Would you be covered under John McCain’s health care plan? I wouldn’t.
Regardless of who wins the Democratic nomination, that person will be running against John McCain. What is his position regarding women’s rights to choose?–Basically, his position is to do everything possible to stop a woman from having reproductive choices. And when it comes to McCain’s healthcare plan, anyone with a preexisting medical condition should be very concerned.
John McCain was being interviewed, first on the economy, then on his healthcare plan, and then on Barack Obama’s patriotism. I thought I would take some time to address McCain’s plan (or lack of) for healthcare.
Unlike Clintons and Obamas plans, McCain doesn’t seem to think it’s important to insure everyone have quality and affordable healthcare. It actually seems like his plan is to see how happy he can make the health insurance industry.
Over 40 million Americans do not have health insurance, and under the McCain plan, neither will people with preexisting conditions. So, who won’t be covered? Anyone with a preexisting condition such as…
Asthma
Diabetes
Any Type of Cancer
Heart/Blood Pressure Problems
All Chronic Illnesses
But don’t worry. McCain says, he will “talk” to each state and “try” to have them cover some people with preexisting conditions. Well…That makes me feel a lot better…NOT. This is nothing more than straight-talking double-talk. What he should be saying is…If you thought things were bad with health care now, just wait till I am in office. I think someone needs to point out to the McCain campaign, that calling something “straight-talk” doesn’t actually make it straight-talk. Although, in his defense, he is just doing exactly what the Bush administration has become an expert in. Giving something a “feel good” name, that doesn’t reflect the truth in any way. Let me give you some examples…
Just to name a few.
Bottom line. …Things aren’t always as they seem…Especially when it come to straight-talk.This is from The New York Times…
As Senator John McCain spends this week talking about health care and health insurance coverage, the Service Employees International Union has begun broadcasting an ad against his plans in Ohio and Washington, D.C.
The S.E.I.U.’s ad buy coincides with a new bus road tour it began this week, starting in Cleveland, to promote and push for better health insurance coverage.
Rising costs force some U.S. manufacturing firms to leave China, survey finds.
AFP reported yesterday that “China is losing some of its attractiveness to foreign investors as rising costs are forcing some U.S. manufacturing firms to leave the country,” according to the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham). “More than two-thirds of AmCham’s member companies surveyed in an annual white paper agreed that China was losing some of its competitive advantage in global markets.” Among factors are “price pressures from competition and major customers, rising salaries and wages, changes in raw material prices, tax expenses and real estate cost inflation,” according to the study. “‘For manufacturers, the seemingly endless supply of low-cost unskilled labor may be approaching its limits,” according to Norwell Coquillard, chairman of AmCham in Shanghai.” Coquillard also noted, “The competitive labor market poses difficulties for export-oriented manufacturers, especially in low-margin sectors such as toys, garments and shoes,” and said that now “they are looking to India, Vietnam, and other places.” But, despite the survey data, “companies still see China as a strategically important manufacturing base because of its domestic market potential.”
B’Man: One may read that and think that “our chickens may come home to roost”, in that, rednecks may think that their manufacturing jobs making that little widget or that furniture or auto part or whatever will eventually come back.
They won’t. Wake up and smell the coffee.
When the Chinese become too expensive or kill enough of our children or pets, we will simply go to the next lower waged slave place in the world.
These assholes who own these companies care nothing for you, if you happen to eat into their profits, even slightly. They will dump you after dumping your health insurance, retirement, then wages… next is your job.
Experts blame changing requirements, unrealistic estimates for Pentagon project issues.
In a front-page story, the New York Times (4/25, A1, Taubman) reported that a Lockheed Martin combat ship program for the Navy has been “temporarily suspended” for soaring costs, among other issues. The program’s tribulations illustrate “what military experts say are profound shortcomings in the Pentagon’s acquisitions system.” The Times noted that “being over budget and behind schedule have become the norm: a recent Government Accountability Office audit found that 95 projects — warships, helicopters and satellites — were delayed 21 months on average and cost 26 percent more than initially projected, a bill of $295 billion.” For that experts blame “a dynamic of mutually re-enforcing deficiencies: ever-changing Pentagon design requirements; unrealistic cost estimates and production schedules abetted by companies eager to win contracts, and a fondness for commercial technologies that often, as with the ferry concept, prove unsuitable for specialized military projects.”
Lack of competition hurts defense industry, consultants argue. In an opinion column in the Washington Post (4/28, A15), Dov S. Zakheim and Ronald T. Kadish, both vice presidents of Booz Allen Hamilton, write that a recent report from the Government Accountability Office “lays bare a festering problem in our nation’s military procurement system: Competition barely exists in the defense industry and is growing weaker by the day.” Zakheim and Kadish note that, “[i]n the 1980s, 20 or more prime contractors competed for most defense contracts.” Now, “the Pentagon relies primarily on six main contractors,” and uses “a system that largely forgoes competition…and replaces it with a kind of ‘design bureau’ competition, similar to what the Soviet Union used.” The two conclude that, if the U.S. cannot foster “a larger, more diversified base of prime contractors and suppliers,” it may eventually be forced “to nationalize the military industrial base or to ‘outsource’ production of our weapons systems, with excessive portions of that work going overseas.”
B’Man:
OMG, you don’t think they would try to privatize and profitize every aspect of everything this country does? Especially militarily? You mean like what caused the fall of the Roman Empire? And try to force that work down to their very favorites cronies? While the rest of America dries up and dies on the vine?
