P-Model rules harder than other stuff

Mr. Balloon Hands

health care proposal gets attention, does not create an NHS

Sen Baucus' proposal includes (from MarketWatch):

Create a new health insurance exchange that would guarantee coverage for individuals and small businesses. They could compare prices between private health plans and a new public option similar to Medicare and use a standardized form to enroll in coverage. Some individuals and small businesses would be eligible for subsidies to offset the cost.

Allow people age 55 to 64 to buy in to Medicare immediately instead of having to wait for their 65th birthday to be eligible

Phase out the two-year waiting period that people with disabilities face when applying for Medicare coverage

Require states to make the state children's health insurance program (SCHIP) available to children at or below 250% of the federal poverty level

Require most employers to make coverage available to their workers or pay into a fund

Require drugmakers and medical device companies to disclose the gifts they bestow on doctors and other providers in an effort to root out bias and conflicts of interest
Invest in health information technology and comparative effectiveness research

We just watched Sicko a couple of weeks ago and until we form an equivalent to Britian's National Health Service, I'm not letting them take my temperature...

i'm not saying i agree

but hawhawhaw

obama's first week - tawlk amungst yuhselves...

c-span video of obama's press conference friday. gov. granholm from MI, biden, emanuel (in the house!) to explore legislating - one can only hope - carrot and sticking detroit to put Americans to work making electric cars post-haste.

rtsp://video1.c-span.org/archive/c08/c08_110708_obama.rm

he spoke broadly answering the question of exactly what his first priorities would be on friday, but he did mention specifically that the country couldn't continue to hemorrhage jobs before his inaguration without that affecting the game.

taking an assuringly more ambitious tone, rahm emanuel suggested on cbs this morning that the combination of the economic meltdown and the momentum of president-elect's victory suggests it's a ripe time to try and address BOTH energy independence and health care to stimulate job creation, and generally ease the suffering of taxpayers to save the economy.

-- change.gov --

i'm off to find his first weekly radio address for more clues...

so here's a forum

it's pretty plain, but it's free.
recorded sound forum
i don't know how to be administrator for such a thing, so if i suck at it, give me a minute..

moonlight feels right and the law of diminishing returns

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