AFL-CIO Says Yes to Health Care Reform

Can I give you a personal example of something? (0.00 / 0)

A friend got his medical degree at WVU and did his residency at Mayo Clinic. Real smart guy from Pendleton County. First he worked at NIH; now works at FDA. Both are government agencies that do good stuff.

They developed that drug that busts up clots and dramatically lessens the effects of a stoke, TPA. You know how they got some of the research done to figure out it worked? NEW Grants to labs that already existed, just like his NIH job existed, Trauma and Stroke Prevention.

There are not 159 new federal agencies. In fact 59 of those are grants just like that example. Ten in that list are for the Indian Health Service. It already exists. No new agency.

Grants to existing nurse's schools. Grants for school nurses. Grants for hone health aides. There are home health programs for Medicare and Medicaid patients already.

At six places like the CDC and FDA they are creating sections for Women's Health. Every drug tested was done on men. I am prejudiced there, we have six daughters.

That's almost half of that list of 159.

Since their Great-grandmother died of a heart attack, my girls know that the symptoms are different, more like really bad heartburn, that those of a man, shooting pain one arm, that you always hear about. Not everything reacts the same.

I know this is not health care, but they figured out that air bags were killing women because the original testing was done on a 5'10 160 lb crash dummy not wearing a seat belt. That force was taking off the heads of 5'2 110 lb women.

The GOP is being ingenuousness at best, and liars at worst, to portray something exactly like my example as a complete new government agency to good people like you. It seems by repeating a GOP fib you are already helping out Spike.

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Sat Mar 20, 2010 at 04:23:30 AM UTC

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I liked our extra $800 in the tax return from the stimulus bill. (0.00 / 0)

Most people don't beleive that about taxes being lowered by those Stooges. One of the kids transferred to WVU, but we got a refund credit for the tuition we paid that one semester out of state. That was in that stimulus bill, too. Part going to fixing the old F350, drive shaft broke, and part to finishing the tile work in the house.

Would you think about reading other newspapers? Rep. Bill Young R-FL-10 represents St. Petersburg. My mom goes down there, you know, snow bird. I remember his wife was very supportive of the troops. We are gaining an Army captain soon.Well, this is his hometown paper, okay. Mom just got back from down there so she heard about what he said. The paper have tried to fact check some things. Pants on fire for his 'government takeover' line.

The cornerstone of the Democratic program is actually the status quo. The majority of Americans would continue to get health coverage the way they do now -- from private insurance companies. That coverage would be paid for the same way it is now -- by private employers and individual premiums. That's not a government takeover.

The biggest new element in the Democratic plan is a health care exchange that is supposed to provide coverage for Americans who have trouble getting it now -- people who are self-employed or work for small companies. The government (or the states) would create the exchanges, which would be virtual marketplaces where people could shop for the best coverage.

My brother is DOD and they get good rates because there are a lot of civilian employees all lumped together in the FEBP, which is really a BIG exchange. We had one fellow where I work get Lou Gehrig's here at work, God reset his soul, and since we were a real small company, everybody's rate shot up 30%, and again 30% three years later after he passed away.

My family has lived up here for about 200 years, so I have to admit I don't know your part of the state. Lots of the nurses I know are ready to retire and Shepherd expanded their program. The more nurses a hospital has the more likely you are to get out alive. What I do we compete against Canadian and Australian and Finnish companies, weird combination I know, and they can underbid us. We do have great health care here but we pay the most for it. And the promises we made to my mom and dad's generations are what is going to bankrupt the country unless something changes.

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Sat Mar 20, 2010 at 05:39:53 AM UTC

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If a Congressman's hometown paper says your pants are on fire (0.00 / 0)

is it out of ignorance, and lack of your responsibility to be informed about legislation you will vote on, or is it just repeating out right falsehoods out of party loyalty? Facts are stubborn things.

You are very much entitled to your opinion.

Facts are Bush drove three companies into the ground before being elected, but walked away with enough money to buy the Rangers. Did you hold that against him?

When Bush managed close victories in 2000 and 2004 it was seen as a mandate. A crushing victory in 2008 is somehow tyranny when the policies that were campaigned on are implemented. Go figure.

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by: CA Berkeley WV @ Sat Mar 20, 2010 at 15:35:27 PM UTC

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