Archive for January, 2009

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Talk about clueless

I can’t believe these bankers’ mothers didn’t teach them better than this. $18 billion in bonuses while their companies were taking federal aid to keep from failing.
If I did a sloppy job on the dishes, I didn’t get my allowance.
But they get homongous bonuses with our money, all for failing.
President Obama had to have his [...]

Something for the kids

The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a bill today to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
  The House bill (H.R. 2) is similar to the one passed with wide bipartisan support in Congress in 2007 and vetoed twice by President Bush.
The bill will reauthorize the program for 4 1/2 years and [...]

Flat Earth, healthy tobacco, status quo health care — all wrong

 
I wrote a story last week about how COBRA, the 1986 law that allows people who lose their jobs to keep their insurance, is inadequate. (http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009901100308).
Well, the Heritage Foundation noticed and sent me an e-mail this morning offering me a source on the other side. This is their source and her quote in the Washington [...]

COBRA is utterly useless

Families USA published a new study today about the affordability of COBRA, the federal program that lets employees keep their company insurance after leaving a job (you can read the study at http://www.familiesusa.org/resources/publications/reports/cobra.html).
An unemployed person who had health insurance as a benefit can buy that coverage for 18 months after leaving the company. You have to [...]

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Patient Pals & Family Friends volunteer training

Our Feb. 27 training had to be postponed, but we have rescheduled. Join us 10 days, as we train our next group of volunteers for Patient Pals & Family Friends. The four-hour training will run 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and will include lunch. Patient Pals are people who have experience with an illness or disability. After training, they will be paired with someone who is newly diagnosed or disabled. Family Friends will be volunteers who are paired with family members of people who are ill or disabled, and will have been through the expeience of having a loved one with illness or disability.

In Loving Memory

Life o' Mike has participated two memorial services to remember those who have died from our broken health care system, one in Asheville and one in Raleigh. If you would like to organize more of these services, please contact lifeomike@gmail.com and we will help put it together. The services include stories, prayers and information on how people of faith can make a difference. About 45,000 people die each year because they don’t have health insurance, according to a recent study by Harvard Medical School and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. That breaks down to one American every 12 minutes. Those people can be honored in the service by a bell chime and a moment of silence every 12 minutes in the service. For more information, call Leslie Boyd at 828-243-6712.

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