Senator Deb Stabenow of Michigan pointed out today, out of the 40 weeks the Senate has been in session there have been serious and dangerous delays at least 36 of those weeks.
Progress to a Senate Health Bill is slow.
Today, Hutchinson of Texas bemoaned Christmas stating she is for change in health care. She stated change is needed. She stated we are all for the people that have lost their health care due to pre-existing conditions. She doesn't think that is right. But, she also stated, the way health insurance policies stand today there is little wrong with them. She pointed out they offer high deductibles for people that want that and there are low deductibles for people that want that, but, the low deductibles cost more, that's all.
Ever get the feeling the Republicans, "Don't get it!" Yeah, I think so.
I encourage all to write their Senators and clue them in to the realities of "Health Care American Style" and demand, don't ask, demand change now ! Tell them to vote for the bill!
Thousands of U.S. Deaths Attributed to Lack of Health Insurance (click here)
January 11, 2008
As many as 27,000 Americans may have died in 2006 because they did not have health insurance, a new study estimate.
Written by Sara Lubbes, CQ StaffThe study by the Urban Institute, a nonprofit group that analyzes social and economic problems, puts a new spin on a six-year-old Institute of Medicine (IOM) study that found that 18,000 people died in 2001 because of a lack of insurance.
The Urban Institute study suggests as many as 21,000 people may have died from a lack of insurance in 2001.
Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, study lead author Stan Dorn, a senior researcher at the Urban Institute, compared the IOM's method for calculating the number of uninsured to an alternative method he believes more accurately reflects the number of Americans who die because they do not have insurance....
Crack pots like Ben Nelson stand in the way of health care reform screaming about the unborn while those already alive die without health care insurance.
There is something "W"rong with this picture !
If they can't do what it right for the living they don't belong in office!
I am calling for the Recall of all those in the Senate that stand in the way of Health Care Insurance Reform. Those up for election in 2010 that oppose the process need to receive vigorous opposition in their states.
If the United States of America demands human rights in their treatment of citizens of other countries, it should be the first to set the example that needs to be followed and upheld. Cherry picking human rights to satisfy political ambitions is not believing in human rights at all!
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."
Article 25. (click here)
- (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
