KEITH OLBERMANN YOU AND YOUR FATHER ARE IN MY PRAYERS

Keith and his father are in my prayers. You cannot watch the video below without it breaking your heart. My comment to Republicans is to just stop it! Stop lying about health care reform. Just stop it! .... and to Democrats and Republicans who may be "in bed" with health insurance companies and Big Pharma, ... get "out of bed" with them! Just stop it!

Members of Congress and the president:

Stop putting health insurance companies first.

You can view the above video at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/35572842#35572842


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Members of Congress and the president:

Answer me this question.

Are you going to mandate Americans to buy into a "for profit" system?

Will everyone pay the same premium for basic health insurance?

If the answer is yes/no, then you cannot compare yourself to the Swiss system. Health insurance companies cannot make a profit in the Swiss system; and everyone pays the same premium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Switzerland

I'm against anyone buying health insurance in a "for profit" system. That is not true health insurance reform; it is however, backroom dealing and playing politics if required to pay into a "for profit" system.

WHAT DOES THE WHITE HOUSE DO NEXT ON HEALTHCARE?

Okay, I plead guilty to going ballistic after hearing about the backroom deals that the White House took part in early on. It seems they decided to not really fix the broken healthcare system we have. They decided (or Rahm Emanuel decided) instead to go with a pro-health insurance industry, health insurance (so called reform) package and call it healthcare reform … eventually the healthcare reform label became health insurance reform.

Now that the jig is up and everyone knows about the deals cut by the White House, the White House is saying “you guys have this all wrong”. They claim what the Senate has done is true health (insurance) reform. At least they’re not calling it healthcare reform (or did you guys hear something else?).

The White House caused a firestorm when Gibbs crucified Dr. Dean (former Chairman of the DNC, and the voice of the progressives who has been fighting for real healthcare reform for quite some time); calling Dr. Dean’s criticisms of the Senate bill as insanity or something to that effect.

Then Senator Rockefeller chimed in and holy hell broke loose on the liberal blogosphere; and I was, and still am, extremely angry at the White House.

Where does that leave things today? Who knows. I’m sure the White House will try to “pull a rabbit out of a hat” and come up with something that they think will appease people who are angry at the White House and various members of Congress.

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You'll also be seeing more and more members of Congress talking about what a great Senate bill they have, and how wonderful it will be for so many people.

The president has said (according to Gibbs) that next year, the president plans to pay less attention to criticism of his handling of things. … okay …

You can read my previous post for links to some informative articles regarding the healthcare debate and backroom deals by the White House.

If I don’t post before Christmas, have a fantastic holiday.

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PS: Guys I wrote this post this morning, this afternoon I read a post from Drew Westen. I thought I was the only one who felt this way about the president. You ask ... which way? ...

Must Read: Leadership, Obama Style, and the Looming Losses in 2010: Pretty Speeches, Compromised Values, and the Quest for the Lowest Common Denominator

Ben Nelson Gets His Marching Orders from Sex Scandal Ridden Catholic Church, and it appears it's all about the Money

“It's not enough that Catholic priests and bishops controlled and ruined the lives of many young altar boys; now they want to control the lives and bodies of women.”
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But what really stinks … Catholic bishops real reason for pressuring law makers to pass amendments like the Stupak-Pitts amendment and the Nelson- Hatch amendment, is so they can increase revenues at Catholic hospitals.

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The Catholic Church keeps on digging itself deeper into their self-made hole, and are dragging a whole lot of lawmakers with them.
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The latest is that Ben Nelson is the latest elected official to ask Catholic Bishops to give their approval to US law.

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I’ll let you read for yourself the following news and wikipedia articles and blog posts:

Catholic Sex Abuse Cases

Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said November 11, 2009 that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn't change a proposed same-sex marriage law,

Why Is Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson Taking Advice from Child Rapists?

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THE STUPAK-PITTS AMENDMENT SHOULD STRIKE FEAR IN THE HEART OF EVERY WOMAN

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UPDATE 5/22/2010

Pedophilia is Fine but Hold the Abortion

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MORE CORPORATE HEALTH INSURANCE CARTEL PIMPS AND PROSTITUTES? YOU DECIDE

Yesterday I wrote "CORPORATE CARTELS, HIGH PAID MADAMS/PIMPS AND POLITICAL PROSTITUTES . [click on link, or right click and open in new window]

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Let me be clear, when I referred to the public health insurance option, I was talking about a strong public option.

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And now people, ... since yesterday, this blog [and email] has been targeted.

I really don't care. I'm pressing on.

Furthermore, I really want to know if we can call em like we see em, or maybe I'm wrong, maybe the people you are going to hear about are not who I think they are.

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You decide.
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CORPORATE CARTELS, HIGH PAID MADAMS/PIMPS AND POLITICAL PROSTITUTES

I'm telling you, when I heard that VARIOUS MEMBERS OF CONGRESS were going to vote against a public health insurance option, I got mad as hell.

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And I'm not just talking about a few Democrats; I'm also talking about Republicans and one Independent.

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Now, Congressman Alan Grayson has inspired me to call em like I see em; and I'm gonna let her rip.

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Promise me you'll stay with me to the end of this piece.
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The way I see it is, we have a CORPORATE CARTEL (HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANIES) paying LOBBYISTS (HIGH PAID MADAMS/PIMPS) to manage/ reign in/ manipulate various POLITICIANS to do their bidding.

Did I get that right people? Let’s break down the organizational structure.

First, what is a CARTEL and does the HEALTH INSURANCE INDUSTRY [made up of health insurance companies], fit the description?

There are two definitions [from source]; however, I like the one that describes a CARTEL as an association of independent businesses organized to control prices and production, eliminate competition (by being a monopoly), and reduce the cost of doing business (denying treatment/refusing to pay claims, and refusing enrollment to those with a pre-existing condition).

I ask you, does that description bring it home for you?

Does for me.

Now, on to the HIGH PAID MADAMS/ [OR PIMPS].

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See, Grayson was close, but I beg to differ …
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Grayson called an ex-Enron lobbyist a whore. She deserved it.

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"Enron was the world’s largest energy-trading company, with a market value of as much as $68 billion, before it imploded amid allegations of accounting fraud. The bankruptcy wiped out more than 5,000 jobs and at least $1 billion in retirement funds.

A Houston jury found former Enron Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Skilling and former Chairman Kenneth Lay guilty in 2006 of deceiving investors, analysts and employees about the company’s deteriorating financial condition. Skilling is serving a 24-year prison term. Lay died before sentencing."

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Ok, Grayson calls em whores. I see lobbyists as MADAMS/PIMPS, looking to manage PROSTITUTES.

The MADAM disperses the money to the prostitute when the prostitute brings home the bacon.

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Now the MADAM/PIMP may give out a few favors to hook the politician, but that MADAM won't do that forever unless he/she receives some return on investment. The politician becomes a prostitute when he/she delivers the return on the investment.

Am I close people? Are you feeling me?

What is at stake here?

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If you answered … the health of the "John" [who are the CARTEL'S policyholders/consumers and the prostitute’s constituents], I'll give you a gold star.

The "John" comes to the prostitute asking to be treated right, asking for the prostitute to satisfy a need.**

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I hate to insult anyone, but people, ... can you really trust a prostitute?

They will always tell you what you want to hear, but it’s mostly fake. Many times you leave feeling somewhat satisfied, but the feeling is brief, and something doesn’t feel right.

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Why? … Because, again … it’s mostly fake (lot of smoke and mirrors) and empty promises. Where is the love? Did he/she really deliver on the promise, and leave you whole, happy and healthy?

And so we enter the brothel, the "Chamber", often begging, pleading, for the prostitute to satisfy this need** you have. Will he/she deliver this time, defying the madam, ... refusing to be paid, ... willing and able to rescue you out of love and devotion and caring?

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Will the prostitute find redemption?

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We’ll see … won’t we?

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**True Healthcare Reform

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Healthcare Reform - PBS
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Fight Bad Faith Insurance Companies

HEALTHCARE REFORM AT A CROSSROAD

Without going back and editing my previous post “Capitalism 201 Gone Wild Fosters Inequality”, I’d like to continue to focus on core values of different economic systems, and their role in health care reform.

As I said before, our free enterprise system values money and physical things. I would like to expand that by saying that it values power, money, and the acquisition and pursuit of money; and values physical assets and the acquisition and pursuit of physical assets.

In the second system mentioned in my previous post [let’s call it the Denmarkian system – smile], value is placed on familial and community relationships, human rights, human dignity, mutual cooperation, mutual respect, and creativity.

We, the people, have to decide which fundamentals [for lack of a better word] of the above systems do we want to embrace in health care reform.

In the last post, I stated that our free enterprise system is in opposition to the Denmarkian system. They don’t fit together.

In our present free enterprise [capitalistic] system we see health care as not a human right, but a privilege [some entitlement, with limited access and conditioned on a persons ability to pay] . In the Denmarkian system, health care is a human right [it is universal without conditions].

The progressives in the Democratic Party are more closely ideologically aligned with the Denmarkian system. Conservatives and members of the Republican Party are more closely ideologically aligned with our present free enterprise system, as are some moderate Democrats.

The American people are torn. They were raised in the [United States] Free Enterprise system, but deep down, I believe if they had a choice of core values, and understood the benefits of the Denmarkian system, they would embrace that system; though to what extent I know not.

And so we stand at a crossroad where a majority of representatives [218 in the House, 51 or 60 in the Senate] from 50 states must decide whether health care is a human right or a privilege. The choice they make [I believe] will have moral, ethical, and economic repercussions for years to come.
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-Human Rights

-Denmark

-Socialism

-Free Enterprise

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Healthcare Reform

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Progressivism

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A Story of Dire Consequences

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