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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (12323)	12/15/2009 2:48:51 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 42652

Hollywood Producer Urges Celebs to Target Joe Lieberman’s Wife UPDATE HuffPo Repostsby Big Hollywood What’s the difference between the Mafia and a Hollywood Leftist? …the Mafia doesn’t go after your family. It shouldn’t surprise anyone to learn that Jane Hamsher, the founder and publisher of the website who wrote the piece targeting Joe Lieberman’s wife, is … you guessed it … a Hollywoodist. UPDATE: Huffpo posts call to target Lieberman’s wife. The Wrap: Memo to Celebs: Get Lieberman’s Wife! “A day after Sen. Joe Lieberman said he won’t vote for the Democratic health reform bill as currently written, a progressive public policy blog is trying to oust his wife Hadassah as global ambassador for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer group. “And Firedoglake is hoping to enlist Hollywood stars that work with the group. “Firedoglake contends that Hadassah Lieberman’s ties to the pharmaceutical industry — she once did public relations for a firm that handled Pharma clients and subsequent consulting for some drugmakers — should disqualify her. “Among the stars it is contacting: Ellen DeGeneres, Christie Brinkley, Andie MacDowell, Christie Brinkley, Cynthia Nixon, Ellen DeGeneres, James Woods, Jennifer Tilly, Marcia Cross, Mimi Rogers and Neil Patrick Harris.” Read the full Wrap piece here or hold your nose and go to Firedoglake – whatever the hell a firedoglake is. bighollywood.breitbart.com

To: Lane3 who wrote (12323)	12/16/2009 8:14:43 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

2) Health care The private marketplace had developed a promising, cost-efficient means of delivering healthcare: the health maintenance organization. Thanks to the spread of HMOs, health care costs grew more slowly in the 1990s than any decade since World War II. Because health care costs are paid out of employee wages, slowing those costs boosted worker pay. Thanks in large part to the slowdown of health cost inflation, worker incomes grew faster in the 1990s than in any decade since the 1960s. But the HMOs had their faults and kinks. Instead of defending and improving the HMO system, demagogic state and federal politicians waged war on HMOs, imposing strict mandates on them that forced up their costs. And they persuaded employers to revert to more traditional and expensive fee-for-service medicine. The main result: Costs exploded upward again in the 2000s. The average cost of a health policy for a family of four doubled between 2000 and 2006, from about $6,000 to about $13,000. A secondary result: Wage growth stopped. The typical earner actually brought home less after inflation in 2006 than in 2000. frumforum.com