US Coffee Party: Inequality in the US and the Priorities of the Republicans: Something's Trickling Down and It's Not Rain!

November 19, 2010

Inequality in the US and the Priorities of the Republicans: Something's Trickling Down and It's Not Rain!

Extremes of power and wealth aren't good for a country that aspires to have a system and a government that serves the people, not the elites. Those who want to maintain such disparity of wealth distribution are buying off our government, but not without the help of millions of Americans who vote against their own economic interests when they can least afford it.

Alan Grayson may have lost his reelection bid earlier this month, but he will be remembered by the progressives because of moments like these:

This Nicholas Kristof editorial asks, what country do we aspire to be? Indeed:

"Would we really want to be the kind of plutocracy where the richest 1 percent possesses more net worth than the bottom 90 percent?

Oops! That’s already us. The top 1 percent of Americans owns 34 percent of America’s private net worth, according to figures compiled by the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. The bottom 90 percent owns just 29 percent."

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Saving Human Lives: Cancer Deaths Can be Reduced by 50% in the US, If...

Those Americans who don't have health insurance or insufficient one, they're 2-3 times more likely to be diagnosed with stage 3 or stage 4 cancer, and, thus, much more likely to die!

What's more, many of those advanced cancers were types that could have been detected early through proper screening. That suggests people without private health insurance aren't getting the best possible care when it comes to cancer prevention and early detection, the American Cancer Society says.

This is their press release.

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As we take very expensive steps to guard ourselves from our enemies overseas, many Americans die unnecessarily here at home. What would you say if there was a way to reduce deaths from cancer by 50%? What's the way? And, why haven't we implemented it?

The American Cancer Society has started a campaign urging access to health care for all Americans, because this is the way to reduce cancer deaths by 50%! When it comes to dealing with cancer, any delay in detection or treatment, as is common among the uninsured or poorly insured, can be fatal.

The society’s campaign is rooted in solid research showing that uninsured patients suffering from cancers of the breast, larynx and mouth were much more likely to have these cancers diagnosed at an advanced stage, when they are less curable, than were patients with private insurance. As a consequence, they faced more difficult and more expensive treatments, a diminished quality of life and a greater risk of death.

"No one should have to choose between taking care of their health and paying their bills," says Richard C. Wender, MD, national volunteer president of ACS.

So, what do we do about it? Demand universal health care in the US! It should be a right not a privilege. Should people suffer & die because they don't have health insurance? Where's this culture of life they're telling us?....
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"I wouldn't say it (the last-place ranking) is a condemnation, because I think health care in the U.S. is pretty good if you have access. But if you don't, I think that's the main problem, isn't it?" Ellen Nolte

Researcher Ellen Nolte and Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine tracked deaths that they deemed could have been prevented by access to timely and effective health care, and ranked nations on how they did.

After the top three, Spain was fourth best, followed in order by Italy, Canada, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, Greece, Austria, Germany, Finland, New Zealand, Denmark, Britain, Ireland and Portugal, with the United States last.

Isn't about time we all got the health care (including preventive care) that has enabled Dick Cheney and Rudy Giuliani to survive?!!.... I mean why not us too?

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Nooooooooo! Shocking! Can this be true?

The Consumer Federation of America's insurance director, J. Robert Hunter, said insurance companies have enjoyed robust profits and contained losses largely by "methodically overcharging consumers, cutting back on coverage, underpaying claims and getting taxpayers to pick up some of the tab for risks the insurers should cover."

An Easy Step to Help the Environment

Do you get tons of catalogs that clutter your mailbox? Catalogs that you don't really use since it's easier and more up-to-date to simply use the internet? Here's something you can do to help yourself and save a few trees: Catalog Choice, a sponsored project of the Ecology Center, whose mission is to "improve the efficiency of catalog distribution by reducing the number of repeat and unsolicited mailings, and to promote the adoption of sustainable industry best practices."

Give it a try. It's free & easy.

Quoting intelligence...

"Being a cynic is contemptibly easy. If you let yourself think that nothing you're working on is ever going to make a difference, why bust your tail over it? Why care? If you're a cynic, you don't have to invest anything in your work. No effort, no pride, no compassion, no sense of excellence, nothing...

..Any good teacher will tell you that aiming at the lowest common denominator is poor practice. In communicating anything, you do better if you aim slightly above the heads of your audience. If you make them stretch a little, they respond better. If you keep aiming at the dumb ones, you never challenge them and you bore the hell out of the bright ones. You also commit the grievous and pernicious error of thinking the that people is dumb. One of the most horrific results is that the people start to think so themselves."

--Excerpts from Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?

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Inequality in the US and the Priorities of the Republicans: Something's Trickling Down and It's Not Rain!

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