Medicaid
It’s Thursday February 28th! Do you know where your podcast is? On this day in history back in 1861, the U.S. Congress created Colorado Territory. They didn’t actually create anything. They just wrote and signed some pieces of paper that claimed the land that would come to be known as Colorado Territory was now officially Colorado Territory. The land wasn’t aware of its new name. Until that time, the land had always been the land on which the Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe people lived. What’s most surprising about this decree to those of us alive today is not how the U.S. Government had taken yet another brutal step in annihilating the indigenous peoples of North America (that’s old hat – and we’re still going to write about it until the day we die), but that the U.S. Congress somehow managed to get something done. Times have changed. Read more
The GOP say the only way to address the debt is to weaken Medicare, Medicaid & Social Security, but we know that healthy, secure Americans make a healthier, more secure America.
Deficit hawks want to stop investing in our country and privatize our resources and public works, though we know a strong national infrastructure is key to a strong, national economy.
Tea Partiers obstruct needed disaster relief and laugh off spending on disaster preparation, yet we know a robust defense of our country will make a more profitable, predictable country.
They talk about being fiscally responsible, but doing it by physically irresponsible -- weakening our citizens, society & nation.
We need strong Americans & a strong America. Getting physically stronger is fiscally smarter. Let's get fiscal -- and get physical.
And let's get together for a liberal libation with like-minded lefties ready to chat at your local progressive social club.
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For those of you not familiar with the game of Chicken, it is a very dangerous game where drivers in two different cars drive straight at each other, and the one who swerves off the road first, loses. Sometimes two very brave but stupid young people die, thanks to both refusing to give in and swerve off the road to destruction.
Tragedy happens when two forces go bearing down on each other. This seems what we have going on with our government to some extent. Though both sides knows that every day that the fiscal cliff hangs in limbo, and our economy hurts because of it. We need cooperation and we need it now. Read more
Those who poured out in droves to vote for President Obama, who by the way, won a second term in office, deserve to have what they stood in long lines on Election Day for. The Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare, is part of that.
It seems that Republican House Speaker John Boehner does not get it; President Obama won and his signature health care law stands. Our health care system is not going to go back to emergency room care for those who cannot afford health insurance, and tens of millions of Americans without decent care. It is time to move forward, with the full implementation of the law taking effect in 2014, just a little over a year away. Read more
I live in one of the states whose governor decided to refuse cooperating with the federal government on implementing ObamaCare — in Oklahoma. I am also one of many who do not have health care but needs it. My income is not low enough to qualify for Medicaid and not high, enough to afford health care, that is — under the old system.
ObamaCare is the first time I will be able to afford health care. I will still have to pay for part of my health care but at a rate, I can afford. However, my governor, Mary Fallon, does not seem to care much about my health care or others like me. Even though I am a full-time working Oklahoman who pays state taxes, what I need and many other Oklahomans need does not seem to be of a concern to Governor Fallon. Read more
Conservatives don’t seem to understand that a lot of Americans don’t really care about being rich. In fact, some of us mature to the point of understanding that if we were given too much wealth, it might change us and make us into something we don’t want to be.
So instead, many Americans just decide that the best for us is to have our simple dreams; have enough money to secure our families a decent middle-class life; enough money to send all our kids to college; enough money to go on a vacation occasionally; enough money to afford good health insurance for our families; and a decent retirement nest egg so that we can live comfortably in our twilight years. Read more
Finally, some of those who represent Christ have stood up to the GOP and Paul Ryan’s budget plan.
A group called “Faith in Public Life” held a press conference to speak out against Republican’s budget plan that provides more tax cuts for millionaires while cutting social programs for the most vulnerable in our society; the poor. They released this statement: Read more
Finally, some of those who represent Christ have stood up to the GOP and Paul Ryan’s budget plan.
A group called “Faith in Public Life” held a press conference to speak out against Republican’s budget plan that provides more tax cuts for millionaires while cutting social programs for the most vulnerable in our society; the poor. They released this statement: Read more
2/1/12 Mitt Romney’s foot landed in his mouth again today when Read more
Most Americans, both conservative and liberals realize that this is a capitalistic society Read more
Who Has Government Run Healthcare?
{SEE THE TOP 10 LIST BELOW}
1. People w/ Medicare
2. People w/ Medicaid
3. Congress
4. Senate
5. Marines
6. Army
7. Navy
8. Post office employees
9. Supreme Court members
10. 1.9 million federal employees
I guess they have long lines, death panels and government bureaucrats standing in their way between patients and their doctors……?
