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El maitro odioso de Limbaugh está siendo marginado, finalmente, después de que cayera la gota que hiciera que rebalsara el cántaro. Ya lleva años este maitro de estar arrojando veneno por medio de su programa radial. En estos último días se ensañó con una muchacha de derecho quien fue ante el congreso estadounidense para hablar sobre la importancia de la inclusión de medicina anticonceptiva en los planes de salud para los ciudadanos. Nombe, si el hombre este de Limbaugh la insultó; le dijo de lo peor.
Bueno, muchos de los patrocinadores del programa de Limbaugh han dejado de darle más patrocinio. Es inconcebible que gente como Limbaugh tenga todo un foro para repartir tanto odio y sembrar tanta ignorancia y estupidez a sus radioescuchas. Una cosa es tener espacio para la libre expresión y otra es que alguien tenga un megáfono para instar a la violencia; al odio, al racismo, al sexismo, etc.
Acá les va este segmento de Stephen Colbert dándole con todo y en su mero estilo este señor, qué digo señor, cizaña.
32 millones es el número de estadounidenses quienes recibirían seguro médico con la nueva reforma de salud. Como diría Roque Dalton, eso son 32 millones de gritos que no le caben en la boca al mundo.
- 32,000,000 — that’s the number of Americans who will get health insurance under the President’s plan. [Source: Congressional Budget Office]
- That’s also a little more than the populations of Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky and Arizona — COMBINED. [Source: U.S. Census Bureau]
Over the course of our ‘Health Reform by the Numbers’ online series, we’ve highlighted many of the problems of our broken health care system to raise awareness about why we just can’t wait any longer for reform:
For the last number in the series – we wanted to showcase what you get from health insurance reform:
- It expands health insurance coverage to 32 million Americans, guaranteeing that 95% of Americans will be covered.
- It makes health insurance affordable for middle class and small businesses — including the largest middle class tax cuts for health care in history — reducing premiums and out-of-pocket costs.
- It strengthens consumer protections and reins in insurance company abuses.
- It gives millions of Americans the same types of private insurance choices that members of Congress will have — through a new competitive health insurance market that keeps costs down.
- It holds insurance companies accountable to keep premiums down and prevent denials of care and coverage, including for pre-existing conditions.
- It improves Medicare benefits with lower prescription drug costs for those in the ‘donut hole,’ better chronic care, free preventive care, and nearly a decade more of solvency for Medicare.
- It reduces the deficit by more than $100 billion over next ten years, and by more than one trillion dollars over the following decade; reining waste, fraud and abuse; overpayments to insurance companies and by paying for quality over quantity of care.
As President Obama says, “we must act now” and put American families and small businesses, not health insurance companies, in control of their own health care. Help spread the word by sharing this blog post with your family, friends and online networks using the ‘Share/Bookmark’ feature below.
- 1 — in every six dollars in the U.S. economy is spent on health care today. [Source]
- If we do nothing, in 30 years, 1 out of every three dollars in our economy will be tied up in the health care system. [Source]
Yesterday, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute, non-partisan research organizations, released a report analyzing the cost of maintaining the status quo on health care. Here’s just a sample of what they believe we could be facing in the years ahead:
- Families will face dramatically higher health care costs. Individual and family spending on premiums and out-of-pocket health care costs will increase significantly. Spending would jump 34 percent by 2015 and 79 percent by 2020.
- Premiums will become increasingly expensive for employers and their workers. Premiums for both single and family policies would more than double by 2020, increasing from $4,800 to $10,300 for single policies, and from $12,100 to $25,600 for family policies.
- Employers will see large increases in premium costs. Employer spending on premiums would increase from $430 billion in 2010 to $851 billion in 2020 — a 98 percent increase.
- Many small and medium sized firms would quit offering health care coverage to workers. As premiums nearly double, employees in small firms would see offers of health insurance almost cut in half, dropping from 41 percent of firms offering insurance in 2010 to 23 percent in 2020. Medium-sized firms would also cut offers of health insurance, dropping from 90 percent in 2010 to 75 percent in 2020.
It’s clear: the cost of doing nothing is too high. The time is now to reform our broken health care system.
¡Pueden creer que uno de cada seis dólares que se gasta en la economía del país va para el cuidado médico! Con tanto pisto que se gasta es para que tuviéramos el sistema más cachimbón en el mundo. Seríamos la envidia de los otros países industrializados en vez de ser el hazme reír. Hay millones de personas quienes no tienen acceso a seguro médico y por ende a cuidado médico. Que esto sea así en el gran país del norte, en el país más rico del mundo es no solamente una pena sino una gran calamidad.




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