address into the drop-down box and click "insert."
<A HREF="resumepage.html">my resume</A>
where resumepage.html is your http: link and my resume is your comment
Agree - sorry Danny for the problems. I feel guilty b/c I have put off twice the worker trying to get $ out of me for DFA. I already gave $25 this year which is basically my blogging fee. If we need $$ for the blog I'll give more. I believe in what DFA does but it is the blog that I come for. Someone upthread suggested we think about who benefits from the blog problems. Maybe the 'powers that be' figure we will eventually go away if we get frustrated enough?
I watched Russert not Hill. I thought Russert played softball altho they did spend that 15 minutes on Wright. The McCain preacher was front paged on Huff Post earlier so maybe it will finally hit the cable cycle. He sounds like a true nut case (the preacher).
The snippet of the Hill town hall I saw I heard her use the 'code' word 'elite' when asked what she thought about all economists thinking her gas tax proposal was silly. She said who cares what the 'elites' think? Also, at the end, I heard Stephanpoulos say he had offered 'equal time' in the same format to Obama and McCain.
There seemed to be a lot of good news we could certainly use this morning. There's a diary on KOS citing 3 positive NYT articles this morning - Freidman, MoDo, and one other. There was the Tom Hanks endorsement. There was the MTP which went well, I thought. A little wonkish. He loses me in the middle of some of his answers - not that I don't understand, my mind just wanders.
On Chris Matthews Sunday on scoops and predictions one of the guests - perhaps the newswoman from NC said she had 'heard' that Edwards would not endorse before Tuesday.
And there were a number of newspaper endorsements, including the Charlotte Observer.
Oh! I decided why Wright became so 'big.' Well partly it was b/c he was so 'in our face' but I think the MSM (or those evil guys behind the curtain) wasn't getting anywhere with the 'Obama is a Muslim' campaign, so now they had an 'Obama is some kind of radical Christian' campaign. However it wasn't really about religion it is about RACE. People can't say "I don't want a black to be President" b/c it isn't PC, so they just find some other stupid issue.
BTW the newswomen in IN and NC seemed to agree that the Wright affair did not seem particularly important to voters so I hope they are right. Guam sure was a squeaker (did I read about a recount?) so I for one will surely be on tenterhooks till Wednesday morning.
End of bloviation.
Howard was too cool for school on the clip I saw from Faux News Sunday. He sure is lookin' like a veep to me.
We've seen that the Clintons have no stops when it comes to seeking power: lies, slander, bribery, gotcha tactics, exaggeration, playing victim, all tactics that I would hope much of the American citizenry is thoroughly sick of.
Hillary Clinton may be smart, but she is not wise; she is not genuine; she is not a thinker, rather a memorizer of details and facts that she repeats. Frankly, she is not a candidate I would ever vote for, and she makes me ashamed of politicians who will do anything, will misrepresent anything, to achieve power.
In short, we have had many years of bad decisions, short sighted actions, and political pandring, ideological polarizing, and neglect of infrastructure, socially, environmentally, educationally, materially, and globally. Our problems are so complex and threatening that politicians of the ilk of the Clintons, of Specter, of Hoyner, of McConnell, of Bush, etc. are an actual danger to the country.
Am I wrought up, you bet!
Susan,
Certainly agree with you assessment of Hillary.
Both Clintons are embarrassing to the Dem Party with their deeds and tactics.
At a time when Obama is trying to distinguish our party from the Republican Party, clean up the lobbyists' control of D.C. and change the voters' opinions of the Dem Party, the Clintons are out there trashing all that he has gained by their actions.
Many voters will again see all the parties as no different from each other as they did in 2004 and because of Hillary Clinton these voters may stay home this year as well.
Thanks Susan for the Friends of the Earth endorsement of BO. I used to belong to this group but we were contributing to so many environmental groups and had to drop some.
Great endorsement!
- BREAKING NEWS: Democrat wins longtime GOP seat in Louisiana
By Susan Rowe on May 4, 2008 3:43 PM EDTHere's a Saturday night news lead that will spark smiles on the faces of Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean and a bunch of other Democratic leaders for weeks to come. From the Bloomberg News Service:
"A Louisiana Democrat won a U.S. House seat that Republicans had held for more than 20 years, expanding the Democratic majority in Congress and demonstrating surging party strength in Republican strongholds."
The 6th congressional district, centered around Baton Rouge, had been in GOP hands since the mid-1970s. It came open early this year when Rep. Richard Baker, who first won the seat in 1986, announced he was quitting the House to become a lobbyist.
Going into Saturday's vote, Democrat Don Cazayoux had been slightly favored, in part because the GOP candidate, Woody Jenkins, had problems raising money. And the race played out true to form, with Cazayoux edging Jenkins, 49% to 46%.
The Democratic establishment couldn't care less about the margin. Instead, the crowing will instantly begin about how Cazayoux's victory is another strong sign that the party is destined for big things this election year.
...full article: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/breaking-news-a.html
Since the blog is so f*cked up, if you could find a way to post a new thread LINK ~~ it would *really* help some of the peeps who can't get there any other way. . . .
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Been unable to access this thread for hours. Posted my "help" over on last thread, and sunlight rescued me!
Tom Bearse was nice enough to post New Thread but there was no link.
Too funny! I just emailed you the thread. Been talkin' on the phone to Thankful, who's almost home. She reports: good traffic, nice weather, nice drive. . . .
Sorry about the two Rosies -- posted one, it didn't take, went back two steps, refreshed, she wasn't there, so posted again, at which point, BOTH showed up.
Arthritis
- This is what I get when I log on to DFA, happened yesterday, also!
By Karen on May 4, 2008 4:32 PM EDTYou are viewing a feed that contains frequently updated content. When you subscribe to a feed, it is added to the Common Feed List. Updated information from the feed is automatically downloaded to your computer and can be viewed in Internet Explorer and other programs. Learn more about feeds.
Click on "Subscribe to this feed", and you'll see the page I get while trying to access BFA last two days.
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Free Spirit used to wonder that since HQ clearly could see no value in the blog or bloggers if they were trying to get rid of us. . . . Have to say this last year or so, I've had to wonder with her.
Interestingly, the free dating site I belong to distinguishes itself from the pay sites primarily by it's forums. It now has over 6,000,000 members, 2 million of them active, and the dude that created it is making $10,000 a day just from selling ads. One man, himself, a programmer, and about five volunteer moderators (who DON'T get paid).
HQ has that wonderful Hollywood mentality, that says "copy what more successful XYZ is doing" and is trying to turn us in to facebook. . . . Same mentality that brings us Survivor, and remakes of Casablanca. . .
Oh, wait. . . .
earwigs
Sorry, my linking skills are nonexistent.
here's a website for the documents, etc: peterfpaul.com
discovery is beginning on bill and hillary and chelsea, et al.
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