To s0lve my cravings a little web searching was necessary. To save others time I thought I would share some of my findings.  The first places of interest can be found for a Senator or Representative just by using their last name . which house . gov (example Senator Bob Casey is http://casey.senate.gov/ )or Nancy Pelosi is( http://pelosi.house.gov ). The nice thing about visiting here is that if you don’t ask for them to send you updates they don’t ask for money every time.

If you want to find the progressive blogs or websites your best bet is to start with one and see who the are connected with. Lets star with Oil Change Iinternational. When I go to this website using Internet Explorer it freezes but if visited with FireFox it works well. Oil Prices  and energy for all and clean energy. This site has a blog roll (connections to other websites.) The first one is Amazon Watch and deals with energy and pollution in the Amazon. This is logical but one subject and distant. They are also linked with The center for responsible politics(Opensecrets) This is a sunshine site tring to follow the money on both sides, The Understory all the dirt that’s fit to post (as long as it helps liberals), Truthdig is a news website with a progressive point of view. When you visit Oil Change International there are many more links.

Here’s one that is a Fox alike and one that Fox actually does dislike
You can’t be a Christain and a Republican was just a couple of posts but Faithful America is a full time website with this in mind yet still not that faith based one we need. Don’t be discouraged there is Sojourners with daily posts in sections like Verse and Voice. How about a Catholic group that realizes abortion isn’t the only topic Vote The Common Good is just such a place. The National council of  Churches doesn’t endorse anyone but many of it’s principles to look for will be found in a progressive agenda

Courage Campaign  is an online organizing network that empowers more than 700,000 grassroots and netroots activists to push for progressive change and full equality in California and across the country. Since 1971 there has been Public Citizen Corporations have their lobbyists in Washington, D.C. The people need advocates too. Get Equal and Task Force are gay rights groups Progressive United formed byRuss Feingold aims to build a massive grassroots effort dedicated to mitigating the effects of, and eventually overturning, the Citizens United decision.Progressive in States Network is a multi progressive subject site. Brave New Foundation champians social justice issues

I’ll have more for you next post

Senator Grassley said on national television just a few days ago that 250,000 dollars should be a ceiling for malpractice Torts. I think he should read some of the reports his staff gets. While I’m sure he would use the following report to show the weakness of government health care, the real information would pass him by. There isn’t a report on this from the present watch group,AMA (Avoid Making Accusations), for non governmental procedures.

After reading he might realize that he has now set a price of 250,000 on human life.

The report entitled PREVALENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS OF NONPHYSICIANS WHO PERFORMED MEDICARE PHYSICIAN SERVICES (click to read) written by the Office  of the Inspector General said that:

Unqualified nonp hysicians performed 21 percent of the services that physicians did not perform personally. In the first three months of 2007, Medicare allowed $12.6 million for approximately 210,000 services performed by unqualified nonphysicians. These nonphysicians did not possess the necessary licenses or certifications, had no verifiable credentials, or lacked the training to perform the service. Nonphysicians with inappropriate qualifications performed 7 percent of the invasive services that physicians did not perform.

Now I personally don’t think these doctors should just be sued that allowed this. I think

they should not only have to pay back the over payments and incur a fine for stealing. I think they should also be prosecuted for endangerment based on the type of invasive service.

I’m not a fan of frivolous lawsuits. There must be a way to reduce these. Putting a cap on the amount the wrong doer can loose is not the way. Maybe if that person had to pay a portion like a mandated percentage or amount before any insurance could kick in. Maybe a tort grand jury of sorts for civil lawsuits to throw them out or approve them before going to trial.

Senate republicans take note. Quit saying the government can’t run anything and start passing laws that will punish the thieves in our society. Then and only then will our system work.

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If your done listening to Nancy and Waxman who think they are the only saviors and everybody else is wrong.  Please quit picking on Dodd he was the only one who tried to run a true bipartisan committee. then listen to what I have to say.

These experts on both sides are telling us that it was the housing crisis that ruined our economy. It wasn’t!!!!  The thing that ruined our economy was Greed untethered greed. Look around, health care has been escalating at five times our inflation. Oil prices almost doubled last year. Your cable company got into the phone business your phone company got into the cable business. The Pharmaceutical companies are buying up each other because they need more product to sell(do you pay those high prices for development or so these companies can become larger (systemic). It was greed that made the financial institutions take the bad loans. It was greed that had the American oil companies sell their oil at the outlandish world prices, lets let them have more land so they can overprice more supply, the big oil companies will just cut back production to keep the prices up. Now we get to health care. The doctors are monitored by the AMA or in other words their not. Pharmaceutical companies spend hundreds of million on politics and hundreds more making you the doctor with their ads on TV. The doctors office is no longer small business they are owned by the hospitals who want them to prescribe more tests, once you get the test the the hospital wants you to take it again before they will admit you. The doctors are on a time schedule usually five to seven minutes. Who owns many of the hospitals yep! the insurance companies.

Does your Medical plan tell you if you can have a procedure? Does your medical plan tell you what drugs you can have? Please don’t tell me about those Canadians who can’t get covered while there are thousands of Americans with insurance that can’t get covered. While your listening to the horror stories the Insurance companies are making sure you hear, think of the ones you have been hearing about for the last tw

enty years right here. Listen to them tell you that people with cancer live longer here but forget to tell you that other people live longer in general. Why aren’t the politicians talking about Japan who has centralized heath care and their people live as an average a lot longer.  Here’s a better one, while older people live longer here than in many countries, younger people have a higher morality rate. See don’t worry about passing the debt on to your children, they may not live to pay it.

“They just want to pass health care so we have to pay for the illegals. ” I haven’t seen either party tackle this problem but I sure hope we cover them if they are here.  Lets let them all die of the swine flu, or might they just cause or increase an epidemic. About that no taxes thing, many pay payroll taxes that they never can collect on. (do you know how much money American banks are making transfer money being sent back?)

Health care costs about three trillion dollars a year now and well over four in ten years at present rate of cost increases. So if the government plan costs that one trillion dollars over the next ten years and we keep the costs where we are we are dead even.

Lets suppose however we pass a medicare plan for everyone does anyone think the insurance companies will come up with a supplemental plan?

My suggestion is that you call your local politicians. Tell them you want a government plan that cuts out the 25% profit the insurance companies are syphoning off and when they tell you the doctors won’t take the government insurance you tell them no government insurance no license. Tell your local politicians that they had better start working with the other side to come up with a good plan. Tell them this either your plan or mine attitude in congress today will not get them reelected. Tell them you are tired of being afraid and their scare tactics are becoming the reason the country can’t rebound. Tell them to start finding ways to end our passion for greed.