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POPSMcCain's Radical Agenda "This entire McCain health insurance transformation is right out of the right-wing Republicans’ ideological playbook: fewer regulations; let the market decide; and send unsophisticated consumers into the crucible alone. You would think that with some of the most venerable houses on Wall Street crumbling like sand castles right before our eyes, we’d be a little wary about spreading this toxic formula even further into the health care system. But we’re not even paying much attention. "
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POPSFear Of Change "First, the Democrats have to win the election — and win it by enough to face down Republicans, who are still, 42 years after Medicare went into operation, denouncing “socialized medicine.” Second, they have to overcome the public’s fear of change. " "One more thing: if we do get real health care reform, a lot of people will owe a debt of gratitude to none other than John Edwards. When Mr. Edwards dropped out of the presidential race, I credited him with making universal health care a “possible dream for the next administration.” Mr. Edwards’s political career is over — but perhaps he and his family can take some solace from the fact that his party is still trying to make that dream come true."
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POPSNancy Pelosi: So what are these "San Francisco values", anyway? "Nancy Pelosi said aloud today what everyone knows implicitly and no one ever acknowledges: when the right-wingers talk about "San Francisco values," they're condemning San Franciscans for not spitting on the LGBT community with a wink and a nod." -- from the Jezebel post about this
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POPSThe Clinton-Obama Insurance Plan This is exactly why I don't like Barack. "If you combine the economic analysis with these political realities, here’s what I think it says: If Mrs. Clinton gets the Democratic nomination, there is some chance — nobody knows how big — that we’ll get universal health care in the next administration. If Mr. Obama gets the nomination, it just won’t happen." I wish he'd quit trying to get elected by just touting ideas that are popular but don't work.
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POPSEmployers Help Smokers Quit I think this is a very positive thing, but is it because employers want healthier, happier, and more productive workers or is it because it affects cost? And if successful, will they share their profits with the workers who helped make them?
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POPSAnother 200 Billion "This from a leader who turns federal surpluses into deficits, believes that the Iraq and Afghanistan wars can be financed on a separate set of books with borrowed money, and keeps having to go back to Congress for “emergency funding” because he cannot or will not tell the truth about what it is costing to fight these wars."
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POPSVA Health Care, its really not there Take the time to listen to this radio broadcast. Some want you to think that things have gotten better at the VA. I can tell you from personnel experience, they have not.
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POPSAbstinence 1, S-Chip 0 "Our teenage pregnancy and abortion rates have declined during the last decade, but research suggests this is mainly because of increased use of condoms, something young people must learn about outside of school."
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POPSHealth Care Hopes? "But the G.O.P. nominee, whoever he is, won’t be trying to persuade the public of the merits of his own plan. Instead, he’ll try to scare the dwindling fraction of Americans who still have good health insurance by claiming that the Democrats will take it away."
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POPSAmerica Is Shrinking Because We Eat Too Much Crap Paul Krugman's commentary should raise a red flag as to the way we are ignoring the health and wellbeing of our children by allowing them to eat fast food crap while we are overly busy working on our jobs or other endeavours. For a nation that claims to be "family first" in its priorities, we aren't really showing it in the way we ignore the nutritional needs of our offspring. I urge my followers and anyone else reading this clip to read the entire piece.
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POPSUpRoar Over Surgeon General Nominee Do Holsinger's religious opinions disqualify him from being a surgeon general? Or does he have some sort of bias against gays and lesbians? Do we have the right to expect that our physicians should be professional in all aspects of our health and sexuality?
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POPSHow the U.S. Can Offer Medical Care to ALL Its Citzens, Just Like Other Countries Do This is a somewhat lengthy, but extremely well written article comparing the U.S. health care system to those of Canada, Germany and France. It even explains how as much as the Republicans refuse to consider the dirty words "Socialized Medicine," the best system we have in the U.S. above all is the VHA, which is a completely socialized system. I urge anyone with an interest in this topic to read the entire piece.
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POPSLegal & philosophical implications of the SCOTUS abortion decision The underlying argument behind the SCOTUS decision on ND's partial-birth abortion ban is that women need to be protected from having abortions, according to this commentator, and this is a new argument (though long familiar to anti-abortion activists) with unpredictable ramifications.
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