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The free healthcare check program at The Forum in Inglewood that will go through next week has been so popular, Metro is temporarily extending a bus line's service to 24 hours. Thousands turned out in the first two days of the week long event that is offering free health, dental and vision checks to the uninsured, under-insured, unemployed and under-employed. Hundreds spent the night hoping to get checked today. Remote Area Medical Foundation will be offering services through next Tuesday. Due to "overwhelming demand," Metro Bus Line 115, which usually runs from 5 a.m. to midnight will now run 24 hours a day with service every half hour during the off-hours. Good Timing? Remote Area Medical tends to serve rural areas, but placing a clinic in the 2nd largest U.S. city during the national healthcare debate is an interesting move, coincidental or not.
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Isn't this a sign that our health care system needs reforming?
Seriously, if the dems were smart, they should get some incisive pictures and video at this event. to squelch all the logic disabled wing nuts who claim the current lobbyist dominated system is somehow effective or "patriotic".
What makes me wince is that these companies whip up the poor people into a rabid fervor - who in turn shill for the rich conniving lobbyists for free.
sad lemmings.
Good colunm by Steve Lopez in today's Times section A page 2, or go to latimes.com and search Steve Lopez.
good suggestion on including photos and videos from event for support of health care reform. it's an amazing service that RAM provides.
yes RAM is amazing.
especially that it exists at all in the current climate of barbarism and dehumanization cloaked as errant "practicality" or "free market" (today's system is monopoly based) horse loads.
all human beings deserve healthcare. end of story.
Except for Toffle's idea of limiting insurance company fees, his plan is nearly identical to what I would propose.
Getting rid of the "50-state patchwork" should have the nearly the same effect by forcing companies to become more competitive.
I'd still like to see a completely open-network, free market-based plan given a chance to work before doing any unnecessary regulating.
However, if fees continue to soar and rate collusion becomes obvious, then I agree it would be time for the government to step in and discuss limiting fees.
Even paying my $700/month rate, I'm still a capitalist at heart.
"Even paying my $700/month rate, I'm still a capitalist at heart."
I just don't think "for profit" and "healthcare" belong in the same sentence, unless you're talking about tummy tucks, penis enlargements, or breast emplants. The whole nature of capitalisim makes for profit healthcare a bad idea.
The stock holders become more important than the patients.
The specious notion that for profit healthcare is "good for the system", is as invalid as any hannity/rush noise machine misdirect. It's good for the dominant lobbyists is all.
Sure it drives the super competitive students to lucrative specialties like cosmetic surgery, yet that's hardly *health*.
It's the same kind phantom logic that says, "hey let's burn/dispose of surplus crops to game the market price" instead of feeding the poor and hungry. The subversion of reason for the lust for gold.
Healthcare Profits = Bad
Environmental Profits = Good
Capitalism for me but not for thee
If what you're saying with your links is that trading carbon credits and buying carbon offsets is a ridicuous notion, I agree with you 100%.
I liken it to an environmental ponzi sceme, with a lot of money changing hands and very little enviromental benefit taking place. But that doesn't make all the environmental capitalisim going on right now bad. And you're really comparing apples and oranges with your example. I can cite a ton of reasons why capitalisim is bad for healthcare, but can be good for the environmental movement.
Well, at least we can agree on that ; )
Hmmmm...
oddly, *this* article and discussion was about *humanist* healthcare reform -- and a progressive organization doing great humanitarian acts far more advanced than the watered down centrist legislation currently proposed.
the health care bill is a related, yet separate topic with unique dynamics. it's politics, of course there's collusion.
for conjecture's sake, it's slightly possible (yet not probable) that the pharmaceutical lobby could be behind the "straw man" appearances of the socialist joker posters and the rabid, paid player town meeting facades. old noise machine tactic, set up a straw argument/event, knock it down.
deception prone individuals eat that stuff up. it's a good distraction tactic.
You hear that jrb?
Next time, stay on topic
*eats deliciously-gooey rhetoric*
Where's the fun in that?
Heh heh....