“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.” – Richard Bach
John Stossel: Repeal private business section of Civil Rights Act
22 MayAction alert: Tell Fox to fire John Stossel
This nation cannot abide the foolish belief that it is OK for private businesses to discriminate in how they provide public accomodations.
Please join me in telling Fox that John Stossel’s attitude is NOT acceptable. It is not acceptable for providers of public accomodations to discriminate for any reason.
Watch Stossel’s comments here.
COBRA Subsidies End. So What Now For Unemployed?
18 MayDaily Kos: Icebergs loom: COBRA subsidies end, high risk pools begin
Over the coming two months, Americans will begin to really feel the effects of our bold new 21st century healthcare system.
The first event (not connected to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) is that the first round of COBRA subsidies will begin to expire.
The largest single group of people set to collectively roll-off of the COBRA subsidy could be the group that loses their subsidies in June. Anyone qualifying for the subsidy between September 2008 and March 2009 — a six month period when unemployment increased from 6.2% to 8.4%(2) — will have reached the end of their 15 subsidized months of COBRA in June 2010.
What will happen to these people? Many will join the ranks of the uninsured.
In the rest of the industrialized world, if you lose your job, you don’t lose you right to healthcare.
My only comment: Eve is right. Go read it.
When Politicians Set Curriculum Standards …
15 MayEveryone loses when politicians set the curriculm standards, especially when those politicians are far right wing ideologues from deep East Texas. And when I say everyone, I don’t just mean everyone in Texas. Continue reading
An Aging Trans Woman 