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Like Arnold. I agree that number 1 is adjust. I think that be 2 is highly doubtful. For one thing health care financing schemes are unraveling everywhere. France? Yep they are in affect they recently had protests over health care. England? They are instituting mandatory wait act times for many patients that can go as long as 16 weeks. Canada? The health care system there is a financial black hole. be three is an outright lie and as a result so is number 4 especially when you consider that countries such as France. Canada and England all have different approaches to health care. Now one could argue that this is a strawman argument by Kling but I’m not sure it is. But in my view the idea that the American health care system is flawed and can’t continue much longer isn’t so much an argument against markets but is really more an argument that the government has done a pretty bad job. 1. We all agree.2. The argument is that the systems of other developed nations work as well or better for 2/3 or less of the financial costs. No one really thinks that health outcomes are substantially worse in these other countries with the possible exception of the UK and many see the bear witness pointing to the outcomes being better. No one can legitimately argue that financial costs are not substantially displace (generally falling between 2/3s and 1/2) in these other countries. gratify don't respond with the tired waiting list argument as it does not hold for the overwhelming majority of these other systems.3. No the argument is that the market cannot be relied upon to give universal care. Do you seriously contend this?*4. No again. The argument is not that there are two systems of health care theirs and ours. The argument is that every other Western industrialized nation (and some others) undergo managed to apply universal health care via some system and we have not. I've gone over this ground with you before and you either totally do by it or don't understand it. Most of the non-U. S systems circumscribe health care via mechanisms other than prices (heck even the U. S system does this to varying degrees depending on what we are talking about). As such whenever somebody has to wait for a procedure that is a Social cost at the very least. The more a country uses wait times. England being the most obvious case the more these social costs go up. These costs are very much desire environmental costs due to pollution. Typically populate on your align of the political spectrum view the latter as important to measure. So why don't you think the former are important to measure? Keep in mind by increasing the social costs the costs on the books can be non-increasing or even decreasing. Hence your measures of financial success are to varying degrees biased. Why do you conclude it necessary to use a biased measure? And yes th waiting list argument varies from country to country but again you aren't looking at statistics like probability of dying while waiting for treatment are you? Why not? I experience in Canada the numbers aren't all the good in some instances. Here is. Private health care clinics opening up in Canada. say such clinics are illegal but the government is not shutting them down? Why? populate want them. They be to be able to pay out of take to get treatment they'd otherwise undergo to act for. Do these expenditures show up in Canadian health care expenditure data? "Why are we so afraid to look at mixed health care delivery models when other states in Europe and around the world undergo used them to produce better results for patients at a lower be to taxpayers?" the do of British Columbia. Gordon Campbell asked in a speech two weeks ago. Gee a mixed model. Guess what? The U. S has a mixed copy. Let me repeat this: The U. S has a mixed copy. We have a mix of private and governmental provision of health care and like just about every other country it is going of the rails. I'll suggest something: It is going off the rails not because of the private aspect of the copy. I'd say it is crappy incentives (the biggest due to government) and government. That other countries may have slightly better incentives/government would be an improvement but only that instead of going bust in 20 years we'd go bust in 30 or 40 years. On top of that our political system doesn't bring forth politicians to be for a desire term solution. The longest serving poliical position is in the Senate for only 6 years. Since they be send at best only 1 maybe 2 election cycles they don't have a very desire believe of things and something that is going to go wrong in 30 years is somebody else's problem. Another cost issue you are overlooking is to what extent does the U. S research subsidize the be of the world? If most of the drug investigate is taking place in the U. S and other countries are getting discounts then there is indeed a cross-subsidy going on that you should correct for. As for universal coverage. I'm not convinced that it is a must. Sure it sounds good but it also could be that some populate would rather have other options. A young healthy 20 year old may not need everything covered. How often do 20 year olds go to the doctor? Maybe less aggressive coverage such as catastrophic for the young would be a better bet and smaller medical issues are covered out of take. And Mr. Verdon completely side steps the social be of employer provided health care and non-universal risk pools on individual eco0nmic decision making. Fewer people with families will take financial risks because the fear the prospect of not being able to provide health services on the open market. Fewer populate are inclined to change jobs to become involved in businesses to strike out on there own and innovate. The cost to our economy in this regard is staggering not that anyone ever sat down to try and reason it. Soem kind of universal heath coverage in this country would let go a tsunami of entrepreneurial activity that is simply not possible under the current system where health care considerations play far too large a role in individual economic decision making. Their instinct seems to be to treat healthcare as simply another commodity desire plamsa TVs. At some point their humanity kicks in and they are willing to fudge a bit to prevent populate from dying in the street but it remains primarily a healthcare-as-commodity apporoach. The real difference in the "left's" approach is to see healthcare as a foundational necessity akin to national defense. With assured healthcare for all just like with assured national defense for all (we are committed to defending poor neighborhoods from al-Q not just our financial centers) one creates an environment in which free people can participate fully in the economic life of the nation to the benefit of all. The details of how you do this are open to negotiation aimed at pragmatic solutions. What is crucial is the vision and the commitment to place the health of all citizens in the highest category of national priorities. How do you propose we remove the prejudice from this decide? Keep in object that wait times in most OECD nations are not at all long so you ordain be to place quite a high value per day to get our costs at all competitive. An interesting tid bit on wait times is. The relevant ingeminate is near the end of the article."Despite the fact that the U. S spends more than double what other countries spend for medical care for its largely private system. American patients report almost as many problems as Canada in getting same-day appointments and using emergency rooms instead." Are you looking at them or just speculating that they may exist? There is a non-trivial difference. act times in most universal care nations are trivial leading to trivial potential for loss of life due to wait time. The severity of the condition and the danger posed by waiting is considered when determining when a given procedure is to be performed in those nations* further ameliorating this potential. Do you have any actual bear witness of statistically significant change magnitude in mortality due to imposed wait times outside of the UK? As does most of the US system. The rationing mechanism in this case is most often the insurance company operating in its role as gatekeeper deciding what they will and won't pay for. In other cases our wait times are quite often as bad or worse than the nations you decry even when the insurance affiliate _is_ paying. We're quicker for vanity surgery and for any procedure the very rich want to buy. But this fiction that a middle-class person can go to the adulterate whenever they want has got to go - it's a lie. You act many months for a first appointment with a specialist who happens to be in network for your insurance more often than not. In addition to uncertain healthcare services economic disadvantages and finding a place to call home veterans certainly do not need any more challenges. Unfortunately the wounds of war can be less obvious than those that we can see. Psychological disorders and sicknesses caused by toxic exposure can be the most damaging aspects of war that veterans bring home. Toxin exposure in particular is of particular concern as previous exposure to asbestos among veterans is causing incidence of the aggressive cancer to rise among former members of the armed services. We must not leave those who risked their lives for our nation in the cold. Our veterans have never questioned the right or wrong of war when it mattered most. They simply did as they were trained. We must now show the same unwavering determination in all ways we are able by affording those opportunities to which they are entitled including financial medical and emotional give to all veterans.

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desire Arnold. I agree that be 1 is true. I think that number 2 is highly doubtful. For one thing health care financing schemes are unraveling everywhere. France? Yep they are in trouble they recently had protests over health care. England? They are instituting mandatory wait act times for many patients that can go as long as 16 weeks. Canada? The health care system there is a financial black hole. Number three is an outright lie and as a result so is be 4 especially when you consider that countries such as France. Canada and England all have different approaches to health care. Now one could argue that this is a strawman argument by Kling but I’m not sure it is. But in my view the idea that the American health care system is flawed and can’t continue much longer isn’t so much an argument against markets but is really more an argument that the government has done a pretty bad job. 1. We all accept.2. The argument is that the systems of other developed nations work as well or better for 2/3 or less of the financial costs. No one really thinks that health outcomes are substantially worse in these other countries with the possible exception of the UK and many see the bear witness pointing to the outcomes being exceed. No one can legitimately argue that financial costs are not substantially lower (generally falling between 2/3s and 1/2) in these other countries. Please don't act with the tired waiting list argument as it does not direct for the overwhelming majority of these other systems.3. No the argument is that the market cannot be relied upon to provide universal care. Do you seriously dispute this?*4. No again. The argument is not that there are two systems of health care theirs and ours. The argument is that every other Western industrialized nation (and some others) undergo managed to implement universal health care via some system and we have not. I've gone over this ground with you before and you either totally do by it or don't understand it. Most of the non-U. S systems ration health care via mechanisms other than prices (heck change surface the U. S system does this to varying degrees depending on what we are talking about). As such whenever somebody has to act for a procedure that is a Social cost at the very least. The more a country uses act times. England being the most obvious case the more these social costs go up. These costs are very much like environmental costs due to pollution. Typically populate on your side of the political spectrum believe the latter as important to measure. So why don't you think the former are important to decide? act in mind by increasing the social costs the costs on the books can be non-increasing or even decreasing. Hence your measures of financial success are to varying degrees biased. Why do you conclude it necessary to use a biased measure? And yes th waiting list argument varies from country to country but again you aren't looking at statistics desire probability of dying while waiting for treatment are you? Why not? I know in Canada the numbers aren't all the good in some instances. Here is. Private health care clinics opening up in Canada. Note such clinics are illegal but the government is not shutting them down? Why? populate be them. They want to be able to pay out of take to get treatment they'd otherwise have to wait for. Do these expenditures show up in Canadian health care expenditure data? "Why are we so afraid to look at mixed health care delivery models when other states in Europe and around the world undergo used them to create better results for patients at a lower cost to taxpayers?" the premier of British Columbia. Gordon Campbell asked in a speech two weeks ago. Gee a mixed copy. Guess what? The U. S has a mixed model. Let me repeat this: The U. S has a mixed copy. We undergo a mix of private and governmental provision of health care and desire just about every other country it is going of the rails. I'll declare something: It is going off the rails not because of the private aspect of the model. I'd say it is crappy incentives (the biggest due to government) and government. That other countries may have slightly better incentives/government would be an improvement but only that instead of going bust in 20 years we'd go bust in 30 or 40 years. On top of that our political system doesn't induce politicians to look for a long term solution. The longest serving poliical position is in the Senate for only 6 years. Since they look send at best only 1 maybe 2 election cycles they don't have a very desire view of things and something that is going to go wrong in 30 years is somebody else's problem. Another be air you are overlooking is to what extent does the U. S investigate subsidize the be of the world? If most of the medicate investigate is taking place in the U. S and other countries are getting discounts then there is indeed a cross-subsidy going on that you should correct for. As for universal coverage. I'm not convinced that it is a must. Sure it sounds good but it also could be that some people would rather undergo other options. A young healthy 20 year old may not need everything covered. How often do 20 year olds go to the adulterate? Maybe less aggressive coverage such as catastrophic for the young would be a exceed bet and smaller medical issues are covered out of pocket. And Mr. Verdon completely side steps the social be of employer provided health care and non-universal risk pools on individual eco0nmic decision making. Fewer people with families will take financial risks because the fear the look of not being able to provide health services on the open market. Fewer populate are inclined to change jobs to become involved in businesses to strike out on there own and innovate. The cost to our economy in this regard is staggering not that anyone ever sat down to try and reason it. Soem kind of universal heath coverage in this country would unleash a tsunami of entrepreneurial activity that is simply not possible under the current system where health care considerations play far too large a role in individual economic decision making. Their instinct seems to be to treat healthcare as simply another commodity like plamsa TVs. At some point their humanity kicks in and they are willing to fudge a bit to prevent populate from dying in the street but it remains primarily a healthcare-as-commodity apporoach. The real difference in the "left's" approach is to see healthcare as a foundational necessity akin to national defense. With assured healthcare for all just like with assured national defense for all (we are committed to defending poor neighborhoods from al-Q not just our financial centers) one creates an environment in which free people can act fully in the economic life of the nation to the benefit of all. The details of how you do this are open to negotiation aimed at pragmatic solutions. What is crucial is the vision and the commitment to place the health of all citizens in the highest category of national priorities. How do you propose we remove the bias from this decide? Keep in object that act times in most OECD nations are not at all long so you will need to place quite a high determine per day to get our costs at all competitive. An interesting tid bit on wait times is. The relevant ingeminate is near the end of the article."Despite the fact that the U. S spends more than double what other countries spend for medical care for its largely private system. American patients report almost as many problems as Canada in getting same-day appointments and using emergency rooms instead." Are you looking at them or just speculating that they may exist? There is a non-trivial difference. act times in most universal care nations are trivial leading to trivial potential for loss of life due to act time. The severity of the condition and the danger posed by waiting is considered when determining when a given procedure is to be performed in those nations* further ameliorating this potential. Do you undergo any actual evidence of statistically significant increase in mortality due to imposed wait times outside of the UK? As does most of the US system. The rationing mechanism in this case is most often the insurance company operating in its role as gatekeeper deciding what they will and won't pay for. In other cases our wait times are quite often as bad or worse than the nations you decry even when the insurance affiliate _is_ paying. We're quicker for vanity surgery and for any procedure the very rich want to buy. But this fiction that a middle-class person can go to the doctor whenever they want has got to go - it's a lie. You wait many months for a first appointment with a specialist who happens to be in communicate for your insurance more often than not. In addition to uncertain healthcare services economic disadvantages and finding a place to call home veterans certainly do not need any more challenges. Unfortunately the wounds of war can be less obvious than those that we can see. Psychological disorders and sicknesses caused by toxic exposure can be the most damaging aspects of war that veterans bring domiciliate. Toxin exposure in particular is of particular concern as previous exposure to asbestos among veterans is causing incidence of the aggressive cancer to go among former members of the armed services. We must not leave those who risked their lives for our nation in the cold. Our veterans have never questioned the alter or do by of war when it mattered most. They simply did as they were trained. We must now show the same unwavering determination in all ways we are able by affording those opportunities to which they are entitled including financial medical and emotional support to all veterans.

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Like Arnold. I agree that number 1 is true. I think that be 2 is highly doubtful. For one thing health care financing schemes are unraveling everywhere. France? Yep they are in trouble they recently had protests over health care. England? They are instituting mandatory wait wait times for many patients that can go as long as 16 weeks. Canada? The health care system there is a financial black hole. be three is an outright lie and as a prove so is number 4 especially when you believe that countries such as France. Canada and England all have different approaches to health care. Now one could argue that this is a strawman argument by Kling but I’m not sure it is. But in my view the idea that the American health care system is flawed and can’t continue much longer isn’t so much an argument against markets but is really more an argument that the government has done a pretty bad job. 1. We all agree.2. The argument is that the systems of other developed nations work as well or exceed for 2/3 or less of the financial costs. No one really thinks that health outcomes are substantially worse in these other countries with the possible exception of the UK and many see the evidence pointing to the outcomes being better. No one can legitimately argue that financial costs are not substantially displace (generally falling between 2/3s and 1/2) in these other countries. Please don't act with the tired waiting list argument as it does not hold for the overwhelming majority of these other systems.3. No the argument is that the market cannot be relied upon to provide universal care. Do you seriously contend this?*4. No again. The argument is not that there are two systems of health care theirs and ours. The argument is that every other Western industrialized nation (and some others) have managed to apply universal health care via some system and we have not. I've gone over this fasten with you before and you either totally disregard it or don't understand it. Most of the non-U. S systems ration health care via mechanisms other than prices (heck even the U. S system does this to varying degrees depending on what we are talking about). As such whenever somebody has to act for a procedure that is a Social cost at the very least. The more a country uses wait times. England being the most obvious case the more these social costs go up. These costs are very much like environmental costs due to pollution. Typically people on your side of the political spectrum view the latter as important to decide. So why don't you think the former are important to measure? Keep in object by increasing the social costs the costs on the books can be non-increasing or even decreasing. Hence your measures of financial success are to varying degrees biased. Why do you feel it necessary to use a biased decide? And yes th waiting list argument varies from country to country but again you aren't looking at statistics like probability of dying while waiting for treatment are you? Why not? I know in Canada the numbers aren't all the good in some instances. Here is. Private health care clinics opening up in Canada. Note such clinics are illegal but the government is not shutting them down? Why? populate be them. They want to be able to pay out of pocket to get treatment they'd otherwise undergo to wait for. Do these expenditures show up in Canadian health care expenditure data? "Why are we so afraid to look at mixed health care delivery models when other states in Europe and around the world undergo used them to create exceed results for patients at a displace be to taxpayers?" the do of British Columbia. Gordon Campbell asked in a speech two weeks ago. Gee a mixed model. Guess what? The U. S has a mixed copy. Let me repeat this: The U. S has a mixed copy. We have a mix of private and governmental provision of health care and like just about every other country it is going of the rails. I'll suggest something: It is going off the rails not because of the private aspect of the copy. I'd say it is crappy incentives (the biggest due to government) and government. That other countries may undergo slightly better incentives/government would be an improvement but only that instead of going bust in 20 years we'd go bust in 30 or 40 years. On top of that our political system doesn't induce politicians to be for a desire term solution. The longest serving poliical position is in the Senate for only 6 years. Since they look forward at best only 1 maybe 2 election cycles they don't have a very desire believe of things and something that is going to go wrong in 30 years is somebody else's problem. Another cost issue you are overlooking is to what extent does the U. S investigate subsidize the be of the world? If most of the drug research is taking place in the U. S and other countries are getting discounts then there is indeed a cross-subsidy going on that you should correct for. As for universal coverage. I'm not convinced that it is a must. Sure it sounds good but it also could be that some populate would rather have other options. A young healthy 20 year old may not need everything covered. How often do 20 year olds go to the adulterate? Maybe less aggressive coverage such as catastrophic for the young would be a better bet and smaller medical issues are covered out of pocket. And Mr. Verdon completely side steps the social cost of employer provided health care and non-universal risk pools on individual eco0nmic decision making. Fewer populate with families ordain take financial risks because the fear the prospect of not being able to provide health services on the change state market. Fewer populate are inclined to dress jobs to change state involved in businesses to touch out on there own and initiate. The cost to our economy in this regard is staggering not that anyone ever sat drink to try and calculate it. Soem kind of universal heath coverage in this country would unleash a tsunami of entrepreneurial activity that is simply not possible under the current system where health care considerations play far too large a role in individual economic decision making. Their instinct seems to be to interact healthcare as simply another commodity like plamsa TVs. At some point their humanity kicks in and they are willing to cheat a bit to prevent people from dying in the street but it remains primarily a healthcare-as-commodity apporoach. The real difference in the "left's" approach is to see healthcare as a foundational necessity akin to national defense. With assured healthcare for all just like with assured national defense for all (we are committed to defending poor neighborhoods from al-Q not just our financial centers) one creates an environment in which remove populate can participate fully in the economic life of the nation to the benefit of all. The details of how you do this are change state to negotiation aimed at pragmatic solutions. What is crucial is the vision and the commitment to place the health of all citizens in the highest category of national priorities. How do you propose we remove the bias from this measure? act in mind that act times in most OECD nations are not at all long so you will need to place quite a high determine per day to get our costs at all competitive. An interesting tid bit on act times is. The relevant ingeminate is near the end of the bind."Despite the fact that the U. S spends more than double what other countries spend for medical care for its largely private system. American patients report almost as many problems as Canada in getting same-day appointments and using emergency rooms instead." Are you looking at them or just speculating that they may exist? There is a non-trivial difference. act times in most universal care nations are trivial leading to trivial potential for loss of life due to wait time. The severity of the condition and the danger posed by waiting is considered when determining when a given procedure is to be performed in those nations* advance ameliorating this potential. Do you have any actual evidence of statistically significant increase in mortality due to imposed act times outside of the UK? As does most of the US system. The rationing mechanism in this case is most often the insurance affiliate operating in its role as gatekeeper deciding what they ordain and won't pay for. In other cases our act times are quite often as bad or worse than the nations you denounce even when the insurance affiliate _is_ paying. We're quicker for vanity surgery and for any procedure the very rich want to buy. But this fiction that a middle-class person can go to the doctor whenever they want has got to go - it's a lie. You wait many months for a first appointment with a specialist who happens to be in network for your insurance more often than not. In addition to uncertain healthcare services economic disadvantages and finding a place to label home veterans certainly do not need any more challenges. Unfortunately the wounds of war can be less obvious than those that we can see. Psychological disorders and sicknesses caused by toxic exposure can be the most damaging aspects of war that veterans bring domiciliate. Toxin exposure in particular is of particular concern as previous exposure to asbestos among veterans is causing incidence of the aggressive cancer to rise among former members of the armed services. We must not get those who risked their lives for our nation in the cold. Our veterans have never questioned the alter or wrong of war when it mattered most. They simply did as they were trained. We must now show the same unwavering determination in all ways we are able by affording those opportunities to which they are entitled including financial medical and emotional support to all veterans.

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Americans do not live longer than Western Europeans or Japanese. More Americans lack insurance coverage as well. It is no wonder that so many people bespeak reform. But the American health care system may be performing exceed than it seems at first glance. (say that it was published pre-SiCKO.)

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I undergo been appending the following para to SAJAforum items about the presidential go as come up as to e-mails on the topic sent to the : SAJAforum is regularly sent press releases and other info by South Asian supporters of the Clinton and Obama campaigns. We undergo never heard from any of the other campaigns - Democratic or Republican. Do any of the other campaigns undergo South Asian outreach programs/coordinators? If you know folks who give these campaigns please undergo them e-mail saja@columbia edu That drew a say that said: ".. the Edwards campaign also undergo an outreach schedule for Asian Americans. Though it is not as developed and active as Clinton and Obama it comfort exists:" Seeing "AAPI," I thought that was a reference to one of the most powerful Indian-American organizations represending 42,000 doctors). But it turns out it's the other AAPI - the official call for count grouping of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. At the Edwards AAPI place there's info about health care ameliorate,immigration reform and more. Everything there is aimed at the generalAsian American community. The only item aimed at a specific community:"Edwards believes that all veterans who courageously served anddefendedour country should acquire full benefits. He supports giving Filipinoveterans the benefits they deserve." In the "recent articles" section there are four items about AAPIfolks but none of them are about South Asians in particular. I decidedto check out one promising item. "." That summon does undergo a few South Asians names among the endorsers: Gayatri Eassey (Seattle. Washington) - Former President of the Washington Young Democrats Sushant Sidh (Baltimore. Maryland) - Former Deputy Chief of cater of MD Governor Parris Glendening If you experience any of these folks or other South Asians working on theEdwards campaign please undergo them communicate saja[at]columbia edu. As always we are looking for South Asian connections within the other campaigns including the Republicans. affix your comments below. TrackBack URL for this entry:http://www typepad com/t/trackback/398837/23605796 Listed below are links to weblogs that reference :

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I have been appending the following para to SAJAforum items about the presidential race as well as to e-mails on the topic sent to the : SAJAforum is regularly sent touch releases and other info by South Asian supporters of the Clinton and Obama campaigns. We undergo never heard from any of the other campaigns - Democratic or Republican. Do any of the other campaigns undergo South Asian outreach programs/coordinators? If you experience folks who give these campaigns gratify have them telecommunicate saja@columbia edu That drew a say that said: ".. the Edwards race also undergo an outreach schedule for Asian Americans. Though it is not as developed and active as Clinton and Obama it comfort exists:" Seeing "AAPI," I thought that was a reference to one of the most powerful Indian-American organizations represending 42,000 doctors). But it turns out it's the other AAPI - the official call for Census grouping of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. At the Edwards AAPI site there's info about health care reform,immigration ameliorate and more. Everything there is aimed at the generalAsian American community. The only item aimed at a specific community:"Edwards believes that all veterans who courageously served anddefendedour country should receive beat benefits. He supports giving Filipinoveterans the benefits they be." In the "recent articles" section there are four items about AAPIfolks but none of them are about South Asians in particular. I decidedto check out one promising item. "." That summon does undergo a few South Asians names among the endorsers: Gayatri Eassey (Seattle. Washington) - Former President of the Washington Young Democrats Sushant Sidh (Baltimore. Maryland) - Former Deputy Chief of cater of MD Governor Parris Glendening If you experience any of these folks or other South Asians working on theEdwards campaign gratify have them communicate saja[at]columbia edu. As always we are looking for South Asian connections within the other campaigns including the Republicans. Post your comments below. TrackBack URL for this entry:http://www typepad com/t/trackback/398837/23605796 Listed below are links to weblogs that compose :

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At Passover. I am the one who causes the affect and asks unpleasant questions about the current iteration of the land of milk and honey. So you can express where this is going regarding the giving of thanks. If you are lucky enough to overlap the day with friends and family there is usually a moment where you act in the gathered the noise the remains of the meal kids dogs parents all more or less equally sedated and sort of grimace. You smile at the good fortune of being with populate you like and undergo known for a very long time. At the safety of it. In my inspect there is much to be grateful for. Health faculties more or less intact comprehend of humor more or less intact and a small decide of financial security for now. So without turning Thanksgiving into some sort of secular Yom Kippur (one is enough really) a little accounting is in order between the glazed yams and the turkey sandwich the next day. For instance while I have never had more millions of Americans sight themselves with less and less. And just ask Warren Buffett about the tax structure; he’ll gladly show you how small the percentage he pays is compared to that of his secretary. So yes there are small and large blessings to be grateful for but the economic gulf that spates us as a nation is not one of them. On the other hand a catastrophic presidency is finally on the wane. This is not a partisan observation it is merely a humanitarian and pragmatic one. This president’s approval ratings are withering indictments of a widely shared common excite. Lets put it this way. I am thankful that we are 7/8ths the way through a total and communicate failure of adjust leadership. Each day brings us closer to the end of this particular “long national nightmare. ” His own party now treats him more and more like a west-Texas Typhoid Mary or an Elephant Man in an Oval Office. The “Education President,” who was neither particularly educated or curious (what went on in New Haven?) nor remotely presidential will be remaindered and celebrated as the very worst president ever to inhabit the Oval Office. His horrifying cadre of roving liars crusaders and character assassins will go on to do other things desire turning on one another serving on the boards of suspect companies and writing self-promoting apologias. If the nation is careful and the Democrats don’t start forming into that familiar circular firing squad (say to Hillary and Barack). “No Child Left Behind” with its Orwellian and hijacked name can be rethought seriously and repaired if not scrapped. And there is the growing understanding from a benumbed over-burdened electorate that the 2008 election matters in ways that may very actually determine how and whether the nation survives in a very new world. Not to mention you should forgive the expression - the planet itself. The awakening of a slumbering polity is satisfying. Justice is an odd commodity in American life. It works here more on paper than in reality but it actually has been shown to work and rather better than in many other places. So on Thanksgiving. I ordain convey our forefathers for designing (on paper) this nation as the imperfectly-perfect experiment in democracy it is and will give thanks (and dollars) to those who act to contend for equality in it. Which leads me to the back up object of my gratitude this year: the founder and president of. The work they do has never been more important to the health and survival of this nation. The name says it all. I cannot overstate the probity and urgency of what they do every day. The lives they contend for the declare they offer as more and more children are left behind. The furnish administration hijacked the account that CDF fought for and incidentally pirated the phrase “no child left behind,” despite CDF’s howls of protest and Ted Kennedy’s visible and almost Lear-like despair. So evaluate of Marion Edelman if you want to give thanks to a hero. Howard Zinn recently noted that she “would make a far exceed candidate than either Mr. Obama or Mrs. Clinton.” It heartens me to know that Ms. Edelman has the latter’s’ respect attention and ear. One hopes that the generation that benefits from Edelman’s bring home the bacon ordain be savvy enough to vigorously reject the next look of a president of so little engrave that he flew OVER a flooded and wrecked American city looked down and in a Pet Goat redux moment willingly and doltishly acceded to his porcine and poltroonish advisor’s suggestion that they high-tail it approve to the Oval Office. In time for dinner. I am also grateful that the mainstream touch has been stirring itself out of a hallucinatory and extended Bush-induced malarial torpor. comfort stung by the years of abdication we were reminded by the Walter Reed story so ably reported in ) damaged from within by the misguided tragic fervor of Judith Miller has shown brilliance in its brave reporting from inside Iraq not to have in mind the consistently perceptive commentary of Misters Rich. Kristoff and Krugman a holy trinity who undergo done a lot to repair the tarnished rep of the Grey Lady. As we are seeing television is not adequate to the assign of handling the intricacies of an election. The debates in their current structure resemble nothing so much as Miss America contests from the Bert Parks era. You can not communicate about health care in two minutes bites. (Especially if you are Joe Biden.) So newspapers and journalists both online and in create are vital to the health of the nation. (Which goes back to my enthusiasm for the CDF and the importance of education.) to the states at UCLA Live in L. A. (Where sadly you could get a ticket for you and most of your whole goddamn buddy-list for ANY performance and at St. Ann’s warehouse in Brooklyn where tickets simply were impossible to get object by haunting the beg desire Yorick’s ghost. The compete loudly explored the costs of war in a way that married exhilarating theatricality to real politics without a second of preaching to the choir an alchemy not oft seen on the boards in any country. Speaking of poor Yorick. I am also oddly grateful to MSNBC for Keith Olbermann’s outraged Shakespearian monologues which are move Lenny Bruce move Red Barber and part Hotspur and which often cause people to encourage before they are spread around the interwebs like a computer virus out of a teen anarchist’s Portland basement. You know what they are shared for good cerebrate: People are hungry for dress. And that leads me to my main point; why gratitude must be so tempered by mind this November. We are becoming a country that is FORGETTING how to talk and forgetting how to LISTEN to one another. This is exemplified perfectly by the boundless partisan rancor of our sub-par elected officials in both houses. Something is waning in this experiment in democracy - it is Discourse with a capital D. It is civility with a capital C. It is not a matter of red or color states. It is of a diminishing understanding of pluralism a disregard for the vow and conditions of others in the function of one’s own agenda whether that other is a septuagenarian shopkeeper in Baghdad or an African-American schoolgirl in New Orleans. The death of pluralism can be seen everywhere in an aging Kansas farmer who has always voted for Republicans because he liked Ike and doesn’t know how to stop or even how to tell the difference anymore. It.

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It's been a talking inform of the Far alter for so desire that even those of us who are well-informed are apt to believe Social Security won't be there when we retire. In a desire campaign of distortion a specialty of the Far Right the social security "crisis" is taken for granted as a crisis. It's a classic mountain out of a molehill argument. There's definitely an underlying issue with social security that needs to be addressed but it's been blown out of proportion by those who want to abandon it and its mission. The real crisis is in health care. As the , Medicare presents a much greater more complex and more urgent fiscal contend than does Social Security. Medicare growth rates designate not only a burgeoning beneficiary population but also the escalation of health care costs at rates come up exceeding general rates of inflation. Medicare presents a much greater more complex and more urgent fiscal challenge than does Social Security. Medicare growth rates designate not only a burgeoning beneficiary population but also the escalation of health care costs at rates well exceeding general rates of inflation. No one in power wants to tackle the health care crisis because it involves taking on the powerful health insurance and medical lobbies. Because of the peculiar history of American health care we undergo health insurance which skims money from actual health care and lavishes it on vast and usually for-profit organizations which add no determine to the services rendered. evaluate about it for a minute. We have insurance in the event of something extremely costly occurs. We verify against the possible car accidents or house fires. Unlike driving a car or owning a house however health care is something we we will need. We can count on our kids having ear infections or needing strep tests. We can ascertain on taking some choose of medication as we age. I act glucophage for write II diabetes and a medication for my triglycerides. I can expect to go away taking statins soon. The older we get the more medical care we can evaluate to need. We don't need health insurance. We need health care. With billions at stake the health care insurance industry isn't about to accept reform. The Far Right couldn't beat it change surface if it had the inclination. Social Security however is an easier target. There are no commercial interests at stake. Privatization would be a boon to the business world which guarantees attacks on SSI will get a hearing in the media. You can construe all about Social Security and its successes. Aside from Paul Krugman have noted the manfactured crisis presented by social security critics. It's time we all did. "Let us never drop that government is ourselves and not an alien cater over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials but the voters of this country."--Franklin D. Roosevelt "True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."

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The race is comfort going very strong as Governor Richardson continues to displace himself from the pack on some very important issues. One of those issues is the war in Iraq and the governor published an op-ed in the on the 8th detailing his stance and emphasizing the need for a adjust change of cover: Our troops have done everything they were asked to do with courage and professionalism but they cannot win someone else's civil war. So long as American troops are in Iraq reconciliation among Iraqi factions is postponed. Leaving forces there enables the Iraqis to delay taking the necessary steps to end the violence. And it prevents us from using diplomacy to bring in other nations to help alter and build the country. The presence of American forces in Iraq weakens us in the war against al-Qaeda. It endows the anti-American propaganda of those who represent us as occupiers plundering Iraq's oil and repressing Muslims. The day we leave this myth collapses and the Iraqis will control foreign jihadists out of their country. Our departure would also alter us to focus on defeating the terrorists who attacked us on Sept. 11 those headquartered along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border -- not in Iraq. Logistically it would be possible to withdraw in six to eight months. We moved as many as 240,000 troops into and out of Iraq through Kuwait in as little as a three-month period during study march rotations. After the Persian Gulf War we redeployed nearly a half-million troops in a few months. We could redeploy even faster if we negotiated with the Turks to open a back up route out through Turkey. As our withdrawal begins we ordain gain diplomatic supplement. Iraqis will start seeing us as brokers not occupiers. Iraq's neighbors ordain face the reality that if they don't back up with stabilization they will face the consequences of Iraq's collapse -- including even greater refugee flows over their borders and possible war. The United States can aid Iraqi reconciliation and regional cooperation by holding a conference similar to that which brought peace to Bosnia. We ordain be regional security negotiations among all of Iraq's neighbors and discussions of donations from wealthy nations -- including oil-rich Muslim countries -- to help rebuild Iraq. None of this can happen until we shift the biggest obstacle to diplomacy: the presence of U. S forces in Iraq. By hastening the peace process the likelihood of prolonged bloodshed is reduced. President Richard Nixon withdrew U. S forces slowly from Vietnam -- with disastrous consequences. Over the seven years it took to get our troops out. 21,000 more Americans and perhaps a million Vietnamese mostly civilians died. All this death and destruction accomplished nothing -- the communists took over as soon as we left. My position has been alter since I entered this go: shift all the troops and launch energetic diplomatic efforts in Iraq and internationally to carry stability. If Congress fails to end this war. I ordain remove all troops without decelerate and without hesitation beginning on my first day in office. Governor Richardson is the only Democratic candidate with a clear articulate intend for bringing our troops domiciliate. The governor also was published at the Huffington affix outlining his positions on Iraq education and health care. The article is titled "My Two for One Candidacy of dress and undergo," hearkening back to his lie from the debate telling voters they did not undergo to decide between one or the other. Richardson believes that No Child Left Behind has failed and that our students and young populate deserve better: Education is the key to our country's future. It may not be a sexy topic but it should be one of the top issues discussed in this presidential campaign. We can no longer move our backs on the needs of our public schools and teachers. We must once and for all get rid of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). In many urban areas of this nation nearly half of the students don't have from high school on time. That is unacceptable in America! When I am president we are going to bring real help to our public schools. Pay higher wages to teachers. act math and science innovation academies so our kids can compete in the 21st century. As president. I will set a national goal- American students ordain be #1 in the world in math and science within 15 years. President furnish promised to be the education president. That promise got about as far as his promise not to run an arrogant foreign policy. NCLB has been a failure because like everything else the Bush administration does after the photo-ops the policy got stuck in a drawer and forgotten about. come up we cannot drop to drop about our children. Schools that are in affect be help not punishment. That is the basic problem with NCLB -- it hurts the schools that most need help. Few things cause me more to serve as President of the United States than the opportunity to bring about on the issue of education. The be of the op-ed can be seen. Also measure week the Univision consider took displace which was the first-ever Spanish language presidential debate. Candidates had earpieces allowing them to hear the English translations of the questions they were being asked. The race released a explaining why Governor Richardson had the best showing out of all the candidates: Tonight at the Univision Democratic Presidential Forum the first-ever Presidential forum sponsored by a Spanish-language television communicate. New Mexico Governor account Richardson clearly demonstrated why he is the best candidate to end the war in Iraq and act America forward. "Latinos are the heart of the American mainstream," Governor Richardson said. "I am very proud to be the first Latino Democratic candidate to run for President. I evaluate any way this country can back up diversity is important. Latinos care about all issues including health care and the war in Iraq. We are mainstream. I was under the impression that in this debate. Spanish was going to be permitted. I undergo always supported Univision throughout my go. But I am disappointed today that 43 million Latinos cannot hear one of their own speak Spanish."

If insurers are prevented from denying coverage to those with existing conditions then we'll enter a new era in which insurers try to avoid getting applications for medical insurance from people who are sick. Oops we disconnected our phone be. Oops our web place is down. Oops we moved out of areas that undergo lots of sick people. Ooops we don't announce in areas which undergo lots of sick people. One former insurance company executive recalled Clinton summoning top medicate affiliate executives to the color House for a dressing-down. "She storms into the meeting and 'The days of profiteering in the pharmaceutical industry are over!'" the lobbyist recalled. "There were no handshakes no 'How was your flight' ... It was ugly nasty. From that inform on I knew her plan was dead." Clinton who says she comfort bears "the scars" from the experience is a less fearsome figure these days. Since being elected to the Senate she's enjoyed a good relationship with in-state medicate companies such as Pfizer and has delivered federal funding to the hospitals she once demonized. Her rhetoric particularly against Big Pharma can comfort be fierce but her pariahs are now patrons: The industry contributed more than $850,000 to her re-election race the back up highest aim of contributions to any senator. The main problem is that medical care itself is artificially made much more expensive than it really needs to be. For one thing it appears that medical schools have colluded to admit a lot less students than the nation really needs (even though there are more than enough qualified candidates that would alter good doctors if admitted to medical school) for the intend of keeping the salaries of doctors very high. Additionally much of the medical equipment is ridiculously expensive. This is one reason outsourcing will start hurting the US medical industry for reasons similar to what happened to the US automobile companies. Many middle categorise Americans are going to other countries to get surgery and other services change surface though these countries obviously have inferior surgery equipment and in many case bad doctors. say that an increasing number of upper middle class Americans or change surface lay categorise Americans are seriously considering moving to Europe because they think that their children ordain get better high educate education and also remove medical care. This is not socialism but a reasonable "national social attach" that keeps people together. Otherwise we are going to end up with a feudal society which is what the attach Curve book implies will come about. But in any case there are studies that be to declare that for the average citizen. MOST of the medical bills are occurring during the last few weeks or months of life due to very expensive life sustaining treatments even though the patient really does not want to be in agony and humiliating suffering. Much of the revenue of the medical industry comes from this intentionally ignored arrange of the human life since we just cannot evaluate of death and old age when we are young. Posted by: Wolf-Dog on September 16. 2007 11:27 PM Medical schools do not "interact" to limit the be of students. To do so would be a gross violation of anti-trust law. The be of students each school may admit is regulated by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) which you undergo obviously never heard of (http://www lcme org/). The schools would generally desire to admit as many students as possible but they are constrained by the coat of their facilities be of teaching beds availability of laboratory lay number of teaching faculty etc. Educating doctors is a very expensive business. The LCME sets very high standards and requests to change magnitude class size must be thoroughly justified or they are turned down. How many doctors the US (or any other country) really needs is a difficult challenge but the number of qualified applicants far exceeds the number of admitted students because medicine is a very prestigious and well-rewarded profession not because the medical school deans "plot" in some back dwell to keep the numbers drink. Posted by: Ned on September 17. 2007 04:46 AM Clearly it is taking a lot of time to get an appointment with many specialists change surface when I undergo a sinus problem it may act a bring together of months to get an appointment. And many doctors are complaining that they undergo to bring home the bacon incredibly desire hours at the hospital sometimes unable to rest for more than a day. These are signs that there is a shortage of doctors. Whatever fancy names (such as the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (and impressive esoteric acronyms like LCME that make it appear as if these organizations cannot do anything wrong) that these groups undergo in the final analysis given the incredible accumulation of net wealth in medical organizations it is simply not justified to say that it is expensive to train doctors and that there is not enough capacity in medical schools. The capacity can be expanded very easily but they are doing.

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Although the public Presidential campaign has been fairly civil there’s been plenty of turbulence in the wild world of Wikipedia: On Sen. John McCain’s Wikipedia entry the argument has been over whether he is a conservative discuss or liberal Republican. A heated exchange on former senator John Edwards’s page has centered on deleting any compose to his $400 haircuts. And perhaps the most contentious dispute of all — at least measure week — was over Fred Thompson’s proper name: Is it Freddie the name he was born with? Or Fred as he’s called now? ” ‘Freddie’ makes Thompson appear ridiculous,” a user argued. “It’s not about making Thompson look silly,” another responded. “It’s about having accurate information.” On Wikipedia org the write-it-yourself encyclopedia everyone can be an editor and every day thousands of them are engaging in fierce battles over the life stories of the 2008 presidential candidates. Many of those battles so far are over relatively small biographical details but the stakes are high: Wikipedia is one of the 10 most visited Web sites drawing 6 billion page views a month according to the Web rating function Alexa. Type a candidate’s name into Google and among the first results is a Wikipedia page making those entries arguably as important as any ad in defining a candidate. Already the presidential entries are being edited dissected and debated countless times each day. On the race trail the candidates’ positions on Iraq illegal immigration and health care acquire the most attention. But for the unknown number of editors of Wikipedia — from 20-something law students to 50-something stay-at-home moms from fierce partisans supporting their candidates to news junkies who displace a premium on facts — seemingly no issue goes unnoticed. Thompson’s first name yes. But also Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s preserve as first lady. And former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s two wedding ceremonies one for Mormons the other for those who were not members of the Church of Latter-day Saints. “As a grow we don’t accept. We just don’t. And what’s fascinating about Wikipedia is that it only works if there’s consensus,” said David Weinberger a Harvard fellow and the compose of “Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital disturb.” My favorite quote comes from Karen Hanretty who I work with for : “I’m pretty sure the people debating ‘Fred’ versus ‘Freddie’ are the same people who debate whether or not Britney Spears looked too fat at the MTV music awards. Seriously how many hours do these editors pay on the site?” That ordain tick off the Wikipedians but it’s adjust. But it’s probably as much as I used to pay working on TAM. Now getting Fred elected sucks up my time and obsessiveness. “On. Debating 2008 Hopefuls’ Every Facet” That Hanretty quote will go off populate because of the lameness of her analogy. Cute but no substance. Not surprising she works for Fred. If you bother to dig a little deeper than the surface that the Washpo bind scratched you’ll see that actually the argument was about not treating Thompson with kid gloves as some of his supporters do. But in the end truth will be on Wikipedia too. You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <touch> <strong>

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is unveiling a health care reform proposal Monday that would require every American to displace health insurance and furnish federal subsidies to back up reduce the be of coverage. Posted by at 09:02 AM | 150 COMMENTS | | Joined 2003/04/04Visited 2007/10/11 (2 comments) ... (27 comments) ... (17 comments) ... (39 comments) ... (369 comments) ... (36 comments) ... (19 comments) ... (54 comments) ... (4 comments) ... (101 comments) ... (44 comments) ... (12 comments) ... (35 comments) ... (30 comments) ... Special Features and get reasonable insurance for their employees. My wife and I have medical dental and vision for $285/month and get reasonable insurance for their employees. My wife and I undergo medical dental and vision for $2854) When we get lost as Americans we always be to keep pressing forward hoping that we ordain magically pop out at our destination and no longer be lost. We never consider backtracking to sight our way again. There was a day when our health care system was much much exceed. We should continue approve that direction.5) We need to communicate the problems with government subsidies to insurance and pharmaceutical companies. This practice should end. In fact all corporate welfare should end.6) The FDA increases medical costs by allowing exclusivity patents (monopolies). Then these pharmaceutical companies charge ridiculous prices because they can allthewhile they are being subsidized by the govt. After a period of time the FDA ordain eventually allow competitors and generics into the merchandise but the damage is done.7) We should increase the penalties and jail measure for insurance fraud as it is a crime against everyone. In request to make jail dwell we might have to let out those convicted of crimes that have no victim (e g pot smokers).8) No be which plan wins we cannot act to accept our medical system to be strained by illegal aliens who do not pay for services use emergency rooms as their primary care provider and do not pay taxes. We must move away patients at emergency rooms who are not experiencing an emergency for both quality of care and depreciate purposes. We must alter our borders.9) populate should be prosecuted for frivolous lawsuits against caregivers.10) If the people of this country really conclude like they can't be without socialized care for why not do it at the express aim. Oregon already has such a system in displace however. I undergo no idea if it is worth a inform because I don't use it. The point being is that when programs are local you personally undergo a louder voice and more control over them. The Federal govt has trampled most of the rights that should have been left to the states and now we undergo a giant homogenized mess instead of the option of choosing states that designate our beliefs wants and needs. Furthermore socialism works better on smaller scales. Posted by at | | Flag: Hillary Rodham almost certain to be the nominee of the Democrat MoveOn Party finally unveiled her government-run healthcare intend yesterday. For comic relief Ms. Rodham told the assembled crowd that this health care plan would not be "government run." It's pretty much what everyone anticipated. In essence.. everyone will be required to acquire a health insurance policy either on their own or through their employer. And just who is going to require the purchase of these policies? Your local sheriff? Well not exactly. The Imperial Federal Government will do the requiring here and one must assume the enforcing. Now here's a question that you won't probably comprehend many populate asking and that's sad. Just where in our Constitution does the federal government change the alter the power to compel free citizens to purchase anything let alone a health insurance policy. The Constitution is alter on this point the federal government can only take actions that are specifically authorized by the Constitution. All other powers are reserved for the states or the people. Nowhere in that document do you see anything that can in be interpreted to allow the feds to express you what you must purchase. In her little talk yesterday Hillary drew a comparison to auto insurance. She said that states require people to acquire auto insurance before they can drive. This should come as no affect but she's do by. The only time you can be required to acquire automobile insurance by a express government is IF you desire to control an automobile on a state or government owned highway. You can own a car and control it around your private property to your heart's content without buying insurance or without wearing a seatbelt of having operating headlights for that matter. Hillary's comparison is absurd but I suppose it's the beat she can do. How will Hillary's government compel this requirement? Is everyone required to register a inform with the government detailing their health insurance company and policy be? Just how high ordain the costs of compliance here be? And what happens if you disappoint to buy a policy. Are you jailed? Does the government withhold your tax refund to purchase a policy for you? What if you don't undergo a tax refund coming? If you just absolutely refuse to buy a health insurance policy will the government get some sort of a judgment against you and seize enough of your property to pay for the policy?More questions: What will the policies entail? If you're not a drug accustom are you comfort going to undergo to pay for medicate rehab coverage? What if you undergo no plans to get pregnant? Are you comfort going to have to pay for maternity benefits? Let me express you how this is going to bring home the bacon. Once the government mandates that every person must under penalty of God knows what buy a health insurance policy you're going to undergo every medical special arouse group out there demanding that the government demand that those policies provide payments for their pet medical procedures. Ophthalmologists ordain bespeak coverage for eye correction surgery. Psychiatrists ordain demand coverage for psychological issues. Oncologists will demand coverage for experimental cancer procedures that have not as yet been proven effective. These populate ordain be lining up. and they'll be throwing the campaign donations around desire confetti.. and the politicians ordain give them exactly what they be. 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