Some home truths about the new heath care plan

Fellow New Jerseyean and blogger, Anthony has a very good take on the new health  care proposal after reading Time magazine. According to Anthony,

Who'd-a thunk big insurance companies would raise rates? Would you guess that, regardless of healthcare reform or none that rates would rise? I would. When is the last time your healthcare provider called and told you, "Hey - you know what? We're charging too much and we're going to pass the savings on to you." If that ever happened, you'd die from heart failure. Then you'd really need the insurance. What do you think the odds are that our rates will increase whether we get reform or not? Even money is a start. I think our federal government is about to find out who is really wearing the pants in this relationship.

According to Time-


Just two days before Tuesday's scheduled vote on the Senate Finance Committee's health bill, a report warning that the bill would result in sizable hikes in insurance premiums was released, and then widely panned as a flawed analysis of cherry-picked information. White House officials said they felt "misled" by the insurers, who they claimed gave no notice that they were about to release the study. And health-policy analysts fired out press releases all day Monday debunking various points made in the study, authored by consultants PriceWaterhouse Coopers, including its assertion that between 2010 and 2019 the Senate Finance Committee bill would cause the typical family health-insurance policy to rise $20,700more than if no reforms at all were enacted.


The article is worth reading and can be found here. 

His Last Day-A Memoir.....

Kleenex needed.

My blog friend Anthony, also in NJ but the side closer to Philly than NY, put his beloved 18 year old cat Kitty down today.

He wrote a lovely tribute to his beloved fur friend, along with pictures.

Putting down your best friend is something I did with my previous cat. It was the worst day of my adult life.

I hope those who read this can pop over to Anthony's blog, read about his beautiful friend and see his pictures as well.

Good Night, Uncle Walter

It's pouring rain and lightning here, but I had to get on the computer- why- to say Good NIght to Walter Cronkite who passed away an hour ago at the age of 92.

Cronkite is probably the most familiar American TV newsman from the last Century. It was his evening news shows that I watched every night as a girl and a teenager, with my parents and sister. It was he who told me about the Vietnam War every night, men landing on the moon, Watergate and Nixon resigning. In 81 he retired from CBS news, and Dan Rather came in. Personally, I thought Dan Rather couldn't hold a candle to Cronkite.

One very good obit is here, from CBS, no doubt, as the weekend continues, more and more praises will come in to him, deservedly, and what he did for American journalism.

Back when I was 8th grade, our class went to Washington DC. While touring the Smithsonian, they showed two tapes of Cronkite's = which were among his most famous up to that point in time. His announcement to the world, that JFK had just died in Dallas. He takes off his glasses, and breaking one of the unwritten laws about journalism, wipes away a tear, clearly in shock. The other tape was that of his first 30 minute broadcast of the evening news. I won't tell the date- but it was on my first birthday.

Thank you for the memories.

(Photo courtesy Drudge Report)


ETA; Anthony, at My Sick Mind has a wonderful obit here. It's worth reading,