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Health Care Reform

Obama Cuts Long Term Care Option For Seniors

November 10, 2011

One of the few benefits of Obama care for the middle class has gone on the chopping block–long term care.  CLASS, the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports program has been abandoned by Obama’s Administration leaving a void in a health care system that specifically hits the working class. CLASS was seen as an initial [...]

Tagged as: AARP, CLASS, CLASS another hit on middle class, long term care, Middle Class, Obama Care, YES WE CAN IF WE KNEW HOW

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For 2012 Democrats Must Ask Themselves ‘Do They Want ObamaTo Run?’

August 2, 2011

The debt ceiling debacle represents another loss for Obama in a long list that shows his presidency rolling  over on liberal ideals and caving in on the promises he made in 2008.  The learning curve for the inexperienced President has been a costly process for his base and for the most vulnerable of our nation. [...]

Tagged as: Challenge to Obama Candidacy, Debt Ceiling Crisis, Democratic Party, Election of 2012, Leadership Failure, Obama and 2012, Obama Losing Base, Reformed Liberal, Renomination of Obama

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Despite It Being A Donation, This Just Feels Wrong…

May 19, 2011

Recently it seems like I have been spending a lot of time in medical reception areas; however,  it has proven to be quite enlightening.  Yesterday in an imaging medical lobby a woman around 35-45 came in for a heart scan.  Not an unusual event even though she seemed to this writer to be fit and [...]

Tagged as: Butasforme Reformed Liberal, Fundraising, Future of Health Care, Health Care In U.S., Medical Donations, Narcissism Pastime Of Generation X, Philanthropy and the Wealthy

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12,000 Dow!

January 26, 2011

On the heels of Obama’s State of the Union Address, Wall Street picked up on key promises of the President to reform the tax structure, reduce corporate tax rates, and to revisit the issue of medical malpractice reform.  While Obama is wooing big corporations, the only crumb given to small businesses was correcting the bookkeeping [...]

Tagged as: 000, China, Dow Rally Reaches 12, Global Economy, Global politics, President's State Of Union Address 2011, Wall Street, Wall Street Disconnect with Mainstreet

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Michele Bachmann Delivers Tea Party Response (VIDEO)

January 25, 2011

Telling NBC that she had been approached to give a response  to the President’s State of the Union speech to a Tea Party audience, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN) corrected the portrayal by the media that her speech signified a split in the Republican Party.  Armed with charts, she attacked Obama’s Stimulus Package as a failure, [...]

Tagged as: Media Portrays Tea Party and GOP, Michele Bachmann's Response To State of Union, Tea Party and Michele Obama

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Your Body Mass Index Part of 2009 Stimulus Package

July 18, 2010

This is one of those little tidbits hidden in the voluminous 2009 Stimulus Package.  As part of the government’s new electronic health record that will be implemented in 2014, each individual will not only have their height and weight recorded, but body fat as well to determine obesity rates.  Further, this information will be available [...]

Tagged as: Big Brother And Your Waistline, Obama, Obama Stimulus Package, Obama to measure BMI

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6 to 1

February 10, 2010

Is this the odds in Vegas on a sports event? No. Unfortunately, it’s the ratio of applicants for every job opening in the U.S. Could this have been avoided? Who knows given the mess that Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, and a benign government got us into. One thing for sure is that it could’ve [...]

Tagged as: job loss, Obama, political commentary on economy, recent unemployment figures, Reformed Liberal, unemployment

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Joke Of The Week

January 25, 2010

If Obama wants to make the health care debate more transparent he should talk to the newly-elected junior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, Scott Brown. You can’t hide very much when  posing nude for Cosmo.

Tagged as: Obama, Obama's transparency pledge, Tea Party, U.S. Senator Scott Brown

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To Become A Real Player In Reform, Tea Party Should Make Term Limits Its’ First Order Of Business

January 12, 2010

The Ohio Valley Tea Party has announced its’ formation as a political action committee in time for  the upcoming election year.  This will enable the group to raise money and support candidates for office.  Although it’s still in the development stage, the potential of becoming a political party is there.  To grow this grassroots movement into [...]

Tagged as: Campaign Reform, citizen legislators, fiscal responsibility by government, grassroots campaign, Harry Reid, Health Care Reform, Lawyers and Government, lobbyists, Pelosi, Republican Contract With America, special interests, term limits, The Tea Party, Third Party, U.S. Congress

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Hunting For Swine Flu Vaccine

November 19, 2009

By Maggie Mertens for NPR The swine flu vaccine remains scarce, but is slowly becoming a little less difficult to find. Some people are getting the vaccine at doctors’ offices, some at college health centers, and some at public flu clinics. You’re best bet will depend on where you live. As KQED’s Sarah Varney reports [...]

Tagged as: CDC, Distribution of vaccine, flu.gov, H1N1 flu vaccine, Health and Human Services, Health Care, Lieberman, Location of Swine Flu vaccine, NPR, Obama, swine flu, vaccine

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If H1N1 joins with the bird flu, pandemic may be much worse*

November 18, 2009

[Commentary printed by The China Post* ref. post Playing Chicken With A Nightmare Flu by Alan Sipress The Washington Post] When swine flu erupted this spring in the southwestern United States and Mexico, it had been 40 years since the last flu pandemic. The outbreak has dispelled any illusion that pandemic influenza belonged to a bygone [...]

Tagged as: Africa and flu, Asia and Flu, CDC, Egypt, Keiji Fikuda, Margaret Chan, Mexico, Pandemic, swine flu, Swine Flu and Avian Flu, U.S., Virus reassortment, W.H.O.

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