Where did Reagan say this? It was on an LP record he made for Operation Coffeecup — a Fear & Scare campaign organized by the American Medical Association to block passage of Medicare. Doctors’ wives were to organize coffee klatches for patients, where they would play actor Reagan's recording, which declared that Medicare would destroy medicine and lead America to totalitarianism. Amazingly, they're telling the same lies again!
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[OccupyW$+DC+everywhere!] Priority: Establish a MORTALITY INDEX
by Gene Messick, October 8, 2011
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I am so very proud of my fellow Americans! This is what we've all been waiting for. And those of you meeting across America this week had such a blessing from Mother Nature for this great Autumn weather!
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Some of you have been reading my Articles since GwB stole the 2000 election. Since Wall $treet chose to collapse my 30-year small business, besides leaving me in poverty they gave me the luxury of time to wordsmith more than ever. For years, I've been urging Americans to react to Wall $treet collapsing our Global Economy.
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My first nationally posted Article was on Halloween 2008, looking down into what seemed like a bottomless abyss back then. WE together are beginning to construct a bridge across that abyss, toward a brighter, shining future for us and for future generations of Americans, as we begin the struggle to reclaim our American Dream. Here's what I wrote then, which I just read again, and most shamefully, every word is just as relevant now, 3 years later.
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Friday, October 31, 2008: Why hasn't anyone been arrested?
We're barely a month into the 2nd American Revolution. Life as we knew it will never be the same. As we struggle to understand how we got to this place, a lot of questions need answers. Here's one of the more critical inquiries.
We're barely a month into the 2nd American Revolution. Life as we knew it will never be the same. As we struggle to understand how we got to this place, a lot of questions need answers. Here's one of the more critical inquiries.
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Finally, everyone is talking, studying our democratic form of representative government, and learning lessons in the greatest Civics Class ever held!
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Out of this comes God knows what, because this is not a traditional Conference with a pre-digested Agenda limiting accomplishment. And yet, we all know why we are here. It is no mystery. The words are coming. Guidance is coming from so many people who have thought about our loss of democratic identity for years, like Richard Wolff does here, as we break the ice for a New Paradigm for America: "Occupy Wall Street Ends Capitalism's Alibi" http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/04-3
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And Naomi Kline: "Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now" http://www.thenation.com/article/163844/occupy-wall-street-most-important-thing-world-now. Richard Grossman: "An Act to Criminalize Chartered Incorporated Business Enterprises" http://corporatecrimereporter.com/documents/grossman.pdf. Robert Naiman "We, the 99 Percent, Demand the End of the Wars Now" http://www.truth-out.org/we-99-percent-demand-end-wars-now/1318014376. There are so many others lifting their coherent voices in praise of what America should be that a listing would seem endless. WE are here.
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So I, too, shall take the Bull by the Horns and toss in my two cents worth, and it is this: remember Newton's Law of Motion: for every action in Universe, there is an equal and opposite reaction. And I'm not just talking about how Rethugs and the Aristocracy of Wealth shall come down on our heads as hard as they can.
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More specifically, I mean that for every Bill passed by Congress, there are consequences, intended and unintended. Because the controlling Aristocracy of Wealth has presumed that dollars are the only things worth counting, all focus about passing Bills has been on what their cost is financially. What I'm saying is that the other side has been totally ignored: what is a Bill's cost in human lives?
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The great half-debate on Healthcare Reform (excluding Universal Single Payer Healthcare from the debate because it reduced Wall $treet profits) caused some facts and figures to emerge, like this one: a Harvard study determined that some 46,000 Americans die annually because of being denied health insurance. Healthcare is a human right, not just an American right, and the term "affordable healthcare" was a word trick invented to keep Universal Single Payer Healthcare off the table for discussion. And so, now even more Americans are dying for not being able to "afford" healthcare. I am one of them.
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Wall $treet knows how to calculate profits and losses, and has the financial expertise to do it before actions are taken, helping nail down consequences. They do it all the time. It's high time these well honed skills are turned to reducing the number of Americans who shall die because of a Bill which Congress passes.
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Wall $treet has experts in this field. Insurance Corporations call them 'Actuaries', and you'd better believe that they calculate the number of deaths per million Americans that every change they make will cause. Because . . .? Because it affects their bottom line!
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Here's how it works. For ever Bill introduced in Congress that affects our economy, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office puts it thru a wringer to see how it will affect the National Debt, among other financial considerations. The MORTALITY INDEX works much the same way.
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For each Bill introduced in Congress that causes significant Change in American's lives, the non-partisan Congressional Mortality Office puts it thru an actuarial wringer to see how many Americans will die by passing this Bill. Then Congress Critters can decide if that number is acceptable collateral damage for passing each Bill. Just as the CBO helps decide whether a Bill will sink taxpayers deeper in debt, so shall the CMO help decide how many extra graves to prepare. Plus it'll be a great planning tool for morticians and florists!
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For instance, we all know in our gut what AynRand-worshiper Rep Paul Ryan (R-WI) must have calculated on his own: how many Americans he is murdering by proposing radical reforms to the Budget, privatizing FDR's Social Safety Net for increased Corporate profit. That Index number would astound you, and his is a gift that keeps on giving and giving for generations unborn. BTW: AynRand wrote fiction, and Atlas pharted.
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And the same holds true for bully-boy Rep Eric Cantor (R-VA), and cry-baby House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH). They must know how many Americans will die because of their radical proposals to increase the flow of riches from taxpayers to the Aristocracy of Wealth, at the lethal expense of a lot of "collateral damage".
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How could these Rethugs sell their kookie ideas to Wall $treet in exchange for campaign contributions without making such up-side calculations on their own: the more people die, the more profit is made. Greatest Wall $treet profits are always made from War and Death, not from Peace and Universal Prosperity.
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All those in Congress who signed non-elected Grover Norquist's Pledge have publicly identified themselves as Mass Murders. And the freshman class of tea party conservatives in the House did not get complete instructions: their votes supporting mass murder of Americans shall be tested at the polls in 2012, and the American people shall vote to approve -- or not -- authorizing Rethugs to accelerate our dying this way.
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Because of Occupy Wall Street and it's nationwide spin-off protests http://www.commondreams.org/occupy, the 2012 Election shall truly be the first American Mandate on Corporatized Murder: shall Profit continue to drive more Murder, or shall Lives be valued more than Profit? And it's not just the more visible Rethugs who shall be judged. Many Democrats will find their heads on the electoral chopping block, also.
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So that's my simple proposal. Please give establishing a MORTALITY INDEX administered by a CMO due consideration. Once implemented, it shall go a long way toward curbing the kinds of excesses of the Aristocracy of Wealth which you are so marvelously protesting in more than a thousand Occupations of America nationwide.
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Click on •> Why Healthcare Reform will never, ever be repealed by CNN.com
If you need proof of why Conservatives are political morons, you gotta read this! Here's my answer: if the new Conservative Majority in the US House is dumb enough to pass H.R.2: "Repealing the Job-Killing Health-Care Law" Act – and they are– then the Senate should respond by passing "The Universal Single Payer Healthcare Reform Act". Then we could have the real Mexican standoff that equally moronic Teabaggers have been itching for, and bring the entire process of government to a screeching halt !
The US House repealed last year's Healthcare Reform bill 245-189. Read the full story
Democratic lawmaker compares GOP Healthcare claims to Nazi 'big lie' propaganda
Cspan Video included: Comments reveal how badly Teabaggers are brain washed by FOX
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Read: Los Angeles Times As Many as 129 Million Americans Under 65 Have Pre-Existing Medical Conditions
Health insurers race to gouge people while they still can
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Major private California insurance company Blue Shield announced healthcare premium hikes of as much as 59% will take effect on March 1. A company spokesman claimed that increases had "almost nothing to do with the federal health reform law." [emphasis added]
As CNN noted, "[t]he federal government does not have the authority to review and strike down unreasonable rate increase requests. Historically, that authority lies with individual states. But some states don't have any rate review process at all, and insurers can hike rates as much as they want." That includes California, where the state insurance commissioner has no authority to reject excessive premium increases.
Click•> Read more…
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Healthcare: Death by State Budget Cuts
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During 2011, States will balance their budgets by cutting Medicare.
Why? Because Medicare recipients have no political voice.
But where is all the money in America?
Here's why we MUST cancel the Bush tax cut for the wealthiest among us.
"The combined budget deficit of all the states is equivalent to about 15 percent of the annual
spending on the US military. It is less than 20% of the amount handed out to Wall Street as
part of the first bank bail out in 2008 (the $700 billion TARP program) and a small fraction of
the amount made available over the past two years by the Obama administration."
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If everyone on our tiny Space Ship Earth enjoyed the same Standard of Living which Americans do now, it would require 4 planets worth of resources to produce the necessary consumer goods. We are 3 planets short, with an ever growing number of people who Corporate Fascists are daily luring into unquenchable desires. Wall $treet Greed destroys Nations, causes wars.
Sometime in 2011 human population will top 7,000,000,000 (that's billion). This staggering increase in massive consumption is overwhelming our Earth's finite resources. Check out our Endangered Species Condoms Project and learn more about how overpopulation produces our extinction crisis
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Click•> California: There's Not Enough Water to Support Farmers, Cities and the Environment
Click•> Riots Coming? Global Food Prices Going Way Up
Global Food Prices Skyrocket - Click•> The New York Times
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How to argue intelligently with Climate Change deniers
Right-wingers who march under the tea party banner are some of the most environmentally ignorant people on our planet. So what's new, you say? When they were barely passing science classes in high school, the Universe continued to do its thing, with or without them. But now, these mostly over the hill angry white men have banded together to celebrate their collective ignorance, and to force it upon us all.
One of their grand fallacies is that they have not a clue what the difference is between Weather and Climate. You can spot them in any crowd, laughing stupidly about Global Warming when there's a 20" snowfall. They look at the local day-to-day weather report on TV, and think they are being informed about Global Warming. Or worse still, they watch their daily addiction to FOX Propaganda Network, and get another inoculation against using their intelligence, what part that has not already been eroded from their brains.
Worse still, these stormtroopers of the Koch Fascist Empire managed to convert their anger into palpable hatred during the Nov 2010 elections, and now there are Neanderthals stalking the halls of Congress believing they have a mandate from the American people to destroy every vestige of environmental progress passed during the last half century.
What can you do to help abort such a massive Celebration of Ignorance? One first thing is to arm yourself with a steady dose of anti-FOX serum of truth. We ordinary folk need to become Climate Science savvy.
There's a fantastic way to do that. You can get reliable Climate information on this website: http://www.dailyclimate.org/
Or better still, if you need a steady diet of really good hands-on stuff you can use and relay to your friends, try subscribing to this: http://wwwp.dailyclimate.org/newsletter
Koch brothers to be big winners if Obama OKs oil sands pipeline. Obama’s bitterest political enemies already import and refine 25 percent of oil sands crude reaching the U.S., and stand to profit from an increased flow. Solve Climate News
Extreme weather batters the insurance industry. It's a tough time to be in the U.S. property insurance business. Storms are happening in places they never happened before, at intensities they have never reached before and at times of year when they didn't used to happen. The last couple of months underscore just how much climate seems to be changing. Reuters
Advocates spotlight wind power’s performance during rolling blackouts. Fossil-fuel interests have long argued that wind power’s potential is limited because its intermittent nature makes it undependable. Wind’s proponents have seized on Texas' rolling blackouts last week to score some strategic points on behalf of wind’s dependability. Texas Climate News
Helen Thomas | Privatizing Social Security Again?
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Intentionally withholding Healthcare from a person in pain -- in order to increase profits -- is a form of torture.
Torture is a crime against humanity.
Universal Healthcare is a right, not a privilege.
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WARNING: Healthcare Reform purchased in Congress by the Healthcare Mafia is hazardous to your health!
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How we learned that the Healthcare "Public Option" was a fraud
NC's Democratic US Senator Kay Hagan is a Corporate Wolf in sheep's disguise. She was employed as a Corporate lawyer & Vice President for NCNB, which became Bank of America, before they worked her into the NC Senate to shill Bills for Big Businesses, and then slipped her in as NC's US Senator. I'm frequently embarrassed to think that she was born in the same hospital where I was, in Shelby NC, a few thousand yards across the street from where I lived and grew up. I'm more and more disillusioned with the continuing failure of the NC Democratic Party, by electing Blue Dogs and DINOs (Democrats in name only).
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However, I am thankful that -- in her ignorance as a wet-behind-the-ears freshman Senator -- Kay did inadvertently blow the cover off of the Public Option, which had been strategically floated as a red herring to keep Universal Single Payer Healthcare off the table for discussion. By distracting media hounds and pundits with an intentionally manufactured controversy over a non-existent Public Option, discussion of the one plan which would bring an end to the Healthcare Mafia was kept off the table in Congress, and relegated to the radicalized fringes of public discussion. It was a brilliant plan, and it worked like a charm.
Universal Single Payer Healthcare is the best and ONLY plan that ever stood any chance of reforming Healthcare for all Americans, as even Obama admitted. The Public Option was a total fraud concocted to block and divert attention from Universal Single Payer, the only plan which would have permanently collapsed the corrupted, murderous HMO-Insurance-Bedpan&Pillmaker Corporate Mafia, and cut the cost of Healthcare in America by trillions of dollars. It's what every other industrialized Nation in the World already understands.
Early on in the Healthcare Reform debate, Kay came out against the Public Option, as a new member of the Senate HELP Committee. She generated so much public criticism back in NC from that statement, that she "changed her mind". But it was not constituent criticism that did it. Kay learned from her seasoned Senate colleagues who took her aside and explained to her how the Corporate Game is played in DC.
Kay did not have to suffer the wrath of her constituents by supporting Corporate Medicine, as she was elected by BCBS and Research Triangle Big Pharma to do. Kay was quickly told that the Public Option was only a sacrificial decoy, that it would never be included in any Healthcare Reform Bill passed, no matter that 75% of Americans favored it. Therefore, Kay publicly reversed her stand and supported the fake Public Option which she now knew would never see the light of day, knowing full well that she was pulling the wool over the eyes of the yokels in North Carolina who elected her.
The Public Option was a fraud from the git-go. US Senator Hagan was a fraud from the git-go. --- Gene Messick 12/18/10
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During 2010 Election campaigning, Rethuglicans claimed if elected they would dismantle 'Obamacare' with not the first idea of what to replace it with. Wedded to the idea of accelerating profits for the Healthcare Mafia whose Teabagger Stormtroopers helped elect them, Rethuglicans threaten to repeal the Healthcare Reform Bill before Obama gives his State of the Union speech in late January 2011. Never mind that by repeal, the Party of "responsible government" will drive the National Debt ever upward by hundreds of billions. The Healthcare Mafia got what they wanted in a Reform Bill, but now they greedily want the other half of the Healthcare pie as well.
This is a good time to look back at how the Healthcare Mafia purchased the Reform Bill they wanted, a Bill which was designed by their lobbyists to change things, and it will: Healthcare Mafia corporate profits are soaring even more than before Reform happened. Here's what sane, rational people were arguing in support of Universal Single Payer Healthcare Reform in September of 2009.
[BAILOUT] 31: All Healthcare Numbers are soaring! Originally published 09/23/09
Just when we get accustomed to the fact that the Healthcare Mafia has been murdering 22,000 Americas each year, out comes a study by Harvard Physicians that says that is only HALF the true number.
Nearly 45,000 people die each year because they lack health insurance, according to CLICK•> a Harvard study published in mid-September. That would average 120 people dying every day, 24/7, rain or shine.
And the REthugliCON/Blue-Dog/Teabaggers say they don't want our mean ole Govermint to Ration Healthcare!! Truth is, the Healthcare Mafia has been rationing Healthcare ever since they turned down their first claim.
HMOs were invented when Henry Kaiser convinced Tricky Dick Nixon that murdering sick Americans by denying Healthcare was the greatest Profit Center ever discovered. Murder completed. Evidence buried. Profits soar!
During the Healthcare Mafia's Scream-Fests for Distraction from Reality -- during this August's Congressional Recess -- the Healthcare Mafia murdered more Americans for Profit than died at the World Trade Center Tragedy on 9/11. EVERY month these private Corporations kill more Americans for Profit than died in our greatest single Terrorist event.
So who are our real Terrorists?
45,000 per year = 3,750 per month = 120 per day = 5 per hour = 1 American every 12 minutes. Dead. Never to hold a loved one again. Murdered by the Healthcare Mafia so that their CEOs & Executives can buy more diamond baubles for their mistresses.
And that's just the American's they've been murdering. No one knows how many MILLIONS of Americans have been sadistically tortured for how many BILLIONS of hours by the Healthcare Mafia, who allow pain to thrive in order to increase profits, just so slutty Trixie can spend a fabulously long weekend gambling away on the Riviera with Mr. Filthy Rich Healthcare Mafia Executive.
Who's been unplugging Grandma for decades? The Healthcare Mafia. And who sits on the Healthcare Mafia Death Panels? Minimum wage Telephone Clerks with NO medical training who deny insurance claims from a huge list of thousands of unacceptable diseases and conditions.
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But these are not the most startling numbers that jumped into sight since the last [BAILOUT] Edition.
A reader from Oklahoma asked where he could find figures about his Congress Critters to use at a Town Hall Meeting next week. So we looked for specific numbers. What was found is a mindblower of unimaginable proportions.
When you read these numbers, remember this does NOT include the $1,400,000 PER DAY that the Healthcare Mafia is spending on Lobbyists, nor the Millions spent on fraudulent TV ads, FauxNoose liars, Attack Radio hosts, and for training Limpbaugh-brained Teabagger Stormtroopers.
| Name | Office | State | Health Sector | Health Insurance | Pharma | Health Pros | Hospitals | Nursing Homes |
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| McCain, John | S | AZ | $9,027,044 | $736,884 | $902,915 | $6,325,601 | $658,250 | $152,950 |
| Kerry, John | S | MA | $8,344,060 | $687,434 | $887,043 | $4,717,648 | $1,306,997 | $169,190 |
| Specter, Arlen | S | PA | $4,521,093 | $382,228 | $1,238,916 | $1,738,490 | $795,928 | $92,100 |
| Baucus, Max | S | MT | $3,902,881 | $675,349 | $1,099,605 | $1,401,776 | $421,542 | $232,949 |
| McConnell, Mitch | S | KY | $3,187,818 | $523,877 | $688,349 | $1,521,841 | $456,975 | $81,900 |
| Hatch, Orrin G | S | UT | $3,051,635 | $393,380 | $1,613,113 | $612,494 | $233,645 | $150,475 |
| Harkin, Tom | S | IA | $2,935,478 | $168,556 | $772,532 | $1,467,202 | $261,932 | $109,500 |
| Brown, Sherrod | S | OH | $2,762,327 | $75,100 | $307,654 | $1,961,679 | $251,159 | $75,872 |
| Grassley, Chuck | S | IA | $2,722,746 | $493,149 | $617,280 | $1,222,889 | $246,126 | $143,749 |
| Burr, Richard | S | NC | $2,592,044 | $280,586 | $975,247 | $1,095,854 | $109,075 | $140,316 |
| Lieberman, Joe | S | CT | $2,560,496 | $448,066 | $652,040 | $1,089,612 | $200,050 | $168,900 |
| Alexander, Lamar | S | TN | $2,448,908 | $195,150 | $304,912 | $1,078,110 | $437,225 | $209,550 |
| Kyl, Jon | S | AZ | $2,339,968 | $360,968 | $452,635 | $1,226,850 | $230,402 | $72,106 |
| Reid, Harry | S | NV | $2,259,001 | $388,350 | $316,800 | $1,190,376 | $238,175 | $102,550 |
| Lincoln, Blanche | S | AR | $2,123,458 | $231,050 | $419,674 | $954,962 | $272,198 | $189,250 |
| Cornyn, John | S | TX | $2,122,353 | $128,675 | $315,265 | $1,411,278 | $150,510 | $5,250 |
| Ensign, John | S | NV | $2,084,249 | $487,815 | $395,730 | $1,083,486 | $184,629 | $72,000 |
| Schumer, Charles E | S | NY | $1,840,508 | $316,200 | $319,900 | $735,820 | $328,264 | $84,774 |
| Dodd, Chris | S | CT | $1,729,005 | $774,491 | $710,878 | $542,098 | $120,374 | $81,900 |
| Rockefeller, Jay | S | WV | $1,710,629 | $147,824 | $179,850 | $866,377 | $286,427 | $92,475 |
| Chambliss, Saxby | S | GA | $1,690,633 | $322,023 | $217,849 | $1,022,384 | $152,500 | $54,500 |
| Cardin, Ben | S | MD | $1,620,397 | $216,264 | $217,232 | $868,740 | $160,875 | $183,500 |
| Conrad, Kent | S | ND | $1,596,763 | $340,580 | $290,350 | $690,432 | $241,386 | $128,380 |
| Wyden, Ron | S | OR | $1,540,963 | $158,250 | $162,100 | $738,631 | $178,950 | $217,482 |
| Durbin, Dick | S | IL | $1,490,265 | $164,300 | $201,100 | $796,243 | $220,076 | $82,850 |
| Menendez, Robert | S | NJ | $1,480,001 | $206,725 | $486,207 | $554,569 | $144,450 | $20,500 |
| Feinstein, Dianne | S | CA | $1,444,922 | $183,660 | $276,300 | $792,789 | $129,941 | $29,750 |
| Hutchison, Kay Bailey | S | TX | $1,440,988 | $132,700 | $187,384 | $986,090 | $139,914 | $13,650 |
| Bayh, Evan | S | IN | $1,423,685 | $471,338 | $538,923 | $492,762 | $115,150 | $114,650 |
| Stabenow, Debbie | S | MI | $1,410,276 | $200,050 | $126,852 | $679,647 | $218,653 | $94,150 |
| Landrieu, Mary L | S | LA | $1,329,872 | $162,158 | $232,196 | $616,366 | $208,964 | $38,931 |
| Coburn, Tom | S | OK | $1,319,230 | $40,458 | $129,092 | $1,061,539 | $66,201 | $18,048 |
| Boxer, Barbara | S | CA | $1,279,043 | $107,570 | $198,585 | $850,728 | $87,062 | $7,260 |
| Nelson, Ben | S | NE | $1,266,766 | $536,846 | $390,483 | $446,845 | $179,238 | $46,850 |
| Collins, Susan M | S | ME | $1,263,070 | $305,330 | $205,449 | $636,154 | $98,825 | $117,750 |
| Nelson, Bill | S | FL | $1,262,160 | $140,462 | $136,449 | $706,343 | $122,981 | $46,500 |
| Thune, John | S | SD | $1,248,742 | $144,216 | $136,850 | $809,115 | $162,871 | $12,116 |
| Bond, Christopher "Kit" | S | MO | $1,246,551 | $140,150 | $318,823 | $577,863 | $111,966 | $47,420 |
| Voinovich, George V | S | OH | $1,229,667 | $143,340 | $339,424 | $582,941 | $151,400 | $24,120 |
| DeMint, James W | S | SC | $1,217,378 | $131,710 | $96,000 | $842,103 | $43,650 | $37,700 |
| Graham, Lindsey | S | SC | $1,215,587 | $146,773 | $264,600 | $645,841 | $104,604 | $82,250 |
| Sessions, Jeff | S | AL | $1,205,278 | $196,537 | $187,110 | $754,473 | $108,835 | $52,950 |
| Vitter, David | S | LA | $1,156,530 | $31,108 | $86,000 | $870,019 | $98,025 | $3,466 |
| Feingold, Russ | S | WI | $1,139,303 | $69,159 | $45,803 | $800,776 | $135,748 | $5,500 |
| Bunning, Jim | S | KY | $1,136,387 | $254,437 | $149,900 | $718,465 | $143,335 | $29,000 |
| Lugar, Richard G | S | IN | $1,126,440 | $152,663 | $288,835 | $661,507 | $84,025 | $28,900 |
| Corker, Bob | S | TN | $1,107,224 | $108,125 | $134,600 | $616,814 | $134,900 | $23,300 |
| Roberts, Pat | S | KS | $1,039,937 | $126,600 | $261,527 | $475,060 | $130,850 | $60,250 |
| Gregg, Judd | S | NH | $1,019,534 | $247,175 | $480,548 | $310,648 | $84,613 | $43,000 |
| Johnson, Tim | S | SD | $1,013,335 | $175,950 | $48,000 | $708,291 | $89,144 | $78,250 |
| Mikulski, Barbara A | S | MD | $978,462 | $86,950 | $278,295 | $404,671 | $76,419 | $99,415 |
| Shelby, Richard C | S | AL | $972,188 | $331,450 | $258,911 | $350,699 | $73,300 | $115,053 |
| Isakson, Johnny | S | GA | $970,383 | $208,900 | $220,172 | $534,331 | $75,605 | $33,950 |
| Wicker, Roger | S | MS | $962,875 | $67,600 | $113,795 | $678,180 | $73,150 | $48,600 |
| Murray, Patty | S | WA | $937,368 | $126,450 | $343,882 | $396,168 | $67,733 | $22,985 |
| Crapo, Mike | S | ID | $908,241 | $206,450 | $310,530 | $344,898 | $97,890 | $53,450 |
| Bingaman, Jeff | S | NM | $867,841 | $72,207 | $144,498 | $550,616 | $67,603 | $26,383 |
| Warner, Mark | S | VA | $862,141 | $154,500 | $129,950 | $429,716 | $92,000 | $53,425 |
| Enzi, Mike | S | WY | $846,427 | $243,250 | $443,250 | $283,927 | $19,000 | $12,500 |
| Lautenberg, Frank R | S | NJ | $839,372 | $81,800 | $426,072 | $252,200 | $60,000 | $36,000 |
| Udall, Mark | S | CO | $781,787 | $108,650 | $173,125 | $428,387 | $50,225 | $26,600 |
| Reed, Jack | S | RI | $772,538 | $170,400 | $98,500 | $515,236 | $70,088 | $36,350 |
| Snowe, Olympia J | S | ME | $755,640 | $134,486 | $101,976 | $408,764 | $77,525 | $50,620 |
| Brownback, Sam | S | KS | $710,057 | $69,800 | $157,366 | $441,490 | $68,051 | $8,750 |
| Carper, Tom | S | DE | $702,240 | $239,680 | $359,114 | $210,716 | $38,110 | $42,520 |
| Barrasso, John A | S | WY | $699,347 | $46,750 | $104,639 | $528,708 | $44,000 | $0 |
| Cochran, Thad | S | MS | $666,650 | $67,000 | $239,350 | $331,450 | $46,300 | $13,500 |
| Levin, Carl | S | MI | $662,726 | $153,156 | $64,850 | $404,460 | $110,924 | $8,800 |
| Inhofe, James M | S | OK | $628,725 | $140,204 | $68,650 | $451,900 | $42,575 | $12,700 |
| Bennett, Robert F | S | UT | $608,546 | $192,505 | $341,846 | $138,800 | $27,400 | $1,000 |
| Dorgan, Byron L | S | ND | $584,950 | $161,350 | $44,250 | $301,450 | $74,900 | $79,000 |
| Cantwell, Maria | S | WA | $565,826 | $34,925 | $70,850 | $354,485 | $46,141 | $9,250 |
| Casey, Bob | S | PA | $491,149 | $61,537 | $66,350 | $263,275 | $84,699 | $15,450 |
| Pryor, Mark | S | AR | $442,811 | $67,000 | $58,900 | $274,900 | $26,150 | $42,300 |
| Inouye, Daniel K | S | HI | $401,751 | $27,200 | $19,250 | $271,451 | $39,150 | $17,500 |
| Murkowski, Lisa | S | AK | $397,333 | $86,450 | $87,050 | $230,983 | $41,750 | $4,000 |
| Udall, Tom | S | NM | $380,451 | $32,600 | $26,850 | $274,970 | $30,701 | $14,430 |
| McCaskill, Claire | S | MO | $370,400 | $34,800 | $6,050 | $229,100 | $65,900 | $9,000 |
| Franken, Al | S | MN | $362,060 | $36,750 | $21,499 | $238,047 | $38,439 | $2,000 |
| Shaheen, Jeanne | S | NH | $356,582 | $22,700 | $33,983 | $233,039 | $37,520 | $11,500 |
| Klobuchar, Amy | S | MN | $322,795 | $84,700 | $48,740 | $157,005 | $17,750 | $3,500 |
| Gillibrand, Kirsten | S | NY | $270,853 | $31,900 | $69,400 | $140,853 | $30,700 | $15,000 |
| Byrd, Robert C | S | WV | $253,025 | $15,625 | $43,100 | $127,950 | $36,900 | $4,000 |
| Leahy, Patrick | S | VT | $250,515 | $27,300 | $97,850 | $87,465 | $27,450 | $2,900 |
| Johanns, Michael O | S | NE | $237,507 | $43,300 | $58,700 | $119,680 | $17,977 | $22,300 |
| Akaka, Daniel K | S | HI | $224,160 | $14,030 | $8,000 | $164,010 | $26,100 | $11,500 |
| Tester, Jon | S | MT | $203,700 | $22,150 | $30,800 | $141,500 | $23,750 | $1,000 |
| Hagan, Kay R | S | NC | $199,975 | $28,600 | $29,150 | $94,925 | $29,600 | $18,500 |
| Webb, James | S | VA | $160,369 | $10,750 | $11,250 | $108,019 | $19,850 | $450 |
| Merkley, Jeff | S | OR | $152,067 | $11,750 | $29,050 | $94,317 | $6,200 | $1,250 |
| Sanders, Bernie | S | VT | $134,386 | $6,050 | $1,320 | $109,824 | $9,050 | $0 |
| Whitehouse, Sheldon | S | RI | $128,249 | $20,350 | $13,749 | $87,250 | $6,650 | $7,500 |
| Begich, Mark | S | AK | $115,733 | $16,800 | $10,300 | $88,283 | $6,200 | $0 |
| Risch, James E | S | ID | $94,200 | $21,250 | $23,100 | $42,850 | $19,500 | $2,000 |
| Bennet, Michael F | S | CO | $63,020 | $7,000 | $13,750 | $10,550 | $8,400 | $16,800 |
| Kohl, Herb | S | WI | $6,450 | $-50 | $0 | $3,000 | $500 | $1,000 |
| Burris, Roland | S | IL | $5,750 | $0 | $0 | $5,750 | $0 | $0 |
| Kennedy, Edward M | S | MA | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Martinez, Mel | S | FL | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Only TWO (2) Senators on the list are clean. Ted Kennedy and Senator Martinez of Florida. And since Teddy won't be voting any more, there's actually only ONE. Mel is the only Senator who is uncontaminated with Healthcare Mafia money. He is the only Senator who does not have to recuse himself from voting. The rest have taken over $125,000,000 in bribes. And that's just our Senators.
We only have space to show our 100 Senators, not our 435 House Members. But you can see them all by clicking on these updated Links, including President Obama's numbers, sandwiched between the Senate and House numbers.
ALL 535 MEMBERS: www.opensecrets.org/capital_eye/health.php?type=A&cycle=2010
52 BLUE DOG DEMS: www.opensecrets.org/capital_eye/health.php?type=B&cycle=2010
187 Healthcare Cmte Mbrs: http://www.opensecrets.org/capital_eye/health.php?type=C&cycle=2010
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Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms covered with bright Logos just like NASCAR drivers so we can readily identify their Corporate sponsors
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They may be SOBs, but they are OUR SOBs, and they're all we've got to work with. So let's get to it.
Write them, call them, Email them. Tell YOUR elected Representatives to EITHER give back the money, or vote for a Bill that provides Universal Single Payer Healthcare for All Americans. Tell them to STOP being an Accessory to Corporate Murder of Americans for profit.
Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a Harvard study co-author, professor of medicine at Harvard and a primary care physician in Cambridge, Mass., noted: “Historically, every other developed nation has achieved universal health care through some form of nonprofit national health insurance. Our failure to do so means that all Americans pay higher health care costs, and 45,000 pay with their lives.”
She added: “Even the most liberal version of the House bill would have left 17 million uninsured, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The whittled down Senate bill will be worse – leaving tens of millions uninsured, and tens of thousands dying because of lack of care. Without the administrative savings only attainable through a Medicare-for-all, single-payer reform – real universal coverage will remain unaffordable. Politicians are protecting insurance industry profits by sacrificing American lives.”
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