I liked this article so much about enrolling kids as pets with our oh-so-All-American insurance companies to get medical coverage for them, that I started my daughter on cat food today. Now if I could just get coverage for myself???? Meow….
August 13, 2007
August 4, 2007
Make public transit free
Why on earth do governments charge riders for taking public transit? What a defeatist system! This service needs to be free in every city of the country and paid for by other taxes, like road taxes for example.
If there is one single invention that more than any other has made America as alienated as it has become, it has to be the car. We need less of them and less mega-roads everywhere, more quiet, and less danger when we try to get about. Supporting making public transit free to the rider should seem like a total no-brainer position to take if you aren’t already yourself a no-brainer? Well?
If road taxes paid to keep public transportation on the road and full of riders, then less roads themselves would have to be built, less money would have to be paid for public health, and less money paid out to build new infrastructure into far away suburbs. See Alternet article on this issue.
July 30, 2007
‘Salud’
One reason many are becoming Alienated Americans is the utterly dysfunctional US Health System. There is a 30 minute clip from the new film “Salud’ which is about the Cuban medical system that is shows medical care that is quite a contrast to what we in America have to put up with.
The clip is shown as part of a Rockerfeller Foundation sponsored forum and is on the Kaiser Network. Just clip to 10:45 into the panel discussion to see the film clip that the forum got to see. See SALUD at http://www.kaisernetwork.org/health_cast/hcast_index.cfm?display=detail&hc=2254
