STOP Universal Healthcare in the US...
"(2) Look at the DMV. Do you want government-run service in the ER? Your hospital WILL be affected, whether you're on a private or public plan.
"(3) Americans may wait months to receive care. Some patient's conditions will get worse."*
The Veterans Administration is a shining example of how our government handles patients needing healthcare. The VA Hospital I am most familiar is the Malcom Randall Medical Center in Gainesville, Florida. They operate no E.R. --too many people would die. Scheduled appointments are with your own assigned primary care provider once or twice a year, depending on the seriousness of any diagnosed condition. Notice they do not even refer to them as doctors. Many are physicians assistants.
These primary care "physicians" are in clinics scattered throughout the North Florida, South Georgia district, but you cannot get walk-in service if you get sick. You must drive to Gainesville, sign in at the Urgent Care desk and sit down and wait. Sometimes it is a two or three hour wait. If it is something that can be taken care of by prescription you go the the pharmacy and wait another hour or two. You are one of the lucky ones.
If you need to see a specialist, you go home and wait for a letter telling you when your appointment will be. This can be expected to be set for anywhere from two to six months down the road. How long do you suppose will be the wait when all citizens are in the program?
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Stop sexual abuse towards children
While on the subject of righting wrongs and stopping that which should not have started in the first place... Child abuse should top the list. One deterrent is Amber Alert. Did you get an Amber Alert on your cell phone last night about 11PM? I didn't because my cell phone company doesn't offer it to people who do not have the internet on their phone. The larger cell phone companies are in the business of making money, not saving children. A friend of a friend got this message last night, "AMBER ALERT IN OSHAWA, FL - 3 YEAR OLD GIRL TAKEN BY MAN DRIVING NEWER SILVER TRUCK Ontario PLATE # 72B 381." I don't know where Oshawa is, but if I had been in that area I would still have been one of millions of Americans that did not get the message because cell phone companies are to cheap to install the necessary equipment to facilitate the use of Amber Alert for everyone. You can get online notification here: http://toolbar.inbox.com/lp/lp.aspx?tbid=80116&c=News&k=Amber%20Alerts&b=GGL_XT_ppc15_80116_05_02D_00_*GeoUSCA*_-Search-__amber%20alerts&s=awppc15&gclid=CM_cosC9s5wCFZZa2godsGXOnA
While posting links I have another one, since most of my readers come from facebook. This one speaks for itself. I will have to study html codes a little more to get links that work.
The 12 most annoying types of Facebookers
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/20/annoying.facebook.updaters/index.html
I found myself in the list in a couple of places. I will take up my causes in my blog not on facebook. I will continue to read all the status, posts, and comments as I have. I am not a "Lurker". People write them to be read, and they can filter who sees what.
Now for Some FUN
What color is a fresh blueberry on the inside?
Why does picking blackberries get a larger amount of stain on the hands than picking blueberries, yet eating blueberry pie will color the tongue more than blackberry pie?
Do you have your answers ready? Okay, lock them in and here we go!
Ripe, juicy blackberries do make a mess of the fingers that pick them. That is because the color that stains the fingers is in the juice. Not so with the blueberry. The blue color is almost entirely in the skin, locked within thick walled cells. In the process of cooking the color is released, staining everything it comes in contact with. This is also when the inside of the berry becomes blue. What color is it before it is cooked? A nondescript shade of light gray tinted slightly blue around the edges turning off white, then a very light beige as it approaches the center. The fresh juice is colorless.
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