garn said:I've e-mailed all three of my Reps in Congress (Sen's Harkin & Grassley and Rep Boswell) to express my opposition to Government run Health Care.
Not like it'll do any good, but I at least let my feelings known.
Sat Jul 18, 2009 at 17:57:29 PM MDT
( - promoted by Jay Stevens)
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Statewide Rallies
WHEN: Friday, July 24, Noon.
WHERE: Beginning at Blue Cross/Blue Shield Offices and ending at Baucus office.
WHAT/WHY: "Follow the Money" Rallies. Blue Cross is the largest insurance company in the State of Montana. We want the public to know how much influence insurance companies have in the state. The "Blues" are by far the biggest contributor to lobbying efforts.
Missoula Blue Cross/Blue Shield office location: Suite 202, 3819 Stevens (39th and Stevens/south end of town)
Baucus office location: 200 block of East Front St., downtown.
Main rally will take place on sidewalk on NW corner of 39th and Stevens in front of BCBS offices. Lots of signs will be available and there'll also be a sign-making station. People are encouraged to make and bring their own favorites. Songs and chants, interspersed with selected comments from the professional healthcare community. Within an hour, as big a contingent as wants to will drive to Baucus' office and 'deliver' the 3' by 5' "Buy Back Baucus" checks (we'll actually give his staff an 11"by 17" laminated copy of it).
Oldtimer said:garn said:I've e-mailed all three of my Reps in Congress (Sen's Harkin & Grassley and Rep Boswell) to express my opposition to Government run Health Care.
Not like it'll do any good, but I at least let my feelings known.
Interesting....In Montana they are holding rally's and complaining because their Senator did not include a "public insurance option" in his bill- and they are tired of being held hostage to one company competition....
This is one of several rally's that have been held around the state- asking for a public option- giving the insurance companies some competion- to stop the big insurance corporates rape and pillage of the public...
Sat Jul 18, 2009 at 17:57:29 PM MDT
( - promoted by Jay Stevens)
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Statewide Rallies
WHEN: Friday, July 24, Noon.
WHERE: Beginning at Blue Cross/Blue Shield Offices and ending at Baucus office.
WHAT/WHY: "Follow the Money" Rallies. Blue Cross is the largest insurance company in the State of Montana. We want the public to know how much influence insurance companies have in the state. The "Blues" are by far the biggest contributor to lobbying efforts.
Missoula Blue Cross/Blue Shield office location: Suite 202, 3819 Stevens (39th and Stevens/south end of town)
Baucus office location: 200 block of East Front St., downtown.
Main rally will take place on sidewalk on NW corner of 39th and Stevens in front of BCBS offices. Lots of signs will be available and there'll also be a sign-making station. People are encouraged to make and bring their own favorites. Songs and chants, interspersed with selected comments from the professional healthcare community. Within an hour, as big a contingent as wants to will drive to Baucus' office and 'deliver' the 3' by 5' "Buy Back Baucus" checks (we'll actually give his staff an 11"by 17" laminated copy of it).
Choice of health insurance is limited in Montana. Blue Cross Blue Shield Montana alone constitutes 75 percent of the health insurance market in Montana, with the top two insurance providers accounting for 85 percent.
My new study, published by the Pacific Research Institute, shows that -- across four decades -- the costs of government-run health care have risen far more than the costs of private care.
My study compares the cost increases of Medicare and Medicaid with those of all other health care in the United States. The key finding: Since 1970, Medicare and Medicaid's costs have risen one-third more, per patient, than the combined costs of all other health care in America -- the vast majority of which is purchased privately.
Since 1970, Medicare and Medicaid's combined per-patient costs have risen from $344 to $8,955, while the combined per-patient costs of all other US health care have risen from $364 to $7,119.
Medicare and Medicaid used to cost $20 less per patient than other care. Now they cost $1,836 more. (And that's even without the Medicare prescription-drug benefit.)
In fact, if the costs of Medicare and Medicaid had risen only as much as the costs of all other health care in America, then, instead of costing a combined $807 billion last year, they would've cost a combined $606 billion. That savings of $201 billion would have amounted to more than $1,750 per American household last year alone.
garn said:I've e-mailed all three of my Reps in Congress (Sen's Harkin & Grassley and Rep Boswell) to express my opposition to Government run Health Care.
Not like it'll do any good, but I at least let my feelings known.
redbrand said:garn said:I've e-mailed all three of my Reps in Congress (Sen's Harkin & Grassley and Rep Boswell) to express my opposition to Government run Health Care.
Not like it'll do any good, but I at least let my feelings known.
Hey garn, I have a question for you. Did you notice any difference in the responses from them? I have never contacted any of our elected officials via e-mail but, from past phone conversations with their offices on other issues, I have found Senator Harkin's staff to be rude, arrogant, and totally indifferent to any views other than the Democrat cause. In fact, the staffer who fielded my call in opposition to the SCHIP issue hung up on me--makes me thankful I have only one Dem senator/representative to deal with. We are fortunate out west in the fifth district to have Steve King as our representative; as far as politicians go, he's about as "on target" as they get.
redbrand said:garn said:I've e-mailed all three of my Reps in Congress (Sen's Harkin & Grassley and Rep Boswell) to express my opposition to Government run Health Care.
Not like it'll do any good, but I at least let my feelings known.
Hey garn, I have a question for you. Did you notice any difference in the responses from them? I have never contacted any of our elected officials via e-mail but, from past phone conversations with their offices on other issues, I have found Senator Harkin's staff to be rude, arrogant, and totally indifferent to any views other than the Democrat cause. In fact, the staffer who fielded my call in opposition to the SCHIP issue hung up on me--makes me thankful I have only one Dem senator/representative to deal with. We are fortunate out west in the fifth district to have Steve King as our representative; as far as politicians go, he's about as "on target" as they get.
Turkey Track Bar said:redbrand said:garn said:I've e-mailed all three of my Reps in Congress (Sen's Harkin & Grassley and Rep Boswell) to express my opposition to Government run Health Care.
Not like it'll do any good, but I at least let my feelings known.
Hey garn, I have a question for you. Did you notice any difference in the responses from them? I have never contacted any of our elected officials via e-mail but, from past phone conversations with their offices on other issues, I have found Senator Harkin's staff to be rude, arrogant, and totally indifferent to any views other than the Democrat cause. In fact, the staffer who fielded my call in opposition to the SCHIP issue hung up on me--makes me thankful I have only one Dem senator/representative to deal with. We are fortunate out west in the fifth district to have Steve King as our representative; as far as politicians go, he's about as "on target" as they get.
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I enjoy watching your Rep. on C-Span. I try to catch him weekly, if I can! You are lucky to have him.
Cheers---
TTB :wink: