Subject: DJP Update 12-18-2009 Weblink for interview today Morning Bell; Breaking News: Seattle Times board drops support health system reform
DJP Update 12-18-2009 Weblink for interview today Morning Bell; Breaking News: Seattle Times board drops support health system reform
ITEM ONE: Weblink for interview today on Fox Business Morning Bell with Alexis Glick in event you missed the show and my comments on health system reform
I find it hard to believe there still is no final version of the bill for anyone to study and yet Senator Reid wants to have the vote on cloture by December 24. In a book of fiction, no one would believe this. Almost 500,000 doctors recorded in Congressional Record against previous Senate version posted and majority of Americans against it in multiple polls and yet there is the rush to jam it through the Senate. In my interview today, I say this is akin to a battery on the American people. It is like a doctor who operates on a patient when the patient says no to the operation. It goes beyond a lack of informed consent. It is now assault and battery. Assault is putting us in fear of the disaster in this bill. Battery is the action upon us without our permission.
Go to: http://www.foxbusiness.com/search-results/m/27963148/former-ama-president-on-health-care.htm#q=donald+palmisano
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ITEM TWO: Breaking news: “The Seattle Times editorial board drops its support of the health-care-reform bills, and says Congress should focus on bolstering the economy and ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
(DJP comment: This is a powerful message!)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2010544086_edit20healthcare.html
President Obama, Congress should set health-care reform aside THE health-care dance in Washington, D.C., has gone on long enough. Congress needs to focus on the economy and set health care aside.
This is a change of position for us. This page supported Barack Obama for president, enthusiastically. We have supported the health-care effort until now. We still support universal coverage as a social goal.
But the longer the fight goes on, the more it feels that the timing is all wrong. The economy is wounded. Employers are hurting. The time to think about loading employers with new burdens is when they are strong. Not now.
Right now, Congress needs to focus on the economy. It needs to follow the lead of Sen. Maria Cantwell and re-enact Glass-Steagall, the law that separated investment banking from commercial banking and for 50 years helped maintain sanity on Wall Street. It needs to bolster the antitrust laws. It needs to lower the estate tax.
It needs to target the rest of the stimulus money at things that really stimulate all of these actions to provide breathing room to small- and middle-sized family businesses that were once the backbone of the economy and can be again.
It needs to rejuvenate a trade agenda, starting by ratifying the agreement with Korea.
It needs to get out of two no-win wars in Asia. These are “investments” that will never pay out.
President Obama has promised that any health-care bill he signs will not add one dime to the deficit, which already has swelled beyond anything since World War II. The president has put himself in a position where he cannot keep that promise. He has let each house of Congress come up with its own health-care bills.
The result has been chaos: The public option is in then out; the Medicare buy-in for 55-year-olds is in, then out. When the congressional dance stops, the Senate may have 60 votes, but for what? It will satisfy neither Obama’s frugal promise nor progressives’ lavish hopes. Already the Democratic Party’s former chairman, Howard Dean, says the bill is not worth passing in this form.
You know he’s right when you hear statements that something has to be passed, for political reasons. This issue is too important for that. It should wait for a unified proposal and an economy on the mend.
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Stay well.
Donald
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