One more example from Salem.....
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon House has approved a plan to expand state health coverage to an additional 80,000 uninsured children and 35,000 low-income adults.
The measure calls for raising taxes on hospital revenues and establishing a tax on health insurance premiums to pay for the expansion.
All Democrats favored the bill that now goes to the Senate. Every Republican opposed it.
In a related action, the House also approved a bill to create a health agency called the Oregon Health Authority. It will oversee state efforts to contain health care costs.
Supporters say expanding health insurance to more Oregonians will not be affordable in the long term unless the state also finds ways to reduce health care costs.
Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.
Take a moment to bask in the glow. Just think how many people will benefit when you end up paying to cover those who refuse to participate in employer provided health plans (many) and have been over-running hospital emergency rooms where treatment can't be refused. That's OK though because you'll end up paying for that through tax pass-alongs in fees you and your insurance company will pay . Aren't you a generous soul? Aren't you a sucker for doing the responsible thing?
I wish this station would quit doing the desmo stuff at 8:30. You had an important topic going this morning.
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ReplyDeleteThat would be like a latte without the cream...
I can live with it as long as you go easy on the Betsy Johnson sound/a billion word bytes but, yeah Michael gets a whole afternoon for that stuff doesn't he?
ReplyDeleteThen, on the other hand, it kills a bunch of unfillable air time doesn't it?
Even though I'm a moderate liberal I like your show and wish you started your program a bit earlier.
ReplyDeleteA closed mind to other points of view is not a healthy mind. Your show is one of the few conservative talk shows that I feel doesn't try to over spin the news to the neo-con selling points. I appreciate and respect that. I have not listened to the NNB liberal counterpart yet, but, I'd rather hear conflicting points of view over ones I'll more often agree with.
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation."--HERBERT SPENCER
Pretty much quit listening to your station as you have gone to taping every meeting under the sun....no reporting....bring back Matt Richert too....the new sports guy broadcasting the games hasn't a clue who the players are or anything else about the local stuff......
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ReplyDeleteSound bytes of the meetings might be a good idea. Since you keep your issues local, that is where you find your material. The only problem with sound bytes is that they can be spun into about a half dozen "truths" depending on a person's poing of view.
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