The "Bad" Joe Wilson

Of the 535 members of Congress one acts like a dope and carries the news for at least 2 days maybe more. Has the news services gone mad? Our President made a major speech to Congress appealing to our country and it's leaders to address one of the most pressing, persistent and pertinent issues of our times and the air waves both liberal and conservative media forget the speech and deluge us with the impulsive act of an ill informed mind of people like Joe Wilson (not the responsible and informed Joe Wilson) but a man who feeds on hate.

Look at the hits and News results for Joe Wilson

Times Online Obama Doesn't Want to Linger on Joe Wilson‎ - 1 hour ago

Joe Wilson to the White House for a few beers any time soon. ... shouted that Obama was a "liar" during the president's speech to Congress Wednesday night. ...

U.S. News & World Report - 14454 related articles »

14,454 hits on one inane person

Joe Wilson: The shout of "You lie!" by Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., during the president's speech on health care was a significant break in decorum.

Barack Obama: "I'm a big believer that we all make mistakes," Obama said in acknowledging the apology from Wilson. "I do think that, as I said last night, we have to get to the point where we can have a conversation about big important issues that matter to the American people without vitriol, without name-calling, without the assumption of the worst of other people's motives."

The news should be ashamed as should the "Liberal" shows like Keith Olberman and Ed Schultz and even Rachael Maddow for even trying to rebut that fool. Then there are those who glorify this man like Eric Cantor who fans the flames and Rush and the talk show anti-anything-good-for-the-average-person street corner preachers who teach hate for our countries leaders daily. They don't care about the truth if they can gain an advantage or avert our attention. All they do is feed the fire and give one man who is 0.1869% of Congress, at that he only represents 54% of the vote in one District 2 of South Carolina. While I do believe everyone's view is important it shouldn't overshadow the bigger and more important issue, health care.

So if I got this right that is 0.10% or .0001 of our country dominating the President's message, a President that was elected by 53% of our country. So if we do another calculation President Obama received 66,882,230 votes while Wilson received 184,l583 or 0.00276 of the President's Mandate.

So I say we ignore the ignorant rant of a man who is sincere but totally wrong.

This man uses a campaign ad to vilify the very people who supported the party he represents and says he is working for the "little guy" while voting for the very policies that deregulated and gutted rules for financial institutions.

My personal action is to make this the last words I speak or listen to about the "wrong" Joe Wilson.

Can we afford half "S" change

I wonder how much people believe in the "Right to Life" when they choose to ruin peoples lives, health, bankruptcy, self-esteem and emotional well-being in order to keep President Obama from Health Care Reform.

I find it incredulous that while most people want this reform with the "Government" option yet the press and some politicians seem unaware of those wishes. If the listen only to the wildly vocal fringe they will eventually find out it is the average person who will vent their anger at the polls next election.

Do they not understand the "Government" option is already the compromise and to move one inch closer for the Republican Party's appeasement is without value. They have a different definition of Bipartisan that means "do it my way."

I say forget them and put forth a strong bill and well defined plan that exposes them to the public.

In the meantime help the average person survive in these selfish and self centered times.

What I Wish

So let me get this correct people don't want their children "indoctrinated" so they indoctrinate them to not trust their President? Doesn't make sense.

No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition! or do they?

Indoctrination

in·doc·tri·nate (ĭn-dŏk‘tra-nāt‘)
tr.v., -nat·ed, -nat·ing, -nates.

1. To instruct in a body of doctrine or principles.
2. To imbue with a partisan or ideological point of view.

indoctrination in·doc‘tri·na‘tion n.



I wish people who think that democracy means they should always get their wishes would just hold their breath. On NPR one person writes that there is no place in our schools for the president or other political people to talk. Having the President talk to students about working hard in school is not subversive. I think teaching alienation of children from their government is vastly more subversive than a government run Health Plan or enabling equality of pay between ment and women.

Do these people realize where George Bush was during the attacks on 9/11? I know some have made fun of George's reaction but it was totally understandable and the fact that he was interacting with school children was admirable.

Wharever hatred of a party or president there is no excuse for the stupidity being exhibited by people who strike out against clouds that look like boulders.

Whose Death Panel was that?

Who is already rationing Health Care and who will let it continue? The Senate Finance Committee and Republicans have taken a good plan and destroyed it and we the people are letting it happen by throwing up our hands and believing there is nothing we can do.

It big news comes from the medical community - The California Nurses Association. I know, from my time as Credit manager at a hospital, that this rings true. The insurance industry will give all kinds of excuses for rejecting claims. Preexisting conditions, some of the claims were later paid, the insurance expired but in the end it's that a large percentage of "covered" individuals got rejected. I know someone whose personal insurance (self employed) pays a very large premium for a policy with a $3,000 deductible - each claim not per year:

"Six of the state’s largest insurers rejected 45.7 million claims for medical care, or 22% of all claims, from 2002 to June 30, 2009, according to the California Nurses Assn.’s analysis of data submitted to regulators by the companies.

The rejection rates ranged from a high of 39.6% for PacifiCare to 6.5% for Aetna for the first half of 2009. Cigna denied 33%, and Health Net 30%.

Getting health insurers to pay their fair share of medical claims can be as much of a headache for physicians as it is for patients, said Rebecca Patchin, an anesthesiologist at Loma Linda University and board chairwoman of the American Medical Assn. She said each insurer has a different set of obscure, bureaucratic rules for processing and paying medical claims that result in as much as $210 billion of unnecessary cost annually, studies have shown."

In another Story I found this:

"More than one of every five requests for medical claims for insured patients, even when recommended by a patient's physician, are rejected by California's largest private insurers, amounting to very real death panels in practice daily in the nation's biggest state, according to data released today by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.

PacifiCare denied 40 percent of all California claims in the first six months of 2009. Cigna, which gained notoriety two years ago for denying a liver transplant to 17-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan of Northridge, Calif. and then reversing itself, tragically too late to save her life, was still rejecting one-third of all claims for the first half of 2009.


Kaiser Permanente, which denied 28 percent of all claims in the first half of 2009, was one of two systems to reject options for radiation and chemotherapy for 57-year-old Bob Scott of Sacramento after his diagnosis of a brain tumor in 2005. The reason cited was his age, says wife Cheryl Scott, RN. "He had been in perfect health all of his life. This was his first problem other than a sprained ankle. He died six months later."

"The United States remains the only country in the industrialized world where human lives are sacrificed for private profit, a national disgrace that seems on the verge of perpetuation," she said."

Glen Beck - The New Howard Beale Sans Brain

I guess I like movies with a thought provoking theme and Paddy Chayefsky was a master at attacking the lunacy of life and the ability of demented people to gain power and even prestige. With Hospital it's the incompetency, "corporate doctor" and the burned out Dr. Bock.

With "Network" it's the corporation led by Ned Beatty as the Diabolical Chairman of the Board, in possibly the best ever movie scene, telling Howard Beale (the newscaster) he (Beatty) is God.

This is after Howard Beale has a meltdown on-air and collapses. At this point Faye Dunaway from the "Entertainment" division of the Network sees the ratings and takes power from the

"News" division and keeps Beale in all his suicidal and lunatic tendencies in his regular spot on-air. It doesn't end well for either Howard Beale or the public good and the "News" disappears into the past for ratings and corporate agendas.

So that was fiction and now for real we get Glen Beck.

This idiot actually called the President of the United States a racist. Glen Beck a person I've never watched on TV - until tonight. I thought Keith Olberman was just being a liberal jokester when he makes fun of Beck on Countdown with Keith Olberman. I am getting tired of hearing about Limbaugh, Beck, Coulter, Palin and Michele Bachmann.

So trying to be fair I listened to Glen Beck tonight with an open mind.

The man (benefit of the doubt) is a street corner preacher, nut case, rebel without a clue or a screw. I guess the screw was loose. He ranted the almost entire time about the drought in California being caused by environmentalists and how he doesn't believe in environmental reasons. All this despite the explosive population growth, the fact that little effort has been made to conserve water. Of course he jumps on the environmentalists and the Delta Smelt an endangered fish as the whole cause of the problem.

Simple-minded and simplistic but not as funny as it should be because Beck then incites anger in his audience about environmentalism. I'm not a strict and fervent environmentalist but I do know much of what we learn about our planet and human existence on it comes from that discipline. I don't like "pick and choose" minds who twist logic, spin a the truth and promote violent anger.

Beck's other hatred filled diatribe was against the National Endowment for the Arts. Does he really think all art is as extreme as Andres Serrano or Robert Maplethorpe? Does he think about all the fine art enabled by the NEA, the youth programs, the schools and careers enabled by this fine organization.

It all is coming back on him as one executive has disclosed so far Beck's show had a total of thirty-three sponsors pull out because of his Obama remarks.

I've watched Glen Beck for my one and only time.

Glen Beck must not realize that hacking into a federal computer system is a crime and has been for a long time. Disclaimers are notorious on the internet and with computer software.



Every system and web site on the web can gather information from your computer or put information on your computer if not protected. Poor Glen sees a conspiracy everywhere it's a little like the clinical definition of P-A-R-A-N-O-I-A.

One can only hope one day Glen understands that being seen on TV and pushing fear buttons of unhinged people can also endanger his own health.

ps Keith Olberman please stop giving these guys air time!!!

Health Care in the US - The Facts

Health Care in the US - The Facts from Jason Summers Blog

http://www.jasonsummers.org/we-need-french-healthcare/

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• 46 million Americans are currently without health insurance;
• 60 million Americans, both insured and uninsured, have inadequate access to primary care due to a shortage of physicians and other health service providers in their community;
• 100 million Americans have no insurance to cover dental needs;
• 116 million adults, nearly two-thirds of all non-seniors, struggled to pay medical bills, went without needed care because of cost, were uninsured for a time, or were underinsured in the last year;
• The United States spends $2.3 trillion each year on health care, 16 percent of its Gross Domestic Product;
• Americans spend $7,129 per person on health care, 50 percent more than other industrialized countries, including those with universal care;
• The U.S. does not get what it pays for. We rank among the lowest in the health outcome rankings of developed countries, and on several major indices rank below some third-world nations;
• The number of health insurance industry bureaucrats has grown at 25 times the growth of physicians in the past 30 years;
• In 2006, the six largest insurance companies made $11 billion in profits even after paying for direct health care costs, administrative costs and marketing costs."

Make Health Care for All a National Priority

Who are they kidding:

No Forms

• No Forms
• No Pre-existing conditions
• No billing
• No Insurance Company telling your Doctor what to do
• One provider to deal with health care costs
• No death squads
  
• Remember no coverage or poor coverage kills
• Profits held in check against overcharging

Remember not all problems with costs are not caused by the insurance industry. The entire Health Care delivery system if fraught with excessive costs.

I had a dentist who bought protective plastic glasses for patients from Home Depot instead of from the medical supplier because the cost was 10% less from Home Depot. The law of supply and demand should never be the rule in matters of life and death or good health otherwise costs would skyrocket - which they have in a "For Profit Health Care System."