Day: July 30, 2009

Finally! A GOP Health Plan

Before I attack this piece of work let me say that I have been really tough on the GOP for their lack of any leadership on health care….well my fears have been realized….but is it the same rhetoric as always?  You know the lame crap about tax credits, medical saving accounts, tort reform, etc…you the same crap they have embraced for years…the same crap that does little to nothing to help Americans get insurance….their same lame ass answers to all problems….tax cuts!

US House Of Representatives have drafted a new health care plan, at least the Repubs have, and as reported by the Associated Press it reads like this:

The GOP plan was drafted by Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., a physician. It avoids expanding the federal role in overseeing the health insurance industry. Unlike Democratic proposals, it would not set up new federally regulated purchasing pools for individuals and small businesses. Instead, it would allow individuals to use the Internet to purchase lower-cost coverage available anywhere in the country. That idea won’t please insurance commissioners from states with strong consumer protections, who have argued it will set off a “race to the bottom” that undermines coverage for those in frail health.

The plan would offer tax deductions and tax credits to help make the purchase of health insurance more affordable for individuals. It would provide grants to states to help set up high-risk pools for people with medical problems who are denied coverage by commercial insurers. And it would allow employers to automatically sign workers up for the company’s coverage — similar to what’s done with 401(k) retirement plans.

The GOP bill would take on medical malpractice, limiting jury awards for pain and suffering and creating new health courts in which a specially trained judge would hear and decide cases involving medical negligence.

It would give doctors what amounts to veto power over recommendations from a new federal board that’s been assigned to compare the benefits of new treatments, tests and medications. Recommendations from the Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research could not be enacted without the approval of the medical specialty society that would be affected.

There it is sports fans…the GOP answer to health care problems……see anything familiar in it?  Their originality is sadly missing….but it does have a provision for tax cuts, savings accounts and tort reform…..you betcha…..In other words there is NOTHING new in their plan….I repeat…NOTHING NEW!

It is a good plan……whatchu mean, fool?…..It is a good plan to protect doctors, insurance companies and the Repubs contributor base…other than that it is the same worthless crap they spout about every issue.

Once again the American people lose, the corporate base wins…if this plan is even considered…I would say that it is money well spent about the industry…their lobbying efforts are just amazing.  Congrats!  You guys are crapping on the American taxpayer…yet again!

What Kind Of Society Produces This?

I have read a bunch of really sick and wierd articles in my time, but this one is just too bizarre for words.

This article was posted by the AP:

A woman charged with murdering her 3 1/2-week-old son used a knife and two swords to dismember the child and ate parts of his body, including his brain, before stabbing herself in the torso and slicing her own throat, police said Monday.Otty Sanchez, 33, is charged with capital murder in the death of her infant son, Scott Wesley Buchholtz-Sanchez. She was recovering from her wounds at a hospital, and was being held on $1 million bail.

San Antonio Police Chief William McManus said the early Sunday morning attack occurred a week after the child’s father moved out. The child’s aunt and two cousins, ages 5 and 7, were in the house, but none were harmed.

Officers called to Sanchez’s house at about 5 a.m. Sunday found her sitting on the couch “screaming that she killed her baby,” police spokesman Joe Rios said. They found the boy’s body in a bedroom.

Police said Sanchez said the devil told her to kill her son.

That was my first question when I started reading this, “did the devil make her do it?  That question has been answered.  What is it in society that would produce such a sick MFer?

After posting the above story I came across yet more sick people.

This is a story from the Boston Globe:

A Worcester woman’s body, wrapped in bedding, was discovered by her landlord earlier this week. But in a more grisly turn, police said the woman, Darlene Haynes, 23, had been eight months pregnant, and someone cut the fetus from her body.

Haynes’s body was so mangled and decomposed that police said they could not immediately identify her gender.

The body was taken to the medical examiner’s office in Boston, and an autopsy conducted yesterday confirmed that she had been killed and that the fetus had been cut from her womb. The cause of death was not yet known, but Worcester Detective Captain Edward J. McGinn Jr. told the Telegram & Gazette that Haynes had also sustained head trauma.

It seems that the sickos get more and more active as the years go by.  Just what triggers this types of cruelty…that is for the pros to figure out.