Sun, 01/04/2009 - 12:08am — DCblogger
Medicare works and should be made available to us all
Here is my suggestion: Instead of months of head scratching and position papers, simply extend Medicare to everyone, a 40-year-old program that works.
There is a bill (HR 676 in the last Congress with 90 members of Congress as cosponsors) that will be offered to do exactly that -- Medicare for everyone -- and more. The total cost will be less than what is being paid out now.
Have you written a letter to the editor yet?
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I Grew Up In Port Huron...
Once upon a time, I was a Paperboy for the Times Herald. I remember when the two hospitals in PH were both Not-For-Profit, and Pt. Huron enjoyed a pretty high rate of health. When Pt. Huron Hospital went for-profit, and changed its name, and expanded with ferocity, it made it very difficult for (Catholic-run, NFP) Mercy Hospital to compete-- everywhere one went, PH Hospital was taking it over, and costs were rising to pay for the expansion. This was the late 1980's/early 1990's.
I left PH just about that time, but I know that health costs soared for years following the moves of PH Hospital. I don't even know if Mercy Hospital even exists in its old form, any more.
Fascinating blast from the past. My old hometown.
"There's a town at the bottom of Lake Huron
Where the ships pass that way and this.
It goes by the name of Port Huron,
Some people call it Port Urine,
I simply call it Port Piss."
--Shel Silverstein (iirc)
--mf
From High Atop The Mighty Corrente Building... Comes Wisdom.
Hi Monkeyfister!
Glad to see you!
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Port Huron's role on radical leftist politics
"The Port Huron Statement", written in 1962 in Port Huron, was a defining document of the leftist movement of the 1960s. Written mostly by Tom Hayden, it was the statement of purpose for Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
And that is what always comes to mind when Port Huron is mentioned, which is an infrequent occurrence.