"Single Payer" is the only method to bring down and control health care costs. After the Affordable Care Act was passed and health care insurance companies, hospitals and doctors were provided more patients with far better care possible. A health care system that allows physicians and surgeons the opportunity to see their patients healthier with better longevity with a new health care insurance; as it worked out it wasn't enough.

Physicians assisted their patients in California to purchase insurance on the exchanges rather than accepting the Medicaid they already had. Then with all those sicker patients on the exchanges the insurance rates went up because of the infusion of chronic health conditions.

The country learned while physicians and major hospitals were advocates for their patients to pass the ACA, it turned into a place to be exploited with increasing health care costs. It wasn't enough the physicians, surgeons and hospitals had less patients coming to the ER when all they needed was a doctor's office; they had to take it further and increase the cost of health care.

The ONLY way to stop this hideous "capitalism based" health care is to issue "Medicare for All" and rein in the costs and allow reasonable profits to health care systems that are suppose to be non-profits.

It is about the costs. The costs of American health care is out of control. We tried it their way and they bank rolled a system that was to be ethical and compassionate. Enough. 

0.09 President-Elect Donald Trump "We'll get your taxes down, don't worry."

Tax cuts are not possible. There is far to many people left homeless in this hurricane season so far. There is devastation throughout the south. There is no possibility to cut taxes. 

What has occurred in the south may very well be only the beginning.

I don't think so. If President Donald Trump wants his increase in GDP, it needs to be a reduction in Middle Class taxes. Considering there are many tonight without jobs and homes, it makes sense to relieve their burden. President Obama turned to the Middle Class in cutting their SSI taxes when recovering a crashed global economy. We know it works. No reason to do anything else.

COMPUTER MODELS ARE NOT CLIMATOLOGISTS!

Are you for real? Computer models?

The climate crisis is not a political issue.

There was a mass GLOBAL extinction event of corals in 2016 that dropped the amount of atmospheric oxygen.

THE CONCLUSION IS OVER. 

The President's Voter Fraud Panel is wasting money. This task can easily be conducted with far less potential for fraud and opining by asking the people that work the polls to answer questionnaires and supply statistics and demographics.

I also question whether demographics need to be addressed so much as the number of voters vs. non-voters. Once there is an understanding of the percentage of non-voters is known, the reasons that might be obstructing the vote can then be examined. 

I think each voter should be anonymous rather than exploited to prejudice the vote.

Public Comment can be collected in the same manner it is collected for any other issue before it.

The questionnaires, statistics and public comment can be compiled into a comprehensive report that reflects the understanding and concern of voter fraud in the country.

The current President Panel has no recognizable methodology, is invalid and easily litigated. 

The US Congress needs to address gerrymandering, BEFORE, it is an issue yet again at the time of balloting.

Florida cities and towns need to consider putting their power lines underground. The long term investment will pay off, especially considering this is Florida.

Quality of life increases with underground power lines. I don't want to hear about how these power lines cause heating underground that has to be cooled. That is an idiots statement. Underground is hotter than above ground? Really?

When was that electric failure in NYC? It was August 15, 2003. (click here)

August 13, 2008
By JR Minkel

On August 14, 2003, (click here) shortly after 2 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, a high-voltage power line in northern Ohio brushed against some overgrown trees and shut down—a fault, as it's known in the power industry. The line had softened under the heat of the high current coursing through it. Normally, the problem would have tripped an alarm in the control room of FirstEnergy Corporation, an Ohio-based utility company, but the alarm system failed....

That line was above ground. It was exposed to the sun's rays. The lines are black in color and black absorbs heat. There is absolutely no reason to put electric power lines above ground, except it is cheap. 

There needs to be a methodology in examining the reconstruction of Florida. I strongly suggest surveying the land and finding 'high ground' and restore structures there first. Large cities should have priority because they have a higher capacity of providing an economic base to a large number of people. Cites throughout the USA need to consider growing up and not out into the future.

The suburbs are a hideous idea. Resources are better used with higher quality of life for more people in cities. The more people in a square mile, the strong the economy. When people become invested in their local economies, the longevity and stability of these economies become obvious.

I strongly suggest Americans stop living below sea level.

August 29, 2011
Host: Robert Siegel

...KURY: (click here) Certainly the cost is going to depend on the geography and the density of the region. A rule of thumb that we use down here in Florida is roughly a million dollars per mile.

SIEGEL: A million dollars per mile underground. And, say, above ground?

KURY: Well, that would be roughly the incremental cost.

SIEGEL: The incremental cost. I've heard the ratio 10 to 1 tossed around. That it's ten times more expensive to bury power lines than to run them above ground.

KURY: Ten to one is probably not a bad back in the envelope number.

SIEGEL: So it costs a great deal more to bury cables, but then again you don't routinely lose service in snow storms or hurricanes. Don't the costs of maintaining above ground lines start to add up?

I thank the First Lady for her gracious and solemn involvement in the country's painful days.

The military is probably the only people that can reach the Florida Keys.

There may be missing people as well. The estimates for this storm is probably higher than any scientist estimated in the past. Irma decimated a state.

This picture is on the New York Times e-page of this article. This is NOT the Florida Keys. Vilano Beach is just south of Jacksonville. It was within the northeast quadrant of Irma. The estimates of the damage of Irma will be a nightmare scenario.

It is long overdue for Americans to address the climate crisis. These are the lives of fellow Americans. Whether the country wants their lives returned fully or not, it will never be the same. It isn't possible to return Florida to past integrity. It just isn't. Flooding has to be taken seriously when it costs lives. Continuing in the same way as the past is pure foolishness.

The skyscrapers have to be assessed for structural integrity. They received forces of wind AND water that pushed them around and attempted to twist their integrity.

Wind is a singular force that carries brevity in insulting structural integrity. Add to that force the WEIGHT of water and wind turns into a far worse destructive force. The weight of water per square inch/mm^2 of Irma's wind was structurally higher than hurricanes of the past. When people use the words "pummeling winds" it is because it feels like rocks pelting them. The rocks Irma threw at structures were more numerous than hurricanes of the past. 

September 12, 2017
0813
(Live Updates)

A home destroyed by Hurricane Irma on Vilano Beach, Fla. Credit

...In the Florida Keys, (click here) an estimated 25 percent of homes were destroyed when Irma hit there as a Category 4 hurricane on Sunday, while another 65 percent suffered “major damage,” the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Brock Long, said at a news conference on Tuesday morning.

“Basically every house in the Keys was impacted in some way or another,” he said.

An aircraft carrier and other Navy ships were headed to the Keys, and parts of the chain were being reopened to residents from 7 a.m....

It is a very different picture today.

September 12, 2017
1130.20z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the north and west hemisphere (click here for 12 hour loop - thank you)

Except for the devastation Irma left behind, it is history.

Irma

27.50 -81.90 09/11/00Z 85 952 HURRICANE-2
28.90 -82.60 09/11/06Z 65 965 HURRICANE-1
30.30 -83.10 09/11/12Z 55 975 TROPICAL STORM
31.50 -84.00 09/11/18Z 45 985 TROPICAL STORM
32.40 -84.90 09/12/00Z 30 988 TROPICAL DEPRESSION

Jose has dropped considerably as well. Wow. Irma was churning up so much hot water out of the oceans it supplied another storm. Wow. Jose may reorganize, but, most likely not. It isn't as though Irma did not but cause wind damage and flooding, it was redistributing heat from the troposphere into the oceans. At least that is what it was supposed to do. I think an argument can be made that the waters and any redistribution of heat are at an equilibrium. Considering the nature of Harvey and the prolonged velocities of Irma, hurricanes may not be cooling the troposphere at all.

Irma was an enormous hurricane that was supported by a hot troposphere and hot water. I have to question the ability of Earth to solve it's own heat imbalance.

Jose

23.70 -68.10 09/11/00Z 100 962 HURRICANE-3
24.40 -68.60 09/11/06Z 90 968 HURRICANE-2
25.50 -69.10 09/11/12Z 90 968 HURRICANE-2
26.40 -69.20 09/11/18Z 85 973 HURRICANE-2
27.10 -69.50 09/12/00Z 75 982 HURRICANE-1
27.50 -69.00 09/12/06Z 65 987 HURRICANE-1

The arctic air was homogenized into a cool picture today. The Autumnal Equinox in Northern Hemisphere will be at 4:02 PM or 2002 on September 22, 2017.

Intellicast Temperature Map
September 12, 2017
0700

Intellicast Temperature Departure Map
September 12, 2017