Blog+Reflections

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 * Health care passes the House ** Finding out that the health-care reform passed by only two vote makes me wonder a little bit. But it is also a good thing because it is more than the amount in the past. it being more means that maybe some good things will come from it although Harry Reid's job might be harder now. Hopefully they will get the full 60 percent or more from the senates votes. ======

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Sending out an e-mail and asking groups to raise and/or give $50,000 can be outrageous. That amount of money can be used for the use of many things, but the idea of using it to hire a respected economist to study health care bills is and also isnt a good idea to me. Yes it is good because someone would take the time and study them but then again its not a good idea because its just another way to use money in a not so great way. ======

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Eating is very important on a daily basis. The times we eat are what matters and also the amounts of food that a person on a normal basis eats. Eating a good amount in the morning is very good for you but eating to early or to late isn't always good. Normal times of eating at a buffet are around 10am for breakfast 12 for lunch and then dinner around 5 or 6 pm. eating to late doesn’t allow you to digest properly before bead and eating to early may cause you to want to eat something again which then causes unprepared digestion of the food you eat. ======

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I think that Joshua Tucker is right in a way because sometimes-Presidential speeches don’t get through to the public or they just chose not to listen and pay attention. Also their speeches can’t change the minds of every U.S. citizen and other nations around the world because no one thinks exactly the same as someone else. I don’t think that Obama's speech wont make a change at all because I do believe that there are those people around the world who do want to change and make a difference for everyone, and that one person could be someone who does change the minds of others. ====== **How Medicare and Medicaid helped health-care reform** I think that Medicare and Medicaid is a good thing to have around, even though Democrats have used a lot of money on waste and overpayment. The amounts of money are still ridiculously large and many people don’t really know how much is really used until it is pointed out to them and then they see it. In some sense, HCR is heartlessly exploiting years of bad, or at least careless, Medicare and Medicaid management from both parties. That's even truer when it comes to the arguments that the bill has the potential to cut costs which is good, as much of that potential comes from things we know need to be done, but we haven't had the political will to do so.

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Medicare is a great way to help people pay for the medical treatment that they can not pay for. As there are many lawmakers and medical providers who have much to say of the ongoing effect of the "doc fiz" for the past decade. although Medicare is not the only govenamet program that has to be paid for and fought for in this payment crisis, Medicaid is also facing a large payment problem. Medicaid rates are significantly lower than those from Medicare. their providers are paid 72% of Medicare rates in 2008 and only 40% of doctors accept Medicaid patients. State governments have already been grumbling about the additional costs they'll have to take on with the health law's which are massive expansion from the Medicaid program. The economy dpes not have enough money to help support themselves and the need for mdical attention. The rates of the insurance payments should decrease but then we would still be in trouble and owe the state/country billions of dollars.====== This on blog made me think, how much should a persons amount of educaion count toward their earnings and how many hours they should work. Having my mother who has a High School Diploma and no college experience should not effect the amount of hours and the amount that she earns. Some one who has a lesser degree than someone else can put in just as much time effort and knowledge in what they do. Someone who has a degree in college vs. some one who doesnt have a collge degree can both know an equal amount stuff and also be able to make the same amount of money. In a home where on parent works in an office and the other working a manual job is both the same amount of effort wheather it be the type o work and the amount taht is being done. the same amount of hours, and then there are the people who think that they earn more because they think that they are more qualified at a job than anyone else. The amount of money earned should not effect the amount of fainacil aid a student should get, because it is the hard time and work that the student puts in to their work which should count the most.
 * College as a work-life issue**

Letting the government govern
When something or someone does what is supposed to be done it most likely ends up the way that things are supossed to be done. For example, letting the government govern. It turns out that when you let government officials take their positions, things may actually get done faster and sooner. As said by Dylan Mathhews "The framing of this in terms of "activist" suggests that having an NLRB that actually decides on cases is somehow a liberal cause. It isn't; obviously, //liberal labor laws//, like the [|National Labor Relations Act], are a liberal cause, but the idea that the government should take laws seriously isn't particularly controversial, and current federal law matters only if there's a functional NLRB to enforce it."

Drill, baby, drill
"I think the term 'cap and trade' is not in the lexicon anymore," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on CNBC one morning. While he said that he aslo had mentioned that the Obama administration was opening new areas up to offshore oil drilling which does not seem to great. That followed the decision of massively expand loan guarentees for nuclear plants, which i believe that these ideas are not all that known and according to Ezra Klein As far as anyone can tell, these concessions to conservative ideas on energy have not attracted Republican allies for the administration's preferences on energy, and in fact, the center of this issue seems to be moving rapidly to the right.