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Posted: 25 Jul 2010 11:19 AM PDT It would seem that President Obama's hopes of a National Centralized Health care System may prove to be an already failed experiment. Britain, according to an Article in the New York Times, has decided that its time to return to a less Centralized form of Health Care: Britain Plans to Decentralize Health Care By SARAH LYALL Published: July 24, 2010 LONDON — Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver the best care for the cheapest price while costs and demand escalate. The new British government’s plan to drastically reshape the socialized health care system would put local physicians like Dr. Marita Koumettou in north London in control of much of the national health budget. Even as the new coalition government said it would make enormous cuts in the public sector, it initially promised to leave health care alone. But in one of its most surprising moves so far, it has done the opposite, proposing what would be the most radical reorganization of the National Health Service, as the system is called, since its inception in 1948. Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. But its aim is clear: to shift control of England’s $160 billion annual health budget from a centralized bureaucracy to doctors at the local level. Under the plan, $100 billion to $125 billion a year would be meted out to general practitioners, who would use the money to buy services from hospitals and other health care providers. The plan would also shrink the bureaucratic apparatus, in keeping with the government’s goal to effect $30 billion in “efficiency savings” in the health budget by 2014 and to reduce administrative costs by 45 percent. Tens of thousands of jobs would be lost because layers of bureaucracy would be abolished. In a document, or white paper, outlining the plan, the government admitted that the changes would “cause significant disruption and loss of jobs.” But it said: “The current architecture of the health system has developed piecemeal, involves duplication and is unwieldy. Liberating the N.H.S., and putting power in the hands of patients and clinicians, means we will be able to effect a radical simplification, and remove layers of management.” The health secretary, Andrew Lansley, also promised to put more power in the hands of patients. Currently, how and where patients are treated, and by whom, is largely determined by decisions made by 150 entities known as primary care trusts — all of which would be abolished under the plan, with some of those choices going to patients. It would also abolish many current government-set targets, like limits on how long patients have to wait for treatment." To Read the Rest of the Article Go To: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/world/europe/25britain.html?_r=2&hp .   |
Posted: 25 Jul 2010 11:12 AM PDT Republicans can be real lame at times - and the outreach to young voters from Republican campaigns is rarely strong, but the next time that you hear complaints about Republicans, take a look at what young Democrats are doing in their spare time. Man I hope they paid a lot of money for that. In fact, I'd be willing to pitch in a few bucks to get this more airplay. If someone wants to help, I'll chip in to pay for screenings across all our local campuses. By all means, let's show those young voters what it's like to be a Democrat. Zombies are so Gen X. And everyone knows zombies always lose. Yes, they keep coming back, but they never, never win. Now vampires and werewolves? Throw a little glitter on them and they're sexy, baby!  |
Posted: 25 Jul 2010 10:12 AM PDT Oddly enough Obama Backers Lives are Still Empty and Meaningless.   |
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Posted: 25 Jul 2010 09:31 AM PDT Here is an Article from the Communist Party USA News, People's World, that tells about an event most people have forgotten about. President Obama's promise to withdraw troops from Iraq and how its already begun: "The United States has begun withdrawing troops from Iraq ahead of a major August pullout. A contingent left July 13, cutting short their normal 12-month tour of duty. The August withdrawal is billed as ending the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, fulfilling a vow President Obama made shortly after taking office last year. Yet some 50,000 "noncombat" troops will remain, along with thousands of private contractors and other U.S. personnel. It remains to be seen what the impact will be on Iraq, and whether all U.S. troops will really leave by 2011 as specified in the agreement signed by President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in the Bush administration's final days. The number of U.S. troops in Iraq is already down to around 75,000 from a peak of about 170,000 during the 2007 "surge." Under the status of forces agreement signed in December 2008, the U.S. agreed to pull out of Iraqi towns and cities by June 30, 2009, and remove all troops by Dec. 31, 2011. U.S. troops did withdraw from Iraqi cities last June, moving to massive bases nearby. However they continued to conduct joint operations with the Iraqi army, officially at the Iraqis' request. Violence continues, with suicide bombings in Baghdad on Sunday killing at least 43 Sunni "Awakening Council" members waiting to collect their government paychecks. Yet attacks are down overall, according to a variety of sources. U.S. officials are taking pains to insist that next month's withdrawal will proceed as planned. The U.S. pullout "will not in any way affect the physical stability of Iraq," Vice President Joe Biden told ABC News shortly after the Sunday bombings. Earlier this month, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, suggested that UN peacekeeping forces could be brought in to northern Iraq when U.S. forces leave, to help the Iraqi government curb violence in Mosul and other areas disputed between Kurds and Arabs. Odierno said a UN force would benefit both the Iraqis and the U.S., enabling President Obama to stick to his withdrawal timetable." To Read the Rest of the Article Go To: http://www.peoplesworld.org/u-s-begins-iraq-pullout/ .   |
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