John Kerry | Health Care for All Americans

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Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:07:58 -0700

 

 

 

 

John Kerry proposes universal health care coverage by 2012; politics

surface in a federal lawsuit over the use of the Great Lawn for

demonstrators during the 2004 Republican National Convention; Mexico's

Lopez

Obrador calls on his supporters for encampment until recount is ordered;

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John Kerry | Health Care for All Americans

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Today at Boston's

Faneuil Hall, Senator John Kerry put forth his comprehensive health care

plan. " For five decades, Presidents have approached this challenge and

then backed away - and powerful interests have had their way. As

Democrats, we have to take up the cause and refuse to back down. We can't

triangulate this issue; no, we have to go to the heart of it - affordable

health care for every American. "

 

In Court Papers, a Political Note on '04 Protests

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When city officials

denied demonstrators access to the Great Lawn in Central Park during the

2004 Republican National Convention, political advocates and ordinary

New Yorkers accused Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of squelching

demonstrations that could embarrass fellow Republicans during their

gathering. The

Bloomberg administration denied being guided by politics in banning the

protests. But documents that have surfaced in a federal lawsuit over

the use of the Great Lawn paint a different picture, of both the

rationale for the administration's policy and the degree of Mr.

Bloomberg's

role in enforcing it.

 

Lopez Obrador Calls for Encampment

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Runner-up presidential

candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador called on hundreds of thousands

of supporters at a rally Sunday to set up encampments in the central

square and along miles of the capital's most famous boulevard until a

federal tribunal orders a recount of the July 2 election.

 

Britain and California Sidestep Bush to Join Forces on Global Warming

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Britain and California

are preparing to sidestep the Bush administration and fight global

warming together by creating a joint market for greenhouse gases. The aim

is to fix a price on carbon pollution, an unwanted byproduct of burning

fossil fuels like coal, oil and gasoline. The idea is to set overall

caps for carbon and reward businesses that find a profitable way to

minimize their carbon emissions, thereby encouraging new, greener

technologies.

 

Senate to Vote on Allowing Offshore Drilling

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With war raging in an

oil-rich part of the world, interest in tapping domestic sources of the

precious resource is becoming more acute. At stake is a moratorium -

renewed annually by Congress since 1981 - that protects much of the

Atlantic and Pacific outer continental shelf from oil and gas

drilling. Now

lawmakers are moving to open more coastal areas to energy development.

The House passed a bill favoring this, and the Senate is poised to do

so as well.

 

Sentinels Under Attack

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Toxic algae that

poison the brain have caused strandings and mass die-offs of marine

mammals

- barometers of the sea's health. These blooms of toxic algae are part

of a worldwide pattern of oceanic changes that scientists attribute to

warming waters, excessive fishing, and a torrent of nutrients unleashed

by farming, deforestation and urban development.

 

Medicare Beneficiaries Confused and Angry Over Gap in Drug Coverage

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Tens of thousands of

Medicare beneficiaries who signed up for prescription drug coverage are

paying monthly premiums, but Medicare is not paying any of their drug

costs because they have reached a gap in their coverage. The gap, the

notorious " doughnut hole, " is upsetting many beneficiaries, and it has

become a potent symbol as politicians debate the merits of the new

program.

 

US Employers Look Offshore for Health Care

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After going overseas

to outsource everything from manufacturing to customer services,

American businesses - pressed by rising health care costs - are looking

offshore for medical benefits as well.

 

Men Not Working, and Not Wanting Just Any Job

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Millions of men in the

prime of their lives, between 30 and 55, have dropped out of regular

work. They are turning down jobs they think beneath them or are unable to

find work for which they are qualified, even as an expanding economy

offers opportunities to work. Most of these missing men are former

blue-collar workers with no more than a high school education. But their

ranks are growing at all education and income levels.

 

The Problem of a Pregnant Pause

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Despite family-leave

laws, the number of pregnancy discrimination cases is on the rise in the

US.

 

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Kerry misses the boat completely. I doubt many people on this list

want healthcare which includes dangerous pharm drugs and pig-ignorant

alopathic doctors. If that kind of health care were availble at no

cost to me, with no co-pay for treatments or meds, I still would not

want it.

 

I want health care that includes a cheap way to buy vitamins and

supplements, and allows me to visit alternative health care

professionals at no or minimal cost.

 

But I sure don't want any health plan that makes the fat cats in the

pharm industry and hospital industry get even fatter.

 

Alobar

 

 

 

 

 

I would like those things also. But, It isn't quite that simplistic.

It surely isn't about Kerry ( believe me, I am not a fan of Kerry's ). It is

about a sytem that is a monopoly and has been for 100 years now. That is not

about one guy. It is the only system promoted by all politicians. Why? I hope

that you all learn.

 

That system isn't really isn't about healthcare. It is about promoting disease

and then selling symtom relief. But everyone believes that it is great because

of a century of propaganda, buying of politicians which results in a government

beholden and working for benefit of the rich pharmacuetical, medical and other

interests.

 

Since the allopaths are the only game in town for most serious illness, most

people will get snared in the system sooner or later, and since it is a way to

extract most of the assets that most people have, they might get a break with

universal healthcare though I really doubt it. The right would use healthcare

insurance to extract as much money as possible and give poor coverage. If it

ever passes, it will be because they will want to take the healthcare insurance

load off of Big Business. These are only a few considerations, there are mnay

more possiblities and ramifications.

 

So, yes, I would like to be able to go to an alternative healthcare provider

and to take natural medicines ( so probably would most people) with a healthcare

plan, but I really don't think that is going to happen in the USA.

 

I suggest that you and others researxh the history of allopathy and it's roots

and ties to the chemical industry, the petrolium industry, government

subversion, robber barons, and how they really got that rich, etc.

 

F.

 

 

 

On 7/31/06, califpacific <califpacific wrote:

> " t r u t h o u t " <messenger

> John Kerry | Health Care for All Americans

> Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:07:58 -0700

>

>

> John Kerry | Health Care for All Americans

> http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/073106R.shtml

> Today at Boston's

> Faneuil Hall, Senator John Kerry put forth his comprehensive health care

> plan. " For five decades, Presidents have approached this challenge and

> then backed away - and powerful interests have had their way. As

> Democrats, we have to take up the cause and refuse to back down. We can't

> triangulate this issue; no, we have to go to the heart of it - affordable

> health care for every American. "

>