Screw it, let's just edit Medicare eligibility

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Monday August 24, 2009 · 11:14 AM PDT

2009/08/24 · 11:14

I've been frustratedly watching the glacially-moving healthcare reform battle, like most of you here, and most (77%?) of the country, too. We all wait for a solution, not more yelling.

Yet the solution is right under our noses, and President Obama is set up politically well to pivot from "let's see what Congress can bring with bi-partisan effort" to "we tried to do it with you, so we'll do it the easy way then".

Private insurance does not have to go away, it needs to play fairly, cut premium increases, end the unethical practices of canceling valid policies and even retroactively killing policies, all to avoid paying out claims.

People need a stick to force this to happen, and a CHOICE for those who have already been impacted by the industry practices which are all about collecting money but not providing their service.

Might I be so bold as to propose, after the fold, a way to ensure both happens?

thiroy

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Thursday October 30, 2008 · 5:53 PM PDT

2008/10/30 · 17:53

I was thinking about how music has been used by man for eons, first as part of our oral history before writing, and is still today as both entertainment and social commentary (some more of the former than the latter, of course).

I was laid off in 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2008. I have been there staring at the last dollars in checking. I have cashed in all my life's savings. Twice. I have been on food stamps, WIC, filed for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy, gotten the job of my life. Three times. And been laid off from it twice.

That being said, I'm very fortunate to be in decent shape now.

So at various times of tribulation, I have been touched by music. I was just thinking about how music can reach out to others, to find common ground, to reach out, to empathize.

Music lets us know that as awful as our individual situtations are, there have been those in our shoes too. In that, I hope we can find strength to go on.

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