It will cost too much! Premiums have gone up for 7 years at least by as little as 3% and as much as 14% EACH YEAR. During this time deductibles and co-pays have risen and benefits have declined.
I don't want government in charge of my body! I could take this more seriously if we were living in Iran or Burma, where 'President for Life' is no joke. But we're not. We get to elect our government. If we don't like the job they do, we don't vote for them. What control do you think you have over CEOs of the corporation that own YOUR health insurance company? You'd need to hold or at least have influence over 51% or more of the corporate stock to have any say at all. A government run program designed and overseen by people YOU elect, or a corporate entity who's stated purpose and legal obligation is to secure profits?
It's Un-American Socialism! Free Marketer, eh? Me too. But we haven't seen "Free Market" in decades. When corporations with profits larger than that of most countries employ media companies, lawyers and lobbyists outspending local efforts $15-1 utilize psychologically designed media, frivolous lawsuits and bribes to government officials, there is no "Free Market" only a "for sale to the highest bidder" market. If we were still a developing country, I might find that the proposed "gist" of the reform legislation was too much to bear. But we are not. The only thing we spend more on in America than health care is military, and we outspend every other country on the planet 20 times for military. But our military dominates the world, our health care does not.
Sounds like exactly what I would do if I had scientific fact on my side…. Oh, wait…
“Contrarians Using Hacked E-mails to Attack Climate Science
WASHINGTON (November 23, 2009) — Some opponents of climate action are attacking climate science by misrepresenting illegally-obtained private e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain.
I'm a sucker for a good historical drama. And here's one about one of my all-time heroes that is coming to screens everywhere -- except in the U.S.A., that is.
The film Creation is about Charles Darwin and his discovery of biological evolution by means of natural selection. It's also about his dear wife Emma, who was deeply religious and concerned about the implications of her husband's theory. From what little I see in the trailer, it looks historically accurate (and I know more than a little about this, having read and studied a great deal about Charles Darwin over the last three decades).
From what I've just read in this article (which includes the movie trailer), America's religious fundamentalists are using intimidation to keep this perfectly benign movie from Americans. If this is true (I'll be checking on this), then I find it a bit ironic, since it was just last year that the religious right foisted on us a deeply dishonest feature length anti-science film (I'll not give it the honor of naming it here). ... Continue reading at the link below.
Scientists are getting better at grasping changes taking place in the coldest regions of the planet, and as NASA's new video "Tour of the Cryosphere" illustrates, they are getting better at telling us about it. Melting Antarctic ice sheets spill more heavy, salty water into the ocean, which sinks to the abyss and changes ocean currents that alter climate worldwide, we are told. Seventy-five percent of the water resources in the American West depends on precipitation falling as mountain snow. A dry winter in the Rockies can heighten wildfire danger even the following year.
This is not a message that scientists have always been very good at getting across, partly because they are, well, scientists, who usually think in technical terms, and partly because they spend a lot more time talking to each other about their methods than to the likes of you and me about their message. I have a friend in the news business who used to listen to their jargon-filled explanations at major scientific meetings around the country and then invariably ask the same question: "Yeah, but what does it mean to Joe Six-Pack?"
A study published in April combining satellite measurements of sea ice coverage and conventional atmospheric observations showed that summer sea ice coverage changes weather patterns in autumn and winter from Scandinavia to the American southwest. And then there is the Greenland ice sheet, which holds enough fresh water to fill the Gulf of Mexico. This is the 800-pound gorilla in the room, where the rate of melting ice in a warming world is still one of the great unknowns in climate science. Read the full story “From the not-so-remote cryosphere By John D Cox”
New modeling research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Paul O'Gorman at MIT and Tapio Schneider at Caltech have refined modeling data with regards to increasing global temperatures and the expected resulting rainfall theories. Rather than rising in lock-step with rising water vapor concentrations, the frequency of heavy rainfall events in the mid-latitudes rises somewhat less than the rate of the moisture capacity of the atmosphere.
Extreme rainfall events rise about 6 per cent for every degree Celsius increase in global average temperatures, the researchers report. This is a significant statistic when paired with the authoritative warming estimates of 3.5 to 7.4 degrees Celsius during century. In the Forecast, More Heavy Rain by John D. Cox | August 18, 2009 Source
This weekend I will be volunteering for two events, Saturday;
The Denver Green Festival where I will be helping disseminate information at the 1Sky Booth & Sunday; The Denver Global Marijuana March as a March Marshall.
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