Archive for July 24th, 2007
This real time example of government provided health care should be enough to end all calls for a National Health Care plan.
Frustrated by delays in health care, injured Iraq war veterans accused VA Secretary Jim Nicholson in a lawsuit of breaking the law by denying them disability pay and mental health treatment.
The lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, filed Monday in federal court in San Francisco, seeks broad changes in the agency as it struggles to meet growing demands from veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Suing on behalf of hundreds of thousands of veterans, it charges that the VA has failed warriors on numerous fronts. It contends the VA failed to provide prompt disability benefits, failed to add staff to reduce wait times for medical care and failed to boost services for post-traumatic stress disorder.
The lawsuit also accuses the VA of deliberately cheating some veterans by allegedly working with the Pentagon to misclassify PTSD claims as pre-existing personality disorders to avoid paying benefits. The VA and Pentagon have generally denied such charges.
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But we already knew that. Here’s an excerpt from Michael Scherer’s wrap up of the YouTube debate on Salon.com.
7 minutes. It’s platitude roll-call time. “People have an urgent desire for change in Washington,” says Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. “We are united for change,” says Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y. Only Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, mixes it up. His platitudes sound like Buddhist koans. “Strength through peace,” he says. “The science of human relations.”
11 minutes. A guy named Rob from Irvine, Calif., asks Clinton if she would call herself “liberal.” She answers with an eloquent and concise history of the word, from its 19th century roots to the current use by conservatives as a synonym for weakness and big government. “I consider myself a modern progressive,” she says.
What you missed while watching “Ask a Ninja” | Salon News
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When members of the Erie County Legislature convene for their biweekly meeting July 26, they are expected to vote on a local law that will allow the county to release the name of any hotel operator who falls behind on their bed tax payments.
The law that should be proposed would state that the County Legislators can not take the money from a dedicated bed tax for spending on other purposes.
Lawmakers likely to remove bed-tax ‘cloak’ - Business First of Buffalo:
I am calling attention to Spitzer’s quote, not because I agree with it, but to show how out of touch the Big Spender is with reality.
“If capital is what is at issue, then Albany will provide the capital,” Spitzer said. “Nothing is more important to me than rebuilding Buffalo.”
The economy in this region, and the lack of development, is the result of high taxation. Spitzer is doing the citizens of this a huge disservice by implying that Albany has a vast money supply and is ready to throw more money at a problem at the drop of a hat.
Spitzer: Waterfront a wasteland no longer - Business First of Buffalo:
