Anyone yelling at Chuck Grassley is OK in our book It's Congress's President's Day week off, and progressive folks are swarming to their congresscritters' town halls -- whether the congressfolk show up or not -- to let their public servants know we're not about to give up the Affordable Care Act without a fight, that we like immigration and refugees just fine, and to remind Republicans that Donald Trump did not win a majority of Americans' votes. This must be costing George Soros a bundle! All across the country, Republicans who have bothered to hold town halls are getting an earful, and those who have tried to avoid meeting with constituents are hearing from them anyway and getting called out for being too chicken to meet the public. Let's see who's getting yelled at and how!
I work in mental health and all of our psychiatrists are immigrants or the children of immigrants. They are excellent doctors and view the input of the therapists as valuable in the treatment of the whole person. When I worked in the "physical" medicine field, I was mostly fortunate to work with doctors (non-immigrant) who valued the input of all the staff as helpful, but I had experienced many with "god-complex" who did not welcome any input from staff. For the most part, the ER docs (mostly middle-aged white men) at first view my mental health license as "less-than" until I start using their language and being assertive (not aggressive) in case presentation for either requesting a psych med or discharging a patient. As a woman, and a lowly Master's level practitioner of a specialty they often dismiss, I have won some level of respect. The immigrant psych docs seem to automatically respect our role in the care of the whole person, some even ask our admin staff, transportation staff, and even food service staff for input on what they observe! No way the usual white guy doc does that on the regular! Psych docs also are one of the lowest paid of specialties.
Our primary care doc is a DO and he is really whole person oriented! Even though I am sure he has a huge caseload, he asks about work or whatever when we see him. He also shares a bit about himself, like a whole person!
We had around a thousand people show up for a town hall in Metairie (suburb of New Orleans) today, despite it being the middle of Carnival season, a parade day, during the day on a weekday, and in a part of the NOLA area that is very hard to get to in afternoon traffic. #CassidyTownHall was trending on Twitter earlier.
no it's the same shit. here's the thing (you all know this b/c you're smrt but i'll say it anyway):
in the insurance / risk pool world you can't maintain the stuff people like (no underwriting, no maximums, 26 year olds, etc) AND go thru the for profit market without giving the ins companies something. this 'something' is virgin blood (youth). so you need virgin blood to sign up and you do this by force (penalties) or gentle encouragement (we'll make it cheaper with subsidies!!). you cannot remove any of these key components (penalties, sweetners, minimum insurance standards) without the whole system collapsing.
the republicans know this and it's shameful. there is no 'replacement'. there is only going back to what we had or moving towards a single payer.
I agree with what you said. Unfortunately, there will probably never be single payer, at least in my lifetime. For decades Americans have fed the propaganda of "socialized medicine" and told of the horrors of waiting times, etc. (although they all love it when they are eligible for Medicare). There is no way insurance companies will be cut out of the con--they are too firmly entrenched and their abolition would cause too much disruption. Moving people on to something like FEP would bring us closer to a system where insurance companies would manage the benefits, just like they do now for FEP. The article did specifically say that there was no mention of subsidies or how people were supposed to afford the benefits. I am just surprised to hear something halfway sensible come out of an especially asshattish Repug other than health savings accounts and other argle-bargle codswallop that they have been barfing on us for years.
I live in the same city as the University of Arizona and I see very few student types at any demonstration or organizing meeting I attend. I went to an ACLU meeting a couple of weeks ago that had a crowd overflowing the 250 chairs they had set up. I looked for, and counted, people I thought looked college or grad school age. I found 5. I'd put money on the average age of attendees to be over 55.
"Especially you sluts over there!"
I work in mental health and all of our psychiatrists are immigrants or the children of immigrants. They are excellent doctors and view the input of the therapists as valuable in the treatment of the whole person. When I worked in the "physical" medicine field, I was mostly fortunate to work with doctors (non-immigrant) who valued the input of all the staff as helpful, but I had experienced many with "god-complex" who did not welcome any input from staff. For the most part, the ER docs (mostly middle-aged white men) at first view my mental health license as "less-than" until I start using their language and being assertive (not aggressive) in case presentation for either requesting a psych med or discharging a patient. As a woman, and a lowly Master's level practitioner of a specialty they often dismiss, I have won some level of respect. The immigrant psych docs seem to automatically respect our role in the care of the whole person, some even ask our admin staff, transportation staff, and even food service staff for input on what they observe! No way the usual white guy doc does that on the regular! Psych docs also are one of the lowest paid of specialties.
Our primary care doc is a DO and he is really whole person oriented! Even though I am sure he has a huge caseload, he asks about work or whatever when we see him. He also shares a bit about himself, like a whole person!
We had around a thousand people show up for a town hall in Metairie (suburb of New Orleans) today, despite it being the middle of Carnival season, a parade day, during the day on a weekday, and in a part of the NOLA area that is very hard to get to in afternoon traffic. #CassidyTownHall was trending on Twitter earlier.
I saw that video clip several times today in my news feed. Here's a link to an article that embeds that video: http://talkingpointsmemo.co...
no it's the same shit. here's the thing (you all know this b/c you're smrt but i'll say it anyway):
in the insurance / risk pool world you can't maintain the stuff people like (no underwriting, no maximums, 26 year olds, etc) AND go thru the for profit market without giving the ins companies something. this 'something' is virgin blood (youth). so you need virgin blood to sign up and you do this by force (penalties) or gentle encouragement (we'll make it cheaper with subsidies!!). you cannot remove any of these key components (penalties, sweetners, minimum insurance standards) without the whole system collapsing.
the republicans know this and it's shameful. there is no 'replacement'. there is only going back to what we had or moving towards a single payer.
jesus. do not let him within 10 miles of justin trudeau. there will be a libtard event horizen.
Colorado protesters are holding up their CO drivers' licenses to prove they're real voters. Clever.
This is so stupid. Everyone knows it's Michelle who's commanding the anti- Trump army.
Not according to Mitch McConnell.
He owes me back pay from all the way back to 1969.
The same people who think the Affordable Care Act and Obamacare are two different things.
I agree with what you said. Unfortunately, there will probably never be single payer, at least in my lifetime. For decades Americans have fed the propaganda of "socialized medicine" and told of the horrors of waiting times, etc. (although they all love it when they are eligible for Medicare). There is no way insurance companies will be cut out of the con--they are too firmly entrenched and their abolition would cause too much disruption. Moving people on to something like FEP would bring us closer to a system where insurance companies would manage the benefits, just like they do now for FEP. The article did specifically say that there was no mention of subsidies or how people were supposed to afford the benefits. I am just surprised to hear something halfway sensible come out of an especially asshattish Repug other than health savings accounts and other argle-bargle codswallop that they have been barfing on us for years.
I live in the same city as the University of Arizona and I see very few student types at any demonstration or organizing meeting I attend. I went to an ACLU meeting a couple of weeks ago that had a crowd overflowing the 250 chairs they had set up. I looked for, and counted, people I thought looked college or grad school age. I found 5. I'd put money on the average age of attendees to be over 55.
I hope Stevie Wonder wrote us an anthem.
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