Sen. Alexander on Obama

No no no no no. Saying Obama's push for some kind of healthcare legislation is in the same league of Watergate is just silly. Sen. Alexander is blatantly saying they will try to block any kind of changes the House wants to make to the bill, which i think people just find down right wrong, and try to make Obama and the Democrats seem like the bad guys. It just amazes me that people like him are still elected.

A New Public Option

Matthew Yglesias had this really great article about a new version of the Public Option introduced by Rep. Alan Grayson. Essentially, the key is that it pays for itself, no need for tax dollars to fund it. Will congress except this, probably not, but its still a great idea that should be considered. If people actually find this as a viable idea, and congress still passes by it, people are seriously going to start getting angry about the lack of doing in congress.

Go Figure

It seems our attempts to fix our rising health care issue might be coming just in time. Reported on at time.com an independent economic group has found that

the United States ranks near the bottom in life expectancy among wealthy nations despite spending more than double per person on health care than the industrialized world's average

If this doesn't convince you that we need health care reform, what will. Were spending over 7000 dollars per person on health care, 3x more than the average in industrialized countries, and our mortality rates are still high. I think its time to turn our health care system from treating sickness, to prevention.

Low Income Babies

I think watching Fox News will now get me a better laugh than comedy central.
When you ask if their will be more low income babies due to no government subsidization of the cost, then you really should just leave journalism, not that fox news is much of a news organization anyway.

This also qualifies as my humor break, as it essentially is the same thing.

It does amazingly however, bring up and interesting point on abortion. Should the government pay for low income woman who cant afford to keep the child to have an abortion. Personally, i say yes, and i say this as a devout Christian. While im all about Pro-Life, i think that woman should also be able to choose, but should see all the facts and realize the options they have if they do conceive. Im not about scaring the crap out of them, just let them know you will probably regret this in the future.

Healthcare and Slavery...?

I think its pretty interesting how Senator Reid compared the republicans blocking of this healthcare bill to slavery. And hes right in the fact that this is the biggest piece of legislation passed since the civil rights act as it does in fact effect everyone. Lets hope this speech convinces some to switch sides and do whats right for the country.