California Approaches Health Care Plan; Vote Delayed on Wiretapping

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California Approaches Health Care Plan; Vote Delayed on Wiretapping

California Passes Plan to Extend Health Insurance
The first phase of a $14.4 billion plan to extend medical insurance to all California residents was passed by the state assembly on Monday. The measure, which will be put into action by 2010, also provides subsidies and tax credits for residents. LA Times.

Behavioral Tactics Being Used To Screen Out Terrorists
Critics are wary of the new security screening program at U.S International airports called Screening Passengers by Observation Technique (SPOT) fearing that this will enhance racial and ethnic profiling. The process allows federal behavior detection officers to detain flight passengers who seem to be showing abnormal behavior or stress symptoms. Chicago Tribune.

Vote on Immunity for Wiretapping Programs Delayed
Senate Democrats have put off a vote to decide whether to give legal protection to the phone carriers that helped with the National Security Agency’s eavesdropping program. The Bush administration is pushing for legislation to grant immunity to the phone companies involved in wiretapping. New York Times.

Policemen Shot After Raid in Wrong House
In Minneapolis, two police officers who wrongfully raided the house of a Hmong man were injured when the man started firing a gun. The Hmong man stated that he started firing shots in fear of gang members having entered the house, and the police said they had received bad information that led them to searching the wrong house. MSNBC.

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Insurance mandates are not universal health care. And politicians should stop calling it that. Nothing is Universal Health Care except "Single Payer Not For Profit Tax Supported Government Managed Health Care" (HR 676). Insurance mandates will be worse than what you have now. And what you have now is a complete, and total disgrace, and horror show. Insurance mandates will (require) you to buy insurance from the private insurance companies that have been ripping you off, and killing you by the thousands.

This is an emergency. America is in a crisis. And more Americans have died from this health care crisis than have died in all the wars in US history.

I am sick and tired of hearing how the candidates, and politicians health care plans are going to protect, and preserve the private for profit health insurance companies that have been killing, and ripping off the American people.

Just look at what is already happening with Massachusetts insurance mandates. It's a catastrophe. Financially, and medically for all the people of Massachusetts. And the private insurance companies just raised their rates by as much as 16%. And everyone has to pay now. It's a slaughter.

Keep fighting. Pickup that phone, and call your fellow Americans. It's the right thing to do. You will win. Bless you all...