Health Care - Where do the candidates stand? Depends on where they sit. (part 2)

Posted on September 2nd, 2007 in Health Care, Partisan Free Politics by Andrew MacRae
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part 2 - Democrats This one is going to be rough. Democrats flock to health care like or [Insert your own awful cliché here] white on rice. Unlike their Republican counterparts, every Democrat seems to be taking the problems of our uninsured very seriously. So seriously in fact that every single one of them has “The Solution” – thank goodness, cause I thought this was a complex problem… To be fair to the candidates, I am not going to get their plans 100% right – I did not read everything on all of their policies. Instead, I focused on watching and analyzing their message ...
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Health Care - Where do the candidates stand? Depends on where they sit.

Posted on August 28th, 2007 in Health Care, Partisan Free Politics by Andrew MacRae
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Part 1 - Republicans (updated 9/2/07) Issues of health are definitely on my mind these days. It may have something to do with the fact that I am uninsured with a type 3 or type 5 AC separation in my shoulder - that may or may not need surgery (I'll find out on Wednesday). Taking a step back, I am only one person among 46.6 million uninsured Americans. (check out the U.S. Census for more information) To the point: I thought I would conduct a YouTube analysis to see what the presidential hopefuls were saying. Starting with the Republicans: I was shocked that ...
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Taking you through a medical journey - without insurance, again…

Posted on August 11th, 2007 in Health Care, Partisan Free Politics by Andrew MacRae
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In a previous post "Sicko = Excellent Propaganda Film", I described my impressions of health care, by relating the story of what happened, when I broke my back almost two years ago. By coincidence, I am still uninsured and recently found myself going to the hospital. (disclaimer: I'm loaded up on painkillers right now, I take no responsibility for grammar or coherence)... So this past Thursday I found myself (like most Thursdays this sumer) playing softball on the mall, within sight of many a national monument. It was the top of the second, my team, the Muckrackers, was already behind by three runs. I stepped up - prophetically told someone that their smoking was going to cause me ...
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Sicko = Excellent Propoganda Film

Posted on June 30th, 2007 in Health Care, Partisan Free Politics by Andrew MacRae
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So I saw it last night, if you haven't seen it, but plan to, don't read this post. I really have to hand it to him this time - he is getting way better at writing propaganda (the musical score alone contained selection from Platoon and other classics). The first half-hour or so of the movie contained nothing but close-up shots of people crying/dieing due to the lack of reasonable health care. That being said I thoroughly enjoyed the film. After the emotional battering, he began an upbeat expose of other countries that do provide social services, how wonderful they lived and how everyone was happy. Enter the problems of socialized medicine In computing health care costs, socialized nation separate the expense of ...
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