Obamacare...a personal look.

Oct 25, 2009 - I am going to give you my personal look at Obamacare from a perspective which may seem a bit strange but in reality it should be alarming.  The interesting thing is that most of all of my childhood I went without even some of the basic things people assume most everyone has.   The only healthcare I had as a child was Medi-cal...which is the program upon which Obamacare was designed.     My father worked several part-time jobs as well as his full-time job as a Baptist minister.  He did everything possible to provide for us, worked his fingers to the bone and still managed to comfort the people in our church and help them deal with their own problems.  Not once did any congregation we served bother to possibly consider that making sure the minister and his family had any healthcare or even some of the basic necessities in life was one of their priorities. They did however call at any time of the day or night for his help and he was there for them.    Sometimes our whole family was there for them.  I was a very experienced babysitter, cook, and housekeeper before I was even 11.  This is not bitterness I speak from---it is my attempt at revealing to you that many who are among the uninsured are hardworking people often working in service-oriented positions which simply aren't offered healthcare.   So....let me get back to Medi-cal......the mentor of Obamacare.  When I hear people on the Obamacare bandwagon I think they probably don't really understand what they are supporting.   Many have never been on medi-cal. - 4 Comments

A hard ending for housekeepers

Sep 17, 2009 - When the housekeepers at the three Hyatt hotels in the Boston area were asked to train some new workers, they said they were told the trainees would be filling in during vacations. On Aug. 31, staffers learned the full story: None of them would be making the beds and cleaning the showers any longer. - 79 Comments

Healthcare: Japanese Style

Aug 25, 2009 - MartiniLush had asked me about healthcare in Japan and I never got the chance to give a more detail overview.  I was skimming the news just now and I saw that NYT had a pretty good article on it so I thought I shared.   Health Care Abroad: Japan By Sarah Arnquist John Creighton Campbell is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Michigan and a visiting researcher at the Tokyo University Institute of Gerontology. He co-authored “The Art of Balance in Health Policy: Maintaining Japan’s Low-Cost, Egalitarian System” (Cambridge University Press, 1998). - 9 Comments

Medicare for All Is a Killer

May 27, 2009 - Medicare for All Is a Killer By Peter Ferrara America's Left/Liberals, and their spokesman Barack Obama, insist that everything about health care would be wonderful if only the government would take it over. Their preferred plan, embraced by Obama, is to throw Medicare open to everyone, and then over time force everyone into it. They say if you have employer-provided insurance, you can keep it. - 133 Comments

Aussies try to fix Socialized medicine

Jul 26, 2009 - pubic post +++++++++++++++ http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25838628-3102,00.html Health reforms aim to mend ailing system Steve Lewis and Emma Chalmers July 27, 2009 12:00am FOUR out of five people would be tied to a single doctor and all patients guaranteed a GP appointment within two days under $16 billion in health reforms. The reforms are set to be unveiled today by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Elderly people could be forced to sell their homes to secure a nursing home bed and a subsidised dental care scheme introduced, as part of the biggest shake-up to health in decades. - 9 Comments