As many as 80 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured, which means they have little access to a regular physician, checkups, preventive services, affordable prescription drugs, dental care or screening tests.
Up to 100,000 lives could be saved if the country's health-care system performed as well those in nations such as France, Japan and Australia, according to the Commonwealth Fund study, which was based on World Health Organization statistics.
After the horrors of the Holocaust were known, All of us swore that we would never standby and let it happen again. However with 100,000 people dying each year because they are under-insured, Americans will see 8 million individuals die during their lifetimes. More than the Holocaust.
American life expectancy is about 80 years.
Since 1945, the most commonly cited figure for the total number of Jews killed during the Holocaust has been six million.
Now on youtube:"A Citizen's Response to President Barack Obama's Health Care Speech"http://www.youtube.com/user/greenspaceguy
Please watch the youtube speech I posted 4 days before Obama's speech. A full transcript appears below in my 9/6/09 blog entry. It contains a policy proposal that would have the federal government stop wasting $100 billion per year. This is the exact amount we need for Obama's plan.
It also cuts the carbon footprint of the government by 40% to 50% not just 2% or so as called for in the recent executive order.
President Obama signed and executive order on 10/5/09 stating that agencies must for the first time measure, report and reduce their carbon footprint.
This is without a doubt some the most ignorant mess I have ever seen.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, he alluded to right-wing media as “substantive content — crazy content, but it does give answers,” and warned that if Americans weren’t properly educated about what was really happening to them, they could be in for a repeat of the Nazi takeover of Germany in the 1930s.
ReplyDeleteChomsky, an influential linguist and liberal activist, did give himself some wiggle room — he prefaced his comments by saying “I don’t want to press the analogy too hard,” and later repeated that the analogy wasn’t a perfect one. But it was provocative stuff, and veered into Godwin’s Law territory.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/oh-boy-noam-chomsky-compares-right-wing-media-to-nazis/#comment-6990
Noam Chomsky Compares Right-Wing Media To “Nazis”
ReplyDeleteSpeaking to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, he alluded to right-wing media as “substantive content — crazy content, but it does give answers,” and warned that if Americans weren’t properly educated about what was really happening to them, they could be in for a repeat of the Nazi takeover of Germany in the 1930s.
Chomsky, an influential linguist and liberal activist, did give himself some wiggle room — he prefaced his comments by saying “I don’t want to press the analogy too hard,” and later repeated that the analogy wasn’t a perfect one. But it was provocative stuff, and veered into Godwin’s Law territory.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/oh-boy-noam-chomsky-compares-right-wing-media-to-nazis/#comment-6990