April 05, 2013 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized
I will tell you what royally hacks me off.
Cancer patients on Medicare can’t get their chemotherapy as of April 1st, but the FAA will delay closures of 149 unfunded air traffic control towers until June 15 because people who own private airplanes need to get places, dammit.
AAArrrgggghhhhh…..
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1Rich people are *Entitled* to all of their perks and privileges. Poor people need to stand in line and beg for pittances from their “superiors”. Didn’t you watch the video of Mitt Romney explaining all that to his people before the election?
2We seriously have our priorities all screwed up in this country.
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3Perry is willing to use state funds to keep towers open but opposes any expansion of Medicare. How’s that for priorities?
4Worse, not having the towers and controllers there doesn’t actually interfere with flight operations. It just means that pilots have to use CTAF (“Common Traffic Advisory Frequency”) radio procedures rather than being sequenced by the tower.
What a bunch of WATBs.
5My adult old son died eight years ago, due in part to inadequate medical care as he didn’t have insurance. I pray to God that this doesn’t happen to anyone else. Of course, it’s more important to keep airports open than see to it that cancer patients get their treatments! I truly hate these heartless people!
6Funny how Perry was able to find $2 Million dollars locally to keep Air Control Towers running for 3 more months but can’t support expanding Medicaid for people in dire need of health care. Sometimes, it just sucks living in Texas.
7One GOP troll who regularly posts in Texas Tribune blames emergency room overcrowding on people who are too weak-willed to get better on their own. The GOP doesn’t want to face the fact that good health care is not only a moral obligation, it makes good economic sense in the long run.
8There are more of us than them, we just have to get more people to the polls to vote. I’m an older white guy yet long for the day when Texas turns brown.
Icarus is the story of what happens to man when his personal ambition becomes too great. He learns to fly, and was successful, but then attempts to fly where he shouldn’t, either too close to the sun, or in this case, to airports with control towers funded by chemotherapy treatment money. It’s part of our collective mythology, unless Ayn Rand is your personal mythology.
9The thing is, those folks wh can afford private planes (so they don’t have to associate with riff raff like us), well they are the ones giving big bucks to the candidates. Cancer patients and their families however, they don’t have any disposable income to expend on purchasing Congrss varmints. Did I say purchasing? I’m sure I ment donating. We would not want to tick off the donors!
10All day today I’ve been thinking about leaders. What I believe a leader is, what I believe a leader does. For the life of me, I cannot see why President Obama has not been “welcoming” the hate, all the while using his great oratory to whip the people to stand up, roar!, and roar so loud the ef’n republicans are stunned and sit down and shut up! I don’t understand his insistence on a “grand bargain” that he believes, once achieved, will allow the country to reconcile and get on with important policy. Any person that believes that is either on serious drugs or needs serious drugs. I can’t understand why Obama wasn’t at the podium, at the SOTU, speechifying about how the republicans assured him they would bargain and work to helping set our fiscal house in order “after the 2012 elections” yet were now willing to set the entire country into austerity because they bargained in bad faith! Obama’s quiet “acceptance” makes my head EXPLODE.
When I was young, I never understood the parts about “even the dogs get to lick the crumbs”. I understood it was about the poor, but I thought it was such a dramatic and over the top way to put it. Was I ever wrong.
11While I absolutely agree that it’s horrific that those clinics would use the sequester nonsense as an excuse to get rid of Medicare patients — which is what this sounds like — and am appalled to find that the sequester applies to Medicare when it is paid for out of its own tax, not out of general revenue, I must come to the defense of the small airports and the continued use of controllers there.
While I’m sure some of the pilots using those airports are rich, many of them are students learning to fly at small flight schools — the only way to get flight training outside of the military. (A friend of mine in high school got his training hanging out at a small airport and doing odd jobs in return for flying lessons and he later had a career as a pilot for a major airline.) Others are part of flying clubs and rent their planes. Plus some of these airports are in out of the way places that don’t have commercial flights so that booking a charter is sometimes the only way to get there. I don’t think this is an example of a perk for the rich being saved, though it might be an example of a well-organized group of people screaming loud enough to be heard.
I would hope there would be enough screaming and hollering about the cutoff of the chemotherapy to shame those clinics into changing their policy and to shame Congress into acting responsibly. Though Congress appears to be shameless.
12The “health” care industry in our country is run by insurance companies, Wall Street & other corporate entities. If you die sooner, they make a profit. That’s the bottom line. Barack Obama made a small step to change this obscene “system”, but the money people are trying to reverse even this modest reform. If this weren’t so sad, it would be funny.
13Medicare patients aren’t what’s hurting the bottom line for these clinics. Check out the salaries for the top administrators, and while you’re at it, check out the hideously inflated prices companies are charging for medical devices and pharmaceuticals, including cancer drugs. The greed at the top is, as usual, nauseating. A friend recently had surgery to keep an artery open with a small plastic device that appeared to be worth approximately $2.50. Medicare paid nearly $40,000.00 for the device alone. That’s at least a little bit inflated, don’t ya’ think?
14What amazes ME is that these Same Private For Profit Cancer Centers, Screaming about the Sequester Cuts, are owned by the same 1% ers who fund the Congressmen screaming about we have to cut “entitlements” ad nausem… well what the heck do they think said “Entitlements” are? Sounds to me like they need to have a little come to Jesus with their congressvarmits now that it is touching their little golden horde, made off the backs of the suffering….And Rockheaded Momma – I agree but I suspect in The PResidents eyes, we are at war with a very thin detente, and the slightest thing will push this country into an all out civil war…. Google Gun Violence, put them all together on one page – and it is a war on many fronts, the randomness is not so random, and I HATE heading into Paranoia on a Sat morning so I’ll shut up…. But War is amongst us…
15Juanity, I am not allow ed to like you unless I sign-on to facebook!
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16I am really not as illiterate as the previous post would indicate!
17I regret commenting!
18I don’t have a gun, but I’m mad enough that the sheer force of my emotions could probably do some serious damage ! What in the h— is wrong with the American people who still have some sense that is keeping them from putting a stop to all this nonsense and dangerous stupidity in our government, whether it’s federal, state or local? Are people really this lazy? Are they willing to put up with anything as long as they can keep on texting and screaming into their cell phones? Do they not understand the nature of the future under decisions our current “leaders” are making . . . . or not making? Why has Obama decided to sell out to the Republicans, who are refusing to accept what he is selling them anyway? That’s not how to deal with a bunch of contrarians who are not going to accept anything that is offered. This country is going to slide into the pit on the next oil spill slick that comes along. I see little hope, especially for whose of us who are growing old . But I will say this. Almost single-handedly, I have managed to draw a group of eight people together here in Dallas , Texas and make changes that residents in my part of Dallas never believed could be achieved. One or a few people can do great things in the face of the kind of governmental travesty we all are living with if they are determined enough, are willing to learn how to be effective activists, believe totally in their goals, and , as Churchill said, “never give up; never, never, never give up !”
19The cost of a first treatment for Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma – over $30k. Quite bluntly I wish on all of the legislators cancer and no wherewithal to pay for it and then the joy of trying to get help and not having any of the good people that guide you through that quagmire willing to help them.
20Big Pharma is where the pressure needs to be applied. Their motto seems to be “your money or your life.” That motto was last popular among bank robbers. We need for medicare to be able to bargain with the pharmas for prices on drugs.
21Ellen Childress, now I am curious about what you and your friends accomplished! Hmmm….
22One must have one’s priorities. How can you fly close enough to another plane to ask “if they have any Grey Poupon?” if you don’t have a traffic controller?
23Big Pharma is where the pressure needs to be applied. Their motto seems to be “your money or your life.” That motto was last popular among bank robbers. We need for medicare to be able to bargain with the pharmas for prices on drugs.
Nope. The motto is, “Your money *and* your life!”
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