I’ve had some time to digest Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress on 9/9/09 and so far I have the following observations: First of all, I’d like to address the loss of freedom by the questionably unconstitutional requirement that citizens buy some form of insurance: …under my plan, individuals will be required...
I’m playing around with CoveritLive for a future project I’m considering. I’m going to test it on tonight’s speech on health care from the White House to a joint session of Congress.
Since my Congresswoman was interested enough to seek my input, I sent the following email: Dear Representative; I want to thank you for your personal and informative response to my questions regarding H.R. 3200. In your response you asked me to share my views about how to best achieve reform. It is reassuring to...
I sent a letter to my congresswoman asking for her interpretation of a few of the clauses in H.R. 3200. This is her response. I’ve added my comments inline below. Dear Mr. Shaw: Thank you for your very thoughtful questions about H.R. 3200, the America’s Affordable Health Choices Act. I appreciate hearing from you...
I had a doctor’s appointment today and took the opportunity to pick my primary care physician’s brain about how he felt about health care reform. Here are the notes of what he said: - Individuals should be taking more personal responsibility for their health. - Enough with the wimps who bump their knee and...
The White House is on a mission to debunk certain myths about H.R. 3200, aka public health reform. Today on twitter (@whitehouse) they posted a link to a video (embedded below) in which Linda Douglass of the White House Office of Health Reform states that “Congress has not taken a vote to exempt itself...
I took the Presidential Candidate Quiz and below are my results. Keep in mind that in order to keep the quiz succinct they had to limit the options. There were many questions that I felt should have more options, like health care and immigration. 74% Rudy Giuliani73% Mitt Romney70% John McCain65% Fred Thompson64% Mike...
Okay folks, it’s time for a government lesson. It’ll be short but sweet. According to the U.S. Constitution, the President of the United States can not declare war. Only the US Congress can. In addition, Congress must approve all funding for said war, which must be justified every two years, as stated in Article...
just got stronger: http://www.packing.org/news/articleview/178/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_v._Heller