Healthcare reform: not rocket science!

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Saturday March 14, 2009 · 7:46 PM PDT

2009/03/14 · 19:46

The US has the best healthcare-delivery system in the world. However, it has an awful healthcare-funding system. This has been increasingly the case ever since HMOs were allowed to become for-profit under RMN. While an enormous problem that has seemed insurmountable to many, it really is not all that complicated. Read on...

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Monday December 31, 2007 · 7:24 AM PST

2007/12/31 · 07:24

I used to think the whole Iowa Caucus thing was a quirky aberation

I am coming to understand, though, that it really is what our Constitution intended. It is We the People striving to make a reasoned decision about who should lead in our representative democracy.
It is serious, politically active, patriotic citizens taking time to screen the many wannabes and do the rest of the country a service. You look at them "up close and personal," repeatedly. You endure endless dinner-hour phone calls to ask whether you are caucusing, for whom you are caususing, and then be implored to consider someone else. Surprisingly many of you put up with this; you stay on the phone, listen, ask questions, and even thank the caller for their time! I love you Iowa! Now don't let me down.

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Friday September 14, 2007 · 7:38 PM PDT

2007/09/14 · 19:38

Much has been made of trying to stop using the term war and define the misadventure in Iraq as an Occupation. But an occupation is also something defined by international law, with specific requirements (providing security, basic infrastructure like electricity, etc.) which we are not fulfilling. When we occupied Japan and Germany, we put a military government in place - that is what the so-called Coalition provisional Authority CPA was supposed to be. That occupying force relied on the existing infrastructure for things like electricity, but was RESPONSIBLE to ensure it happened.

The Iraq misadventure ceased to be a war and became an Occupation when bush said so on the carrier, May 2, 2003.

The Occupation ended when "In order to defeat possible insurgent planning, the CPA transferred power to the newly appointed Iraqi Interim Government at 10:26 AM local time on June 28, 2004. The CPA thus disbanded, L. Paul Bremer left Iraq that same day."

http://en.wikipedia.org/...

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Thursday August 09, 2007 · 3:40 PM PDT

2007/08/09 · 15:40

New Orleans was flooded almost two years ago. The readiness to deal with the catastrophe was abysmal. The efforts to repair/restore have been even worse. I put together a "straw man" plan a couple of months after Katrina, put it on the web, tried to generate discussion. People generally say "nice idea, but politics will never let it happen." Well, we just simply cannot afford to fiddle while Rome burns. Our nation is disintegrating around us. Foriegn relations, transportation, climate, pollution, healthcare - you name it, we have screwed it up. And yet we bicker. And bicker. And bicker. We need a Manhattan Project. New Orleans is not just a great city that flooded; the area is a major port for transportation to the entire country. We cannot afford to throw some band-aid floodwalls up and hope to creak along another couple of years. That is not how the railroads connected the coasts, not how the interstate system was built, not how the Panama Canal was built. And we most emphatically cannot afford to leave the planning of repair and reconstruction to the same self-serving corrupt organization that created the problem!

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