The Above Linkblogs Might Contain "Borrowed" links.
Linkblogs do not substantially contribute traffic to my blog that I can discover. They all go offsite, and are often accessed from my blog. It's possible to access them from the RSS according to my settings. Still, even if I were to get ads clicking on a linkblog from the RSS won't drive more people to my blog than otherwise because they leave my resources. (Note to self, do more posts, less LBs with sources I find). I explain because I sometimes borrow links from people at Twitter, and often forget who put them up. (To fellow Twitterers: If you have a link to your blog, I will point it there, but Twitter, being impermanent, cannot hold your link for people to discover from there. I only 'borrow' them to get news out to as many people as I can who might not have seen the reports and videos found by the smart people I follow at Twitter or find in search rooms.RSS Add-Me
Single Payer Advocate Busts Big Lie by Lobbyist for Private Healthcare Industry
On Monday's "To the Point" podcast from KCRW (NPR station in Santa Monica, CA hosted by Warren Olney) a lobbyist for the private health care industry asserted that in France (which a single payer advocate was holding up as a good example for the US) most people end up paying for extra health care. From what I heard he seemed to at least imply this was private insurance.
But an advocate for single payer countered his implication (and politely) by telling Mr. Olney that the extra insurance was cheap, from the government and paid for services not usually provided by basic insurance in the US like dental implants.
(A promoter for the president's ideal of private and public health care plans was also on the program, but didn't respond to this and may have already left as I don't remember him speaking again.)
It was also funny to hear the lobbyist whining that Americans needed choice while working to kill the idea of even a public option.
Meanwhile most of Mainstream News is covering this like a horse race plus talking points mostly from the private health care industry and the Congressionals that look to get money from it.
And I hate to say it, but backers of President Obama's public-private ideal are coming across as not very informative. Really WH folks, with all the lies from the private sector being thrown about we need information, not opinions.
Sure it starts out understandable that we need at least some public option, but the lobbyists and their right wing repeaters have hundreds of lies, and even the president's wise assertions aren't enough to stem the toxic tide of dishonesty they extrude.
Listen to To The Point from Monday June 8, 2009 "Is This Finally the Moment for Healthcare Reform? "
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