You heard me correctly. There is an idiot, yes an Idiot in the Government that is saying women can wait till age 50 to get a mammogram for breast cancer and be safe. I know this blog is supposed to be about politics but I am a survivor and I will not shut up. If some idiot from a President I did vote for I would say the same thing. This statement will allow women to die an unpredictable early death, that could have been prevented.
Why do I think I am an expert? Well experience, frankly. As is often said in my neck of the woods, “anyone with half a brain” would know better. I was 46, I met only met a breast cancer patients that were 18,23,28,34. Did they deserve a fighting chance at life? Yes! Does every woman out there with breasts need a mammogram at age 40, well at least at age 40. The death rate before 40 is not in a woman’s favor. I did have symptoms that everyone had told me was not breast cancer. I had pain, I had this uncomfortable feeling in my breast, it would throb. Do I think it was the beast? You betchya!
Do whatever you can to fight this before any woman in America actually thinks this idiot has at least “half a brain”.
It passed. Now it goes to the Senate, and I expect it to pass. I would love to think it won’t but this reality of what I am seeing is hitting me hard.
People voted for healthcare without even knowing what will be on the final bill, and knowing voters want more information.
On the other note, it has been a rough weekend. I knew the Texan that was killed at Ft Hood. Nobody told me it was him till last night. He was a good PA, that helped people. Psychiatrists listen to many horrifying stories each and every day. If you think about all the abuse, emotional and physical that the docs listen to in order to treat patients the murderer decided to do this. Having worked for over 15 Psychiatrists I know first hand they know and are trained how to let stuff go. Also from an interview of his family member the man was telling stuff he was prevented from saying by patient confidentiality. No one in his family should know any detail from any patient he saw. It is a federal law to protect the patient.
This post is hard one. My heart is still reeling from the mass shooting by an Officer on Fort Hood. The vote of healthcare is less than forty-eight hours away. This incident is one very good reason that national healthcare should not happen. Scott and White and Seton Medical Center were able to handle the stress of all the injured were well taken care of. Taken care well enough that the shooter Dr. Hasan survived. I know the families of the injured were grateful their family was handled as first priorities coming in the hospitals.
Also the fact that Obama has made no decision about Afghanistan and the number needed or will he will withdraw troops has made this situation painful. Nobody actually wants to go or fight in a place where you have a slim chance of doing well. Our military deserve a Commander in Chief, and Obama is sorely lacking in being any type of Commander other than to try to bully Fox News. If he put half the energy into the Military as he did the battle of Fox News, maybe I would feel confident about him.
Let me clarify for you, Hasan took the gun and killed people. Obama by lack of his own discipline has done nothing to prevent more military from being killed today in Afghanistan and Iraq. Soldiers already there were checking twitter looking for updates, their kids were on post. All the hype was hard for them, imagine you are fighting a war and you are worried if someone is shooting your child. Fort Hood finally opened up for those to get the kids and those that live on post but were out in the town after 7 PM.
Many feel betrayed by their own around here, no one expected it to be a soldier shooting. Obama cannot blame Bush on this mess. Bush used to land on Ft Hood when he came home to Crawford. I can only pray Obama will do something for our military.
As a conservative first Republican second the constitution is near and dear to me. This video I think is a wonderful expression of what I feel is wrong with the HealthCare Bill. Yes we need to pass something that most Americans agree on, but this bill is not that bill. This is a wish list that will forever change our constitution.
Sean Hannity along with Michelle Bachmann shares the highlights of what the new 1,990 page healthcare bill. This video is worth your ten minutes, the bill will forever change America. You can take 10 minutes to listen to the truth of the bill.I still believe in the constitution but this bill is not what I think is constitutional but we have to fight this bill.
That is John Cornyn’s words about what the healthcare bill in the Senate Finance Bill that Olympia Snowe voted yes on. The reason it was called Alice in Wonderland is because there is no actual written bill for the committee to read. And if there was, the bill is null and void as soon as the vote was over. Why because they will roll this crap bill into the other five bills that the Democrats love. The Republican bills have been ignored, any concept they both agree on like pre-existing conditions, is null and void.
In other words Snowe is believing in the fairies in the Senate. Somehow magical dust will fly from the sky and the cost will vanish. The taxes on a cadillac plan (like ours because we have dental coverage and low prescription copays) will magically vanish.
No it won’t, sorry Wonderland doesn’t exist. There are no magical fairies in the Senate. In the Senate we have men and women that may or may not represent what the people want.
We as the grassroots cannot let this dragon go. Since the CBO has some half good news, word is many blue dog democrats, and some republicans will vote yes on the national healthcare bill.
Even though for every medical procedure a patient has that the equipment is over $100.00 (many and vast) will be taxed.What it looks like is you will be paying for having insurance, getting less treatment, and be paying taxes on certain procedures you need no matter the reason why. Most women have a PAP smear, it is one that will be taxed because the kit is over $100.00.
Dick Morris had a great article on Snowe and Lincoln. Look HERE.
The Hill details the bill costs and analysis by CBO HERE.
If that is not enough look Rachel Maddow is even saying there is pressure.
Fraud I have seen first hand, where perfectly able bodied people walk into a hospital looking for drugs. While Medicaid was denying coverage of a cancer patients I knew personally. Sen John Cornyn spoke on this problem. Thanks John for listening to us!
This has to be fixed before any other public option or a national healthcare system be fixed.
That is all Joe Wilson said. At the point he said it Barak Obama was speaking of the idea that illegals will not be covered under the new healthcare bill. There is no way around them being not covered. They will either enter ERs and never pay the bill, or they will produce the WIC cards they have and get coverage. Either way the tax payers will pay for illegals to get free healthcare, while the legal citizens that work will pay excise taxes on what they have earned in a benefit called insurance.
Dick Morris has an excellent article about the excise Tax HERE.
Joe Wilson did not yell racial slurs, he has a legitimate beef with the President. As hard or impossible it would have been for me, Joe is held to a higher standard than the Democrats. It is not fair, but what is surprising to me is the reaction my saying” I support Joe Wilson” on twitter. I got followed by racists using the “n word”, the account may or may not have been set up to slur Wilson.
Disagreeing with politics doesn’t make me or anyone else racist. It is only politics, and anyone thinking it would have been something else is well with an agenda. I disagree as often with Rick Perry who is white.
Here is a video to prove Dems do one thing and hold Joe Wilson to another standard.
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