“The GOP’s gasoline alley
“The
Republicans are synthesizing a higher-octane blend in their bid to fuel
Americans’ anxiety about rising gas prices.
“The
Republican National Committee sent out talking points instructing party
faithful to take up the issue. House Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) urged his
caucus to do the same. And, on Wednesday, the House energy committee obliged:
The Republican majority called in a bunch of oilmen for a hearing dedicated
largely to blaming President Obama for high gas prices…
Cassi Creek:
The GOP\teavanagelists and their
propaganda machine are busily spreading vicious lies about the cost of gasoline
and other energy products. They are
using every form of media and every personality that they can hire to convince
the public that the current price of gasoline is the responsibility of the
current POTUS and his fictitious plot to push gasoline prices to
$5.00/gallon. This lie is being repeated
endlessly on television, talk radio, and via every other form of media
tangentially affected by or infected with Fox News.
Gasoline may well be sold for
$5.00/gallon before this year ends.
However, if such prices are inflicted upon us, it will be at the choice
of and for the profit of the energy corporations. The mob, sadly, will continue to believe
that the price increases are due to the current administration’s policies. As with every other attempt by Obama to
reverse the economy and to better the nation’s problems with health care,
employment, and other ongoing problems, the mob will follow the judas goats
provided by the propagandists working for the teavangelists and their
ultra-wealthy financiers. The mob is
currently too poorly informed to vote intelligently and is descending to a
point of even less well informed.
In December, in hopes of reducing
medication costs, Gloria changed her Part D Medicare (pharmaceutical program)
from coverage by United Healthcare to coverage by Humana. I
have a deep and long-standing distrust of Humana. The
Humana Rep promised Gloria that her current medications would be covered by
Humana. Without this assurance, Gloria
would not have switched to a Human plan.
It is now March. Since February, Humana has denied Gloria
coverage for prescription renewal for the most expensive of her medications,
the one she was specifically told would be picked up without interruption. Gloria’s physician’s office has appealed,
faxed multi-page forms to Humana, and called Humana. All this has gained is a subsequent, rapid
denial # 2.
The bureaucratic layers at Humana
are demanding that Gloria document failure of a medication regimen that she
attempted prior to being prescribed her current anti-glycemics last July. They want to see a reported A1C value outside
the range indicating successful treatment.
In short, Humana is demanding that a
diabetic patient be denied a proven effective treatment in order to undergo 3
or more months of improper, non-tolerated medication, while her diabetes is
allowed to become un-controlled. This is
Humana, risking certain harm to an insured patient in order to decrease
benefits to that patient.
Please tell me again how we should
believe the GOP\teavangelists concerning their claims that we should fear a
health care plan with government bureaucrats deciding who is treated
adequately, who inadequately, and who denied
any treatment. How do insurance
company bureaucrats provide any better or more humane care for patients when
insurance companies are driven solely by profit motives?
If you believe the energy companies
and the health insurance companies’ propaganda, I have a bridge you might like
to buy.
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