Lunch Break - healthcare/massive attack/photo/important tweet of the day
Another Photo of Los Angeles before she dies: from my hood, Koreatown. Some protest march. Can't remember what it was about. War...Immigration...demands for free plastic surgery...something like that....
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Politics and Media Headlines 5/13/09
Obama's Health Care Charade (by Glen Ford at the Black Agenda Report)
President Obama has gone to extraordinary lengths to suppress advocates of single-payer health care. He has choreographed a grand theater of faux-change, in which he "seeks to create a facade of unity along lines that do not threaten corporate power." The goal is to "sidetrack, possibly for decades, the most broadly supported idea in American politics, today." This "requires elaborate reconstructions of reality," starting with "methodically erasing single-payer advocates from the picture, with the enthusiastic collaboration of the corporate media." Thus, Obama and compliant Democrats on The Hill stage "summits" and "public roundtable discussions" on health care from which majority U.S. opinion is totally excluded.
POTUS Tells Health Care Groups to Show Him Progress on Cost-Cutting Next Month (by Jake Tapper at Political Punch, ABC News)
In a letter to the leaders of the six health care groups with whom he met Monday, President Obama says he appreciates their commitment to significantly reducing health care costs, but says he "will hold you to your pledge to get this done." The President writes that as he discussed with them Monday, "I would like you to update my Administration by early June on the progress you have made toward fulfilling this important commitment."
Didn't Bush try this kind of jawboning?-Caro
Tax health care to pay for health care? (AP)
Most people with job-based health insurance don't think of their benefits as a form of income. But Uncle Sam might just change that. Senators are considering limiting-but not eliminating- the tax-free status of employer-provided health benefits to help pay for President Barack Obama's plan to provide coverage to 50 million uninsured Americans. Employer-provided health insurance technically is considered part of workers' compensation, but unlike wages, it is not taxed. The forgone revenue to the federal government amounts to about $250 billion a year
Obama sees a world in which doctors and hospitals compete to offer quality service at lower costs, and the savings help cover the uninsured. Turning that vision into reality remains the biggest challenge for the president and his backers, because hard cash-not just ideas-is required to cover upfront costs of expanding coverage.
Wrong, AP, hard cash is not REQUIRED to cover upfront costs, except in the minds of those who never balked at the profligate expenditures of the Bush administration.-Caro
Alarm Sounded On Social Security (Washington Post)
The financial health of the Social Security system has eroded more sharply in the past year than at any time since the mid-1990s, according to a government forecast that ratchets up pressure on the Obama administration and Congress to stabilize the retirement system that keeps many older Americans out of poverty. The report, issued yesterday by the trustees who monitor the government's two main forms of help for the elderly, shows that Medicare has become more fragile as well and is at greater risk than Social Security of imminent fiscal collapse. Starting eight years from now, the report says, the health insurance program will be unable to pay all its hospital bills.
The findings put a stark new face on the toll the recession has taken on the two enormous entitlement programs. They also intensify a political debate, gathering strength among Democrats and Republicans, over how quickly President Obama should tackle Social Security when health-care reform is his administration's most urgent domestic priority.
Health care reform IS entitlement reform. Why aren't liberals pounding that information into Americans' brains?-Caro
Two Statements by Robert Greenstein on the New Social Security and Medicare Trustees' Reports (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
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Politics and Media Headlines 5/13/09
Obama's Health Care Charade (by Glen Ford at the Black Agenda Report)
President Obama has gone to extraordinary lengths to suppress advocates of single-payer health care. He has choreographed a grand theater of faux-change, in which he "seeks to create a facade of unity along lines that do not threaten corporate power." The goal is to "sidetrack, possibly for decades, the most broadly supported idea in American politics, today." This "requires elaborate reconstructions of reality," starting with "methodically erasing single-payer advocates from the picture, with the enthusiastic collaboration of the corporate media." Thus, Obama and compliant Democrats on The Hill stage "summits" and "public roundtable discussions" on health care from which majority U.S. opinion is totally excluded.
POTUS Tells Health Care Groups to Show Him Progress on Cost-Cutting Next Month (by Jake Tapper at Political Punch, ABC News)
In a letter to the leaders of the six health care groups with whom he met Monday, President Obama says he appreciates their commitment to significantly reducing health care costs, but says he "will hold you to your pledge to get this done." The President writes that as he discussed with them Monday, "I would like you to update my Administration by early June on the progress you have made toward fulfilling this important commitment."
Didn't Bush try this kind of jawboning?-Caro
Tax health care to pay for health care? (AP)
Most people with job-based health insurance don't think of their benefits as a form of income. But Uncle Sam might just change that. Senators are considering limiting-but not eliminating- the tax-free status of employer-provided health benefits to help pay for President Barack Obama's plan to provide coverage to 50 million uninsured Americans. Employer-provided health insurance technically is considered part of workers' compensation, but unlike wages, it is not taxed. The forgone revenue to the federal government amounts to about $250 billion a year
Obama sees a world in which doctors and hospitals compete to offer quality service at lower costs, and the savings help cover the uninsured. Turning that vision into reality remains the biggest challenge for the president and his backers, because hard cash-not just ideas-is required to cover upfront costs of expanding coverage.
Wrong, AP, hard cash is not REQUIRED to cover upfront costs, except in the minds of those who never balked at the profligate expenditures of the Bush administration.-Caro
Alarm Sounded On Social Security (Washington Post)
The financial health of the Social Security system has eroded more sharply in the past year than at any time since the mid-1990s, according to a government forecast that ratchets up pressure on the Obama administration and Congress to stabilize the retirement system that keeps many older Americans out of poverty. The report, issued yesterday by the trustees who monitor the government's two main forms of help for the elderly, shows that Medicare has become more fragile as well and is at greater risk than Social Security of imminent fiscal collapse. Starting eight years from now, the report says, the health insurance program will be unable to pay all its hospital bills.
The findings put a stark new face on the toll the recession has taken on the two enormous entitlement programs. They also intensify a political debate, gathering strength among Democrats and Republicans, over how quickly President Obama should tackle Social Security when health-care reform is his administration's most urgent domestic priority.
Health care reform IS entitlement reform. Why aren't liberals pounding that information into Americans' brains?-Caro
Two Statements by Robert Greenstein on the New Social Security and Medicare Trustees' Reports (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
Medicare Report
"The Trustees' report on Medicare underscores the urgency of health care reforms to slow health care cost growth, starting with President Obama’s proposed Medicare reforms."
Social Security Report
"The Trustees' report shows Social Security doesn't face an immediate crisis but does require changes, and the sooner they’re made, the better."
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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
Random Tweet Oh the Day:
"I just farted."
Simple,elegant, brimming with humanity. Who says the world wide web is only good for porn and bloggers in boxer shorts ranting at 3am?
Simple,elegant, brimming with humanity. Who says the world wide web is only good for porn and bloggers in boxer shorts ranting at 3am?
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