HealthCare Crisis? Just stop Keeping Statistics

This looks like it could be another Phil Gramm problem for the McCain campaign. They might want to get on top of this one.

Dallas Morning News:

But the numbers are misleading, said John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain’s health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)

“So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime,” Mr. Goodman said. “The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care.
“So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved.”

Because the problem of the health care crisis isn’t a problem, the knowledge that there is a health care crisis is the problem I guess according to this line of thinking. Could they be anymore politically, factually, or compassionately tone deaf?

Obama First Comes onto the Scene

Back in 2004, the then Illinois state senator and U.S Senate candidate Barack Obama (D-Ill) gave the 2004 Democratic National Convention Key note Address. Now looking back who could believe that four years later he would be the party’s presidential candidate.

              

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HealthCare Crisis? Just stop Keeping Statistics

This looks like it could be another Phil Gramm problem for the McCain campaign. They might want to get on top of this one.

Dallas Morning News:

But the numbers are misleading, said John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain’s health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)

“So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime,” Mr. Goodman said. “The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care.
“So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved.”

Because the problem of the health care crisis isn’t a problem, the knowledge that there is a health care crisis is the problem I guess according to this line of thinking. Could they be anymore politically, factually, or compassionately tone deaf?

Bush/Cheney Administration Wanted Forces to Remain in Iraq Until 2015

    Amidst the constant coverage of the Democratic Convention in Denver Colorado, and next week’s Republican Convention in St. Paul Minnesota, this little piece of news that has tended to slip under the radar. The story behind the “aspirational timeline” of 2011 for the withdrawal of U.S troops from Iraq. Does the administration want us to stay more than the Iraqis do?

     Gulf News:

Baghdad: The United States asked Iraq for permission to maintain a troop presence there to 2015, but US and Iraqi negotiators agreed to limit their authorisation to 2011, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said.

“It was a US proposal for the date which is 2015, and an Iraqi one which is 2010, then we agreed to make it 2011. Iraq has the right, if necessary, to extend the presence of these troops,” Talabani said in an interview with Al Hurra television, a transcript of which was posted on his party’s website yesterday.

US officials in Baghdad were not immediately available for comment. Details have been slowly emerging about negotiations for the bilateral security pact, which US and Iraqi officials say are close to conclusion.

    Wait, Iraq has the right to “extend the presence of these troops in Iraq”? Now perhaps I am misinterpreting this, and what Talabani meant to say we reserve the right to request that the U.S maintain a troops presence if the situation deteriorates. But Bush of course sees himself as the decider, who has a vision for the future that no one else can see or comprehend, or so he thinks. First Bush hands off the management of the war to a “War Czar” (because of course he is so busy working to solve the challenges that plague the American people), now it is not the U.S Congress or the American people who decide whether or not they continue to spill their blood and the blood of their loved ones as well as the riches of their work and taxes, but this President, his co- president, neoconservatives in the administration. And Congress reacts with little more than empty threats over the course of all these years.

Obama First Comes onto the National scene

Back in 2004, the then Illinois state senator and U.S Senate candidate Barack Obama (D-Ill) gave the 2004 Democratic National Convention Key note Address. Now looking back who could believe that four years later he would be the party’s presidential candidate.

Obama First Comes onto the National scene

Back in 2004, the then Illinois state senator and U.S Senate candidate Barack Obama (D-Ill) gave the 2004 Democratic National Convention Key note Address. Now looking back who could believe that four years later he would be the party’s presidential candidate.

To Do List For a Good Life

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To Do List For a Good Life

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Bush/Cheney Administration Wanted Forces to Remain in Iraq Until 2015

Amidst the constant coverage of the Democratic Convention in Denver Colorado, and next week’s Republican Convention in St. Paul Minnesota, this little piece of news that has tended to slip under the radar. The story behind the “aspirational timeline” of 2011 for the withdrawal of U.S troops from Iraq. Does the administration want us to stay more than the Iraqis do?

Gulf News:

Baghdad: The United States asked Iraq for permission to maintain a troop presence there to 2015, but US and Iraqi negotiators agreed to limit their authorisation to 2011, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said.

“It was a US proposal for the date which is 2015, and an Iraqi one which is 2010, then we agreed to make it 2011. Iraq has the right, if necessary, to extend the presence of these troops,” Talabani said in an interview with Al Hurra television, a transcript of which was posted on his party’s website yesterday.

US officials in Baghdad were not immediately available for comment. Details have been slowly emerging about negotiations for the bilateral security pact, which US and Iraqi officials say are close to conclusion.

Wait, Iraq has the right to “extend the presence of these troops in Iraq”? Now perhaps I am misinterpreting this, and what Talabani meant to say we reserve the right to request that the U.S maintain a troops presence if the situation deteriorates. But Bush of course sees himself as the decider, who has a vision for the future that no one else can see or comprehend, or so he thinks. First Bush hands off the management of the war to a “War Czar” (because of course he is so busy working to solve the challenges that plague the American people), now it is not the U.S Congress or the American people who decide whether or not they continue to spill their blood and the blood of their loved ones as well as the riches of their work and taxes, but this President, his co- president, neoconservatives in the administration. And Congress reacts with little more than empty threats over the course of all these years.

What Smoke Signals and the Internet Have in Common.

                                 
An interesting observation over at Watergate Summer.

Native Americans were the first to send signals through the air if you think on it….Smoke Signals connecting people miles apart…sharing important information…and Connecting…..The First Internet…Smoke Signals….

What do the Internet and Smoke Signals have in Common?

An interesting observation over at Watergate Summer.

Native Americans were the first to send signals through the air if you think on it….Smoke Signals connecting people miles apart…sharing important information…and Connecting…..The First Internet…Smoke Signals….