That Didn't Take Long: Insurance Industry Breaks Promise To President Obama

This is where universal health care takes over. People with no coverage can't get preventative care and can't walk in for non-emergencies unless they have insurance or cash. Instead they wait until it becomes a far more costly emergency because that is the only option remaining for the uninsured.



Then the taxpayer picks up the tab. Better to have universal care so the taxpayer's tab can be reduced by covering preventative care and routine checkups etc. before they become emergencies. This is truly where the saying an "ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" applies. Doesn't it make more sense to pay $100 for a checkup and $30 for medication than to pay $5,000 for a trip to the emergency room later?



We are being stupid by placing barriers to better health only to have to pay the higher costs of failed health care later.
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That Didn't Take Long: Insurance Industry Breaks Promise To President Obama

Congress needs to "man up" and stand up to these greedy SOB's once and for all. Their only excuse not to is so they can pocket campaign money. If your reps refuse to stand up to them, you know they must have a hidden agenda that does not include your best interest. Start writing letters...lots of them.



First step...re-do the last medicare bill and remove any limitations we placed on our selves to permit again, negotiated costs of prescription drugs. The VA gets the same medications for less because they are not prohibited from negotiating a better price. Let's face it. That bill was written by the health care industry to further their own interests over those of American Citizens. Congress was all to happy to accept "campaign contributions" in exchange for passing the bill.



This is why I believe that any one in Congress that lets a lobby tell him/her what to vote or how to write bills is taking campaign cash for special favors.
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Ending the War on Drugs: The Moment is Now

Can we say "De ja vous" all over again? Does anyone remember prohibition when the "do gooders" wanted to save us all from demon rum? Enter ATF's war against the mobs who really got started as a result of Prohibition. We seem to be a nation that never learns our lesson.



There are many reasons ( http://joethevoter.org/economy/15-stupidcongress/26-legalizepot.html ) that I believe, as do many in law enforcement and even judges, that we must decriminalize all recreational drugs and treat their use as a public health matter, not a criminal justice one.



Money aside, many have gone on record saying the "War on Drugs" causes far more damage than the drugs would. And yes, a "War on Drugs" is a war against American citizens...who gets raided and sent to prison? Our own citizens.



Congress has played dumb long enough...no excuses remain to a drastic alteration of these failed policies.
About Eric Holder
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Corruption Is Dangerous to Your Health

Got the flu? Get appointments to see your elected officials. Then go see the bankers and stock brokers. Be sure to NOT cover your mouth when you sneeze. Shake lots of hands.



Perhaps mother nature will help us get rid of these greedy ba$#@d's



We need to get rid of most of our elected officials. Democrats can be bough and sold just as fast as a Republican.



They should all join "Tagged" where you can buy and sell people as pets !
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Empathy for the Devil

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I recall reading a supreme court case that said, in effect, that "...it is perfectly legal to execute an innocent person provided he had a fair trial..."



This is a decision without empathy. The courts denied an appeal that could have provided actual evidence of innocence simply because the appeal was filed 24 hours too late due to a clerical error. A man who was very likely innocent was executed in N.Carolina. There is strong evidence pointing to the actual killer but the state has closed the case and refuses to examine the evidence because it would show them to be wrong and to have executed an innocent person AND allowed the person who likely is a killer, go free.



This is where the court MUST be able to use empathy and look to what is just, not just what is "constitutional".
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Empathy for the Devil

We have run into a catch22 road block of sorts. While one can argue that justice should be blind to emotion when the court is called upon to decide the validity of law, we have a Congress writing bad laws.



In our system of checks and balances we separate the writing of laws from the judgment and that leads to laws written with no empathy and people complaining to the courts who are supposed to respond without empathy.



How do you resolve what even the courts admit are bad laws even if they are "constitutional"? Lawmakers don't regulate themselves. They respond to "situations" with emotion and that results in knee jerk laws based on "empathy/emotion" then people expect the courts to avoid empathy?



No...the courts are there to moderate the justice process and to do so without empathy puts them in the position of remaining silent in the face of a gross injustice if they see it.
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Why Are Bankers Still Being Treated As Beltway Royalty?

Banks have no morals. Apparently neither do Senators who even allow those blood sucking lobbyist's in their offices. People need to be outraged. Remember the outcry last November for "Change"?



We need yet another outcry today. We need to tell Congress to ban lobbyist's from their offices if the industry they represent has taken bail out money. Congress was not elected to represent the best interest of banks...they were elected to represent the best interests of individual citizens like you and me.



Here is a link to the letter I am faxing to my Senators...I hope you will fax or write your own Senators to express your outrage. After all, what did YOU get out of the stimulus bills?



http://joethevoter.org/bank-lobby-buys-senate.html
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