What I was working on before we went and built a garden outside our backdoor…

I was putting this together when Sweetie asked me if I wanted to go with him into Fernley to pick up the fountain for our side garden. Well, one thing led to another and before we knew it we’d made a trip to Ace, the grocery store, back home and then over to our local nursery to grab some more plants, back home, set up the fountain, hauled rocks, planted the new plants and well, this post got the short end. Some good reading below. There is a theme.

Cinie’s World: Way Too Much Ado About Nothing

Let me repeat.

There is no health care plan.  There is currently no single health care bill.

So, you may well ask, what’s all the yelling about?  Good question.  Simple answer?  That’s the plan.

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You’re not gonna get any health care, or health insurance reform, okay?  You’re gonna get bupkes, and, they’re gonna make you pay through the nose for the privilege.  That’s why Single Payer has always been off the table, and, why there is no Public Plan, and never will be.  And, you can blame anybody you want to, whether it makes any freaking sense, or not, you can travel in whoever’s bus you want to get on, and ride to as many town halls as you want to go to, and yell your fool head off about “death panels” killing everybody’s Granny Manson-like, vs. “everybody in, nobody out” til the cows come home, all you’re doing is making sure that not giving in to either side seems like the media-spinnable reasonable compromise I mentioned earlier.  That’s The Plan.

anna shane at Alegre’s Corner on why the “grassroots” aren’t jumping en masse to support Obama’s “plan.”:  for grass roots, try grass? 

I’d be happy to make calls all through the night if I were calling for Medicare for All, and not what’s on the table.  Give us some grass, Mr. President, and we’ll show you grass roots the likes of which have never been seen before.  

And here’s how we’ll sell it:  Science based, well social science and outcome studies and economic studies based, empirical evidence based, a program that is already in place and has high satisfaction and lowest cost, where those of us who are still healthy can know that the extras from our premiums are going for the good of the nation, and not the good of some corporate executive who ‘needs’ a fifth vacation palace more than some poor kid needs his cavities filled.  

The Brutal Truth About America’s Healthcare (Suburban Guerilla). Here is the organization referenced in Susie’s post:  Remote Area Medical

Desert Beacon: GOP Grasping At Straws To Keep Granny From Making Informed Choices

And for our mental health…The Garden.  I can’t wait until it fills in.

Now if we can just keep the dogs out of it...

Whole Foods CEO, John Mackey: No “intrinsic right” to health care, food or shelter

Whole Foods Nation, you might want to think twice about shopping there. Here is their CEO’s ‘progressive’ vision about your right to health care. 

Many promoters of health-care reform believe that people have an intrinsic ethical right to health care—to equal access to doctors, medicines and hospitals. While all of us empathize with those who are sick, how can we say that all people have more of an intrinsic right to health care than they have to food or shelter?

Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges. A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution will not reveal any intrinsic right to health care, food or shelter. That’s because there isn’t any. This “right” has never existed in America.

Wow. Just wow.