Posted by: djcnor on: April 8, 2009
Witnesses sometimes lie. But cameras don’t. The police killed an entirely innocent man. I do hope this will have consequences in terms of how they deal with protests in the future.
Posted by: djcnor on: March 27, 2009
Programs such as the one described above maintain the skills of the workforce. Workers affected by the downturn don’t fall behind and have none of the kinds of resume/CV gaps that make finding new jobs harder. No one loses access to the level of healthcare coverage they had before. What’s more is it costs considerably less than the American version of stimulus.
Posted by: djcnor on: March 25, 2009
Since I’m in the UK, I didn’t get to watch the press conference. However, the full transcript is available, so I’m reading it. It may take more than one post for my entire response.
Posted by: djcnor on: March 20, 2009
There are some Americans who will be uncomfortable with a President who is clearly human, recognizes that there are areas in which he may actually fall below the average (which is really what that Special Olympics remark was all about), and is determined to do what he can to remain that way, but I’m not one of them. I also want to complement Michelle Obama on her efforts in that respect.
Posted by: djcnor on: March 13, 2009
Shall we give Obama the credit for the stock market rising? Did anyone notice that it happened just after he tackled healthcare? Could that be significant?
Posted by: djcnor on: March 10, 2009
The “kosher” laboratory – Stem cell research under Bush.
A scientist might, with funding other than government funding, work with stem cell lines outside the Bush restrictions. But he could not use any of the tools bought with government money in that research.
Posted by: djcnor on: February 26, 2009
Already, three years ago, in the US, most bankruptcies were related to medical expenses.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/bankruptcy_study.html
Now, many Americans are taking less medication than is prescribed for them and putting off necessary care for lack of money.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ju-G_u-fwhRzbKvQblk13_ASV7hAD96J4PF00
DO YOU REALIZE THAT THIS JUST DOES NOT HAPPEN IN THE REST OF THE FIRST WORLD COUNTRIES?!!!!
GoodTimePolitics Is a Coward
Posted by: djcnor on: March 4, 2009
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-burger/ugly-health-care-waiting-_b_55749.html
which actually quotes the chief medical officer of Aetna insurance, speaking at an investor’s conference as saying:
The U.S. “healthcare system is not timely.”
Recent statistics from the Institution of Healthcare Improvement document “that people are waiting an average of about 70 days to see a provider.”
“In many circumstances people initially diagnosed with cancer are waiting over a month, which is intolerable.”
In his former stint as an administrator and head of a physicians’ organization he spent much of his time trying “to find appointments for people with doctors.”