Sep
6
What Do We Need? Health Care. When Do We Need It? Yesterday.
Filed Under Healthcare Reform | 25 Comments
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=10023623&nav=menu183_9_4
“I lost my job on my 65th birthday,” said Sandra Burt, of Concord, N.H. “I had been with the company for 40 years.”
Burt, 66, is the face of the health care problem. Without work she had no health insurance and could not pay her $2,700 a month bill for medication to treat her autoimmune disorder.
She wants the nation’s health care system overhauled.
“We are doing everything we can to get this bill passed but people listen to me because you will all be on Medicare some day and it’s not a good situation. We need help yesterday,” Burt said.
Hundreds like Burt gathered at UVM to share problems and offer solutions as part of a Regional White House health care forum. There will be five around the country. The president asked Governor Jim Douglas and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to host this one.
Reporter Kristin Carlson: Why do you think Vermont was selected to host this?
Gov. Douglas: The president wanted to reach out to America to different regions, to governors of both parties to look at states like Massachusetts and Vermont that have been at the forefront of health care reform.
State officials, doctors, business owners and health care users tackled problems like prescription drug costs and too much paperwork.
“There is tremendous waste in the system,” said Jim Weinstein, of the Dartmouth Institute for Health. “And we designed a very poor health care system with little accountability.”
Some say the system is so broken, they want a single-payer health care system. Everyone agreed preventive care is key since chronic illnesses contribute so much to rising costs.
“Considering the debt and economic crisis this country is in we have to think about preventive care for the youth as well,” said Bronwyn Fleming-Jones, a senior at UVM.
There were no new ideas but a big chorus for change that the president’s health care representative will take back to Washington.
The forum was set to last for an hour and a half– it went for two hours and there were still people who wanted to talk, so the government is collecting comments online.
Hoping for some change at
http://www.michaelmoore.com
Duration : 0:2:27
Sep
3
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http://CampaignForLiberty.com
Last Saturday many concerned Americans watched in horror as the House passed the healthcare reform bill. If this bill makes it through the Senate, it would massively overhaul the way healthcare is delivered in this country. Today, obviously, we dont have a perfect system, but this legislation takes all the mistakes we are making with healthcare and makes them worse. Most of what is wrong with healthcare stems from decades of government intervention and the resulting unintended consequences.
But the governments prescription for the ills caused by intervention is always more intervention. We see this not only in healthcare policy, but also in foreign policy, in economic policy, and in monetary policy – basically, in all areas of public policy. It was even claimed that the House bill would increase competition in healthcare, and thereby improve the private sectors business model for insurance.
It is fascinating that politicians would use the language of the free market in this way to justify more corporatism. This demonstrates a couple of things. One, that politicians truly do not understand the very basic tenets of a free market. By definition, a free market is free from government intervention. But once a little intervention is accepted as legitimate, politicians will blame the problems created by their intervention on the free market and present themselves as saviors that must intervene even more.
It also demonstrates that politicians know that Americans still believe the free market is a good thing. People know and understand that competition among businesses is better for the consumer than a monopoly. However, competition between a private business and a government or government-favored entity is not real competition.
In real competition, your competitor can go bankrupt if they do a bad job. Everyone knows a government program is forever, no matter how poorly it performs. In real competition, efficiency is necessary for survival. In government programs, waste is rewarded as budgets are often determined by how much money a department is able to consume in a year. In real competition, one business does not have regulatory or taxation authority over its competitors. In real competition, businesses get sued and punished for breaking contracts and defrauding people, and are kept accountable in this way. But just try to sue the government when you are unjustly harmed by it!
The reason real competition is a good thing is because good businesses get bad ones out of the consumers way. Can the government put someone out of business? Most certainly! But it will have the opposite effect: an otherwise good business will be replaced by a poorly performing government agency, or a government-favored monolithic business that behaves almost like a government agency.
If Washington really wanted to give consumers more choices they would remove legislative and regulatory barriers to competition across state lines for health insurers. They would remove barriers for new and innovative models of healthcare and tort reform. They wouldnt have run so many church and charitable hospitals out of business. Washington is keenly interested in healthcare reform, but it is certainly not going to increase competition or to expand your options for healthcare.
Duration : 0:3:35
Sep
3
From: http://www.infowars.com/lebron-james-announces-hes-going-to-miami
Alex Jones gives the inside scoop on basketball MVP LeBron James’ pivotal trade decision… err, I mean, rather breaks down how society has become obsessed with celebrity culture and taken its eye off of important world events, allowing corruption and global domination to take root.
Here are people by the tens of thousands begging LeBron James to stay on their team, yet these same people won’t go out and protest the looting of the Federal government, the banker-bailout or even the BP oil spill.
Yes, modern bread and circuses– endless ballgames, television and gossip about celeb birthday parties– has driven our culture to embrace the meaningless, while reducing our consciousness to mindless drivel. America– once the greatest cradle of imagination and wealth has fallen to a land of virtual morons who look up to decadent system-icons instead of leaders who could drive our future to greatness once again.
Duration : 0:5:22
Sep
3
A fantastic interview with Gerald Celente by James Corbett of the Corbett report..Jerry goes into detail on how he feels the current reports of recovery (green shoots) is really in fact a coverup as the power to be in reality is blowing smoke up our ASSES..Listen to James per week at the
http://www.corbettreport.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/corbettreport
for his weekly podcast!!The best research on the net IMO
Cheers Guerrilla
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Duration : 0:8:55
Aug
26
2010 Outlook: The Economy Will Get Worse!
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Video about the future of the U.S. economy. I see the country descending into a deep economic depression. I will discuss the upcoming currency collapse, housing crash, college bubble, de-industrialization, peak spending from baby boomers, deficit spending, national debt and more.
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Alternative Economic Info
http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-charts
Duration : 0:6:27
Aug
22
solution for the economy ( Max Keiser ) 401k pension funds nationalization recession depression
Filed Under Recession | 28 Comments
solution for the economy is to raise interest rates; not cut them, americans have no savings, how banks work, banking underpinning, rollover movie, 401k pension funds nationalization, social security is a Ponzi scheme, recession depression, recorded on October 25th 2008
Duration : 0:10:19
Aug
22
THE GOV. TAKE OVER OF THE US ECONOMY BY DEMS; OBAMA, BART STUPACK, BILL NELSON & DODD
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http://www.watchglennbeck.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/glennbeck101 http://www.youtube.com/user/glennbeck101 The Shadow Government Statistics
June 7th, 2010
• 5.9% M3 Annual Decline Deepest Since Early-1930s Banking Crisis • Post-World War II Record Drop in Inflation-Adjusted M3 Signals Intensifying Business Contraction • Renewed Recession Will Set Stage for U.S. Solvency Crisis and Severe Inflation Threat.
The stock of money in the US fell from $14.2 trillion to $13.9 trillion in the three months to April, amounting to an annual rate of contraction of 9.6pc Photo: AFP The M3 figures – which include broad range of bank accounts and are tracked by British and European monetarists for warning signals about the direction of the US economy a year or so in advance – began shrinking last summer. The pace has since quickened.
The stock of money fell from $14.2 trillion to $13.9 trillion in the three months to April, amounting to an annual rate of contraction of 9.6pc. The assets of insitutional money market funds fell at a 37pc rate, the sharpest drop ever.
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Duration : 0:7:25
Aug
14
Findlay, Ohio area restaurants being negatively impacted by the economic depression.
Filed Under Economic Depression | 5 Comments
Several closed restaurants in Findlay, Ohio.
Duration : 0:6:55
Aug
14
Financial Regulation Reform Creating the “Next Great Depression”? Part 3
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http://www.StockMarketFunding.com Pt 3 Financial Regulation Reform Creating the Next Great Depression?Next Great Depression Coming Thanks to Financial Regulation Reform Coming Economic Collapse & Dow Crash Financial Regulation Reform Obama Speech
The US Congress has passed the stiffest restrictions on banks and Wall Street since the Great Depression, clamping down on lending practices and expanding consumer protections to prevent a repeat of the 2008 meltdown that knocked the economy to its knees.
A year in the making and 22 months after the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered a worldwide panic in credit and other markets, the bill cleared its final hurdle with a 60-39 Senate vote. It now goes to the White House for President Barack Obama’s signature, expected as early as Wednesday.
The law will give the government new powers to break up companies that threaten the economy, create a new agency to guard consumers in their financial transactions and shine a light into shadow financial markets that escaped the oversight of regulators.
From storefront payday lenders to the biggest banking and investment houses on Wall Street, few players in the financial world are immune to the bill’s reach. Consumer and investor transactions, whether simple debit card swipes or the most complex securities trades, face new safeguards or restrictions.
A powerful council of regulators would be on the lookout for risks across the finance system. Large, failing financial institutions would be liquidated and the costs assessed on their surviving peers. The Federal Reserve is getting new powers while falling under greater congressional scrutiny.
Duration : 0:3:51
Jul
30
The President gives his most extensive remarks to date detailing his vision for health care reform to the American Medical Association in Chicago. June 15, 2009. (Public domain)
Duration : 0:55:10