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It is crucial for America to elect the right President in 2008.
We wholeheartedly support Senator Joseph Biden who has the leadership and track record this country needs.
To learn more about Senator Biden and his background, please take a look at
"Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics".
"Nearly forty years after I first got involved, I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I
believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling. That's why I wanted to be a part of it." –Joe Biden
"As a United States senator from Delaware since 1973, Joe Biden has been an
intimate witness to the major events of the past four decades and a relentless actor in trying to shape recent American history."
You may also watch Joe Biden's Aug. 9th interview on The Charlie Rose Show.
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The United
States is behind-the-times, prejudiced, insular, small-minded and down-right obstinate when it comes to healthcare for Americans.
While we stick with the most expensive, fragmented, inefficient
and wasteful health care system in the world, other countries surpass the USA when it comes to life expectancy, infant mortality and getting basic health care. In fact, the anchor around our necks is our
unreasonable, discriminatory, one-sided and dare I say cunning private, for profit health insurance system. While we hold on to it for ideological or emotional reasons, it's dragging our country
down and all of us with it.
Don't get me wrong. I love this country. I was born in the USA and so were my parents.
But when I see politicians and brainwashed citizens continue to support the high-profit, high-waste and hardly regulated private health insurance industry at the expense of over 46 million people and our country's economic well-being, it's the equivalent of supporting slavery or the robber barons of a century ago. It turns my stomach.
The idea that America offers the best health care in the world is a myth. Each one of us should stand up proudly and fight for our Health Care Rights.
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present"
(Abraham Lincoln).
Thank you Victoria G. Hale, Ph.D., Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for OneWorld Health, for your non-profit pharmaceutical company. OneWorld Health delivers affordable, effective and appropriate new medicines where they are needed most. Want to make a difference in the world? Donate to OneWorld Health today
I just received my group insurance renewal rate with PacifiCare that increased by 27.68%. Bad for
me, but great for PacifiCare! They doubled their profits this quarter due to increasing their rates and selling
more high deductible plans.
It's disgusting - - shareholders riding on the backs of sick people.
My two friends - - same age as me (56) have different plans:
- C's Blue Shield-CA $2,000 deductible plan increased from $420/mo to $515/mo.
- K's Blue Cross/Blue Shield of AZ is a $5,500 deductible for which she pays $160/mo (went up Oct. '04 from $147). She
has no prescription coverage and cannot be covered for two bogus pre-existing conditions.
Our health care system is squeezing us to death and harming this country immeasurably. When
will Congress stop arguing or ignoring the situation and protect us from this predatory system?!?!?
See What's Happening Now in California!!
GREED IS . . . The Bush Administration and Republic Party are greedy and
heartless as they pander to Wall Street, endorse ineffective HSA's and block OUR RIGHT to affordable health insurance. Health care costs are OUTRAGEOUS;
innocent people are DYING; the middle-class is going BANKRUPT; hospitals are CLOSING; American manufacturers are NOT COMPETITIVE in the global
marketplace; yet insurance and pharmaceutical companies post RECORD PROFITS and SPEND HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep the status quo.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of . . . PhRMA: Drug companies count their billions while seniors count the number of pills they can afford.
Sept. 4, 2004 - - In 2005, Medicare will cost seniors 18 percent more.
42 million disabled and elderly Medicare beneficiaries will be hit with the largest premium increase in 14 years. "
Older Americans already are staggering under the relentless increases in the cost of prescription drugs," . . .and
"...will face harsh choices in meeting basic human needs health, food and housing." http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/9579429.htm
"The AARP studied prices for medicines used most by the elderly. Some spiked as
much as 10 times the underlying rate of wholesale inflation since
President Bush signed his Medicare drug bill..." "The Medicare drug subsidy
will not allow the government to negotiate for lower prices."
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/archive/s_201650.html
This is worth repeating - - The new Medicare drug bill prohibits the
Federal Government from negotiating lower prices and we can't legally buy prescription drugs from Canada. There is no place for free trade when it comes to Rx drugs. Therefore, this so called drug "benefit" is for the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry who can now and forever more continue to earn
unprecedented profits while screwing the American public.
Who's in control of this country anyway?
President Bush,
You're either with us or against us (when it comes to our health) and health savings accounts and bad legislation which prevents drug discounts just won't cut it. Only national health insurance will control health care costs and assure
that everyone has access to affordable health care.
Oink Oink! It didn't take long for the pharmaceutical companies to hog
what was handed to them in a silver trough by President Bush, AARP and every other hoodwinked person who supported the Medicare Bill.
What were they all thinking when they voted for this shameful corporate subsidy?!?!??
Read about the free-for-all market "redefined by a Frankenstein's monster that sets up expectations of virtually unlimited funds flowing into the drug
companies, which were well pleased with the law".
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/opinion/archive/s_201650.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/07/01/BUG297EMDH1.DTL
http://www.nbc6.net/money/3483001/detail.html July, 2004
BUSH Calls for Free-Market Fix to our Broken Health Care System
The private health care market is too expensive, exclusive and wasteful. Proposed tax credits will do nothing to control the high cost of health insurance
or lower prescription drug prices. Medical savings accounts also would do nothing to control costs and most middle class and the poor can hardly make
ends meet let alone save money for medical expenses. This is just another way for the richest in the country to have a nice tax shelter for themselves.
Tax credits and medical savings accounts will do nothing to fix the health care problem in America.
18,000 people DIE each year because the free market system is broken.
Do we not owe it to these people and to the next generation to fix health care
once and for all?
When you vote, remember it was a Republican President (GW Bush) who
said, "A government-run health care system is the wrong prescription" (for America) but he made sure that Iraq would get one. Read the U.S. House of Representatives News Release here:
Bush Administration Ignores 44 Million Uninsured in U.S as it Awards Contract for Universal Health Care in Iraq http://energycommerce.house.gov/press/108nr17.shtml
Bush Signs Sick Medicare Bill - December 8, 2003
President Bush knows which side his bread is buttered on and it isn't with senior citizens. Today he signed horrible Medicare legislation which throws crumbs to
poor seniors who seek a prescription drug benefit. It furthers his agenda to dismantle Medicare.
This legislation gives private insurance companies BILLIONS of our tax dollars
to lure seniors away from Medicare and corral them into private managed care programs.
It does NOTHING to control prescription drug prices; does NOTHING to control insurance premium costs.
It might, however, get Bush reelected. . .leaving us with an additional four years to suffer while he doles out corporate welfare.
The Health Care Mess in America - - You're either part of the problem or part of the solution. NOW IS THE TIME TO CHOOSE SIDES.
ARE YOU FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE or for the insurance and pharmaceutical Industry? Right behind these greedy two are the AMA and private hospital administrators.
Anyone who would have you think a single payer system is BAD is either clueless, brainwashed, or has a special interest in keeping the status quo.
Read the issues and once you do, you'll be asking why we aren't all yelling through the roof tops for reform!
We Deserve Life, Liberty and Affordable Health Care
45 years ago, when I was in grammar school, I was taught the American
government was formed to protect the health, safety and welfare of all its citizens. Back then, we had a family doctor who always made house calls. His
fees were affordable and my Dad paid him with cash.
Today, our legislators seem more concerned with protecting insurance and
pharmaceutical companies and bending to the will of other special interest groups who have their fingers in the health care pie. While legislators are
protecting their jobs and large corporations, who is protecting The American Public?
I was a registered Republican but changed parties this year. The
Republican party has been hijacked by extremists and the moderates aren't fighting them back. So I switched. With the Medicare sellout, the rich
get richer while seniors get shafted and it spells doom for the future of Medicare. Why should Congress and President Bush give HMO's billions of dollars to privatize Medicare!?!???
Let's stop the insanity and get our priorities straight.
We have a patched up health care system that leaves out millions of American
citizens. These are hard working people including many professionals and freelancers and self employed and small business owners who cannot access adequate and affordable health care.
Is it sane to allow people to go bankrupt because they get sick? Is it sane to
trade people's health on Wall Street? There are some things in this world far too precious to be cast out in a ruthless, competitive marketplace and one of them
is a person's health. Listen up, President Bush. . . if you want a healthy and strong America, you need to first have healthy Americans.
Year-after-year insurance and pharmaceutical companies act shamefully at the expense of the American Public as they continually raise prices shutting out
millions of people access to healthcare. In the mean while, our legislators play politics and sell out to the highest bidder. They lead everyone to believe
universal healthcare in America will never happen. They stop the conversation short. I'm here to say IT WILL HAPPEN because ordinary people, just like me are
becoming MAD AS HELL, AND DON'T WANT TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!! (credit film "Network").
Congress needs to make health care accessible to everyone just as they
gave accessibility to disabled persons with ADA. They need to stop pretending the free market is a safe place for health care and admit our non system is a
dismal failure, and do what other civilized nations do.
Other countries care for their own and they do it with less money than we already spend!!
Lets show the world that we are compassionate and we care about our citizens, and we value their lives and make American universal health care the best system on earth.
Incremental solutions are a waste of our precious energy and money. Too many years have gone by, too many people have suffered and continue to
suffer every day. We call for AMERICA to UNITE! - - ELIMINATE THE POLITICS IN HEALTH CARE - - ELIMINATE THE ADMINISTRATIVE WASTE - - and make
Health Care Accessible to All, once and for all.
Don't be fooled by big business scare tactics designed to save their golden temple. Single-payer health care IS VIABLE and can be
established with what we now spend in America and it is the best solution to the broken "non system" we have today.
Personal passion is always ignited by personal experience"
- - DJM for AHCR.org
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