Californians: Vote NO on 32

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Tuesday October 09, 2012 · 10:29 AM PDT

2012/10/09 · 10:29

Proposition 32 claims to be the "Paycheck Protection" proposition. That couldn't be further from the truth. For working folks the proposition actually takes away their voice in Sacramento.

ludlow

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Friday February 18, 2011 · 11:11 PM PST

2011/02/18 · 23:11

After watching Ed Schultz Wednesday night I too wondered 'Where are the Democratic politicians? Why aren't they in Madison supporting the workers?' So I emailed them. The reply I got back from Senator Kohl annoyed me. He passed the buck. Oh, that's a state matter. Like he's not part of the state? Like he's not supposed to show leadership in his own state on a matter this BIG? Over the squigglies is his email to me.

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Wendell Potter spills that HCAN was a Front Group for AHIP ***UPDATED WITH RETRACTION

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Thursday November 18, 2010 · 10:31 PM PST

2010/11/18 · 22:31

*** UPDATE RETRACTION OF DIARY***
According to Donna Smith in a message to me on my facebook page: From Wendell Potter this morning:
"On Countdown Wednesday night, I inadvertently called AHIP's front group Health Care for America Now. The front group had a similar name: Health Care America, which I wrote about in my book in the chapter e...ntitled "The Campaign Against Sicko." As you'll see, some folks on the Daily Kos who are not fans of HCAN have picked this up, believing that I did indeed mean HCAN."

Thank you Donna.

****And please see nyceve's diary ****

*****From the source please see Potter's statement (A Verbal Slip on Countdown) in the comment section in nyceve's diary and on Potter's blog *****

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Yeah, I knew HCAN was astroturf

122 votes Vote Now!

Yeah, I knew HCAN was astroturf

all along

48 votes

after they sucked all the air out of the room the single payer supporters were in

37 votes

nope, I was duped

30 votes

I stand by HCAN

7 votes

We Can Sing Together, But We Can't All Shout Together

ludlow

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Wednesday August 12, 2009 · 7:53 PM PDT

2009/08/12 · 19:53

A caller on Thom Hartman today said that his army commander told him, "We can sing together, but we can't all shout together." That got me thinking about another strategy for screamers at town hall meetings.

ludlow

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Tuesday June 30, 2009 · 2:57 PM PDT

2009/06/30 · 14:57

Cross posted at Nurse Conscience

On June 22, 2009, Kathleen Sebelius came to town. About 150 nurses, doctors, Grey Panthers and other health care activists greeted her and Nancy Pelosi at the San Francisco Fairmont with 'Sebelius, Sebelius, you can't hide! Private Insurers are by your side!' and 'Health Care is a Human Right! We will NOT give up this fight!' and some pretty great signs.
Protesting Sec Sebelius at the Fairmont, San Francisco
Thanks to indybay for the photo.

ludlow

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Thursday June 18, 2009 · 4:55 PM PDT

2009/06/18 · 16:55

THURSDAY NIGHT IS HEALTH CARE CHANGE NIGHT, a weekly Health Care Series (cross-posted at ePluribus Media)

I've been a critical care nurse for 12 years. I rarely find out about the costs my patients incur as they get care in my unit, though occasionally I hear figures. One gentleman, who had open heart surgery to fix one of his heart valves had to come back 3 months later for a re-do. His wife told me that they had just received the bills that added up to almost $200,000. That was about 8 years ago.

Not long ago I learned that the charge per day in intensive care units like mine was now $11,000. Not unrelated to that fact, just the other day, one of our patients who was a 'self pay' (read 'no insurance') was quickly and quietly packed up and transferred to the county hospital for the remainder of her critical care stay which was going to be several days.

ludlow

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Saturday May 30, 2009 · 6:33 PM PDT

2009/05/30 · 18:33

Last week in Montana Baucus aides held town halls to talk about health care. They were trying to forward the idea that most Americans who get insurance through their work are satisfied with it.

Montanans weren't buying that. When it was time for audience questions, a gentleman stood up and asked his fellow citizens how many were happy with their employer-based health insurance. In an audience of about 275, less than 10 people raised their hands.

At another meeting, even though Sen. Max Baucus' aide insisted that consideration of a national single-payer health plan at this point would only squander a golden opportunity for health care reform in the United States, many of his constituents continued to object.

"The word ‘insurance' does not equal health care," Janelle Kuechle of Polson said at a meeting here Thursday. "If I have to pay a $900 premium to have health insurance with a $10,000 deductible, that is not health care."

another meeting

less than 10 people raised their hands

(sorry I couldn't get the links to work right)

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Are you satisfied with your current private health insurance plan?

138 votes Vote Now!

Are you satisfied with your current private health insurance plan?

Yes, I've never been denied care and feel my premiums are worth every cent I pay.

18 votes

Yes, it's too pricey, but I've never been denied care.

12 votes

I've never had to use it.

1 vote

I've never had to use it, but I think it's too pricey.

1 vote

Yes, but I think Single Payer would be better.

29 votes

NO!

27 votes

NO! My family and I are being ripped off!

25 votes

NO! I've been denied needed medical care

18 votes

I've got Medicare

5 votes

I go to the VA

2 votes

Senate EFCA Chickens, I'm Calling You Out.

ludlow

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Monday March 16, 2009 · 8:18 AM PDT

2009/03/16 · 08:18

The Employee Free Choice Act will help level the playing field for workers trying to unionize. As it stands right now workers have to brave intimidation and psychological war games in the interim between when enough interest has been officially shown by workers to petition the NLRB for an election and the actual election. And the real truth is that both the employer and the union have a pretty good idea about how each individual worker will vote, regardless of the 'secret ballot.'

Currently employers hire fancy, big-bucks union-busting outfits like the Burke Group to consult with them about how to manage a campaign to keep the union out. This business of union-busting has become a multi-million dollar endeavor. And it's an endeavor that is in violation of the Wagner Act--the law that was passed in 1935 guaranteeing workers the right to organize.

The decision to unionize is strictly a worker's decision. The employer has no business trying to influence the workers and should have no say in what the workers decide. According to the National Labor Relations Act:

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Should Senators who block the Employee Free Choice Act be voted out?

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Should Senators who block the Employee Free Choice Act be voted out?

Yes

24 votes

Hell YES!

135 votes

13 votes

Workers never get a fair break, why should they now?

7 votes

Mormons and Gay Marriage

ludlow

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Saturday December 06, 2008 · 11:28 AM PST

2008/12/06 · 11:28

Mormons, like gays, have been persecuted. Mormons, like gays, have been rejected for who they were, beaten, driven from their homes, refused the right to vote, massacred and assassinated. Even though Mormon theology would never sanction a same-sex marriage, still Mormons should be open to the argument that the Rights of a Minority or the Rights of an unpopular group must not be up to the will of the people or majority vote. This diary is about the persecutions 19th-century Mormons endured, how they had a legal right up to a point to be protected from the lawless acts inflicted on them, but how due to popular opinion against them (some for good reason), the government did little to protect their rights.

For those Kossacks who think I'm a Mormon troll, fine, please delete now. My intent is to give some background bolstering some strategies I think would work to forward gay rights in the Mormon community and help gay marriage become law.

ludlow

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Friday August 08, 2008 · 1:11 AM PDT

2008/08/08 · 01:11

After a 2 year investigation the FBI indicted the hospital executive Rudra Sabaratnam and his accomplice Estill Mitts for a scheme that is estimated to have cost Californians millions of dollars in fraudulent health care payments. The scheme involved finding Skid Row individuals who qualified for Medicare or MediCal, paying them $20-30, sending them by ambulance to the hospital, giving them phony medical histories and then treating them for something they didn't have. According to the story one woman almost died from being treated for fake high blood pressure which she did not have. The real medicines dropped her normal blood pressure dangerously low. She was not treated for any of the medical problems she did have.

Rocky Delgadillo along with the FBI will be bringing these greedy worms to justice. Thank Heavens for actual Public Servants!

ludlow

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Sunday July 06, 2008 · 7:40 PM PDT

2008/07/06 · 19:40

The LA Times is set to cut 250 jobs. Many from the editorial staff. According to a radio story broadcast today, 6 July 2008, the Times will begin focusing on stories it is uniquely situated to do here in LA.

Did you guess that would be Entertainment? If so you win the Dumbing-Down of America prize because that is exactly what is planned.

ludlow

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Saturday May 31, 2008 · 10:21 PM PDT

2008/05/31 · 22:21

Remember the up-is-down names that the Bush Administration gives to its programs? No child left behind left millions out. Clear Skies meant clear of birds.

In the same tradition, Andy Stern now brings us 'Justice for All.'

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Californians: Vote NO on 32

Why Does Senator Herb Kohl Hate Working People?

Wendell Potter spills that HCAN was a Front Group for AHIP ***UPDATED WITH RETRACTION

We Can Sing Together, But We Can't All Shout Together

Mr. President, Be The Advocate Your Mother Needed

Health Care Series: The Health Care Hydra

Calling All Kossacks. Are you satisfied with your Health Insurance? (poll)

Senate EFCA Chickens, I'm Calling You Out.

Mormons and Gay Marriage

FINALLY Health Care for the Homeless!---Oh, Whoops!

LA Times will clear $100Million this Year. However Due to Merger it is Billions of Dollars in Debt

Healthy Forests, Clear Skies and Justice for All