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Still waiting for the word on that from Obama.
Now that Hillary's suspended the campaign that DiFi says got the majority of the popular vote....
Though apparently he's out golfing. (!!)
NOTE Hat tip on golf to amberglow.
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In 2003, a young Illinois state senator named Barack Obama told an AFL-CIO meeting, "I am a proponent of a single-payer universal healthcare program." -- Bill Moyers.
Per capita health care spending (2003):
United States: $5711
France: $3048
Germany: $2983
Denmark: $2743
Italy: $2314
United Kingdom: $2317
Japan: $2249
-- Bob Somerby
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And what do we get?
A very nice parting gift of STFU, quit whining and lie back and think of England.
a sigh of relief, actually
i was reading this report recently, thinking how depressing it was that picking our next president had devolved into nothing more than a steel cage death match between mark penn and david axelrod.
i'm quite heartened actually to find that it's still the same old bare-knuckle back-room wheeling and dealing and duking it out among the vaunting ambitions, massive egos, and feeding-at-the-public-trough-habit-for-which-there-is-no-nicorette that it always has been.
That's a very interesting report...
... and you should post some excerpts from it. Heck, if you're reading that kind of stuff, you must be a subject matter expert!
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
it is that
but i have a very deep antipathy to 'marketing.' i'm willing to put some time and effort into arming myself against it, but i've got other stuff i'd rather throw my energy into [including a pro-obama rant or two, but i'll hold off on that].
o/t, in re pb2.0...
i'm wondering about the feasibility of email interviews, maybe even a bloggingheads tv kind of thing, with real live canadians on single payer; canadians who can tell us what it takes to get single payer implemented, canadians who can help us debunk the likes of the fraser institute, ordinary canadian citizens who can tell us what it's like to be an ordinary patient, maybe enlist the help of an australian or two. not to mention the occasional american living overseas who can tell us first hand what it's like to live under both systems.
would bernie sanders tell us about finland? or perhaps we could ask echidne? would dennis kucinich or john conyers favor us with an interview about hr 676? it's been their baby for several years.
i'd love to hear from an expert or two on the hidden costs of the many layers in our present system. or how much has the intrusion of privatizatin started driving up costs and/or driving down quality in britain's nhs? i hear it's causing some problems in canda too.
i've got lots of ideas, i'm willing to contact people who might be amenable to interviews [one of my past odd jobs was in sales, so 'cold calling' is easy] but i'm on a shoestring computer budget and have neither the bandwidth, nor the equipment to do something like this. i also haven't got the readership to make such a venture worthwhile, but corrente does.
Hi, pparchia
I've lived in Canada since 1972; 3 years after universal, single-payer health care went nationwide.
I have worked on local hospital redevelopment issues and am relatively up-to-date on how things are running in Ontario. There are province-to-province variations. For instance: Quebec and (I believe) Alberta are two provinces that are allowing some private competition. That has not happened here, yet, and I haven't heard any inklings that it's likely to in the foreseeable future.
I'm disgustingly healthy so have limited first hand anecdotal evidence, but I'd be happy to hook you up with others (my daughter moved back to Canada in 2004 after living in NYC for 8 years). She has recent both-sides-of-the-border experience.
I think a demystification of how USPHC can and does work would be an invaluable contribution to the public dialog.
demystification, yes!
you are absolutely correct, jackyt. thanks. i'd love to take you up on that offer if i do something with one or more of these projects.
i knew quebec had something in the works but hadn't heard if it was spreading from there. and i've been reading about p3s [?] but don't have a good handle on how they work.
my family almost moved to canada when i was in eithr junior high or high school, t would have been in the early to mid 70s anyway. i'm pretty sure the reason we ultimately stayed here in the u.s. was because none of us wanted to live where it was cold. still, i'll have to ask my parents if the newly-implemented medicare there influenced their decision at all.
Cold??????????????!!!!!!
It was 36 degrees today, (with the wind/chill, or humidex, or whatever) but that's Celsius. Off course, we had killing frost a week and a half ago, but I'm blaming that on La Nina and she's no Canadian!
Anyway, I used to live in Burlington,Vermont, and, if you follow the latitude line on the map, that is actually 100 miles north of where I live now.
When you're ready to do the USPHC project, I expect you can get my e-mail from Lambert. I look forward to helping in any way I can.
i'm in florida
and i had to move 200 miles NORTH to get here. killing frost happens here about as often as hell freezes over.
This jumped out at me from that report
since a nuke power CEO was one of the early funders of Obama, and his vague talk of change in our eco policy: nuke power is not too green
"A case in point: there have not been any nuclear power plants built in the past several years due to the war waged by environmental
activists who have defeated any power plant’s construction. In contrast, the old economy sectors of fossil fuels,
nuclear, chemicals and other heavy polluters still control politicians and legislatures through trade associations, ad campaigns,
media ownership, lobbying and campaign contributions. New economy sectors for renewable energy, information
technology and green technology do not yet have this kind of entrenched political and economic muscle."
So. old polluter lobbyists, bad, nuclear polluter lobbyists,
good?
He says right up there that they're the same thing, along with the consolidated media that praises him and the energy combines whose amazingly rich wives donate to him? For god's sake, does he really think we're that stupid?
And, his semantic logic sucks. The nuclear sector is part of the "old economy sectors of fossil fuels,
nuclear, chemicals and other heavy polluters", yet we're supposed to pooh-pooh the blocking of new nuke plant construction due to the "war waged by environmental activists". Who are we supposed to hate today, sir?
thks--so very very Dubya, no?
"now watch this drive!"
ugh...
Report on the Report!
Please Hipparchia. I'm going to check it out myself.
I want to look into herd behavior as it relates to Social Networking technology.
As I have said often on these internets, Marketing is just a tool. The people using the tools are still human. But the Medium is the Message: new mediums are not just a change in technology but in how people interact and that has big consequences.
i make a present of it to you, shystee.
it needs treatment from someone more knowledgable than i am. marketing isn't really my area of expertise, and it's been years and years and years since i've looked at an actual equation. these days, all i have to know about mathematical modeling is enough about hydraulics to plug in the right numbers and decide if the results the computer gives me back are reasonable.
pretty much everything i know about marketing i've learned from listening to the folks in the next cubicle over from mine.
[help!]
[i posted a comment here, it has 97 gazillion links in it, that i'm hoping ended up in a moderation queue somewhere, rather than being sucked into outer space.]
Comment restored
The many links might have set off the Spam alarm. All fixed now.
gracias
most blogs have a too-many-links filter, but i sometimes forget this. thanks for the rescue.
Corrente's non-captive audience
is yours to speak to.
Universal <> Single-Payer Healthcare is an important topic to us, and pretty much all Americans. Or anything else you want to talk about as long as it's reality-based and interesting.
To make a blog post just click "Post to my Blog" under the "Bloggers Against Theocracy" insignia in the avocado-colored sidebar.
Shystee, I'd Love a Post about Social Networking Technology
especially as it relates to herd behavior. I don't really understand the technology behind the internet, although after this election, I'm beginning to realize that may be a mistake if I want to have any effect.
jackyt: i like you a lot already
you've mentioned health care and gardening. please express yourself more, and more fully. i'm listening, and i want to learn. thanks for reading.
ah! we get--enlightenment--
apparently--that's it- he's "a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. ... "
--
Is Obama an enlightened being?
Spiritual wise ones say: This sure ain't no ordinary politician. You buying it?
(omfg)
"People and emotions and ideas of high and positive vibration...
are automatically drawn to him."
It really is dog whistle politics!
(Hi ChicDy, I managed to plant morning glories, 3 kinds of pole beans, lemon cucumbers and 2 kinds of summer squash before dark. Gardening is a growth industry... developing!)
I normally like that
I normally like that columnist, Mark Morford, a lot...but this time he gets a boot to the head (if I can stop wretching long enough to kick him).
Does anybody remember the messiah-nification of George W. Bush? And countless other leaders throughout history? Either they started believing their press and did unspeakable things or their followers thought they had divine mandate to do unspeakable things to anyone notin the "us" category. I'm scared.
i did eventually figure out how to post-to-blog
[lambert is a very patient tutor. must be the teddy bear personality]
making videos or audio or something else fancy of interviews with various sources -- that's going to be a bigger challenge, but it's something i'd like to try.
non-captive my foot. i've been lurking here for a couple of years now. this place is chock full of captivating writers.
Email interview is nice for two reasons
1. It's very simple.
2. It's searchable on Google, unlike video.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
True Lightworkers
Just what exactly is that crackpot SF Gate columnist saying?
Those attuned to energies beyond the literal meanings of things, these people say JFK wasn't assassinated for any typical reason you can name. It's because he was just this kind of high-vibration being, a peacemaker, at odds with the war machine, the CIA, the dark side. And it killed him.
Now, Obama. The next step. Another try.
A round of Obama golf anyone? Will KO do a special comment on new-age SF crackpots?
Reach me that bucket, wouldja hon?
And remind me not to use the word "cult," becuase it offends high vibration beings....
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Mark Morford
Used to love him, then got tired of his schtick. Now I remember why. But, jeebus on a triscuit, has he completely lost it?
Age of Aquarius anyone?
"When the moon is in the seventh house,
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets..."
Everyone! Sing it with me!
jackyt: about that USPHC project...
if you like, you can send me an email at this address.
blogger might ask you to first create a blogger account to send an email, but you shouldn't have to do that. you should just be able to right-click on the "email" link, and choose "copy email address". let me know if it doesn't work.