Stunned, but not surprised, at the Supreme Court decision giving corporations increased pershood ( Corporate Personhood), allowing them to wield all their power and money to purchase candidates and elections, and seeing a distinct trend, I thought it important to take part in Blog for Choice again this year.
Today is the 5th Blog For Choice day …
Category Archives: Politics
Trust Women, Blog For Choice 2010
Post “Fake” Holiday Rant
According to the Washington Post, New Bill Would Raise Rates, Says Insurance Group).…
“After months of collaboration on President Obama’s attempt to overhaul the nation’s health-care system, the insurance industry plans to strike out against the effort on Monday with a report warning that the typical family premium in 2019 could cost $4,000 more than projected.”
Well …
Nerve Plucks
Mellow on Monday I am, so much so that it’s now Tuesday. No dutiful dysphemistic metaphors today, merely a congeries of nerve pluckers. Unlike nerve twitchers, which continue their spasmodic meandering through the psyche for some time, making them a significant and serious annoyance, a nerve plucker is merely an external itch. Once scratched, …
Yanking My Chain This Week
Not even a public option here, despite from 2000 to 2007, profits at the 10 largest publicly-traded health insurance companies went up 428 percent. CEOs at these companies made an average of $11.9 million in 2007. In the past nine years, health insurance premiums have more than doubled — a rate three times faster than wage …
