Posts Tagged ‘Home Based Business’

What Americans Really Want From Health Care

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” ~ Dale Carnegie (Was an American writer and lecturer – November 24, 1888 – November 1, 1955)

Here’s What Americans Really Want From Health Care.

Photo Credit: Neil Parekh/SEIU Healthcare 775NW

Photo Credit: Neil Parekh/SEIU Healthcare 775NW

It’s apropos that I’m presenting this information to you today, whereas the House Of Representatives in Washington are trying to force through a vote for the Health Care Bill HR3962 before they go home for this Fridays long weekend in honor of Veterans Day. Most of our elected congressmen would like to have this vote completed so they won’t have to face their constituents and answer some of the hard questions they may have for them. If the bill is voted on and passed in the House it’s now the Senates headache. Just one more thing before I get today’s blog here’s a summary of the Bill HR3962 Socialized Medicine and what it has written in it:

  • Raises taxes on middle class families
  • Makes significant cuts to Medicare
  • Taxes small businesses that have 17 or more employees
  • Taxes current insurance policies that will be passed on to patients in higher premiums
    Penalizes states like California for having medical malpractice reform laws on the books
  • States may have to be left paying for unfunded mandates as more Americans go on the government plan by expanding Medicaid eligibility (a federal-state partnership)

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What Americans Really Want Out Of Retirement

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

“Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I’m sixty four”

~ Paul McCartney (composed when he was 24 years old)

Seniors always carry two things in their pockets: photos of their grandchildren and random dog-eared clippings of the news they think is important. The older we get the easier it is to forget. So if you want to get retirees to engage in a conversation about reforming social security or the health care system there is only one way to do it, have them look at the pictures of their grandchildren while discussing the relevant issues.

Picture by Kevin Trotman


For most older people when they’re looking at their grand kids they can’t bring themselves to ask the youngsters to sacrifice for them. It just goes against everything that comes with being a parent or grandparent-we do what we have to so our offspring can have better lives not the other way around. When Social Security was created in 1935, the average adult didn’t live long enough to collect benefits. Today, they’ve twenty years left to live and they plan on living them to their fullest.-That’s a lot of purchasing power for services, health and even starting 2nd careers.

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2020 Generation (conclusions)

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

“I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.”

-          Bill Gates

2020 Generation (conclusions)

The 2020 Generation to all but them are viewed as techno junkies, nerds, self-centered, impersonal, a generation that feels they’re entitled to, antiestablishment, ‘etc., etc., etc’(as Yul Bryner said in the classic movie ‘The King and I”). But, America wake up this is our future generation of Americans and quoting the great 20th Century icon Winston Churchill ‘I don’t trust any person who wasn’t compassionate and liberal in their ideals as a young person, even though as they aged they became more conservative’. This generation has evolved and integrated technology into their daily lives to improve it and see it as a tool just as a well rounded education was seen to the previous generations. ‘Give Peace a Chance’ as John Lennon sang, give this generation a chance. (more…)