Comments on: What’s Next http://sirenschronicles.com/2008/06/05/whats-next/ "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."-Teddy Roosevelt Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:26:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Diva Jood http://sirenschronicles.com/2008/06/05/whats-next/#comment-5921 Diva Jood Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:40:48 +0000 http://sirenschronicles.com/?p=1776#comment-5921 Well said, Belle! And yes, Hillary's health care plan is definately better than Obama's. Perhaps the real reason she stayed in the fight as long as she did had to do with this single issue. I would like to give her that amount of credit. Health care in America has become the priviledge of the uber-wealthy; the latest thing is "concierge MD", which, for a yearly fee ON TOP of services, entitles you to the best health care and consultations. So those of us who cannot cough up a mere $30,000 per year to join are screwed. Entitlements? Forgive me, but all Americans are entitled to health care. Insurance, and medical care, should not be the exclusive pervue of the wealthy few. McCain is among the wealthy - he married into great wealth - and this is not a concern for him. That is the arrogance of the Republicans. They just don't see, and don't care, about the rest of the world. Diva Joods last blog post..<a href="http://journeyswithjood.blogspot.com/2008/06/whats-next.html" rel="nofollow">What's Next?</a> Well said, Belle! And yes, Hillary’s health care plan is definately better than Obama’s. Perhaps the real reason she stayed in the fight as long as she did had to do with this single issue. I would like to give her that amount of credit. Health care in America has become the priviledge of the uber-wealthy; the latest thing is “concierge MD”, which, for a yearly fee ON TOP of services, entitles you to the best health care and consultations. So those of us who cannot cough up a mere $30,000 per year to join are screwed.

Entitlements? Forgive me, but all Americans are entitled to health care. Insurance, and medical care, should not be the exclusive pervue of the wealthy few.

McCain is among the wealthy - he married into great wealth - and this is not a concern for him. That is the arrogance of the Republicans. They just don’t see, and don’t care, about the rest of the world.

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]]> By: bigassbelle http://sirenschronicles.com/2008/06/05/whats-next/#comment-5914 bigassbelle Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:05:38 +0000 http://sirenschronicles.com/?p=1776#comment-5914 i hope the bitterness and hostility on both sides can go away. this has been an ordeal and we have a candidate and we have one of the hardest working people in political office available to assist. hillary clinton's health plan is better than obama's. it was the main sticking point when i moved my support to him. it is one of the primary issues we have to get on ~ loudly ~ to demonstrate the vast difference between the democrats and john mccain. mccain's just another rethug corporate shill, protecting the right of insurance companies and drug companies to keep every one of us teetering on the brink of financial ruin. and if you don't get that, you haven't had a health crisis in this country. i'm not talking about a surgery or a little diagnostic problem; for people with chronic illnesses, insurance and the medical system can be financially devastating. when i saw michael moore's sicko, it was with two people who had had to file bankruptcy due to medical bills and me, of course, with my ++$300,000-400,000 medical burden of the last 8 years. and the other thing . . . social security and medicare. if we don't get this medicare part D reversed, it will kill medicare, which is what the rethugs intended when they voted in that plan. social security is threatened by increasing calls for privatization and i am SICK TO DEATH of the reference to these programs as "entitlements." "entitlements," only no one calls it an entitlement ~ a handout, in effect ~ when we pay insurance on our houses or cars or health. it's called pooling resources to spread risk. it's simply public, nonprofit insurance in the case of medical and disability, and it's a public, nonprofit annuity in the case of social security. we have to change the words to win this thing. NOT socialized medicine. NOT entitlement. INSURANCE. public, nonprofit insurance. bigassbelles last blog post..<a href="http://bigassbelle.blogspot.com/2008/06/bobby.html" rel="nofollow">bobby</a> i hope the bitterness and hostility on both sides can go away. this has been an ordeal and we have a candidate and we have one of the hardest working people in political office available to assist.

hillary clinton’s health plan is better than obama’s. it was the main sticking point when i moved my support to him.

it is one of the primary issues we have to get on ~ loudly ~ to demonstrate the vast difference between the democrats and john mccain. mccain’s just another rethug corporate shill, protecting the right of insurance companies and drug companies to keep every one of us teetering on the brink of financial ruin. and if you don’t get that, you haven’t had a health crisis in this country. i’m not talking about a surgery or a little diagnostic problem; for people with chronic illnesses, insurance and the medical system can be financially devastating. when i saw michael moore’s sicko, it was with two people who had had to file bankruptcy due to medical bills and me, of course, with my ++$300,000-400,000 medical burden of the last 8 years.

and the other thing . . . social security and medicare. if we don’t get this medicare part D reversed, it will kill medicare, which is what the rethugs intended when they voted in that plan. social security is threatened by increasing calls for privatization and i am SICK TO DEATH of the reference to these programs as “entitlements.”

“entitlements,” only no one calls it an entitlement ~ a handout, in effect ~ when we pay insurance on our houses or cars or health. it’s called pooling resources to spread risk. it’s simply public, nonprofit insurance in the case of medical and disability, and it’s a public, nonprofit annuity in the case of social security.

we have to change the words to win this thing. NOT socialized medicine. NOT entitlement. INSURANCE. public, nonprofit insurance.

bigassbelles last blog post..bobby

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