The cause of our lives is calling. This cause is health care for all. Last night Keith Olbermann made an impassioned plea for help during his one hour documentary. He was calling us to arms. Calling us to get in on the debate, calling on us to make sure we get a Public Health Insurance Option included in any bill that passes both houses in the end.

Keith called for free clinics to be set up in several locations around the country; one of those places is my home town, Butte, Montana. I am not a physician, but I am a nerd, and I have volunteered to set up the computers and network, to help research existing grants to fund the free clinic, we all know nothing is free. I will travel back and forth between my home and Butte as often as possible. We must have a plan to get grants to sustain the program, to work with local medical and dental schools and public health programs to staff these clinics.  We must get any software donated to the clinic or have donors purchase the software necessary to keep accurate records and build solid health databases on patients. Coordinating with state guidelines and requirements for clinics will be important; we will most certainly need other type of professionals volunteering their expertise to set up these clinics.

As I go along in this adventure I will keep you informed on what is happening during each step. Remember; if you can volunteer please do so. I think this is the only way we can be heard.

National Association of Free Clinics

http://freeclinics.us/

 

Check out this story at Salon.com, it is too delicious for words, be  needless to say Bill Ayers has certainly punked some of the loons at WSJ online.....via the Salon War Room: Alex Kopelmann
http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/
Kudos Bill Ayers.

Yes you are reading the title correctly.

Who were those democrats that stopped health reform under Clinton? They were small conservative cadre of Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee, sound familiar. They blocked Clinton's efforts at health care reform: specifically, current Obama headaches Max Baucus and Kent Conrad, plus former senators John Breaux (a health care lobbyist today, no surprise) and the frequently useless Democrat David Boren (now played by Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Boren's next door neighbor.)

What are we going to do about this? I mean Baucus and Conrad are seasoned players when it comes to stopping reform, now it is time to stop them.

What will we do about our current incarnation of Conservadems who are owned by the Insurance Industry?

Max Baucus:

Donations from Insurance Industry: $558,075

Pharmaceuticals: $507,313

Health Professionals: $504,641

Kent Conrad:

Heath Professionals: $239,533

Insurance: $233,625

Ben Nelson:

Insurance: $441,586

Health Professionals: $225,776

Blanche Lincoln:

Health Professionals: $298,700

Pharmaceuticals: $153,304

Thomas R. Carper:

Insurance: $238,680

 

All information about those donors to the senators is available at OpenSecrets.org. The breakouts are listed in the top five donors to each senator, and with these particular senators.

Isn't it time we as voters took a stand against these folks. I mean seriously, since at least two of these senators were instrumental in defeating health reform in the early 1990's, isn't it time they paid the price, shouldn't everyone know what they did, and what they are doing right now. Don't let them do it this time. Don't let them pay back their donors by screwing us again.